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ABSTRACTThe critical turn in IR promised a continuous archeology of the field, an empathetic understanding of those we study, and a social science unwedded to the pursuit of universally valid laws. In the United States, this movement was rooted more in a critique of peace research, than in a critique of the 'NeoNeo' mainstream, to which it became sort of 'official opposition'. The promise has not been fulfilled because the research strategies of critical theorists have rarely given them direct access to the understandings of those outside the privileged core of world society. Other research programmes, including that of the Human Development Reports and of some feminists and ethnographic scholars in IR, have been more successful.

The critical turn in IR promised a continuous archeology of the field, an empathetic understanding of those we study, and a social science unwedded to the pursuit of universally valid laws. In the United States, this movement was rooted more in a critique of peace research, than in a critique of the 'NeoNeo' mainstream, to which it became sort of 'official opposition'. The promise has not been fulfilled because the research strategies of critical theorists have rarely given them direct access to the understandings of those outside the privileged core of world society. Other research programmes, including that of the Human Development Reports and of some feminists and ethnographic scholars in IR, have been more successful. Adapted from the source document.

ABSTRACTMartha Nussbaum has provided a major service to the study and practice of international relations (IR) by articulating the moral claims made on states and international organizations by the fact of human capabilities. In return, something of what has been learned by scholars of IR can contribute to her project by considering the ways in which concrete international institutions (such as UNDP) have struggled with their international responsibilities, highlighting the role of egalitarian social movements in the establishment and reform of global level intergovernmental organizations, and searching for ways to embody Nussbaum's 'Principles for Global Structure' in the current agenda for reform of the United Nations' system.

This article proposes agendas for teaching & research about shifting global patterns of equality & inequality, a very different agenda than was appropriate when the last undergraduate professor was president of ISA, almost forty years ago. Today, unlike in that Cold War world, formal democracy is flourishing, state power is diminishing, gender inequality has diminished, & income inequality has risen. Consequences of these new patterns that demand our attention as teachers & scholars include: (1) more frequent protracted social conflicts, (2) a newly politicized sphere of international public health, (3) the new global gender politics, (4) the new global politics of the super rich, & (5) the new politics & ethics of the world's privileged, a group that includes most ISA members & most of our students. Our responsibilities as teachers have grown, in part, because popular media present a decreasingly coherent picture of each of these patterns; & that incoherence, itself, may help sustain global inequalities. 38 References. Adapted from the source document.

Industrial change & social conflict are interdependent. As technological change is adopted, new economic eras & new ways of doing things emerge. Each new economic era encounters three distinct phases: building (characterized by investment & social calm), thriving (characterized by prosperity & maximum profits), & clashing (characterized by reduced prosperity, cost cutting, & social movements). The clashing phase leads to conflict between the status quo & new social movements. Depending on the outcome of this conflict, new environments for economic development are created. 3 Tables, 68 References. K. Larsen

Outlines ethical and moral arguments for paying attention to the world polity and politics that influence it, and examines views of different analysts; policy options. Argues that global governance is likely to remain inefficient, pro-market, and relatively insensitive to concerns of labor and rural poor, despite progressive role it recently played in promoting liberal democracy and empowering women.