scholarly journals Globalization And Locality: Global Communication And Digital Revolution In The Borderless World Era

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariesani Hermawanto ◽  
Melaty Anggraini
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Information Network ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Global Communication ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
New Millennium

Globalization is a phenomenon after the Cold War and continues in the era of the new millennium. It also has a direct impact on the community at the local level. The citizens' activities are easier because everyone can always be connected through the global information network. The approach used is related to the concept of glocalization, which means a global process which is then adapted by local.This paper focuses on the link between globalization and locality in an era of a world without borders.The findings in this paper is the paradox impacts from the reciprocal reaction between global processes and local due to the development of communication and the digital revolution that have beneficial and unfavorable impacts

scholarly journals After International Law: Anthropology Beyond the “Age of Human Rights”

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 289-293
Author(s):  
Mark Goodale
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
International Law ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Legal Strategies ◽  
The Cold War

This essay examines the ways in which anthropologists have tracked the rise and fall of international law after the end of the Cold War. It argues that anthropological research has made important contributions to the wider understanding of international law as a mechanism for social and political change, a framework for protecting vulnerable populations, and a language through which collective identities can be expressed and valorized. Yet, over time, international law has lost many of these expansive functions, a shift that anthropologists have also studied, although with greater reluctance and difficulty. The essay explains the ways in which particular categories of international law, such as human rights and international criminal justice, grew dramatically in importance and power during the 1990s and early 2000s, a shift whose complexities anthropologists studied at the local level. As the essay also explains, anthropological research began to detect a weakening in human rights implementation and respect for international legal norms, a countervailing shift that has broader implications for the possibilities for international cooperation and the resolution of conflicts, among others. At the same time, the retreat of international law from its highpoint in the early post-Cold War years has given way to the reemergence of non-legal strategies for advancing change and accounting for past injustices, including strategies based on social confrontation, moral shaming, and even violence.

scholarly journals William Golding’s Apocalyptic Vision in Lord of the Flies and Pincher Martin

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Arnab Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Hard Rock ◽  
Nuclear Fallout ◽  
Hollywood Movies ◽  
The Face ◽  
Lord Of The Flies ◽  
Nuclear Warfare ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
New Millennium

Abstract Humanity has long been haunted by the notions of Armageddon and the coming of a Golden Age. While the English Romantic poets like Shelley saw hopes of a new millennium in poems like “Queen Mab” and “The Revolt of Islam”, others like Blake developed their own unique “cosmology” in their longer poems that were nevertheless coloured with their vision of redemption and damnation. Even Hollywood movies, like The Book of Eli (2010), rehearse this theme of salvation in the face of imminent annihilation time and again. Keeping with such trends, this paper would like to trace this line of apocalyptic vision and subsequent hopes of renewal with reference to William Golding’s debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954) and his Pincher Martin (1956). While in the former, a group of young school boys indulge in violence, firstly for survival, and then for its own sake, in the latter, a lonely, shipwrecked survivor of a torpedoed destroyer clings to his own hard, rock-like ego that subsequently is a hurdle for his salvation and redemption, as he is motivated by a lust for life that makes him exist in a different moral and physical dimension. In Lord of the Flies, the entire action takes place with nuclear warfare presumably as its backdrop, while Pincher Martin has long been interpreted as an allegory of the Cold War and the resultant fear of annihilation from nuclear fallout (this applies to Golding’s debut novel as well). Thus, this paper would argue how Golding weaves his own vision of social, spiritual, and metaphysical dissolution, and hopes for redemption, if any, through these two novels.

Globalization and Digital Revolution

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fritz Heimann ◽  
Stefan Mbiyavanga
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
World War ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Globalized Economy ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Alliance System

The development of a globalized economy has been one of the most influential developments of the past quarter century. It has redefined the arena where corruption is conducted and has changed the focus of anticorruption strategy. And the expansion of globalization will continue in coming decades. The period from the end of World War II until 1990 was characterized by the bipolar world of the Cold War. Economic life was conducted primarily at the level of nation-states operating within the ambit of the alliance system of the Cold War. The end of the Cold War stimulated the evolution of globalization.

Power Relations during the Transition from Nazi to Post-Nazi Rule

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Pritchard
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
World War ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Second World

Europe’s mid-century crisis of the 1940s destabilized power relations due to the simultaneous expansion and erosion of state power relative to society. This in turn unleashed a process of paramilitarization that eroded the state’s monopoly over the use of force. Ferocious struggles for power broke out at a local level between a wide range of gangs and armed bands. Paramilitarization reached a high point during the chaotic transitional period between Nazi and post-Nazi rule when the day-to-day authority of the state broke down almost completely. In order to gain an advantage over their rivals, actors on the ground established client–patron relationships with one or other of the great powers. Local struggles in Europe thereby became internationalized, which in turn contributed significantly both to the course of the Second World War and to the outbreak of the Cold War.

Remaking 9/11: Imagining the Unimaginable in the Alien-Invasion Film

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence McSweeney
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
Alien Invasion ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
New Millennium

This chapter interrogates the alien invasion film and argues that they are able to reflect the fears and anxieties of the new millennium in a similar way to the Cold War era alien invasion films. It offers a detailed analysis of War of the Worlds and Cloverfield.

Project Vista, Caltech, and the dilemmas of Lee DuBridge

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. PATRICK McCRAY
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
California Institute ◽  
California Institute Of Technology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Soviet Invasion ◽  
The Cold War

ABSTRACT: In the summer of 1951, more than one hundred scientists and other academics participated in Project Vista, a secret study hosted by the California Institute of Technology. Its purpose was to determine how existing technologies as well as ones soon to be available——tactical nuclear weapons, in particular——could offset NATO's weaker conventional forces and repel a massive Soviet invasion of Europe many perceived as likely if not imminent. Despite the best efforts of scientists like William Fowler, Lee DuBridge, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Vista's recommendations were eventually suppressed by the Air Force. This article examines the history of Project Vista as a circumstance of the early Cold War period. By focusing primarily on the local level, the article presents a detailed examination of how people were recruited to Project Vista, how their work was organized and managed, and the relations between Caltech's administration and trustees. Finally, this article considers the history of postwar universities as they struggled to adapt to the Cold War environment and scientists' efforts to provide counsel to the U.S. government and military.

Medicine in the New Millennium: A Self-Help Guide for the Perplexed

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 143-154
Author(s):  
David A. Hyman
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Suspended Animation ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Secret Agent ◽  
New Millennium

When Austin Powers, ace British secret agent, is thawed out after thirty years of suspended animation, he is greeted by his old boss, accompanied by a Russian general. Powers is alarmed by the presence of the Russian general, and complains about the breach of security. Powers' boss tells him “a lot's happened since you were frozen. The Cold War is over.” Powers thinks for a moment, and then responds, “finally those capitalist pigs will pay for their crimes eh, eh comrades, eh?“ His boss gently interrupts, and informs Powers that “we won.” Powers clumsily responds, “Oh groovy, smashing, yeah capitalism,” his tactlessness prefiguring his behavior through the rest of the movie. Despite Powers' noteworthy skills as a secret agent, he has foolishly disregarded the first rule of forecasting the future: don't be around when your predictions are assessed for accuracy and completeness.

scholarly journals Pandemic as Method

Prism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 368-389
Author(s):  
Belinda Kong
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Cold War ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
New Millennium

Abstract This essay deploys the concept of pandemic as a set of discursive relations rather than a neutral description of a natural phenomenon, arguing that pandemic discourse is a product of layered histories of power that in turn reproduces myriad forms of imperial and racial power in the new millennium. The essay aims to denaturalize the idea of infectious disease by reframing it as an assemblage of multiple histories of American geopower and biopower from the Cold War to the War on Terror. In particular, Asia and Asian bodies have been targeted by US discourses of infection and biosecurity as frontiers of bioterrorism and the diseased other. A contemporary example of this bio-orientalism can be seen around the 2003 SARS epidemic, in which global discourses projected the source of contagion onto Asia and Asians. Pandemic as method can thus serve as a theoretical pathway for examining cultural concatenations of orientalism and biopower.

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