scholarly journals Where has all the money gone? Materiality, mobility, and nothingness

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Angus Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crises ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Fundamental Ontology ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
Opening Up

This article argues that the problematic nature of money’s ‘location’ is important to opening up its more fundamental ontology. Using examples from recent financial crises, I explore the (temporary) historical relationship between money and the nation state, the changing nature of money, and the paradoxes these produce in a world convinced that money is real and material. I conclude that whilst we cannot resolve these ingrained paradoxes, we should at the very least take account of them as we try to explain the vagaries of our money economies.

scholarly journals Between Law and the Nation State: Novel Representations of the Refugee

Refuge ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-49
Author(s):  
Simon Behrman
Keyword(s):  
Nation State ◽  
Opening Up

Given the degraded profile of the refugee in contemporary discourse, it is tempting to seek alternatives from a rich tradition of literary tropes of exile. However, this article argues that the romanticized figure of the literary exile ends up denying, albeit in positive terms, a genuine refugee voice, as much as the current impersonal hegemonic concept of the refugee as found in law. Ultimately, the spell in which refugees find themselves trapped today can be broken only by opening up a space of politics in which the refugee herself can be heard.

The Networked Global Order

2020 ◽  
pp. 151-186
Author(s):  
David Martin Jones
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Nation State ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media

Economic redistribution, and social equality required an interconnected, regional and global trading order. After 1989, it was easy to believe that a liberal democratic model, supported by US-sponsored international rules, would spread across the globe. However, over two decades, unmoveable progressive values proved internally and externally unsustainable. After 2008, the US subprime and Eurozone financial crises eroded the economic preconditions supporting these values and undermined the already fragile relationship between the nation state, the market, the media, and a cosmopolitan faith in a liberal democratic end of history. Ironically, liberal progressive values, committed to the idea that all social ills were amenable to technocratic remedy and that the state was a suitable instrument for making such change, rationally engineered inegalitarian outcomes. This chapter examines how the financial crisis destroyed the meliorist assumption linking capitalism, globalization, and democracy rendering the pursuit of universal emancipation and social justice increasingly redundant. One consequence of this evolution was an artificial intelligence and new technology driven intangible economic order. The new economy incubated a paranoid populist style of identity politics that emerged after 2016. Instead of convergence, the new intangible capitalist structure erected a burgeoning divide between a cosmopolitan elite and a disenfranchised, nation based, precariat class.

Nature or Atoms? Reframing the IR Curriculum through Ethical Worldviews

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-211
Author(s):  
Landon Frim ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Relative Advantage ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Opening Up

The international relations (IR) curriculum has long presented a dichotomy between the so-called “realist” and “idealist” positions. Idealists seek to embody universal norms of justice in foreign policy. Realists, by contrast, see competition between states, the balance of power, and relative advantage as basic to international politics. Though considered polar opposites, both the realist and idealist affirm the primacy of the nation state as a sovereign political unit, and so neither embraces cosmopolitanism in the strongest sense, i.e., the transcendence of national divisions as such. Opening up the IR curriculum to such a radical possibility requires its reframing in terms of underlying, ethical worldviews. Under this lens, it becomes evident that the realist and idealist share far more in common than contemporary policy debates would suggest. It also points us toward the space for an alternate ethical worldview, provided by Stoic rationalism, which is more viable for grounding cosmopolitan thought.

scholarly journals A competitividade como fator negativo na aviação brasileira

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Lucas Dos Santos Boneli ◽  
Michele Dos Santos Gomes da Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crises ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Negative Factor ◽  
Air Transport Industry ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Opening Up

A competição entre as empresas no mercado aéreo é um importante fator que deve ser levado em consideração quando no estudo da viabilidade de abertura do setor à livre concorrência, visto que essa, quando agindo de modo “predatório”, pode levar as companhias aéreas a enfrentar severas crises financeiras, contribuindo assim negativamente para a estabilização desse setor que ainda sofre para se consolidar no país. Sendo assim, realizou-se um levantamento do referencial bibliográfico voltado à história da regulação e desregulação aérea no Brasil, destacando-se seus principais pontos e reflexos na gestão das empresas aéreas, para assim fazer-se uma análise do panorama atual do mercado da aviação brasileira.********************************************************************Competitiveness as a negative factor in Brazilian aviationAbstract: Competition between companies in the air transport industry is an important factor that should be taken into consideration when studying the feasibility of opening up the sector to free market competition. Acting in a “predatory” manner may cause airline companies to face severe financial crises, thus contributing negatively to the stability of this sector, which is still struggling to consolidate within the country. Therefore, a survey of the bibliographic references focused on the history of air regulation and deregulation in Brazil was conducted, highlighting the main points and their impact on airline management, in order to produce an analysis of the current situation within the Brazilian aviation market.Keywords: Brazilian aviation; regulatory processes; competition; deregulation.

Can National History Be De-Provincialized?

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bender
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National History ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
Textbook Controversy ◽  
Political Character ◽  
Modern Nation State

This article examines two incidents of textbook controversy in the United States in the course of the last half-century. First, it addresses history's historical relationship to the modern nation-state and nationalism. How does that relationship, and the particular way it is understood, limit the boundaries of history, particularly the contest over whether American history ought to be taught as selfcontained and exceptionalist or taught within a larger global context? Second, it addresses the presence of what could be called a historical essentialism or even historical fundamentalism in textbook controversies. The article concludes with an examination of the increasingly political character of the textbook approval and adoption process, as well as the role of publishers and professional historians in the process.

scholarly journals The Cosmopolitanization of the EU’s Borders?

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian Spruce
Keyword(s):  
Political Geography ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Nation State ◽  
European Neighbourhood Policy ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Opening Up

For centuries the political geography of Europe has been based around borders of its nation states. The ability of the nation state to control its territory has been essential to the practices of war and diplomacy, the legitimacy of governments, immigration policies and trade. But processes of globalization and EU integration have transformed the borders of the European nation state. While globalization theorists tend to posit an opening up of borders to global flows of capital, information and people, the changed nature of the border is itself often left unexamined and is assumed to have simply disappeared. But scholars and activists are now arguing that, rather than fading away, borders are proliferating in the globalized world and their functions spreading into many different areas of society. This article examines the transformation of the ‘classical’ border of the nation-state into its recent forms, using the work of theorists such as Balibar, Mezzadra, Rigo and Walters. It then examines how these theories have been applied in recent literature, and in particular Chris Rumford’s analysis of the European Neighbourhood policy and his argument that this represents a ‘cosmopolitanisation’ of European borders.

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