What is Poverty Reduction?
In: Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 170
In: Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 170
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This work was supported by the European Research Council, Starting Grant ref. 306337, by the Spanish government and FEDER Fund, grant ref. TIN2015-71537-P (MINECO/FEDER,UE), and by the Icrea Academia Award. The work of Javier Vazquez-Corral was supported by the Spanish government grant IJCI-2014-19516.
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In: Arms control today, Band 21, Heft 8, S. 2
ISSN: 0196-125X
PRESIDENT BUSH'S DECISION TO WITHDRAW UNILATERALLY ALL LAND-BASED AND SEA-BASED TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS MARKS THE END OF AN ERA OF RELIANCE ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR FIGHTING WARS. WITH PRESIDENT GORBACHEV'S POSITIVE RESPONSE, THE NUCLEAR SUPERPOWERS HAVE JOINED IN AN UNPRECEDENTED PROGRAM OF PARALLEL REDUCTIONS IN THEIR BLOATED NUCLEAR ARSENALS. BY FORMALLY RECOGNIZING THE RADICAL CHANGE IN MILITARY REQUIREMENTS IN THE POST-COLD WAR WORLD, BUSH HAS INVITED A NATIONAL REASSESSMENT OF OVERALL REQUIREMENTS FOR MILITARY FORCES. THE ONE DISTURBING ASPECT OF BUSH'S STATEMENT IS THE SUGGESTION THAT THE TWO SIDES CONSIDER STEPS TO PERMIT THE DEPLOYMENT OF STRATEGIC DEFENSIVE SYSTEMS AGAINST LIMITED NUCLEAR ATTACKS.
In: International conciliation, Heft 188, S. tables
ISSN: 0020-6407
In: Bulletin of the atomic scientists, Band 40, Heft 6, S. 28-29
ISSN: 1938-3282
In: Development in practice, Band 17, Heft 4-5, S. 505-510
ISSN: 1364-9213
In: Development in practice, Band 17, Heft 4-5
ISSN: 0961-4524
In: Dissent: a journal devoted to radical ideas and the values of socialism and democracy, Band 52, Heft 1, S. 55-60
ISSN: 0012-3846
Remarks on the conceptual ossification of portions of the Left exposed in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Drawing on Paul Berman (2004), explored is why much of the Left finds itself on the morally & politically wrong side of an issue, eg, the Iraq war. Focus is on two of Berman's reasons: the US is to blame for all the world's problems & this quarter of the Left lacks the capacity to grasp the meaning of the great moral & political evils of the world. The poverty of Marxist & other broadly left theoretical views colors them as perpetually anti-imperialist. It is asserted that this section of the Left deploys a de facto or practical reductionism. The horrors of the world are political & moral realities requiring that they be registered & recognized as such. To refer them immediately or to refer from them to the US, capitalism, or imperialism is to reduce them. Some of these evils can be located locally rather than with the US & rooted in specificities & not in the capitalist system. It is concluded that within the global peace movement this double tendency of practical reductionism & bankruptcy of moral imagination has been adopted by a constituency wider than just Marxists. J. Zendejas
In: Dissent: a journal devoted to radical ideas and the values of socialism and democracy, S. 55-60
ISSN: 0012-3846
In: Dissent: a quarterly of politics and culture, Band 52, Heft 1, S. 55-60
ISSN: 1946-0910
The attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, lit up the global landscape. Not only in these two cities, but wherever the news and the pictures reached during the first hours after the planes struck-all over the planet, therefore-there were people quickly able to make out features of the contemporary world that they had not previously taken in, or taken the measure of fully, things that challenged their earlier expectations and existing frameworks of understanding. Not, however, in one quarter. With a section of the Western left, the response was as if everything remained just as it had always been. Leave aside the callousness in much of the left's response toward the human dimension of the tragedy; but in explaining the crime of 9/11 the same thin categories that had been deployed in one conflict after another during a decade and more were instantly pressed into service. Imperialism and blowback-that was pretty much all one needed to understand what had befallen the citizens of Manhattan, the passengers on the planes, and the workers at the Pentagon, and there were accordingly people content to describe the attack as a comeuppance. The crime that so brutally illuminated the contours of the international political landscape thus revealed at the same time a frozen structure of concepts and assumptions. With the aid of it, many on the left shielded themselves from realities they didn't want to see or to assign their proper weight. In what follows I comment on some aspects of this theoretical nexus.
In: The review of politics, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 220
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: The review of politics, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 220-238
ISSN: 1748-6858
"I conspired to convince the McGraw-Hill Book Company that I was in communication with Howard Hughes, and in fact I was not." With that it was over. Looking back, a brief fling for Clifford Irving: the whopping advance for an "autobiography" of Hughes, certain to become the book of the year; then the day-by-day disclosures on front pages and evening newscasts that it was all a hoax; the Time cover story ("Con Man of the Year") with color portrait by Elmyr de Hory, the art-forger subject of living's prophetic book Fake!; the slide from media sight in favor of Nixon in China and politicians on the primary stump; finally the terse confession in Manhattan District Court. A very brief fling—though at the time, the late winter of 1972, the Hughes-Irving story seemed to run on endlessly, and of course isn't over yet. The legal tangle goes on and rumor is that Irving is coming out with a book about the other book—which, we now guess, might have been the point all along.
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 103-104
ISSN: 2161-7953
In: Current History, Band 31, Heft 4, S. 711-717
ISSN: 1944-785X