Palestine-Israel and the Neoliberal Ideal

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Luke Mathew Peterson
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Territorial Dispute ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Clash Of Cultures ◽  
Social Upheaval

The following study envisions the modern history of the Palestinian- Israeli conflict through the application of previously underutilized theoretical frames. Beginning with the unprecedented political and social upheaval wrought upon the Middle East after the end of World War I, the article unfolds in three distinct sections. The first section provides an historical introduction to the global, transnational forces that guided the developing infrastructure of political conflict within the region. The second section articulates the ideological parameters of the international political and economic forces (“neoliberalism”) that connect the past and present of political conflict in the region as well as the local (state and non-state) and non-local actors involved in its contemporary manifestation. The third and final section reconceptualizes the Palestinian-Israeli conflict not exclusively as a territorial dispute or as a nebulous clash of cultures, but rather as a deliberate, operational casualty enduring in the service of an aggressive, transnational, and indeed historical force whose trajectory spans the length of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: neoliberalism. In each sphere in which the neoliberal ideal has been applied – one, an historical fait accompli, another, a contemporary situation en cours – an important, connective element persists: the distinctly non-local origin of both the historical forces and the contemporary economic manifestations under examination.

scholarly journals Palestine-Israel and the Neoliberal Ideal

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Luke Mathew Peterson
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Territorial Dispute ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Clash Of Cultures ◽  
Social Upheaval

The following study envisions the modern history of the Palestinian- Israeli conflict through the application of previously underutilized theoretical frames. Beginning with the unprecedented political and social upheaval wrought upon the Middle East after the end of World War I, the article unfolds in three distinct sections. The first section provides an historical introduction to the global, transnational forces that guided the developing infrastructure of political conflict within the region. The second section articulates the ideological parameters of the international political and economic forces (“neoliberalism”) that connect the past and present of political conflict in the region as well as the local (state and non-state) and non-local actors involved in its contemporary manifestation. The third and final section reconceptualizes the Palestinian-Israeli conflict not exclusively as a territorial dispute or as a nebulous clash of cultures, but rather as a deliberate, operational casualty enduring in the service of an aggressive, transnational, and indeed historical force whose trajectory spans the length of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: neoliberalism. In each sphere in which the neoliberal ideal has been applied – one, an historical fait accompli, another, a contemporary situation en cours – an important, connective element persists: the distinctly non-local origin of both the historical forces and the contemporary economic manifestations under examination.

Part IV Activities of Organizations, Ch.14 Humanitarian Action

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiss Thomas G
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
War Zone ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Humanitarian Space ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter begins by defining some key terms, including humanitarian action, humanitarianism, humanitarian space, and humanitarian intervention. It then examines the history of humanitarian action in wars through the lenses of three historical periods: the 19th century until World War I; the early 20th century through the end of the Cold War; and the last quarter-century. Next, it describes the entities that exert influence on the ground from outside a war zone: international NGOs, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the UN system, bilateral aid agencies, external military forces, for-profit firms, and the media. Operating alongside, and sometimes in opposition to, external agents in a particular war zone are local actors, which include NGOs and businesses as well as the armed belligerents. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the coordination of the various moving parts of the international humanitarian system.

Reviews: The Ulster Crisis, 1885–1921, Dublin, 1745–1922: Hospitals, Spectacle and Vice, Britain and Ireland, 1050–1530: Economy and Society, Castle Caldwell, County Fermanagh: Life on a West Ulster Estate, 1750–1800, on the Edge of the Pale: The Rise and Decline of an Anglo-Irish Community in County Meath, 1170–1530, the Planters of Luggacurran, County Laois: A Protestant Community, 1879–1927, Balrothery Poor Law Union, County Dublin, 1839–1851, Achill Island Tattie-Hokers in Scotland and the Kirkintilloch Tragedy, 1937, World War I and Nationalist Politics in County Louth, 1914–1920, the Liberty and Ormond Boys: Factional Riot in Eighteenth-Century Dublin, Kiltubrid, County Leitrim: Snapshots of a Rural Parish in the 1890s, the Murder of Thomas Douglas Bateson, County Monaghan, 1851, Sir Robert Gore Booth and his Landed Estate in County Sligo, 1814–1876: Land, Famine, Emigration and Politics, the MacGeough Bonds of the Argory: An Ulster Gentry Family, 1880–1950, Smithfield and the Parish of St Paul, Dublin, 1698–1750, the Murder of Thomas Douglas Bateson, County Monaghan, 1851, Sir Robert Gore Booth and his Landed Estate in County Sligo, 1814–1876: Land, Famine, Emigration and Politics, the MacGeough Bonds of the Argory: An Ulster Gentry Family, 1880–1950, Smithfield and the Parish of St Paul, Dublin, 1698–1750, Canting with Cauley: A Glossary of Travellers' Cant/Gammon, Representing the Troubles: Text and Images, 1970–2000, Representing the Troubles: Text and Images, 1970–2000, Our own Devices: National Symbols and Political Conflict in Twentieth-Century Ireland, County Longford and the Irish Revolution, 1910–1923, Industry, Trade and People in Ireland, 1650–1950: Essays in Honour of W. H. Crawford, Our Good Health: A History of Dublin's Water and Drainage, a Noontide Blazing: Brigid Lyons Thornton, Rebel, Soldier, Doctor, a Memoir, ‘A Town Tormented by the Sea’: Galway, 1790–1914, the Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920–1973, the Irish Lottery, 1780–1801, Medieval Celtic Literature and Society, German-Speaking Exiles in Ireland, 1933–1945, the Nabob: A Tale of Ninety-Eight, Studies in Children's Literature, 1500–2000, Treasure Islands: Studies in Children's Literature, Limerick Boycott, 1904: Anti-Semitism in Ireland, Irish Rural Interiors in Art, the Politics of the Irish Civil War, the Cenél Conaill and the Donegal Kingdoms, AD 500–800, Long Bullets: A History of Road Bowling in Ireland, the Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in pre-Famine Ireland, 1750–1850, Patrick McAlister, Bishop of down and Connor, 1886–1895, Faith, Fraternity and Fighting: The Orange Order and Irish Migrants in Northern England, C. 1850–1920, the Irish Policeman, 1822–1922: A Life, James Connolly: ‘A Full Life’, James Larkin: Lion of the Fold, Community in Early Modern Ireland, the Irish College at Santiago de Compostela, 1605–1769, a ‘Manly Study’? Irish Women Historians, 1868–1949, Map-Making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, C. 1530–1750, the Progress of Music, Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic World: Religion, Politics, and Identity

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-162
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Holmes ◽  
Ruth McManus ◽  
Brendan Bradshaw ◽  
Conor McNamara ◽  
Caitriona Clear ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
World War I ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
History Of

Parties against Markets: The Rise and Fall of Democratic Capitalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-49
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hopkin
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
History Of Capitalism ◽  
Democratic Capitalism ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth

This chapter outlines the long-run evolution of the relationship between the market economy and political institutions in the West over the last century, showing how capitalism and democracy have a fundamentally unstable relationship that produces regular political upheavals. The history of capitalism is marked by the battle between economic forces pushing for the primacy of profit and political forces demanding its regulation in the social interest. As a result, attempts to impose the logic of the market on democratic societies are fraught with difficulty, because citizens mobilize to respond to threats to their economic and social well-being. The chapter also considers how the shape of political institutions—particularly the organization, interaction, and ideological identities of political parties—conditions the impact of markets on society, and how the dominance of liberal market ideas in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries weakened democratic participation and paved the way for a reemergence of political conflict through anti-system forces.

Press Propaganda and Subaltern Agents of Pan-Islamic Networks in the Muslim Mediterranean World prior to World War I

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Moreau
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
World War I ◽  
North Africa ◽  
World War ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
The Press ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores movement and circulation across the Mediterranean and seeks to contribute to a history of proto-nationalism in the Maghrib and the Middle East at a particular moment prior to World War I. The discussion is particularly concerned with the interface of two Mediterranean spaces: the Middle East (Egypt, Ottoman Empire) and North Africa (Morocco), where the latter is viewed as a case study where resistance movements sought external allies as a way of compensating for their internal weakness. Applying methods developed by Subaltern Studies, and linking macro-historical approaches, namely of a translocal movement in the Muslim Mediterranean, it explores how the Egypt-based society, al-Ittihad al-Maghribi, through its agent, Aref Taher, used the press as an instrument for political propaganda, promoting its Pan-Islamic programme and its goal of uniting North Africa.

The War of Legs

Transfers ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-120
Author(s):  
Michael Pesek
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
World War ◽  
East African ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Belgian Congo

This article describes the little-known history of military labor and transport during the East African campaign of World War I. Based on sources from German, Belgian, and British archives and publications, it considers the issue of military transport and supply in the thick of war. Traditional histories of World War I tend to be those of battles, but what follows is a history of roads and footpaths. More than a million Africans served as porters for the troops. Many paid with their lives. The organization of military labor was a huge task for the colonial and military bureaucracies for which they were hardly prepared. However, the need to organize military transport eventually initiated a process of modernization of the colonial state in the Belgian Congo and British East Africa. This process was not without backlash or failure. The Germans lost their well-developed military transport infrastructure during the Allied offensive of 1916. The British and Belgians went to war with the question of transport unresolved. They were unable to recruit enough Africans for military labor, a situation made worse by failures in the supplies by porters of food and medical care. One of the main factors that contributed to the success of German forces was the Allies' failure in the “war of legs.”

The 13th of December 1981 in the political history of Poland: view through 35 years

2017 ◽  
pp. 369-378
Author(s):  
Vladislav Strutynsky
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Salvation ◽  
The Republic

By analyzing one of the most eventful periods of the modern history of Poland, the early 80s of the XX century, the author examines the dynamics of social and political conflict on the eve of the introduction of martial law, which determines the location of the leading political forces in these events in Poland, that were grouped around the Polish United Labor Party and the Independent trade union «Solidarity», their governing structures and grassroots organizations, highlighting the development of socio-political situation in the country before entering the martial law on the 13th of December and analyzing the relation of the leading countries to the events, especially the Soviet Union. Also, the author distinguishes causes that prevent to reach the compromise in the process of realization different programs, that were offered to public and designed by PUWP and «Solidarity» and were “aimed” to help Polish society to exit an unprecedented conflict. This article provides a comparative analysis of the different analytical meaningful reasons, offered by historians, political scientists, lawyers, and led to the imposition of martial law in the Republic of Poland. The author also analyses the legality of such actions by the state and some conclusions that were reached by scientists, investigating the internal dynamics of the conflict and the process of implementation of tasks, that Polish United Workers’ Party (which ruled at that time) tried to solve with martial law and «Solidarity» was used as self-determination in Polish society. Keywords: Martial law, Independent trade union «Solidarity», inter-factory strike committee, social-political conflict, Polish United Workers’ Party, the Warsaw Pact, the Military Council of National Salvation

Homer's Daughters

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Christa Wolf ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
World War ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
History Of ◽  
Homeric Reception ◽  
First World

This collection of essays examines the various ways in which the Homeric epics have been responded to, reworked, and rewritten by women writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beginning in 1914 with the First World War, it charts this understudied strand of the history of Homeric reception over the subsequent century up to the present day, analysing the extraordinary responses to both the Odyssey and the Iliad by women from around the world. The backgrounds of these authors and the genres they employ—memoir, poetry, children’s literature, rap, novels—testify not only to the plasticity of Homeric epic, but also to the widening social classes to whom Homer appeals, and it is unsurprising to see the myriad ways in which women writers across the globe have played their part in the story of Homer’s afterlife. From surrealism to successive waves of feminism to creative futures, Homer’s footprint can be seen in a multitude of different literary and political movements, and the essays in this volume bring an array of critical approaches to bear on the work of authors ranging from H.D. and Simone Weil to Christa Wolf, Margaret Atwood, and Kate Tempest. Students and scholars of classics—as well as those in the fields of translation studies, comparative literature, and women’s writing—will find much to interest them, while the volume’s concluding reflections by Emily Wilson on her new translation of the Odyssey are an apt reminder to all of just how open a text can be, and of how great a difference can be made by a woman’s voice.

scholarly journals History of the Military Nurse Corps and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Lessons for the 2019 Coronavirus Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura A Talbot ◽  
E Jeffrey Metter ◽  
Heather King
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Influenza Pandemic ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Primary Therapy ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Nursing ◽  
History Of ◽  
1918 Influenza ◽  
The Military

ABSTRACT During World War I, the 1918 influenza pandemic struck the fatigued combat troops serving on the Western Front. Medical treatment options were limited; thus, skilled military nursing care was the primary therapy and the best indicator of patient outcomes. This article examines the military nursing’s role in the care of the soldiers during the 1918 flu pandemic and compares this to the 2019 coronavirus pandemic.

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