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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I The Theoretical and Historical Background -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- How Newly Independent States Deal with Russian Minorities -- How Are the Russians Responding? -- Initial Choices and Long-Term Consequences -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Nations, Nationalism, Inter-National Conflict, and Conflict Management -- What Is a Nation? -- The Making of Nations in Russia and the USSR -- What Is Nationalism? -- Why Nationalism? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Core and Periphery in the Russian Empire -- The Creation of the Russian Empire -- The Nationalization Process in the Russian Empire -- Nationalism and the Disintegration of the Russian Empire -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The "National Problem" in the USSR -- Lenin and Great Russian Chauvinism -- Stalin and the National Question -- The Status of Russians and Non-Russians in Post-Stalin USSR -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Part II The Newly Independent States -- Chapter 5 The Baltics -- Estonia -- Latvia -- Lithuania -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Belarus and Ukraine -- Belarus -- Ukraine -- Differing Courses -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Moldova -- Language -- The Politics of Independence -- Transdniestrian Secession -- Gagauzia -- External Perspectives -- Conflict Management -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Kazakhstan -- Demographic Trends -- Sociocultural Kazakhization -- Political Kazakhization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Central Asia -- Russian Colonization of Central Asia -- Welfare Colonialism During the Soviet Era -- Decolonization -- The Russian Refugees -- Alternatives to Emigration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Transcaucasia -- Russians in Transcausia: 1800-1917 -- Russians in Transcausia: The Soviet Era.

The book represents a selection of papers presented at an international symposium in Singapore on the role of theory and practice in the mutually interactive and mutating relations between institutions and cultures. In effect, the papers turn about a single theme: the ways in which power is expressed through those institutions by means of which cultures mediate their requirements. The symposium brought together scholars and academics from a variety of disciplines, including literature, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, comparative literature and comparative religions. In terms of the geography of cultures and the history of institutions, the range of reference to this book of the symposium is global: from Hong Kong awaiting 1997, through the travails of political democracy in Singapore, and Cultural Studies à la Greenblatt or under the aegis of Shakespeare as cultural idol, through German Romantic theory and its relevance to current theorizing about theory in America, to Zen Buddhism and Nagarjuna and how these two sources refract the concerns of Jung, Lacan and Derrida; through Colonialism and postcoloniality and how they have shaped identity and mediated power to the current crises in education created by these mediations, specifically, in literary studies. The aim of the symposium was twofold: to theorize about the impulse to theorize in relation to the plurality of cultures and institutions which comprises our contemporary world; and to ground this impulse in those specificities and contingencies which provide resistance to such theorizing

The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed on non-whites through ideological conditioning and violence. The Racial Contract argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state. Holding up a mirror to mainstream philosophy, this provocative book explains the evolving outline of the racial contract from the time of the New World conquest and subsequent colonialism to the written slavery contract, to the "separate but equal" system of segregation in the twentieth-century United States. According to Mills, the contract has provided the theoretical architecture justifying an entire history of European atrocity against non-whites, from David Hume's and Immanuel Kant's claims that blacks had inferior cognitive power, to the Holocaust, to the kind of imperialism in Asia that was demonstrated by the Vietnam War. Mills suggests that the ghettoization of philosophical work on race is no accident. This work challenges the assumption that mainstream theory is itself raceless. Just as feminist theory has revealed orthodox political philosophy's invisible white male bias, Mills's explication of the racial contract exposes its racial underpinnings.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Tables, Maps and Diagrams -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Colonial Domination as a Process of Marginalisation -- 1.1. The Political Economy of Settler Colonialism in New South Wales -- 1.2. Secondary Elaborations: Colonial Occupation of the Macleay River Valley -- 2. The Economic Incorporation of the Dhan-Gadi -- 2.1. The Seasonal Rhythm of Rural Employment -- 2.2. The Perpetuation of a Subsistence Ideology -- 3. Encapsulation, Involution and the Reconstitution of Social Life -- 3.1. The Post-Frontier Context -- 3.2. The Decline of Inter-group Relations -- 3.2(a) The decline of 'right sort' marriages -- 3.2(b) The end of the initiation ceremonies -- 4. Creative Bricolage and Cultural Domination -- 4.1. The Reconstitution of Everyday Life -- 4.2. The Social Significance of the Camp-Fire -- 5. The Evolution of State Control (1880-1940): Segregated Dirt or Assimilation? -- 5.1. Legalistic Custodianship -- 5.2. The Construction of Aboriginality -- 5.3. The Emergence of New Strategies of Intervention -- 5.4. Dependency and Domestication -- 5.5. Resistance to the 'Persecution Board' -- 6. The New Order: The Aborigines' Welfare Board -- 6.1. The Eclipse of the 'Persecution Board' -- 6.2. Assimilation: the Construction of a New Discourse -- 6.3. The Emergence of a Culture of Resistance -- 6.4. The Struggle for Social Meaning -- 7. The Deregulation of a Colonial Being: the Aboriginal as Universal Being -- 7.1. The Politics of Assimilation -- 7.2. The Deterritorialisation and Scientisation of State Control -- 7.3. Formal Egalitarianism as Assimilation -- 7.4. The Quantification of Aboriginality -- 8. Racism as Egalitarianism: Changes in Racial Discourse -- 8.1. Egalitarianism: the Totem of Equality.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- About the Contributors -- Introduction: Southern Africa Before and After Nkomati -- PART 1. PRESENT STRUGGLES IN SOUTH AFRICA AND NAMIBIA -- 1 Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa After Zimbabwe -- 2 The Decolonization Process in Namibia -- 3 Foreign Policy of Apartheid: From Settler Colonialism to State Capitalism and Neocolonial Corporatism -- 4 The State of the Economies of Front Line States and the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa -- PART 2. IMPACT ON THE FRONT LINE STATES' FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENSE POLICIES -- 5 The Nkomati Accord and Its Implications for the Front Line States and South Africa -- 6 The Nkomati Agreement and the Future of the Second Phase of the National Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa -- 7 Tanzania After the Nkomati Accord: Foreign Policy Restructuring in the Changing Strategic Balance in Southern Africa -- PART 3. REGIONAL INTEGRATION: SADOC AND PTA -- 8 Regional Economic Integration and the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa -- 9 The Implications of the Preferential Trade Area for Economic Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa -- 10 SADCC in the Aftermath of the Nkomati Aocord -- PART 4. LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF NKOMATI -- 11 Marginal Notes on the Nkomati Accord: Unequal Treaties in International Law -- 12 Peace and Security in Southern Africa: Legal Aspects -- Conclusion: Total Strategy in Southern Africa -An Analysis of South African Regional Policy Since 1978 -- Appendixes -- I Nkomati Accord, Signed Between Mozambique and South Africa, March 1984 -- II QAU and the Diplomacy of Decolonization -- III Speech by Hon. V. M. Makhele, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Lesotho -- IV Speech by Hon. Dr. Naomi P. Nhiwatiwa, Deputy Minister of Information, Posts and Telecommuniications, Republic of Zimbabw.

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Changing Subject and the Politics of Theory; 2 Toward an Effective Intellectual: Foucault or Gramsci?; 3 Ethnic Identity and Poststructuralist Differance; 4 Culture as Common Ground: Ethnicity and Beyond; 5 Canonicity and Theory: Toward a Poststructuralist Pedagogy; 6 Negotiating Subject Positions in an Uneven World; 7 Cultural Theory and the Politics of Location; 8 Postcoloniality and the Boundaries of Identity; 9 Nationalism, Gender, and the Narrative of Identity; 10 Is the Ethnic "Authentic" in the Diaspora?; Index

1. Political will, self-reliance and economic development : the Eritrean experience / Girmai Abraham. - 21 S.; 3. Technological self-reliance strategies in sub-Saharan Africa / Kofi Afriyie. - 25 S.; 6. The Nkomati accord in retrospect / Douglas G. Anglin. - 16,8 S.; 17. Negotiator queens : market leaders in Kumasi, Ghana / Gracia Clark. - 16 S.; 21. The civil war in the Sudan / Robert O. Collins. - 19 S.; 24. Botswana's Southern African security policy, 1966-1985 / Richard Dale. - 23 S.; 26. Changing donor strategies in the 1980's : a view from the middle ; the case of the Gambia River Development Organization / William Derman. - 20 S.; 31. Methodology in the study of female roles : demographic surveys and Nigerian women / Barbara Entwisle (u.a.). - 17 S.; 34. Small scale enterprises in Zambia / Yacob Fisseha (u.a.). - 22 S.; 60. The closing of a labour frontier : black migrants to the South African gold mines, 1920-1985 / Alan Jeeves (u.a.). - 23 S.; 80. Ideology and praxis in Thomas Sankara's populist revolution of 4 August 1983 in Burkina Faso / Guy Martin. - 22 S.; 87. Nationalism, class, and neo-colonialism : the lessons of Kenya and Tanzania / Charles McKelvey. - 13 S.; 92. Poverty, women and cooperatives in Kenya / Roberta Mutiso. - 18 S.; 98. Domestic crises, regional politics and economic collapse in the Sudan / Marina Ottaway. - 17 S.; 118. Food for work : food aid for development projects ; does it help prevent future famines? / Robert T. Snow. - (ca. 20 S.).; 119. Communication needs in a changing rural environment : Gambian women / Leslie B. Snyder (u.a.). - (ca. 25 S.).; 120. Seychelles economic planning / Donald L. Sparks. - 13 S.; 130. Modes of production, health and health care in Southern Africa / Gloria Waite. - 19 S.; 133. Rural Development from Zambian villager's perspectives / Lee E. Weissling. - 14 S.; 135. Force and political legitimation in Africa : the role of the military / Claude E. Welch, jr. - 28 S.; 139. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's "A grain of wheat" as source of insights for development specialists / Carl Wood. - 13 S

The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.;Tracing the activities of mercenaries, pirates, mercantile companies, and sovereigns from the Mediterranean to the Northwest Territories, the author addresses the questions: why do we have centralized bureaucracies - states - which claim a monopoly on violence?; why is this monopoly based on territorial boundaries?; and why is coercion not an international market commodity?;Thomson maintains that the contemporary monopolization of violence by sovereign states results from the collective practices of rulers, all seeking power and wealth for their states and themselves, and all competing to exploit extraterritorial violence to achieve those ends. She examines the unintended consequences of such acts, and shows how individual states eventually fell victim to violence.;As rulers became increasingly aware of the problems created by nonstate coercive tactics abroad, they worked together to curtail this violence, only to find it intertwined with nonstate violence on the national state level.;Exploring the blurred boundaries between the domestic and international, the economic and political, and the state and nonstate realms of authority, this book addresses practical and theoretical issues underlying the reconciliation of violence with political legitimacy