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This article provides a public policy analysis of governance in the provinces populated by the Malay ethnonationality in the South of Thailand. Important stakeholders are identifi ed as well as important sociopolitical environmental factors. The fi nal sections of the paper present a proposal for a new governance structure for the Muslim South of Thailand taking into consideration the social, cultural, and economic context as well as the wellbeing and right to self-determination of the local population. This study concludes that considerable economic, political, and social opportunities for development are being lost in the South of Thailand due to misguided governance policies.

International Law is a dynamic and flexible subfield which can serve as an example of how laws are contested, negotiated, and adopted without the presence of an overarching authority with coercive powers (a leviathan). A greater understanding of the relationship between international law and the vast array of actors currently operating the in interstices of the transnational system brought about by globalization can provide valuable insights as to how laws are created and legitimized through norm socialization and dialogue leading to a shared intersubjective understanding. This brief essay aims to connect some important insights from legal anthropology to the work of constructivist scholars studying regime formation and institution building in the growing field of international studies. ; El Derecho Internacional es un campo dinámico y flexible que puede servir como un ejemplo de cómo las leyes son impugnados, negociadas y aprobadas sin la presencia de una autoridad suprema con poderes coercitivos (un Leviatán). Una mayor comprensión de la relación entre el derecho internacional y la amplia gama de actores que operan actualmente en los intersticios del sistema transnacional, provocados por la globalización, puede ofrecer una perspectiva valiosa sobre cómo las leyes se crean y se legitiman a través de las pautas de socialización y del diálogo que conducen a un entendimiento intersubjetivo compartido. Este breve ensayo pretende conectar algunos aspectos importantes de la antropología jurídica con la labor de los estudiosos constructivista estudiando el régimen de formación y creación de instituciones en el creciente campo de los estudios internacionales.

The present volume deals with popular culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. Popular culture, as an important part of the public sphere, has attracted the interest of social scientists for many decades; however, most studies tend to rely on the anthropological perspective or, less commonly, on the sociological perspective. This edited volume breaks down disciplinary barriers to bring together a plethora of methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of popular culture. More