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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: International Law -- 1. The Rocky Shoals of International Law -- 2. International Law versus the American Constitution -- 3. International Crime and Punishment -- 4. The Limits of "International Law" -- 5. International Law and the Use of Force -- Part 2: International Institutions and Global Order -- 6. After Guantanamo: The War Over the Geneva Convention -- 7. Seven Tests: Between Concert and Unilateralism -- 8. American Sovereignty and the UN -- 9. Courting Danger: What's Wrong with the International Criminal Court -- 10. Dayton, Bosnia, and the Limits of Law -- 11. Retail Diplomacy: The Edifying Story of UN Dues Reform -- 12. Fixing the United Nations -- Part 3: Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy -- 13. Law in Order: Reconstructing U. S. National Security -- 14. The Law at War: How Osama Slipped Away -- 15. The Reach of American Law -- 16. Law in the Service of Terror -- Part 4: The Debate Over Human Rights -- 17. Human Nature and Human Rights -- 18. Natural Rights and Human History -- 19. The Ground and Nature of Human Rights -- 20. What Price Human Rights? -- 21. "Exporting Democracy"-and Getting It Wrong -- 22. The Idea of Human Rights -- 23. "Human Rights": The Hidden Agenda

Intro -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 This Space Is Our Space -- Introduction -- Every Person Has Their Place -- A History of Cultural Struggle -- Consuming 'Us' -- Theoretical Framework -- Sheffield (Wednesday) -- Book Outline -- References -- 2 Cognitive Foundations -- Introduction -- On Belonging and Home -- Family Values: Finding Home -- Exeter Away -- On Interpretation and Shared Understandings -- Hermeneutic Communities -- Fostering Shared Understandings -- Knowledgeable Actors and the Absolute Spirit -- Doing Things Our Way: Loyalty, Singing, Standing, and Drinking -- Summary -- References -- 3 Cognitive Spacing: Defending the Hermeneutic 'Community' -- Introduction -- The Salesman Cometh-On Modernisation and Strangers -- Are You Dumping Me? Exclusion, Sanitisation, Community, and Tradition -- 'It's not Church'-Control, Banter, Boozing, and Swearing -- Bauman, Vorhanden, and the Right to Stand Up -- Let There Be Light: Phagic Strategies and the Promise of Salvation -- 'It's Who We Are': Vorhanden and Ontological Security -- Ontological Security -- Nostalgia: A Home Without an Entrance? -- Summary -- References -- 4 Moral Spacing -- Introduction -- Moral Spacing: A Brief Overview -- Good Supporters/Bad Supporters? On Kierkegaard and False Dichotomies -- Saints and Rituals: Morality Without Guidelines -- Charity Begins at Home? -- What Is Moral Action? -- Where Have All the Real Men Gone? -- Right Place, Right Time: On Tradition, Maturity and Swearing -- Not in Front of the Children: Aesthetic 'Eithers', Moral 'Ors' -- On Violence and Morality -- Self-Alienation: What About Your Other Family? -- Resolving the Tension: Situationist Salvation -- We're not All Wednesday Are We? On Belonging and Racism -- We're All Wednesday Aren't We? -- Summary/Reflection -- References -- 5 Aesthetic Spacing -- Introduction.

This article positions the early career of the Japanese activist and writer Tsumura Takashi as anticipating, from an intellectual and historical-media standpoint, the surge of interest in gendai shisō ("contemporary thought," i.e. French theory) in 1980s Japan. Often understood as the devolution of theory into a mere commercial fad, the gendai shisō boom—in its reliance on a host of writers who worked at a distance from traditional academic publishing networks—promoted an ethos of interdisciplinary and transgressive knowledge production. Tracing Tsumura's interest in structuralism and post-structuralism as an outgrowth of his participation in the student movement, the article provides a prehistory of gendai shisō in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It argues that Tsumura's creative appropriation of structuralism and post-structuralism took place at a crucial juncture when the academic print networks that had legitimated intellectuals in postwar Japan were being hollowed out from within and without.

There is very little scholarship that considers questions of queerness in relation to film music, and the scholarship that does (Paulin, 1997; Haworth et. al., 2012; Buhler, 2014; Dubowsky, 2016) tends to approach the subject from a representational standpoint, identifying instances in which the soundtrack participates in the representation of queerness in film. The role that the soundtrack plays in fostering queer engagement with film has been left relatively underexplored. In this essay, I assert that the theories of counteridentification and disidentification as articulated by José Esteban Muñoz in his groundbreaking queer of color critique text Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Muñoz; 1999) have much to offer scholars of film music interested in exploring questions of identification and auditory and/or emotional spectatorship. I will begin by laying out Muñoz's formulation of these theories and then briefly sketch counteridentification's long history within film music criticism, an academic orientation that sets up Hollywood's musical norms as the product of an oppressive "culture industry" and the disruption of those norms through modernist European musical practices as liberatory counteridentification (Adorno/Eisler; 1947). With these understandings in place, I will move to a discussion of two U.S. films from the 1970s whose soundtracks present Black audiences with audiovisual experiences that invite counteridentification and disidentification respectively: Blacula (William Crain; 1972) and Ganja and Hess (Bill Gunn; 1973).

In this dissertation I argue for the importance of the film soundtrack as affective archive through a consideration of the horror soundtrack. Long dismissed by scholars in both cinema media studies and musicology as one of horror's many manipulative special effects employed in the aesthetically and ideologically uncomplicated goal of arousing fear, the horror soundtrack is in fact an invaluable resource for scholars seeking to historicize changes in cultural sensibilities and public feelings about sexuality. I explore the critical potential of the horror soundtrack as affective archive through formal and theoretical analysis of the role of music in the representation of sexuality in the horror film. I focus on films consumed in the Unites States during the 1970s, a decade marked by rapid shifts in both cultural understanding and cinematic representation of sexuality.My analyses proceed from an interdisciplinary theoretical framework animated by methods drawn from affect studies, American studies, feminist film theory, film music studies, queer of color critique, and queer theory. What is the relationship between public discourses of fear around gender, race, class, and sexuality, and the musical framing of sexuality as fearful in the horror film? I explore this central question through the examination of significant figures in the genre (the vampire, the mad scientist/creation dyad, and the slasher or serial killer) and the musical-affective economies in which they circulate. I argue that attention to the ways in which music interacts with moving images and narrative in the horror genre provides a new way of interrogating the political history of sexuality in the United States, one uniquely equipped to theorize and analyze areas of culture that are often left unanalyzed because of their close engagement with emotions and the body.

As British Prime Minister Gordon Brown notes in this section, we are witnessing the birth pangs of a new global order in this deepest financial and economic crash since the Great Depression. There will be plenty of pain all around for a while. And when the quarter‐century leveraged‐debt bubble of the United States—the explosion of which detonated the crash—is finally unwound, the new global balance will favor an Asia flush with cash. The G‐20 will replace the G‐7 as the executive committee of globalization. And, if wise leadership stays the course, there will be a "green lining" to the recovery as the fiscal stimulus is imbued with an environmental sensibility.

Using the case of Medicare reform, this article provides data on whether certain deliberative democracy efforts result in higher quality public opinion. Through a survey of preexisting social groups before and after a review of educational materials and participation in group discussion, the study hypothesized that: (1) respondents would change their reform preferences due to participation in an educational and deliberative forum; and (2) respondents' reform and value preferences would be more congruent after the forum than they were before it. Results supported these hypotheses. Reform preference changes were influential in terms of overall public opinion. In three cases, opinion changes resulted in the majority response changing from opposition or uncertainty to support. In other instances, preference change was evident in the magnitude of support indicated for particular reform proposals. Congruence between respondent value preferences and related reform proposals increased for all five major policy variables and their corresponding values, indicating higher quality opinion.Utilizando el caso de la reforma al sistema de salud, este artículo provee información acerca de si algunos foros de democracia deliberativa ocasionan una mayor calidad de la opinión pública. A través de una encuesta a grupos sociales pre‐existentes antes y después de la revisión de los materiales educacionales y participación en la discusión de grupo, el estudio plantea que: (1) los encuestados cambiarían sus preferencias de reforma debido a la participación en un foro educacional y deliberativo; y (2) las preferencias y valores de reforma de los encuestados serían más congruentes después del foro que antes del mismo. Los resultados apoyaban estas hipótesis. Los cambios en las preferencias de reforma fueron influyentes en términos del conjunto de la opinión pública. En tres casos, los cambios de la opinión resultaron en que la respuesta de la mayoría cambiara de la oposición o indecisión al apoyo. Por otro lado, el cambio en la preferencia fue evidente en la magnitud del apoyo indicado para una propuesta de reforma particular. La congruencia entre el valor de la preferencia del encuestado y las propuestas de reforma relacionadas incrementó en todas las cinco variables políticas más importantes y sus valores correspondientes, indicando una mayor calidad de la opinión.