'More coming out, bigger market': Queer visibility and queer subjectivity in the Chinese pink market

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-302
Author(s):  
Shuzhen Huang ◽  
Terrie Siang-Ting Wong
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Sexual Discourse ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Queer Politics ◽  
Queer Discourse

Abstract The transnational circulation of Euro-American queer discourse affects queer subjectivity in local contexts. Through a case study of the Rainbow Love wedding competition, this article unravels the interplay between transnational queer politics, queer affect and the economy of visibility in the emerging pink market to explore how they shape the queer landscape in mainland China. Rainbow Love demonstrates how recent queer visibility in Chinese media manifests as a narrative commodity that is embedded in consumerism and in colonialist sexual discourse. By exploiting post-Cold War anxiety in mainland China, Rainbow Love invites affective identification and produces an 'ideal' queer subjectivity in the Chinese pink market: cosmopolitan, mobile and middle-class queers who desire and can afford luxury consumption. We argue that such queer visibility in the Chinese pink market has become a regulatory force on Chinese queer subjects despite the liberatory narratives that are advocated in the mass media.

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT RESEARCH IN GERMANY: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550010 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHANN KOEPPEL ◽  
GESA GEISSLER
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Assessment Research

This paper aims to provide an overview of German Environmental Assessment (EA) research over the recent decades. Likely reasons for previous developments as Germany's post-Cold War challenges, ongoing case study research endeavours and further prospects are outlined. This involves research on large-scale SEA making, an enhanced EA theory building and a move towards "best available science" research. Last but not least, a stronger research oriented conference series is proposed.

scholarly journals The Regional Dimension of Statebuilding Interventions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Brast
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Political System ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Causal Mechanism ◽  
Formation Theory ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Tracing Method

In the post-cold war era, liberal statebuilding interventions have become a major tool of global governance. Yet, the variation in outcomes is still poorly understood. This article draws on state formation theory to elaborate a causal mechanism that can explain the successful monopolization of the means of violence in statebuilding interventions. Insights from the state formation literature suggest that the regional political system is crucial for state formation and statebuilding. In order to test the hypothesis, a novel process-tracing method is applied to the case of Sierra Leone. The case study suggests that only a cooperative regional setting enables interventions to succeed.

Conclusion

Secret Wars ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 283-316
Author(s):  
Austin Carson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Limited War ◽  
Basic Argument ◽  
Initial Choice ◽  
The U.S

This chapter summarizes the key empirical findings and address extension of the basic argument to cyberconflict and violence within states (i.e., civil wars, terrorism). A consistent theme of the book is that the backstage of war sometimes features direct combat encounters by outside powers that were publicly understood to have avoided such entanglements. The chapter then presents a brief case study of a post-Cold War conflict: the Iranian covert weapons supply program during the U.S. occupation of Iraq (2003–2011). The U.S. occupation of Iraq and the Iranian covert intervention that followed suggest the links between limited war, covertness, and collusion continue to be relevant. Though conclusions about the case are necessarily preliminary, the chapter reviews this conflict to illustrate how the claims of the theory travel to a more recent case. It also addresses questions about the initial choice to intervene, mistakes and exploitation, and the possible implications of social media and leaks in the contemporary era. It concludes by discussing the implications of secrecy's role in escalation control for policy and scholarship.

The United Nations, international peacekeeping and the question of ‘impartiality’: revisiting the Congo operation of 1960

2000 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Internal Politics ◽  
International Peacekeeping ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
External Actors

This paper analyses peacekeeping impartiality, i.e. the extent to which peacekeepers act in the interests of international peace and security, rather than the interests of specific states or other external actors. It reevaluates the question of impartiality through an analysis of the Congo operation of July–September 1960. This case study was selected because it was by far the most important instance of peacekeeping during the Cold War. Based upon primary source materials from US, British, and UN archives, as well as memoirs and secondary sources, it finds that the Congo peacekeeping force intervened to a considerable extent in the internal politics of the Congo; in doing so, the peacekeepers collaborated with US policymakers and, to some extent, advanced their strategic objectives. A comparison between the Congo operation and recent cases of peacekeeping in post-Cold War Africa indicates that impartiality is likely to remain an elusive goal.

scholarly journals Consistency of international sentencing: ICTY and ICTR case study

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 539-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbora Holá ◽  
Catrien Bijleveld ◽  
Alette Smeulers
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Cold War ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
International Criminal Tribunal ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
Sentence Length ◽  
Crimes Against Humanity ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
International Criminal Tribunals

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda are the first, post Cold War international criminal tribunals convicting perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Their sentencing practice has been largely criticized as inconsistent. This quantitative study addresses the criticism and empirically investigates the consistency of international sentencing. The extent to which the selected factors predict sentence length is tested in a multiple regression analysis. The analysis suggests that similar, legally relevant patterns have emerged in the sentencing practice of both tribunals. Sentencing in international criminal practice does not appear to be less consistent than sentencing under domestic jurisdictions.

Causes and Consequences of Third-Party Intervention in Disputes over History: Recognition of the Armenian Massacre as Genocide and Relations with Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-122
Author(s):  
Naosuke Mukoyama
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Third Party Intervention ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Foreign Governments ◽  
Armenian Population

Abstract In the post-Cold War international society, third-party intervention has become increasingly common across various spheres. What were previously assumed to be domestic or bilateral issues have become of great interest to foreign governments and international organizations. Disputes over history, whose intensification in many parts of the world is also a recent political phenomenon, are no exception. Regarding past atrocities by one country upon another, the “victim” side seeks recognition and redress from third parties, while the “perpetrator” side tries to prevent such interference. This paper investigates the causes of such intervention and the consequences of it for bilateral relations between the intervenor and the “perpetrator” country, using the conflict between Armenia and Turkey over the recognition of the 1915–1916 Armenian Massacre as genocide as a case study. The results reveal that countries with a Christian majority and a large Armenian population typically conduct such intervention, and that although third-party intervention affects bilateral relations negatively, the effect is only temporary.

Contesting hegemons: US–French relations in the ‘New World Order’

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES PETRAS ◽  
MORRIS MORLEY
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Liberal Economy ◽  
Dominant State ◽  
Sense Of Power

International relations is now marked by a distinct bias against both realism and materialism. This, allied to the currently fashionable notion that in a globalized, liberal economy cooperation rather than competition is the norm, has meant that few scholars have been concerned to analyse the sources of rivalry between the various capitalist states. This article suggests that a version of realism informed by a keen sense of power and hierarchy remains essential if we are to understand the dynamics of US foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. The case study deployed here revolves around the various attempts made by one of America's allies to contest Washington's vision of a ‘new world order’. The French challenge assumed many forms but in the end was seen off by the dominant state; the outcome only confirming US preponderance and guaranteeing its hegemonic position into the 21st century.

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