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This comment on an article by Jens David Ohlin, "On the Very Idea of Transitional Justice" (2007), notes that while it is insightful & stimulating, it is marred by a "serious misreading of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)." Unfortunately, his argument is based on this misreading, an error that goes beyond the case in question. Adapted from the source document.

Today, per capita income differences around the globe are large varying by as much as a factor of 35 across countries (Hall and Jones 1999). These differentials mostly reflect the "Great Divergence" (Sam Huntingon) the fact that Western Europe and former European colonies grew rapidly after 1800, while other countries grew much later or stagnated. What is less well-known is that a "First Divergence" preceded the Great Divergence: Western Europe surged ahead of the rest of the world long before technological growth became rapid. Europe in 1500 was already twice as rich on a per capita basis as Africa, and one-third richer than most of Asia (Maddison 2007). In this essay, we explain how Europe's tumultuous politics and deadly penchant for warfare translated into a sustained advantage in per capita incomes.

David Bebnowski: Kämpfe mit Marx: Neue Linke und akademischer Marxismus in den Zeitschriften "Das Argument" und "PROKLA" 1959-1976. Geschichte der Gegenwart, Bd. 25. Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag 2021. 978-3-8353-5031-1.+++Moritz Neuffer: Die journalistische Form der Theorie: die Zeitschrift "alternative", 1958-1982. Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag 2021. 978-3-8353-5010-6.

Introduction -- Making Sense of Climate Change -- On the Origins of Violent Conflict: War and the Genocidal Impulse -- Linking Climate Change and Conflict -- Water, Violent Conflict, and Genocide -- Forced Displacement and Borders in a Warming World -- Preventing Conflict and Building Resilience.

"Social criticism about the Internet, the economic downturn, and post-industrial culture that considers the human costs and unintended consequences of the new world on artists and other cultural workers--the shuttering of bookstores, the collapse of newspapers, the toll of music piracy"--

"These lectures of the 1940s present Anderson's criticisms of the political thought of the British Idealists, T.H Green (1836-1882) and Bernard Bosanquest (1848-1923), and his assessment of socialist political thought as this was expressed in the writings of Marx, Engels and Lenin."--Introduction

The art of music-making is a mental/creative activity. However, spiritual influence cannot be ruled out in the process of constructing music. The mental activity is akin to the deployment of the intellect, while the spiritual influence could be as a result of a direct encounter or impartation by a spirit being through dream/vision as typified by two Nigerian performing artists, Majek Fashek and Victor Uwaifo, who are the foci of this study. Exploring the concept of esotericism with emphasis on music performance, this article contends that although music-making is a mental/creative activity, spiritual or extra-mental influences supervene, with particular reference to the lives and performance careers of the two selected African musicians/media celebrities from Benin City in Nigeria. In doing this, it uses historical-analytic, key informant interview (KII), and direct observation methods to critically reflect on how the supernatural influences their music-making activities.

How did the creation of an overseas empire change politics in England itself? After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power base. Stuart monarchs encouraged schemes for expansion in America, Africa, and Asia, tightened control over existing territories, and endorsed systems of slave labor to boost colonial prosperity. But English power was precarious, and colonial designs were subject to regular defeats and failed experimentation. Recovering from recent Civil Wars at home, England itself was shaken by unrest and upheaval through the later seventeenth century. Colonial policies emerged from a kingdom riven with inner tensions, which it exported to enclaves overseas. Gabriel Glickman reinstates the colonies within the domestic history of Restoration England. He shows how the pursuit of empire raised moral and ideological controversies that divided political opinion and unsettled many received ideas of English national identity. Overseas ambitions disrupted bonds in Europe and cast new questions about English relations with Scotland and Ireland. Vigorous debates were provoked by contact with non-Christian peoples and by changes brought to cultural tastes and consumer habits at home. England was becoming an imperial nation before it had acquired a secure territorial empire. The pressures of colonization exerted a decisive influence over the wars, revolutions, and party conflicts that destabilized the later Stuart kingdom