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POWER IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: SEARCHING FOR A NEW THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR POWER ANALYSIS - Part III *

Wajner, Fabián Daniel

*This series is the result of an adaptation of a paper presented as part of a seminar on "Theories and Research in International Relations" at Hebrew University, July 2012. Commentaries are welcome to daniel.wajner@mail.huji.ac.il Click here to read Part II of the series In the first article of this series we have introduced the debates on the ontology of power, while in the second one we have presented the main epistemological approaches of the different paradigms. In this third and final article we will deal with methodological schemes for Power Analysis in IR, while indicating areas for possible innovation using the "Arab Spring" cases as illustrations. Power, Outcomes, and what brings them togetherAs we have seen in the last part, the contribution made by Barnett and Duvall with his taxonomy of four dimensions of power is very helpful as theoretical framework; nevertheless, it is still weak to implement as a methodological tool - it is very difficult to distinguish in a real case what is originated through the structure or the actor, as well as to measure if the specificity is direct or diffuse.But the same could be expressed about the majority of the mentioned schemes. In fact, Dahl itself warned about the difficulties of combining variables to compare power relations and argued that it depends on the requirements of the research.1 This complexity is even larger when normative factors are included; for example, despite the proposal of Nye of measuring soft power through polls and focus groups, he also cautioned about the limits of the intangible variables.2 Hurt addresses certain ways of skipping the difficulties in measuring the power of legitimacy, such as examining: the rates of compliance, the reasons given for compliance and for non-compliance, the support given by the centers of Power and the need for legitimacy argument (akin to a counterfactual technique).3 But, once again, no combined power relations framework is presented.In addition, Lukes argues that power depends on the "significance" of the outcomes, namely, in the capacity of affecting the interests of the agents. He refers to two methods: by changing incentives structures (indoctrination) and by influencing interests (subject freedom). However, Lukes confesses that the main question remains open: how to use certain power to shape certain preferences?4In conclusion, in these approaches no power relation mechanism explains, in a measurable way, how material and normative resources are combined to shape power and influence decisions. Therefore, I would like to subsequently suggest a very simple framework that may allow us to implement the knowledge mentioned hitherto to study specific cases in IR.In line with the majority of the authors, in order to make power measurable I consider that we have to divide it in two variables: material power (or simply Power) and legitimation power (or legitimacy). In international politics, the power of an actor is expressed by its military (backed-by-economical) resources, and for the scheme it would receive "high" or "low" values. The legitimacy of the actors, which is based on their capacity to be perceived as norms-compliers and to build consensus around them5, would receive also "high" or "low" values.A power analysis based on the combination of those two variables, as it is shown below in illustration I, leads us to the taxonomy of four types of cases, each one ascribed to an "outcome". It is important to clarify that, for this paper, the outcomes would reflect the domestic situation of the main agent (the State) given an international system; it is a sort of outside-in analysis if we take into account Gourevitch´s second image reversed.6 Further work has to be done to adapt this scheme so as to explain the conduct of the State vis-à-vis other States as well as to include the domestic sphere of legitimacy.The first actor, which has high power and high legitimacy, could describe his situation as "stable"; that means, the actor would overcome the domestic and external challenges without internal changes and high international costs.The second actor, having high power but low legitimacy, is considered to be in a "changeable" situation. Although this actor is capable of overcoming internal and external challenges, due to the fact that it lacks of support from the other actors he could suffer from high international costs and possibly domestic changes.Illustration I – Taxonomy of Power-Legitimacy outcomesPOWERLEGITIMACYHigh PowerLow Power High Legitimacy "STABLE" "PROTECTABLE" Low Legitimacy "CHANGEABLE" "REVOLUTIONABLE" To the third actor, which has low power but high legitimacy, his situation is defined as "protectable". Due to his incapacity to overcome alone the internal and external challenges, this actor may count on the support of other actors to reduce the possibility of domestic changes; otherwise he will suffer from it.The fourth actor, with low power and low legitimacy, is placed in a "revolutionable" situation; that means, this actor is candidate to suffer from internal changes and high international costs at the time he would face challenges.Testing the Power Analysis framework with the "Arab Spring"The phenomenon known as the "Arab Spring", composed of dozens of countries in which massive protests were held, constitutes an outstanding test for the theory. A large quantity of those cases happened in a very short range of time, with all the variety of domestic conditions, reactions from the regime and from the world, as well as different outcomes. This makes those events ideal for the present examination; even though it is just a "sample" of a more deeply study.7Although no State of those that suffered uprisings is considered in a "stable" situation at all, Saudi Arabia and Jordan could be mentioned as good examples of Arab countries that combined high power (relatively, of course) and high legitimacy. Their regimes faced the uprisings from the beginning (mid-January 2011), but were capable of overcoming the internal challenges through a combination of repression and reforms, without suffering changes in their regime and being supported by the international community.Egypt is probably the best representation of a country whose regime kept high power at the moment of facing domestic challenges but received low legitimacy from the world; this "changeable" situation caused drastic changes at the top of the leadership (including the president, ministers, etc), albeit not of the whole regime (still leaded by the Military Council). Syria seems to be in a similar situation; while the power of the regime is still high, the legitimacy is not low enough to bring to major changes due to the sustained support of Russia, China and Iran. As a result, Syria constitutes today an excellent test for the power of legitimacy (and norms) in international politics.Between those countries that experienced a combination of low power and high legitimacy, experiencing a "protectable" situation, it is possible to mention Bahrain. Despite its regime was not capable of overcoming the internal revolts alone, it counted with the support of most of the Arab countries in the repression, and the Western approval of the "regional intervention" leaded by Gulf countries around the GCC. Yemen was in a comparable position, but at the end of 2011 the legitimacy of its regime was reduced when the region and the world understood the necessity to remove the President to maintain the remaining, in what was denominated later "the Yemenite option".Finally, Libya constitutes the case in which the regime was in a "revolutionable" situation, owing to its low Power to contain the rapid domestic rebellion and its low legitimacy after the first days of tremendous repression. The international costs were so high that included a military intervention leaded by NATO (with the endorsement of the Arab League), that led to the total collapse of the regime. It is possible to say that Tunisia was in an analogous situation while it did not need for a civil war and an external intervention to consummate finally a revolution (i.e., the complete removal of the existing regime).ConclusionsThroughout the paper we were able to observe that the ontological, epistemological and methodological discussions about the complex concept of Power maintain their relevance in the main schools of IR, and in some cases even constitute an essential part of their latest developments.At the same time, the inter-paradigmatic efforts of the last decades are demanding new power analysis approaches; that means, theoretical schemes that would embed a combination of the different factors at stake (material and non-material, resources and interactions, agents and structures) to specific cases of study.Deeper examinations of the "Arab Spring" cases need to be implemented so as to confirm the presented findings, as it was previously said. However, these small samples could possibly reveal that the implementation of a framework that combines both material and non-material resources is possible and, even more, desirable, to a better understanding of the devices of power in IR. 1 Robert A. Dahl, "The concept of Power", p.2142 Joseph S. Nye, Soft Power- The Means to Success in World Politics. p.63 Ian Hurt, "Legitimacy and Authority in International Politics". International Organization 53 No2 (Spring 1999), 390-3914 Stephen Lukes, "Power and the Battle for Hearts and Minds", p.4925 This short definition is based on concepts presented in Ian Clark, "Legitimacy in International Society" (London: Oxford University Press, 2005). 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Investigating multilingual contexts in the Nigerian advertising space: A domain of intellectual stimulation

Dalamu, Taofeek O

This study examined advertising, exhibiting multilingual structures to reach the Nigerian audience. Halliday's mood system and morphological processes served as the theoretical configurations for analyzing textual elements of advertisements. These contextual terminologies permitted quantitative and qualitative approaches to thrive in order to culminate the investigation. Thus, the analysis showed political motifs, religious spheres, royal domains, musical settings, and friendship environment, as the fascinating panaceas to motivate readers. English, Yorùbá, and Hausa languages were functional facilities to mesmerize consumers. However, the advertisements displayed textual interruptions: FEBUHARI, FELABRATION, OBIdiently, and ATIKUlating, being strong prerequisites in persuasive designs. Creativity indicates the logically-minded behavior of publicists in blending grammatical structures of different languages together, yielding a unified whole, generating novel semantic values for regurgitation. It seems indisputable that such textual constructs have the capability to influence lexicographers, increase word-stock(s) of languages, and projecting the advertising industry as possessing cerebral proficiencies in linguistics' advancement. ; tdalamu@aul.edu.ng ; Taofeek O. Dalamu earned a PhD from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, under a methodical supervision of Prof. Adeyemi Daramola, with specialization in Systemic Functional Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, and Digital Humanities in relation, mostly, to advertising communications. Currently, Dr. Dalamu is a member of International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association, and teaches English courses at Anchor University, Lagos, Nigeria. 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Resumen de noticias internacionales

AMÉRICA LATINA Extraditaron al ex dictador Noriega a Panamá.Para más información: http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/11/9363044-noriega-returns-to-panama-a-largely-forgotten-man http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/11/world/americas/panama-noriega extradition/index.html?hpt=wo_bn8 http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/11/9363044-noriega-returns-to-panama-a-largely-forgotten-man http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/11/actualidad/1323622374_869378.html http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/12/13/internacional/internacional/noticias/5F8EF8AB-4C15-4B2A-85E1-196B75695E82.htm?id={5F8EF8AB-4C15-4B2A-85E1-196B75695E82} http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/noriega-llega-a-panam_10909712-4 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-noriega-panama-20111212,0,5355654.story Críticas y presiones tras el cambio de gabinete en Perú.Para más información: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/world/americas/panamas-bursts-of-growth-have-yet-to-banish-old-ghosts.html?ref=world&gwh=AF023A30F1B4990E0836A0102C796FFE http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/11/actualidad/1323561684_943905.html http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1432203-criticas-y-presiones-tras-el-cambio-de-gabinete-en-peru http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/primer-ministro-peruano-afirma-que-nuevo-gabinete-ser-tcnico_10910178-4Chile lidera la reacción de América Latina a la crisis de la deuda europea.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/11/actualidad/1323635144_142067.htmlEstados Unidos busca explotar nueva zona de petróleo en Golfo de México.Para más información: http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2011/12/13/une-nouvelle-exploitation-de-petrole-dans-le-golfe-du-mexique_1618164_3222.html http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/815996.htmlTerremoto de 6,5 grados de magnitud deja tres muertos en México.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/temblor-en-mxico_10909092-4El candidato a la presidencia de México afirma que el PRI "confía en su fortaleza".Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/10/actualidad/1323540576_290724.htmlEscasez de alimentos preocupa al gobierno venezolano.Para más información: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/13/world/americas/venezuela-food-shortages/index.html?hpt=wo_bn8México: 60.000 muertos en la lucha contra los narcos.Para más información: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1432490-mexico-60000-muertos-en-la-lucha-contra-los-narcosCristina Fernández comienza su segundo mandato con el control de ambas cámaras del Parlamento.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/10/actualidad/1323516520_811577.html Detenido uno de los fundadores del cartel mexicano de Los Zetas.Para más información: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/13/world/americas/mexico-trafficker-arrested/index.html?hpt=wo_bn8http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/13/actualidad/1323746142_900607.html http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1432492-cae-uno-de-los-fundadores-del-cartel-de-los-zetasPesadilla de la corrupción le quita el sueño a la presidenta Roussef.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/la-pesadilla-de-la-corrupcin-le-quita-el-sueo-a-dilma-rousseff_10909060-4Chávez lanza nuevos planes sociales.Para más información: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-12/14/content_14265242.htm"El País" de Madrid entrevista al vicepresidente del Banco Mundial: "Latinoamérica está mejor preparada para la crisis".Para más información: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/economia/global/Latinoamerica/mejor/preparada/crisis/elpepueconeg/20111211elpnegeco_5/TesAmérica Latina debate sobre el desarrollo de la minería.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/la-minera-prende-a-amrica-latina_10909038-4ESTADOS UNIDOS / CANADÁMiles de indignados llevan su protesta a los puertos de la costa oeste de Estados Unidos.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/13/actualidad/1323762246_208474.htmlCanadá abandonó Protocolo de Kioto para no pagar multas por emisiones.Para más información: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/12/world/americas/canada-climate-kyoto/index.html?hpt=wo_c2 http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/canada/canad-abandon-protocolo-de-kioto-para-no-pagar-multas-por-emisiones_10912104-4 http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/815994.html http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-12/14/content_14265242.htmPaul Krugman analiza: "La depresión y el fantasma del autoritarismo".Para más información: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/opinion/krugman-depression-and-democracy.html?_r=1&ref=paulkrugmanEstados Unidos completará su retiro de Irak antes del 31 de diciembre.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/estados-unidos/ee-uu-completar-retiro-de-irak-antes-del-31-de-diciembre_10910080-4 http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1432699-el-costo-de-nueve-anos-de-guerra-en-irakObama: "El futuro de Irak quedará en manos de su pueblo".Para más información: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1432660-obama-el-futuro-de-irak-quedara-en-manos-de-su-puebloNueva ley en Estados Unidos cambiaría sistema de petición de visas de trabajo.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/estados-unidos/nueva-ley-en-eeuu-cambiaria-sistema-de-peticion-de-visas-de-trabajo_10913030-4El número de entradas ilegales a Estados Unidos desde México roza mínimos históricos.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/13/actualidad/1323799532_169608.htmlPresidente Obama exige a Irán la devolución de avión espía. Para más información: http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/12/13/internacional/internacional/noticias/4EFB23E4-A477-4588-8733-69E2221815F0.htm?id={4EFB23E4-A477-4588-8733-69E2221815F0}Estados Unidos espera invertir en Sudan del Sur. Para más información: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-12/14/content_14261941.htmEUROPAEl multimillonario ruso Mijaíl Prójorov retará a Putin en las presidenciales.Para más información: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/world/europe/russian-journalists-at-kommersant-vlast-axed-after-tough-election-coverage.html?ref=world&gwh=778A176A272EB2F0EA548E9B51433ECE http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/12/13/internacional/internacional/noticias/B9B15DCF-213C-4899-B7AF-C1B1E4BDE5C0.htm?id={B9B15DCF-213C-4899-B7AF-C1B1E4BDE5C0} http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/12/actualidad/1323699013_824507.html http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-russia-prokhorov-20111213,0,2354878.story http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/12/world/europe/russia-protests/index.html?hpt=wo_bn9Crisis en Rusia: renunció el presidente de la Duma aliado de Putin.Para más información: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1432604-crisis-en-rusia-renuncio-el-presidente-de-la-duma-aliado-de-putinSerbia debe elegir entre Kosovo y Europa.Para más información: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-12/14/content_14263132.htmSuman cinco muertos y 122 heridos tras ataque en Bélgica.Para más información: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16172662 http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/13/9412808-man-kills-4-injures-122-in-grenade-gun-attack-in-belgium http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/world/europe/deadly-grenade-attack-reported-in-belgium.html?ref=world&gwh=AF8038F9380EF1DFF959B73F8929A65A http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-12/14/content_14260452.htm http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/13/world/europe/belgium-attack/index.html?hpt=wo_c2 http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2011/12/14/fusillade-de-liege-la-police-decouvre-le-corps-d-une-femme-chez-le-tireur_1618169_3214.html http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-belgium-gunman-20111214,0,7775911.story"El Tiempo" de Colombia analiza: "Europa y el futuro del esquema de bloques económicos".Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/europa-y-el-futuro-del-esquema-de-bloques-economicos_10912006-4Los mercados dudan de la nueva Europa y la castigan.Para más información: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1432247-cont-los-mercados-dudan-de-la-nueva-europa http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/reino-unido-se-queda-solo-en-rechazo-al-pacto-europeo-contra-la-crisis_10906912-4Gran Bretaña no se adhiere al nuevo pacto fiscal europeo.Para más información: http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2011/12/britain-and-eu-summit http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/12/13/internacional/_portada/noticias/FBF039D8-EA83-4C9B-98E2-2B0680700EE8.htm?id={FBF039D8-EA83-4C9B-98E2-2B0680700EE8} http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/12/actualidad/1323675950_054837.html http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/10/actualidad/1323544802_420902.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/world/europe/european-commission-chief-assails-david-cameron-over-treaty-veto.html?ref=world&gwh=1167F9985D321BADD60B8B6E6355918B http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-euro-cameron-20111213,0,1921346.storyCameron, blanco de las críticas de la Unión Europea.Para más información: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16156183 http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/crisis-de-la-unin-europea_10910254-4 http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/12/13/internacional/internacional/noticias/D3D539E0-F048-45A8-8C9A-6F81D5C4B3DC.htm?id={D3D539E0-F048-45A8-8C9A-6F81D5C4B3DC} http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/13/actualidad/1323771680_642075.html http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1432528-cameron-blanco-de-las-criticas-de-la-ueMerkel busca apoyo en una dividida Alemania.Para más información: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1432529-merkel-busca-apoyo-en-una-dividida-alemaniaLos socialistas franceses rechazan el triunfalismo de Sarkozy sobre la Unión Europea.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/12/actualidad/1323714608_914172.html Extremista asesina a dos inmigrantes en Italia.Para más información: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/815830.htmlLos ajustes en Italia desatan la primera oleada de huelgas contra Monti.Para más información: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1432310-italia-sin-la-mayoria-de-sus-diarios-por-la-primera-huelga-contra-monti http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/12/actualidad/1323720597_254400.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/world/europe/mario-monti-revises-italian-budget-measures.html?ref=world&gwh=5072BC37391FF88705D94F965380E1FCFondo Monetario Internacional insta a Grecia a implementar más medidas de austeridad.Para más información: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/world/europe/greece-imf-official-urges-more-austerity.html?ref=world&gwh=61B9F47EAE34F52CFC7D95F34FDF734D http://www.lemonde.fr/crise-financiere/article/2011/12/13/le-fmi-exclut-un-nouveau-pret-a-la-grece-pour-le-moment_1618153_1581613.htmlASIA- PACÍFICO/ MEDIO ORIENTEVan 5.000 muertos y 14.000 presos en Siria, según la ONU.Para más información: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16166616 http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-oriente/nueva-jornada-de-protestas-en-siria-deja-5000-muertos_10911588-4 http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/12/13/internacional/internacional/noticias/D8BA1151-2162-40FB-81BC-789A29E975DD.htm?id={D8BA1151-2162-40FB-81BC-789A29E975DD} http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/13/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html?hpt=wo_c2 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/world/middleeast/more-than-30-are-killed-across-syria.html?ref=world&gwh=D64953B18A55C739219C0D1070A37ABFLa oposición siria reta a El Asad con una huelga durante las municipales.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/12/actualidad/1323692072_130661.htmlYemen captura factores claves de Al Qaeda en su región.Para más información: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/13/world/meast/yemen-al-qaeda-captures/index.html?hpt=wo_c2Sismo de 6,1 grados sacudió la isla de Célebes, en norte de Indonesia.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/asia/sismo-de-61-grados-sacudi-la-isla-de-clebes-en-norte-de-indonesia_10912145-4El partido de Aung San Suu Kyi podrá participar a las elecciones de Myanmar.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/10/29/actualidad/1319901028_878586.html http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/13/world/asia/myanmar-nld-suu-kyi/index.html?hpt=wo_bn7Primer Ministro iraquí llama a las inversiones estadounidenses.Para más información: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16172886India: fuerte movilización del tercer sector contra la corrupción.Para más información: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-16172942Irak deja en suspenso la ejecución de Tarek Aziz, hombre clave de SadamPara más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/08/actualidad/1323346790_008893.htmlAtentado a chiitas deja decenas de muertos en Afganistán. Para más información: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghanistan-bombings-20111207,0,4701392.story http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/world/asia/us-plans-afghan-shift-to-lessen-nato-combat-role.html?ref=world&gwh=D238C2401FC31B490223BD6AF9A8DB7CFilipinas arresta a ex oficial acusado de fraude electoral.Para más información: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/world/asia/philippines-arrests-former-official-accused-of-election-fraud.html?ref=world&gwh=2B33D15E3777B039F6868A7DF5A8EBC3Cinco galardonados lanzan una campaña por la liberación del disidente chino Liu Xiaobo.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/13/actualidad/1323795246_365163.htmlhttp://behindthewall.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/13/9422733-chinese-artists-portraits-of-corruptionDesempleo en Corea del Sur cayó un 2.9%.Para más información: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-12/14/content_14265253.htmKuwait: un nuevo gobierno con pocas propuestas de cambios.Para más información: http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2011/12/13/koweit-un-nouveau-gouvernement-sans-grand-changement_1618161_3218.html Irak quiere actuar como intermediario en crisis siria.Para más información: http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2011/12/13/l-irak-veut-jouer-les-intermediaires-dans-la-crise-syrienne_1618162_3218.htmlÁFRICAViolencia en las elecciones de Congo.Para más información: http://www.economist.com/node/21541447 http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/10/9355085-congo-election-spurs-violence-at-home-in-londonTúnez: defensor de derechos humanos fue elegido presidente.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/12/12/actualidad/1323718658_453258.html http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/12/13/internacional/internacional/noticias/E245DC1E-56BA-402E-B4BF-A4D2AD20533F.htm?id={E245DC1E-56BA-402E-B4BF-A4D2AD20533F} http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/13/world/meast/tunisia-president/index.html?hpt=wo_c2Egipcios comienzan a votar en segunda fase de elecciones legislativas.Para más información: http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2011/12/13/egypte-20-000-prisonniers-politiques-liberes-depuis-fevrier_1618146_3212.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16172151 http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/africa/segunda-fase-de-elecciones-legislativas-en-egipto_10913505-4 http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2011/12/14/reprise-des-operations-de-vote-dans-un-tiers-de-l-egypte_1618190_3210.htmlEgipto: crece la tensión entre militares y la Hermandad Musulmana. Para más información: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/08/world/africa/egypt-elections/index.html?hpt=wo_bn10 http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/13/opinion/elgindy-egypt-elections/index.html?hpt=wo_bn10 http://sn118w.snt118.mail.live.com/default.aspx#!/mail/InboxLight.aspx?n=516954200!fid=1&fav=1&n=838886258&cv=1 Alarmantes índices de mortalidad en África central.Para más información: http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2011/12/13/en-centrafrique-un-taux-de-mortalite-au-dessus-du-seuil-d-urgence_1618140_3212.htmlOTRAS NOTICIAS"El manifestante" es el personaje del año de la revista Time.Para más información: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1432640-el-manifestante-es-el-personaje-del-ano-de-la-revista-timeLogran salvar la cumbre mundial de cambio climático.Para más información: http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/12/climate-change-0 http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1431898-logran-salvar-la-cumbre-mundial-de-cambio-climatico http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/africa/cumbre-climtica-pospone-decisin-clave-para-el-2015_10909914-477 http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/africa/cumbre-de-durban-sobre-cambio-climtico_10908365-4 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-climate-change-20111204,0,7204452.story http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/11/world/south-africa-climate-pact/index.html?hpt=wo_bn1 Fuerte terremoto en Papúa Nueva Guinea.Para más información: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1432601-fuerte-terremoto-en-papua-nueva-guinea"El Universal" presenta su portal dedicado al cambio climático.Para más información: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/coberturas/cobertura3.html"The Economist" presenta su informe semanal: "Business this week".Para más información: http://www.economist.com/node/21541465

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Maghreb. Une francophonie sur la brèche, une interface en Méditerranée

Manzano, Francis

International audience ; El Magrib apareix com un soci permanent de França i dels països del Mediterrani occidental, notablement Espanya i Catalunya. El que passa aquí des de fa segles i el que podria succeir aviat té un gran interès per a historiadors, antropòlegs, lingüistes i polítics.Quins mecanismes específics de creació de les identitats socials, culturals i lingüístiques podem identificar? Com es va establir aquesta part del món en una «francophonie» sovint apassionada però de vegades rebutjada?En aquest treball, s'esmenten regularment els espais occità, català i espanyol per tal de comprendre millor la dinàmica històrica dels contactes en un espai geo-històric situat entre el golf del Lleó i el nord d'Àfrica. De la mateixa manera, un moment d'observació de la llengua maltesa és necessari i això permet entendre com es formen i es transmeten les identitats i les pràctiques lingüístiques en aquesta part del món. ; Der Maghreb (oder Nordafrika) ist ein ständiger Partner Frankreichs und der Anrainerstaaten des westlichen Mittelmeers. Was hier seit Jahrhunderten passiert und was bald passieren könnte, ist von großem Interesse für Historiker, Anthropologen, Linguisten und Politiker.Welche spezifischen Mechanismen zur Schaffung sozialer, kultureller und sprachlicher Identitäten können wir identifizieren? Wie hat sich dieser Teil der Welt in einer «Frankophonie» etabliert, die oft leidenschaftlich, aber manchmal abgelehnt wird?Auf jeden Fall enthüllt dieser Subkontinent sehr alte Kontakte, die uns viel darüber lehren, wie Sprachidentitäten gebildet und weitergegeben werden.Aus diesem Grund werden regelmäßig die okzitanischen, katalanischen und spanischen Räume erwähnt, um die historische Dynamik der Kontakte in einem Raum zwischen dem Golf von Lion und Nordafrika besser zu verstehen. In diesem Zusammenhang erhält die maltesische Sprache auch einen strategischen und heuristischen Platz. ; Just a stone's throw from Europe, the Maghreb (or North-Africa) has been a permanent partner of France, Spain and Italy. What has been happening here for many centuries and what may soon happen is of great interest to historians, anthropologists, linguists, and politicians.What specific mechanisms for the production of social, cultural and language identities can be detected there? How did this region of the world settled down in a highly passionate "Francophonie", sometimes experienced positively, sometimes fought?Anyway, this sub-continent certainly reveals what contacting of cultures and languages may produce in a very long time, leading to a kind of identity genesis that probably await most parts of the world in this beginning of the 21st century. ; Cerca de Europa, el Magreb (o África del Norte) es un socio permanente de Francia i de España. Lo que ha estado sucediendo aquí durante muchos siglos y lo que podría suceder pronto es de gran interés para los historiadores, antropólogos, lingüistas y políticos.¿Qué mecanismos específicos pueden detectarse en la producción de identidades sociales, culturales y lingüísticas? ¿Cómo se ha instalado esta región del mundo en una «francofonía» muy apasionada, a veces vivida positivamente, a veces combatida?En cualquier caso, este subcontinente revela sin duda lo que el contacto de culturas y lenguas puede producir en un tiempo bastante largo, conduciendo a una especie de génesis identitaria, la que probablemente se promete a la mayoría de las regiones del mundo en los albores del siglo XXI. ; À quelques encablures de l'Europe, le Maghreb est un partenaire permanent de la France. Ce qui s'y passe de longue date et ce qui pourrait s'y passer bientôt doit intéresser au plus haut point historiens, anthropologues, linguistes et politiques.Quels mécanismes spécifiques de production des identités sociales, culturelles et langagières peut-on y déceler ? Comment cette région du monde s'est-elle installée dans une francophonie hautement passionnelle, tantôt structurante et vécue positivement, tantôt vécue comme déstructurante et donc repoussée ? Par ce système ancien de contacts tripolaires qui le caractérise, le Maghreb n'est-il pas finalement l'un des laboratoires exemplaires de la francophonie ? Ou, plus fondamentalement encore, un révélateur du contact, de la rencontre et de la genèse identitaire qui attendent probablement le reste du monde en ce début de XXIe siècle ?Pour répondre à la plupart des questions qui se posent, l'auteur conduit une approche systémique en même temps diachronique et synchronique, articulée autour de la théorisation tripolaire du contact des langues en Afrique du Nord, élaborée au début de la décennie 1990. C'est cette approche qui permet de comprendre une bonne partie des permanences nord-africaines en matière de langage et d'identités, alors même que le Maghreb est de longue date objet de contacts incessants et de véritables colonisations. ; Vicino al l'Europa, il Maghreb (o Africa settentrionale) è un partner permanente de Francia, Spagna e Italia. Ciò che sta accadendo qui da molti secoli e ciò che potrebbe accadere presto è di grande interesse per gli storici, gli antropologi, i linguisti e i politici.Quali meccanismi specifici si possono individuare nella produzione di identità sociali, culturali e linguistiche? Come si è stabilita questa regione del mondo in una «francofonia» molto appassionata, a volte vissuta positivamente, a volte combattuta?In ogni caso, questo subcontinente rivela certamente ciò che il contatto delle culture e delle lingue può produrre in un tempo molto lungo, portando ad una sorta di genesi identitaria, quella che probabilmente attende la maggior parte delle regioni del mondo in questo inizio del XXI secolo. ; Il-Magreb (jew l-Afrika ta 'Fuq) hija sieħba permanenti ta' Franza u l-pajjiżi li jmissu mal-punent tal-Mediterran. Dak li ilu jiġri hawn għal bosta sekli u dak li jista 'jiġri dalwaqt huwa ta' interess kbir għall-istoriċi, l-antropologi, il-lingwisti u l-politiċi.X'mekkaniżmi speċifiċi tal-produzzjoni ta 'identitajiet soċjali, kulturali u lingwistiċi nistgħu nindunaw? Dan ir-reġjun tad-dinja kif sar stabbilit f '"Francophonie" passjonat ħafna, kultant esperjenzat b'mod pożittiv, kultant iġġieled?Ikun xi jkun, dan is-subkontinent ċertament jiżvela kuntatt antik ħafna ta 'kulturi u lingwi fil-punent tal-Mediterran.L-ispazji Oċċitan u Spanjol jissemmew regolarment biex jifhmu aħjar id-dinamika storika tal-Magreb. Post strateġiku jingħata wkoll lill-lingwa Maltija.

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Maghreb. Une francophonie sur la brèche, une interface en Méditerranée

Manzano, Francis

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Maghreb. Une francophonie sur la brèche, une interface en Méditerranée

Manzano, Francis

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Welzel, Christian; Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

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World Values Studies key aggregates, waves 1-6 (Welzel replication file)

Bei den Daten handelt es sich um Indikatoren aus den World Values Surveys (Wellen 1-6), die auf Länderebene aggregiert wurden.

Themen: Index Emanzipatorischer Werte (Emancipative Values Index, EVI); Index Emanzipatorischer Werte Kurzversion basierend auf den Komponenten reproductive choice (Reproduktionsentscheidungen) und gender equality (Gleichberechtigung); Komponente reproductive choice (Akzeptanz von Homosexualität, Scheidung und Abtreibung); Komponente Sprache (Priorität auf Redefreiheit und die Stimme der Menschen in nationalen und lokalen Angelegenheiten); Komponente gender equality (Unterstützung für die Gleichberechtigung von Frauen in den Bereichen Beruf, Bildung und Politik); Autonomiekomponente (Unabhängigkeit, Phantasie statt Gehorsam als geschätzte Eigenschaft von Kindern); Index säkularer Werte (Secular Values Index; SVI); Index säkularer Werte Kurzversion basierend auf den Komponenten disbelief (Ungläubigkeit, Zweifel) und defiance (Trotzhaltung, Renitenz); Komponente Ungläubigkeit (schwacher Glaube an Religiosität und wenig religiöse Praxis); Komponente Renitenz (geringer Nationalstolz, geringer Respekt vor Autoritäten und geringe Konformität mit elterlichen Erwartungen); Komponente Skepsis (geringes Vertrauen in die Polizei, Behörden und Gerichte); Komponente Relativismus (nur leichte Ablehnung von Bestechung, Steuerhinterziehung und Gebührenbetrug); Social movement activities (Beteiligung an Petitionen, Boykotten und Demonstrationen); Verknüpfung mit Informationsquellen (Nutzung von Internet, E-Mail und PC); wahrgenommene Stimulation: durchschnittliche Wahrnehmung der täglichen Aufgaben als kreativ, kognitiv und autonom; kognitive Mobilisierung; individuelle Befähigung (individual empowerment); Index zur Temperatur und Wasserversorgung (Cool Water Index); liberales Demokratieverständnis: freie Wahlen, Bürgerrechte und Gleichberechtigung; illiberales Demokratieverständnis: militärische Intervention; religiöse Autorität, Arbeitslosengeld; aufgeklärtes Demokratieverständnis; wahrgenommener Grad der Demokratisierung im eigenen Land; demokratisches Bestreben: Wunsch, in einem demokratisch regierten Land zu leben; Mobilisierungspotential für Demokratie; wahrgenommene Fairness anderer Menschen; Vertrauen: allgemeines Vertrauen; Vertrauen in Familie, Bekannte und Nachbarn; Vertrauen in Unbekannte und Menschen mit anderer Nationalität und Religion; unspezifisches und generalisiertes Vertrauen; Aktivitäten in zivilen Organisationen (z.B. Freizeit, Kirche, Parteien, etc.); Zufriedenheit mit der finanziellen Situation des Haushalts; Selbsteinschätzung des Gesundheitszustands; Fähigkeit zur Gestaltung des eigenen Lebens; Glück; Lebenszufriedenheit; Kampfbereitschaft für das eigene Land im Falle eines Krieges.

Zusätzlich verkodet wurde: für alle Länder: Nummer; Jahr, Name; Erhebungsjahr; Erhebungswelle; Kulturzone; Filterdummy für die letzte Welle je Land; numerischer Ländercode; 3-Buchstaben-Ländercode; Ländercode Weltbank; Index demokratische Rechte 1996 bis 2006; Index Bürgerrechte 1995 bis 2005; Index ehrliche Regierung 1996 bis 2006; Index wirksame Demokratie 1996 bis 2006; Index ehrliche Demokratie; Index Loyalitäts-Normen: Vertrauen in den öffentlichen Dienst, Polizei und Armee; Index Protest-Normen: Beteiligung an Demonstrationen, Boykotten, Petitionen.

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Resumen de noticias internacionales

AMÉRICA LATINA Ocupan una de las mayores favelas de Río.Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1382958-ocupan-una-de-las-mayores-favelas-de-rio http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/06/19/brazil.rio.raid/index.htmlhttp://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/06/20/internacional/internacional/noticias/C1EF9604-7DCD-46FF-8517-987BAE6F1741.htm?id={C1EF9604-7DCD-46FF-8517-987BAE6F1741}Presidenta argentina Cristina Fernández lanzó candidatura a reelección.Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/presidenta-argentina-cristina-fernandez-buscara-la-reeleccion_9689464-4 http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1383352-cristina-kirchner-lanza-el-programa-lcd-para-todoshttp://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/774113.htmlCentroamérica: Zetas, maras y violencia.Para más información:http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Centroamerica/Zetas/maras/violencia/elpepuint/20110620elpepuint_13/TesPresidencia del Fondo Monetario Internacional y el candidato latinoamericano.Para más información:http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/candidato/latinoamericano/elpepiint/20110620elpepiint_10/Tes http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/15/2268484/latin-americas-candidate-to-imf.htmlFidel y Raúl Castro visitan a Chávez en el hospital donde convalece en La Habana.Para más información:http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Fidel/Raul/Castro/visitan/Chavez/hospital/convalece/Habana/elpepuint/20110618elpepuint_11/TesLa tormenta tropical Beatriz se acerca a costas mexicanas.Para más información:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43462141/ns/weather/Un tribunal chileno suspende temporalmente la construcción de cinco presas en la Patagonia.Para más información:http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/tribunal/chileno/suspende/temporalmente/construccion/presas/Patagonia/elpepusoc/20110620elpepusoc_19/TesUn periodista, su esposa, y su hijo son asesinados en México.Para más información:http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Asesinado/Mexico/periodista/esposa/hijo/elpepuint/20110620elpepuint_20/Tes http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43466780/ns/world_news-americas/ http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-journalist-killing-20110621,0,511653.storySe captura a responsable de asesinato de 72 migrantes en México.Para más información:http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-fg-mexico-arrest-20110618,0,6670881.storyDetienen a importante capo mexicano del cartel de drogas 'La Familia'.Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/detenido-capo-del-cartel-la-familia_9689668-4Más de 23 mil jóvenes han sido reclutados por los carteles del narcotráfico en México.Para más información:http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/06/20/internacional/internacional/noticias/A3939B68-E019-4BF5-B12C-622F587D8B9A.htm?id={A3939B68-E019-4BF5-B12C-622F587D8B9A}El Gobierno toma el control sobre revuelta en una cárcel de Venezuela.Para más información:http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/06/20/internacional/internacional/noticias/1389CBE2-D471-4D0D-B231-3ADDC09E91CB.htm?id={1389CBE2-D471-4D0D-B231-3ADDC09E91CB}http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43457741/ns/world_news-americas/http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Gobierno/toma/control/carcel/Venezuela/elpepuint/20110618elpepuint_2/TesBrasil tendrá cárceles privadas.Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1383050-brasil-tendra-carceles-privadas50 años más tarde, en Cuba se publica diario del Ché Guevara.Para más información:http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/06/14/cuba.che.guevara/index.htmlMinorías que se transformaron en mayorías en Brasil.Para más información:http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/06/16/brazil.race/index.htmlHumala logra 70% de apoyo en primeras semanas como presidente electo.Para más información:http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/06/20/internacional/internacional/noticias/65EE5763-9142-4CF3-9CF2-690AA7E106D4.htm?id={65EE5763-9142-4CF3-9CF2-690AA7E106D4}Escándalo por el millonario fraude en Las Madres de Mayo.Para más información:http://www.economist.com/node/18836612 http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Madres/Mayo/intocables/elpepiint/20110619elpepiint_1/TesFrancia abrirá proceso de extradición a Panamá de Manuel Noriega.Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/francia-abrir-proceso-de-extradicin-a-panam-de-manuel-noriega_9674645-4 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43451632/ns/world_news-americas/ http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/06/20/internacional/internacional/noticias/A55F2FBD-59FA-4A4A-B887-732D3D019035.htm?id={A55F2FBD-59FA-4A4A-B887-732D3D019035} http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/06/20/france.noriega.extradition/index.htmlChicas mexicanas son entrenadas para ser asesinas de los carteles de droga.Para más información:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43445168/ns/world_news-americas/Cenizas del volcán chileno siguen causando inconvenientes en varias partes del globo.Para más información:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43448061/ns/world_news-americas/ http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/14/2266881/volcanic-ash-from-chile-continues.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13852885ESTADOS UNIDOS / CANADÁEstados Unidos reconoce contactos preliminares con los talibanes.Para más información:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/asia/20afghanistan.html?ref=world http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Estados/Unidos/reconoce/contactos/preliminares/talibanes/elpepuint/20110619elpepuint_4/Tes http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/06/18/afghanistan.us.taliban/index.html http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/06/20/internacional/internacional/noticias/7F7354C1-77AB-456E-9022-B92F4EB7DC00.htm?id={7F7354C1-77AB-456E-9022-B92F4EB7DC00}Estados Unidos registra una de las peores temporadas de incendios.Para más información:http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/774127.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13868191Hackers: la nueva amenaza mundial .Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1382771-cibertempestadlas-potencias-se-alistan-para-un-pearl-harbour-electronicoAmenaza de bomba retrasa vuelos en Washington.Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/estados-unidos/amenaza-de-bomba-retrasa-vuelos-en-washington_9670645-4Hillary Clinton: mujeres saudíes tienen razón al exigir derecho a conducir.Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/estados-unidos/clinton-mujeres-saudes-tienen-razn-al-exigir-derecho-a-conducir_9685927-4Estados Unidos busca acelerar la salida de Afganistán: 'probablemente' retirará 10.000 soldados .Para más información:http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/EE/UU/busca/acelerar/salida/Afganistan/elpepiint/20110620elpepiint_1/Tes http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/773857.html http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/estados-unidos/retiro-de-tropas-estadounidenses-de-afganistn_9687465-4La peligrosa ofensiva contra los indocumentados en Estados Unidos.Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1383112-la-peligrosa-ofensiva-contra-los-indocumentados-en-eeuuRepublicanos y demócratas muy cerca de un acuerdo para salvar el TLC con Colombia.Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/estados-unidos/republicanos-y-demcratas-muy-cerca-de-un-acuerdo-para-salvar-el-tlc_9676064-4Estados Unidos añade ocho áreas de alto tráfico de drogas.Para más información:http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/773788.htmlWeiner presenta renuncia formal a Congreso de los Estados Unidos.Para más información:http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/773851.html EUROPAIndignados inician marcha de 33 días por España.Para más información:http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/773690.html http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-06/19/content_12733706.htm http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1383108-siguen-las-protestas-de-los-indignados http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1382947-marcha-de-indignados-en-toda-espana http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/06/19/spain.protests/index.html http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/06/20/internacional/_portada/noticias/79CA934D-B104-4739-805E-86CD14E6FECE.htm?id={79CA934D-B104-4739-805E-86CD14E6FECE} http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/protestas-de-los-indignados-en-madrid_9668004-4Murió Elena Bonner, viuda del Nobel de la Paz Andrei Sajarov e importante disidente de la URSS.Para más información:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/europe/20bonner.html?ref=world http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-yelena-bonner-20110620,0,5167114.story http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/06/20/internacional/internacional/noticias/4B60FD93-92BA-4AFD-8784-CAEF0FAC220A.htm?id={4B60FD93-92BA-4AFD-8784-CAEF0FAC220A}Antiguo líder de ETA: "la lucha armada ya no procede".Para más información:http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/06/20/internacional/internacional/noticias/EEFC2FDE-715D-45CA-A3CF-BB22FD44A014.htm?id={EEFC2FDE-715D-45CA-A3CF-BB22FD44A014}El ex presidente francés Chirac será definitivamente juzgado en setiembre.Para más información:http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Chirac/sera/definitivamente/juzgado/septiembre/elpepuint/20110620elpepuint_14/Tes http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/773717.htmlPedro Passos Coelho asume el cargo de primer ministro de Portugal.Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/passos-coelho-asume-el-cargo-de-primer-ministro-luso-centrado-en-la-crisis_9684424-4http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/nuevo/gobierno/centro-derecha/portugues/empieza/mal/pie/elpepuint/20110620elpepuint_18/Tes http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Liga/Norte/apremia/Berlusconi/acentuar/politicas/derechas/elpepiint/20110620elpepiint_8/TesLa ONU asegura que solo el 2% de los refugiados libios han huido hacia Europa.Para más información:http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/ONU/asegura/solo/refugiados/libios/han/huido/Europa/elpepuint/20110620elpepuint_4/TesDetenido el ex secretario de Estado de Sarkozy acusado de violación y agresión sexual.Para más información:http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Detenido/ex/secretario/Estado/Sarkozy/acusado/violacion/agresion/sexual/elpepuint/20110620elpepuint_17/TesImportante crisis económica en Grecia.Para más información:http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-06/20/content_12733714.htmCrece la alarma mundial por Grecia: el FMI advirtió sobre el riesgo de un contagio global.Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1383187-crece-la-alarma-mundial-por-grecia http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1383144-para-los-griegos-el-problema-es-de-europa http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/06/20/greece.debt/index.htmlAdvierten sobre el contagio de la crisis griega a cinco países europeos.Para más información:http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-06/20/content_12733714.htm http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1382736-advierten-sobre-el-contagio-a-cinco-paises http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/europe/20merkel.html?ref=world http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036034/ns/world_news-europe/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43462624/ns/business-world_business/El efecto de la crisis en Grecia podría ser peor de lo pensado.Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1383229-el-efecto-de-la-crisis-en-grecia-podria-ser-peor-que-el-causado-por-el-colapso-financiero-enGobierno griego sobrevive a voto de confianza.Para más información:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13869428http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-greece-vote-confidence-20110621,0,1671733.story http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2079240,00.htmlLa Unión Europea acordó la creación de fondo de ayuda permanente para la Eurozona.Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/fondo-de-ayuda-permanente-para-la-eurozona_9674124-4Europa demora en el pago de 17 billones a Grecia.Para más información:http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-eu-greece-finances-20110621,0,792178.storyÉxodo rural en Grecia causado por la situación económica.Para más información:http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2079205,00.htmlMedvedev desea un segundo mandato.Para más información:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43460212/ns/world_news-europe/Según ONG Save the Children el mejor país para nacer es Suecia, y el peor es Somalia.Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/los-mejores-lugares-del-mundo-para-nacer_9684425-4Choque de avión deja 40 muertos en Rusia.Para más información:http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/773874.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13851697 http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/accidente-de-avin-en-rusia_9680425-4 http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1383137-accidente-aereo-deja-al-menos-44-muertos-en-rusia http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2078895,00.htmlMedvedev se opone en la ONU a resolución para condenar la violencia en Siria.Para más información:http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-06/20/content_12733715.htmASIA- PACÍFICO/ MEDIO ORIENTECondena internacional el régimen sirio por violencia.Para más información:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/middleeast/20diplo.html?ref=world http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43460832/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/asia/20afghanistan-taliban.html?_r=1&ref=world"El País" de Madrid analiza: ¿Por qué el mundo no detiene la matanza en Siria?.Para más información:http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/mundo/detiene/matanza/Siria/elpepuint/20110620elpepuint_12/Tes175 muertos y 1.6 millones de evacuados por inundaciones en China.Para más información:http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/06/20/china.floods/index.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43469501/ns/weather/Militares sirios frenan éxodo hacia Turquía.Para más información:http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/06/20/internacional/internacional/noticias/4E49B2CC-7133-44A7-B82C-98A250EDA60A.htm?id={4E49B2CC-7133-44A7-B82C-98A250EDA60A}Importante ataque de coches bomba en Irak.Para más información:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13853886 http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2079062,00.html http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/06/14/iraq.attack/index.html http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-oriente/explosin-de-dos-carros-bomba-causa-25-muertos-y-34-heridos-en-irak_9684804-4Reunión secreta entre las Coreas en China.Para más información:http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-06/15/content_12710490.htmError del ejército surcoreano no tuvo víctimas fatales.Para más información:http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/06/20/south.korea.civilian.plane/index.html http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-06/19/content_12733804.htmNuevo reporte sobre los estragos de la crisis nuclear en Japón .Para más información:http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-06/19/content_12733806.htmPara presidente israelí:"La paz con los palestinos es cuestión de urgencia".Para más información:http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/06/19/israel.mideast.peace/index.htmlPresidente de Siria promete reformas: miles de manifestantes lo tildaron de 'mentiroso'.Para más información:http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Asad/afirma/habra/reformas/medio/sabotaje/caos/elpepuint/20110620elpepuint_6/Tes http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/06/20/syria.unrest/index.html http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/773751.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/world/middleeast/21syria.html?ref=worldIndignación y protestas en Siria tras otro discurso de Al-Assad.Para más información:http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2078683,00.html http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1383110-indignacion-y-protestas-en-siria-tras-otro-discurso-de-al-assadMisterio por enfermedad que mató a 28 niños en India.Para más información:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13852963Nuevo jefe de Al Qaeda: el número dos de Bin Laden.Para más información:http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-qaeda-zawahiri-20110617,0,7986312.story http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/16/2269190/al-qaida-says-al-zawahri-has-succeeded.html#ixzz1PyKlPqTD http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/16/2269190/al-qaida-says-al-zawahri-has-succeeded.htmlDetenida una niña en Pakistán con un chaleco explosivo.Para más información:http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Detenida/nina/Pakistan/chaleco/explosivo/elpepuint/20110620elpepuint_21/Tes ÁFRICATensión política en Somalía.Para más información:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/africa/20somalia.html?ref=world Mueren 21 individuos tras enfrentamiento entre soldados y militares en Yemen.Para más información:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/middleeast/20yemen.html?ref=world http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/06/20/yemen.unrest/index.htmlContinúa la violencia en Libia.Para más información:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/africa/20rape.html?ref=world http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/19/2273908/libya-says-nato-airstrike-hits.html http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/06/20/libya.war/index.htmlhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43469194/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/ http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/19/2273908/libya-says-nato-airstrike-hits.htmlOTAN admite haber bombardeado por error un edificio de civiles en Trípoli.Para más información:http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/06/20/internacional/internacional/noticias/831A7FFC-622C-4783-93DC-28A4ACBFC2C3.htm?id={831A7FFC-622C-4783-93DC-28A4ACBFC2C3} http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-06/20/content_12733713.htmCiviles construyen armas caseras para enfrentar a Gadhafi.Para más información:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43460246/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/Elecciones en Egipto suponen divisiones en la Hermandad Musulmana.Para más información:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/middleeast/20egypt.html?ref=worldTúnez condena a Ben Ali a 35 años de cárcel.Para más información:http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2011/06/20/world/africa/news-us-tunisia-benali.html?ref=worldhttp://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Tunez/condena/rebeldia/Ben/Ali/35/anos/carcel/elpepuint/20110620elpepuint_10/TesMichelle Obama en Sudáfrica.Para más información:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43449828/ns/politics/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-south-africa-obama-20110621,0,6723760.story http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/06/20/michelle.obama.africa/index.html5 muertos tras ataque a estación de policía en Nigeria.Para más información:http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/06/16/nigeria.blast/index.htmlComisión investigará crímenes post electorales en Costa de Marfil.Para más información:http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/06/16/ivory.coast.abuses/index.html http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43271397/ns/today-good_news/Rey de Marruecos anuncia reforma para una monarquía constitucional.Para más informaciónhttp://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/africa/cambios-constitucionales-en-marrueco_9656824-4La campaña por el referéndum constitucional divide a Marruecos.Para más información:http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/campana/referendum/constitucional/divide/Marruecos/elpepuint/20110620elpepuint_3/Tes OTRAS NOTICIAS La ONU aprobó "histórica resolución" sobre derechos de homosexuales.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/resolucin-de-la-onu-sobre-los-derechos-de-los-homosexuales_9656710-4 http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/06/17/un.lgbt.rights/index.htmlPaíses en desarrollo acogen a 43.7 millones de refugiados.Para más información:http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/773739.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/20refugee.html?ref=worldBan Ki-moon fue reelegido Secretario General de la ONU.Para más información:http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/774074.html http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/estados-unidos/ban-ki-moon-reelegido-como-secretario-general-de-la-onu_9687766-4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13868655"El Universal" presenta su portal dedicado al cambio climático.Para más información: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/coberturas/cobertura3.html"The Economist" presenta su informe semanal: "Business this week".Para más información: http://www.economist.com/node/18683179

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AMÉRICA LATINAVenezuela congela precios: la administración de Chávez aplica una nueva legislación.Para más información: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15850784 http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/11/23/internacional/internacional/noticias/E1CA8620-EA13-4AA7-B643-8796751DED7B.htm?id={E1CA8620-EA13-4AA7-B643-8796751DED7B} http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/venezuela-pone-en-vigor-ley-de-costos-y-congela-precios-de-varios-productos_10812706-4 http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1425656-chavez-anuncia-un-polemico-congelamiento-de-precios#comentar http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/internacional/75339.htmlChina le da un crédito multimillonario a Venezuela para producir petróleo.Para más información: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ultimas_noticias/2011/11/111122_ultnot_china_venezuela_credito_petroleo_fp.shtmlPrecandidato opositor denuncia a Chávez por crímenes de lesa humanidad.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/21/actualidad/1321908448_227631.html http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/precandidato-opositor-denuncia-a-chvez-por-crmenes-de-lesa-humanidad_10807265-4Enrique Peña Nieto queda solo en carrera interna del PRI por la presidencia mexicana.Para más información: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/world/americas/mexico-institutional-revolutionary-party-candidate-drops-out.html?ref=world&gwh=9FAB962EFBDA60208817D64D998BB21C http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/22/actualidad/1321994112_646778.html http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/11/23/internacional/_portada/noticias/C9E2C91C-E706-4164-898B-A95B15F51E20.htm?id={C9E2C91C-E706-4164-898B-A95B15F51E20}La izquierda mexicana elige como su candidato a López Obrador.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/15/actualidad/1321382388_500126.html El nuevo jefe de las FARC intenta movilizar a sus bases.Para más información: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/15/world/americas/colombia-farc-leader/index.html?hpt=wo_bn8 http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/21/actualidad/1321909000_157359.htmlEncuentran 16 cuerpos calcinados en dos camionetas en norte de México.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/encuentran-16-cuerpos-calcinados-en-dos-camionetas-en-norte-de-mexico_10817028-4Terremoto de 6.2 grados sacude a Bolivia.Para más información: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/22/world/americas/bolivia-earthquake/index.html Líder guaraní es asesinado en Brasil.Para más información: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15799712La indignación chilena llega a los barrios acomodados de Santiago.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/22/actualidad/1321946885_214330.htmlOposición de Nicaragua asegura fraude en las pasadas elecciones presidenciales.Para más información: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/16/world/americas/nicaragua-elections/index.htmlLa Justicia francesa acepta la extradición de Noriega a Panamá.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/la-justicia-francesa-acepta-la-extradicin-de-noriega-a-panam_10815244-4Rousseff sanciona dos leyes para promover la transparencia en Brasil.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/19/actualidad/1321715470_824807.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15799705México, el proveedor de armas de Latinoamérica.Para más información: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/internacional/75323.htmlLa presidenta Cristina de Kirchner abre la era del ajuste en Argentina.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/argentina-cristina-abre-era-del-ajuste_10800507-4 Se encontraron cuerpos de víctimas de guerra civil en Guatemala.Para más información: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/world/americas/guatemala-bodies-of-civil-war-victims-found.html?ref=world&gwh=7FAEA2F7D44BBF99A2D46FAAB510BB43Aprobación de Humala cae en medio de escándalo y conflictos en Perú.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/aprobacin-de-humala-cae-en-medio-de-escndalo-y-conflictos_10801065-4Encuentran 15.3 millones de dólares en auto perteneciente al narco mexicano.Para más información: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15846066 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45408974/ns/world_news-americas/#.TszDCHKwA9062 jueces de Brasil sospechosos de lucrarse con la venta de sentencias.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/21/actualidad/1321910471_413127.html "MSNBC" analiza el rol de las familias cubanas en el exilio estadounidense.Para más información: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45398215/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/#.TszDPnKwA90 Chávez despliega tropas para combatir el crimen.Para más información: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15786541 ESTADOS UNIDOS / CANADÁ Estados Unidos refuerza sus sanciones a Irán.Para más información: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-sanctions-20111122,0,5739709.story http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/21/actualidad/1321904927_392915.html http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1425319-obama-aumenta-la-presion-sobre-iran-con-mas-sanciones#comentar http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/world/middleeast/thomas-e-donilon-obama-aide-says-iran-feels-strain-of-sanctions.html?ref=world&gwh=60F10D2A742A6A8B76432527E7771B0E Renuncia embajador de Pakistán en Estados Unidos.Para más información: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pakistan-envoy-resigns-20111123,0,7594172.story http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/22/world/asia/pakistan-ambassador-resigns/index.html?hpt=wo_c2 http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2011/11/23/l-ambassadeur-du-pakistan-aux-etats-unis-pousse-a-la-demission_1607838_3216.html http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/22/8956530-pakistans-memogate-triggers-us-ambassadors-resignation http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-11/23/content_14149301.htmObama presiona por un acuerdo para reducir el déficit de Estados Unidos.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/estados-unidos/en-carreras-para-definir-recorte-en-gasto-en-estados-unidos_10805044-4 http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1425436-obama-presiona-por-un-acuerdo-para-reducir-el-deficit-de-eeuu#comentar El gobernador de Oregón suspende la pena de muerte por considerarla "moralmente equivocada".Para más información: http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2011/11/23/l-orgegon-renonce-a-la-peine-de-mort_1607822_3222.html http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/23/actualidad/1322024205_805318.html ]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15851828La batalla del déficit marca el declive del liderazgo de Estados Unidos.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/22/actualidad/1321987733_364881.htmlA la justicia militar soldado que filtró información a WikiLeaks.Para más información: http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/11/23/internacional/internacional/noticias/BB9707C3-1602-4641-9D64-A035E3258DCF.htm?id={BB9707C3-1602-4641-9D64-A035E3258DCF}Según Obama su gira por Asia fue un éxito.Para más información: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/19/world/asia/thailand-obama/index.html?hpt=wo_bn7 Candidatos republicanos se enfrentan en debate televisado.Para más información: http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2011/11/22/newt-gingrich-nouvelle-coqueluche-des-electeurs-republicains_1607420_3222.html http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/internacional/75336.html http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gop-debate-print-20111123,0,311678.story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15849057El FED pondrá a prueba fortaleza de los bancos estadounidenses.Para más información: http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2011/11/22/la-fed-va-tester-la-resistance-des-grandes-banques-americaines_1607809_3234.htmlLas represalias contra Ocupa Wall Street paralizan una universidad de California.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/22/actualidad/1321994181_191477.html EUROPAVictoria de Mariano Rajoy en elecciones españolas.Para más información: http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/11/spains-election http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1425600-rajoy-bajo-presion-externa-para-que-anuncie-sus-planes#comentar http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/rajoy-presidente-del-gobierno-espaol-no-quiso-dar-pistas- no_10806484-4 http://resultados.elpais.com/elecciones/generales.html http://www.elpais.com/articulo/english/Pressure/builds/on/Rajoy/to/reveal/plans/elpepueng/20111122elpeng_11/Tenhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/world/europe/falling-markets-welcome-new-spanish-leader.html?ref=world&gwh=3DDA3F0DD1C1757428F3BCFA67C404E4 http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/11/23/internacional/_portada/noticias/BE207423-B09C-4187-8F76-CE3748DC9203.htm?id={BE207423-B09C-4187-8F76-CE3748DC9203}http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2011/11/22/actualidad/1321995888_407623.html http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/20/world/europe/spain-election/index.html?hpt=wo_bn9La crisis de la economía europea incrementó la xenofobia en España.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/xenofobia-en-espaa_10813227-4España paga por su deuda el costo más alto en casi 20 años.Para más información: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1425410-espana-paga-por-su-deuda-mas-que-grecia-y-portugal#comentarLos políticos italianos y griegos tratan de sobrevivir a la tecnocracia.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/19/actualidad/1321725831_851802.html http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-11/23/content_14145311.htmEuropa sigue azotada por la crisis económica.Para más información: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/11/euro-crisis-16 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15840939 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/business/global/banks-seek-emergency-funds-from-ecb.html?ref=world&gwh=12082F92F7B01A5D929A17AE65133412Fondo Monetario Internacional expande herramientas crediticias.Para más información: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15847359La crisis sentencia la política exterior europea.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/21/actualidad/1321907864_965289.html"La Nación" publicó: "La crisis en Europa sigue arrasando. gobiernos".Para más información: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1425165-la-crisis-en-europa-continua-arrasando-gobiernos#comentar Muere ex primera dama francesa Danielle Mitterrand.Para más información: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/810535.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45398085/ns/world_news-europe/#.TszDinKwA90 http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/11/23/internacional/_portada/noticias/FBE8C684-A60F-422E-BD06-EFD6AE470379.htm?id={FBE8C684-A60F-422E-BD06-EFD6AE470379}Rusia contempla una respuesta al escudo antimisiles de Estados Unidos.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/rusia-contempla-una-respuesta-al-escudo-antimisiles-de-ee-uu_10815487-4Financieros e intelectuales franceses no descartan el final de la moneda única.Para más información: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-france-denial-20111117,0,19630.story http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/19/actualidad/1321729116_096626.htmlStrauss Kahn demanda a consejero de Sarkozy.Para más información: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/world/europe/dominique-strauss-kahn-files-lawsuit.html?ref=world&gwh=352C181344B8D3C3D70F6DC111426C5C http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/11/23/internacional/internacional/noticias/B5E863C0-A3B2-49EB-84F4-C37B29A3C899.htm?id={B5E863C0-A3B2-49EB-84F4-C37B29A3C899}Agoniza el mayor lago de los Balcanes devastado por contaminación.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/agoniza-el-lago-shkodra-de-los-balcanes_10798868-4El primer ministro de Bélgica presenta su dimisión al rey.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/21/actualidad/1321905076_971841.htmlGran Bretaña impulsa sanciones contra Irán mientras que Rusia las rechaza.Para más información: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/22/world/meast/iran-sanctions/index.html?hpt=wo_c2 http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/21/world/europe/uk-iran-sanctions/index.html?hpt=wo_bn9Encuentros entre gobierno británico y oposición siria.Para más información: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/21/world/europe/uk-syria-opposition/index.html?hpt=ieu_c2Berlusconi acude al Tribunal de Milán por el proceso Mediaset.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/22/actualidad/1321965890_550310.htmlPrimer ministro turco recomienda a su homologo sirio el fin de la violencia.Para más información: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/world/middleeast/turkish-leader-says-syrian-president-should-quit.html?ref=world&gwh=520C39538BA1703CF9EA85DCF888C8A7 http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/22/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html?hpt=wo_c2ASIA- PACÍFICO/ MEDIO ORIENTEComienza el juicio contra la cúpula del Khmer Rojo, responsable del genocidio en Camboya.Para más información: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/21/world/asia/cambodia-khmer-rouge-trial/index.html?hpt=wo_bn7 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/world/asia/defendant-says-khmer-rouge-saved-cambodia-from-vietnam.html?ref=world&gwh=A0D22879C1730952271E66ACC55E18D6 http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2011/11/23/pour-khieu-samphan-le-regime-khmer-rouge-etait-soutenu-par-la-population_1607825_3216.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15850062 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cambodia-khmer-tribunal-20111122,0,7925250.storySiria: una protesta al borde de la guerra.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-oriente/siria-una-protesta-al-borde-de-la-guerra_10795604-4 http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-oriente/muertos-por-represin-en-siria_10813924-4 http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/20/world/meast/syria-violence/index.html?hpt=wo_bn11 http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/22/actualidad/1321950162_347268.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/11/22/world/middleeast/AP-ML-Tunisia-New-Assembly.html?ref=world&gwh=3622C13B9909B78911A14D8D6F0859B3 http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1425094-nuevo-ataque-en-siria#comentarNaciones Unidas condena a Siria por la represión contra civiles.Para más información: http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2011/11/22/l-assemblee-generale-de-l-onu-condamne-la-repression-en-syrie_1607762_3218.html http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-oriente/naciones-unidas-condena-la-represin-siria-contra-los-civiles_10812866-4Presidente de Yemen firmó plan que prevé su salida del poder.Para más información: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15850913 http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-oriente/traspaso-de-poder-en-yemen_10813904-4 http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2011/11/23/le-president-saleh-se-rend-a-ryad-pour-signer-l-accord-de-transfert-du-pouvoir-au-yemen_1607820_3218.htmlIrán condena nuevas sanciones occidentales y las considera sin efecto.Para más información: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/world/middleeast/in-iran-newspaper-protest-new-friction-seen.html?ref=world&gwh=65CEEEB72F52CCB1180077F7912AB5F0 http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/22/actualidad/1321965125_727429.html http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-oriente/irn-condena-nuevas-sanciones-occidentales-y-las-considera-sin-efecto_10807924-4Al menos un muerto y cuatro heridos en ataque en noroeste de Pakistán.Para más información: http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-oriente/ataque-en-noroeste-de-pakistn_10813884-4Corea del Sur firma Tratado de Libre Comercio con Estados Unidos. Para más información: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/business/global/seoul-votes-a-chaotic-yes-to-free-trade-with-us.html?ref=world&gwh=BB739A3062162F41118E54C510844BA2Rey de Jordania visita Ramallah.Para más información: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/21/world/meast/jordan-palestinians/index.html?hpt=wo_bn11 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/world/middleeast/hamas-gains-momentum-in-palestinian-rivalry.html?gwh=20968B04656665E3C22947475DC9AB9ALa ganadora del Nobel Suu Kyi se presenta al Parlamento de Myanmar.Para más información: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45389461/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/#.TszDhXKwA90Crece la tensión entre Tayikistán y Rusia.Para más información: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/world/asia/tajikistan-moscow-tensions-ease.html?ref=world&gwh=56F107720E6492668796DDA4B1E14C81Filipinas: se encuentran explosivos en zona de masacre del 2009.Para más información: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/world/asia/philippines-bombs-are-found-near-site-of-2009-massacre.html?ref=world&gwh=B2634F670E7E9A2DCC9F313DBA0B1FDFÁFRICALas protestas y la violencia aceleran la transición en Egipto.Para más información: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15848602 http://printempsarabe.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/11/23/ahmad-harara-heros-tragique-de-la-revolution-egyptienne/ http://printempsarabe.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/11/22/ce-que-la-place-tahrir-veut/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45398123/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/#.TszDBHKwA90 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-street-cop-20111123,0,5218854.storyhttp://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-11/23/content_14149626.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/world/middleeast/egypts-cabinet-offers-to-quit-as-activists-urge-wider-protests.html?_r=1&ref=world&gwh=FAFB4F2ED0D8667242D11DA56225420E http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/22/world/africa/egypt-protests/index.html?hpt=wo_c1 http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/22/actualidad/1321991775_513676.html http://blogs.elpais.com/aguas-internacionales/2011/11/tahrir-2-ya-no-compra-promesas.html http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/22/actualidad/1321956370_052101.html http://www.lemonde.fr/tunisie/article/2011/11/22/ben-jaafar-elu-president-de-l-assemblee-constituante-tunisienne_1607747_1466522.htmlMarruecos : miles de manifestantes piden en las calles el boicot a las elecciones.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/20/actualidad/1321809192_348786.htmlLibia no entregará a Saif al Islam a La Haya.Para más información: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-libya-new-govermmnet-20111123,0,2688168.story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15847309 http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/810537.html http://www.lemonde.fr/libye/article/2011/11/22/la-libye-devoile-son-nouveau-gouvernement_1607773_1496980.html http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-11/23/content_14147504.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/world/africa/libyas-interim-premier-appoints-militia-leader-to-cabinet.html?ref=world&gwh=3F3DE5BBED98C4DD29506A54DB186626 http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/22/world/africa/libya-icc/index.html?hpt=wo_c2Azania, verdadero objetivo de Kenia en Somalia.Para más información: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2011/11/22/actualidad/1321958191_945005.htmlOTRAS NOTICIASVolatilidad en los mercados ante la creciente incertidumbre.Para más información: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1425675-volatilidad-en-los-mercados-ante-la-creciente-incertidumbre#comentar "El Universal" presenta su portal dedicado al cambio climático.Para más información: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/coberturas/cobertura3.html"The Economist" presenta su informe semanal: "Business this week".Para más información: http://www.economist.com/node/21538805

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Richter, Thomas; Lucas, Viola; German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Forschungsdaten#81262016

GSRE 1.0 - Global State Revenues and Expenditures Dataset

The GSRE 1.0 dataset is based on recently released historical documents from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and improves the coverage and accuracy of state budget data for most authoritarian regimes and some democracies since the end of World War II. The GSRE dataset includes 39 unique indicators covering major aspects of state finance for 161 countries between 1946 and 2006.

Please consult the GSRE website at https://sites.google.com/a/thomaserichter.de/gsre/ for further changes and updates.

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Open Access#81272013

Resumen de noticias internacionales

AMÉRICA LATINA Brasil admite haber espiado dependencias de la embajada de Estados Unidos. Para más información:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/world/americas/brazil-acknowledges-spying-on-diplomats-from-us.html?ref=worldhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-24828668http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/05/world/americas/brazil-spying/index.html?hpt=wo_c2http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/04/actualidad/1383574787_015627.htmlhttp://www.eluniversal.com.mx/el-mundo/2013/impreso/brasil-tambien-ha-espiado-revela-diario-84751.htmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ultimas_noticias/2013/11/131105_ultnot_brasil_espionaje_ministro_wbm.shtml Según sondeos Bachelet ganaría en primera vuelta. Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1633786-bachelet-ganaria-en-primera-vuelta Incendio presuntamente intencional daña sede de Bachelet en Chile. Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/incendio-presuntamente-intencional-dana-sede-de-michelle-bachelet-en-chile_13160872-4 Los Zelaya buscan volver al poder en Honduras. Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1635144-los-zelaya-buscan-volver-al-poder-en-honduras Elecciones en Argentina: Kirchner derrotada en las legislativas. Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/elecciones-en-argentina_13145902-4http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/perfil-del-poltico-argentino-sergio-massa_13153376-4 Gobierno argentino encuentra documentos secretos de la dictadura militar. Para más información:http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/05/world/americas/argentina-dictatorship-files/index.htmlhttp://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/05/actualidad/1383624001_706481.htmlhttp://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/governo-argentino-encontra-documentos-secretos-da-ditadura-militar-10686218#ixzz2joShCyyF Sismo de 6,5 grados sacude centro de Chile. Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/sismo-de-65-grados-en-chile_13153716-4 Diversos medios analizan las nuevas rutas de la cocaína de America Latina. Para más información:http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2013/11/05/en-amerique-latine-les-nouvelles-routes-de-la-cocaine_3508494_3222.htmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-24800089 Accidente de avión en Bolivia deja ocho muertos y 10 heridos. Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/accidente-de-avin-en-bolivia-deja-ocho-muertos-y-10-heridos_13159103-4 Ocho países realizan el mayor ejercicio militar aéreo conjunto en Latinoamérica. Para más información:http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/05/actualidad/1383609280_789526.html Ley de medios, un golpe a grupo argentino Clarín. Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/ley-de-medios-un-golpe-a-grupo-clarn_13149960-4 Ex presidente de Perú reta a Ollanta a debate. Para más información:http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/el-mundo/2013/reta-ex-presidente-de-peru-a-ollanta-a-debate-963273.html Cuba prohíbe cines privados y venta de artículos importados. Para más información:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-24790569http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/cuba-prohbe-cines-3d-privados-y-venta-de-artculos-importados_13157084-4 Guatemala pierde interés en integrarse a Petrocaribe. Para más información:http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ultimas_noticias/2013/11/131105_ultnot_guatemala_retira_petrocaribe_jgc.shtml México: miles de personas celebraron el Día de los Muertos. Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1635005-dia-de-los-muertos Maduro decreta el "Día de la Lealtad y el Amor al Comandante Supremo". Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/venezuela-celebrara-el-dia-de-la-lealtad-y-el-amor-al-comandante-hugo-chavez_13160847-4 Venezuela introducirá nuevo tipo de cambio para turistas. Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1634235-venezuela-introducira-nuevo-tipo-de-cambio-para-turistas Nicolás Maduro y la militarización de la sociedad venezolana. Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/nicols-maduro-y-la-militarizacin-de-la-sociedad-venezolana_13156470-4 Diversos miedos crecen respecto a capacidad de Brasil de hospedar el próximo Mundial de Fútbol. Para más información:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24828804 16 personas han muerto por dengue en Nicaragua en este año. Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/16-muertos-por-dengue-en-nicaragua_13157378-4 13 muertos deja enfrentamiento en Matamoros- México. Para más información:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-24803143 Guerrilla colombiana libera rehén estadounidense Para más información:http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/27/world/americas/colombia-farc-american-hostage-released/index.html Andrés Oppenheimer analiza crecimeinto latinoamericano. Para más información:http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/02/3725607/andres-oppenheimer-world-ranking.html ESTADOS UNIDOS /CANADÁ Las elecciones parciales en EE UU señalan el camino a la Casa Blanca. Para más información:http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2013/11/05/a-new-york-une-revanche-sur-les-riches-avec-bill-de-blasio_3508302_3222.htmlhttp://www.lanacion.com.ar/1635688-nueva-york-elige-nuevo-alcalde-tras-la-era-giuliani-bloomberghttp://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/estados-unidos/los-neoyorquinos-acuden-a-las-urnas-para-elegir-un-nuevo-alcalde_13160877-4http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24813179http://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/eleicoes-de-nova-york-poem-fim-era-bloomberg-10687146#ixzz2joSYWLJm http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/05/actualidad/1383677774_704970.htmlhttp://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21588913-young-recall-clinton-boom-not-scandals-clinton-effect El espionaje de Estados Unidos y la agencia NSA sigue generando tensión internacional. Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1634977-la-espia-del-siglo-la-nsa-la-agencia-que-todo-lo-puede-y-todo-lo-vehttp://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/estados-unidos/espionaje-en-estados-unidos-john-kerry-dice-que-el-pas-se-sobrepas_13154238-4 Obama continúa luchando para implementar una reforma en el sistema de salud. Para más información:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24824653 Obama impulsa reforma migratoria ante empresarios. Para más información:http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/el-mundo/2013/obama-impulsa-reforma-migratoria-ante-empresarios-963220.html Caos y muerte en el aeropuerto de Los Ángeles por atacante solitario. Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1634906-detalles-siniestros-del-tiroteo-en-el-aeropuerto-de-los-angeleshttp://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/estados-unidos/evacuan-el-aeropuerto-de-los-ngeles-tras-un-tiroteo_13154760-4 Hallan muerto al autor de disparos en centro comercial de Nueva Jersey. Para más información:http://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/atirador-achado-morto-apos-disparar-em-shopping-de-nova-jersey-10687415#ixzz2joSdm0KI http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1635543-encontraron-muerto-al-tirador-de-nueva-jersey-detras-del-shopping-donde-actuohttp://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/estados-unidos/atacante-se-suicida-tras-abrir-fuego-en-centro-comercial-de-nueva-jersey-eeuu_13160298-4 Guantánamo le cuesta a Estados Unidos 200 millones de dólares al año. Para más información:http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/05/actualidad/1383672584_280295.html EUROPA El nacionalismo, la xenofobia y cuestiones migratorias siguen siendo el centro de discusiones en Europa. Para más información:http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/04/21303956-thousands-of-russian-nationalist-marchers-raise-specter-of-anti-immigrant-violence?litehttp://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/03/actualidad/1383507169_514239.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/world/europe/russia-nationalists-press-anti-immigrant-agenda.html?ref=world&gwh=A1E63C4610173C0114D1DC8933FD4D60http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/25/world/europe/europe-migration-lampedusa/index.htmlhttp://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/jovens-voltam-as-ruas-da-franca-para-protestar-contra-deportacoes-10691363#ixzz2joUI5dwO Berlín convoca al embajador británico por espionaje. Para más información:http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2013/11/05/les-grandes-oreilles-britanniques-en-plein-c-ur-de-berli_3508112_651865.htmlhttp://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/embaixada-britanica-em-berlim-teria-sido-usada-para-espionagem-diz-independent-10689217#ixzz2joUDLPDN http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/05/actualidad/1383665180_886243.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2013/11/05/world/europe/germany-uk-spy-report/index.html?hpt=ieu_c1 Un fuerte temporal azotó el norte de Europa y dejó por lo menos diez muertos Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1633430-un-fuerte-temporal-azoto-el-norte-de-europa-y-dejo-por-lo-menos-diez-muertoshttp://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/temporal-al-norte-de-europa_13146984-4}http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/29/world/europe/europe-severe-weather/index.html Asesinadas a cuchilladas tres personas en el secuestro de un autobús en Noruega. Para más información:http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/04/21308934-three-killed-in-norway-bus-attack?litehttp://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/tres-pessoas-morrem-em-sequestro-de-onibus-na-noruega-10682646#ixzz2joUKrwMp http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24824069http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/05/actualidad/1383606597_727668.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/world/europe/norway.html?ref=world&gwh=C4E420C2A5F8E1A70185F1DDB4DDD8AB La violencia en la zona serbia aplasta el proceso de pacificación de Kosovo. Para más información:http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/04/actualidad/1383558828_534421.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/world/europe/violence-mars-election-in-kosovo.html?ref=world&gwh=4F5028F6061EA83EFAA63CC3341D932F La Unión Europea retoma el diálogo de adhesión con Turquía tras años de bloqueo. Para más información:http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/05/actualidad/1383672260_160362.htmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24825002 Diversos medios analizan perspectivas económicas de la Unión Europea. Para más información:http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2013-11/05/content_17083716.htmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/business/eu-predicts-anemic-growth-and-high-unemployment-in-2014.html?ref=world&gwh=EEBF2AAAE54EA8AEEB44B2816F9BC94Chttp://www.lanacion.com.ar/1634353-el-desempleo-en-la-eurozona-bate-un-nuevo-recordhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24817818 En Ginebra diplomáticos trabajan, sin resultados alentadores, para lograr un acuerdo de paz en Siria. Para más información:http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2013-11/06/content_17083814.htmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/world/middleeast/syria.html?ref=world Miles de cuerpos son encontrados en fosa común en Bosnia. Para más información:http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/01/world/europe/bosnia-mass-grave/index.html Policía alemana recupera 1.500 obras de arte robadas por los nazis. Para más información:http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/05/21318847-nazi-art-trove-in-german-apartment-includes-previously-unknown-matisse?litehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24818541http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1635322-hallan-arte-saqueado-por-los-nazis-valuado-en-us-1350-milloneshttp://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-germany-nazi-art-20131105,0,4039020.story#axzz2joJTEsVh Integrante de Pussy Riot es transferida a cárcel en Siberia. Para más información:http://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/integrante-do-pussy-riot-transferida-para-siberia-10693915#ixzz2joU9cuSt Francia recibe cuerpos de los periodistas franceses asesinados en Mali. Para más información:http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/05/world/africa/france-mali-journalists-killed/index.html?hpt=wo_c2http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24815614 "CNN" analiza nueva regulación del accionar de la prensa en Reino Unido. Para más información:http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/world/europe/uk-press-regulation-reaction/index.html Masiva protesta en Madrid por el fallo que liberó a dos etarras Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1633062-masiva-protesta-en-madrid-por-el-fallo-que-libero-a-dos-etarras Snowden trabajará en una de las principales páginas web de Rusia. Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/snowden-trabajar-en-una-web-de-rusia_13152559-4 ASIA- PACÍFICO/ MEDIO ORIENTE "El Tiempo" de Colombia publica desgarrador articulo que cuenta el drama de las niñas novias de Pakistán. Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-oriente/nias-de-cinco-aos-en-pakistn-que-estan-casadas_13144836-4 Según la ONU el 40% de la población siria necesita ayuda humanitaria. Para más información:http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-syria-humanitarian-crisis-20131105,0,3474610.story#axzz2joJTEsVhhttp://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/05/actualidad/1383645001_000170.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/world/meast/syria-chemical-weapons-opcw/index.htmlhttp://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/onu-40-da-populacao-siria-precisam-de-ajuda-humanitaria-10683911#ixzz2joVz9Zqc http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-iran-us-20131105,0,2110637.story#axzz2joJTEsVhhttp://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/05/21315471-nine-million-syrians-need-humanitarian-aid-due-to-war-un?lite Al menos 40 muertos, incluidos siete niños, deja coche bomba en Siria- Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-oriente/atentado-en-mezquita-de-damasco-en-sirira_13144675-4 El hambre como arma: la nueva táctica del régimen sirio para ganar la guerra. Para más información:http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1634045-el-hambre-como-arma-la-nueva-tactica-del-regimen-sirio-para-ganar-la-guerra Diplomáticos no logran poner fecha para realizar una nueva conferencia de paz para Siria. Para más información:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24827718http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/el-mundo/2013/siria-sin-acuerdo-de-paz-este-anio-onu-963251.htmlhttp://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/conferencia-de-paz-sobre-siria-adiada-10692998#ixzz2joVspJ98 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/world/middleeast/while-few-seem-eager-to-talk-peace-in-syria-un-mediator-wont-stop.html?ref=world Siria destruye instalaciones de producción de armas químicas. Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-oriente/armas-qumicas-en-siria_13152535-4http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1634347-siria-destruyo-sus-instalaciones-de-produccion-de-armas-quimicas Muerte del jefe de talibanes dicen que no afectará el proceso de paz en Pakistán. Para más información:http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/01/world/asia/pakistan-violence/index.htmlhttp://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-oriente/muerte-de-talibn-afecto-proceso-de-paz-en-pakistn_13156855-4http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1634761-en-una-ofensiva-con-un-drone-muere-el-lider-taliban-en-paquistanhttp://www.cnn.com/2013/11/04/world/asia/afghanistan-karzai-pakistan-taliban/index.html?hpt=ias_c2 Condenados a muerte 152 acusados por los motines en Bangladesh en 2009. Para más información:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/world/asia/152-soldiers-given-death-penalty-over-revolt-in-bangladesh.html?ref=worldhttp://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/05/actualidad/1383650531_119779.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2013/11/05/world/asia/bangladesh-soldiers-death-sentence/index.html?hpt=ias_c1http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24817887 India lanza su primera nave exploratoria a Marte. Para más información:http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2013-11/06/content_17083798.htmhttp://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/11/05/world/asia/ap-as-india-mars-mission.html?ref=worldhttp://www.cnn.com/2013/11/04/world/asia/india-mars-orbiter/index.html?hpt=wo_c2http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24729073http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-india-launch-mars-mission-20131104,0,3566545.story#axzz2joJTEsVh No hay signos de un proceso de pacificación en Irak. Para más información:http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/04/world/meast/iraq-violence/index.htmlhttp://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21139521-war-weary-iraqis-scared-to-leave-homes-as-violence-reaches-levels-not-seen-since-2008?lite Riad arresta a miles de inmigrantes irregulares tras el fin de la amnistía. Para más información:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24810033http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/05/actualidad/1383663779_618475.html Kerry visita Arabia Saudita. Para más información:http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-us-saudi-rift-kerry-visit-20131104,0,6904287.story#axzz2joJTEsVh Gobierno chino detiene a cinco individuos por ataque en la plaza Tiananmen. Para más información:http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/30/world/asia/china---tiananmen---arrests/index.htmlhttp://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/30/21246103-five-arrested-over-tiananmen-square-terrorist-attack-chinese-authorities-say?litehttp://www.lanacion.com.ar/1633422-un-raro-incidente-en-la-plaza-tiananmen-dejo-5-muertos Kerry intenta promover diálogo de paz entre palestinos e israelíes. Para más información:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/world/middleeast/kerry-in-mideast-tries-to-prod-israeli-palestinian-talks.html?ref=world Terremoto de magnitud 5.0 sacude a Tokio. Para más información:http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/03/world/asia/japan-earthquake/index.html Inundaciones dejan decenas de muertos al este de India. Para más información:http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/26/world/asia/india-floods/index.html Irán ahorca a 16 presuntos rebeldes tras la muerte de 17 policías. Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-oriente/irn-ahorca-a-presuntos-rebeldes-tras-la-muerte-de-policas_13144300-4 Irán y un posible acuerdo sobre su plan nuclear. Para más información:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/world/middleeast/iran-says-nuclear-deal-is-possible-this-week.html?ref=world ÁFRICA Morsi desafía a los militares en Egipto. Para más información:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/world/middleeast/egypt.html?ref=worldhttp://www.economist.com/blogs/pomegranate/2013/11/muhammad-morsi-trialhttp://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/04/actualidad/1383532972_935193.htmlhttp://www.eluniversal.com.mx/el-mundo/2013/impreso/mursi-desafia-al-gobierno-egipcio-8220soy-el-presidente-legitimo-8221-dice-84753.htmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24801882http://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/presidente-deposto-do-egito-passa-noite-em-hospital-de-prisao-10691700#ixzz2joWgr6Zu http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-egypt-morsi-trial-20131105,0,4510471.story#axzz2joJTEsVhhttp://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/02/21288349-two-french-journalists-kidnapped-and-killed-in-northern-mali?chromedomain=worldblog Los rebeldes del M23 anuncian el fin de su lucha armada en el Congo. Para más información:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/world/africa/m23-rebels-democratic-republic-congo.html?ref=world&_r=0http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/05/actualidad/1383642968_110904.htmlhttp://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2013/11/05/en-rdc-le-gouvernement-annonce-une-victoire-totale-sur-le-m23_3508091_3212.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2013/11/05/world/africa/congo-rebels-disarm/index.html?hpt=iaf_c1http://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/derrotado-grupo-rebelde-encerra-insurgencia-no-leste-do-congo-1-10691553#ixzz2joWjLxAmhttp://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/05/21318777-congos-defeated-m23-rebels-announce-disarmament-seek-diplomacy?lite Asesinados a tiros dos periodistas franceses secuestrados en el norte de Mali. Para más información:http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2013/11/05/mali-trois-des-ravisseurs-des-journalistes-de-rfi-identifies_3508659_3212.htmlhttp://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/11/02/actualidad/1383414551_209423.htmlhttp://www.lanacion.com.ar/1634953-secuestran-y-asesinan-a-dos-periodistas-franceses-en-mali "China Daily" analiza el rol de Ruanda conectando a África Para más información:http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2013-11/04/content_17077864.htm Túnez extiende su estado de emergencia. Para más información:http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/03/world/africa/tunisia-unrest/index.html?hpt=iaf_c2 28 muertos luego de estampida en Nigeria. Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/africa/muertos-en-estampida-en-nigeria_13157615-4 OTRAS NOTICIAS Cada año más de 800.000 personas son víctimas del tráfico humano. Para más información:http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/cada-ao-ms-de-800000-personas-son-vctimas-del-trfico-humano-en-el-mundo_13132278-4 "The Economist" presenta su informe semanal: "Business this week". Para más información:http://www.economist.com/news/world-week/21588134-business-week

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Cover Table of Contents,Contributors, Introduction and Acknowledgments

Sánchez-López, Lourdes

This is introduction, acknowledgements and dedication part from Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes. Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes is a collection of select peer-reviewed scholarly articles developed from concepts and positions presented and generated at the First International Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes (ISLSP) celebrated on April 13–14, 2012 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (United States). The symposium gathered 31 speakers and over 80 participants from all over the nation and other parts of the world. Each speaker brought a unique perspective of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), which was essential to pave the way to enlightening, fruitful and engaging discussions throughout the 2–day symposium. ; To cite the digital version, add its Reference URL (found by following the link in the header above the digital file). ; Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes Lourdes Sánchez-López Editor UAB Digital Collections Birmingham, Alabama, March 2013 Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes ISBN 978-0-9860107-0-5 UAB Digital Collections Mervyn H. Sterne Library University of Alabama at Birmingham March 2013 Editor Lourdes Sánchez-López University of Alabama at Birmingham Production Manager Jennifer Brady University of Denver Editorial Board Julia S. Austin University of Alabama at Birmingham William C. Carter University of Alabama at Birmingham Alicia Cipria University of Alabama Sheri Spaine Long United States Air Force Academy / University of Alabama at Birmingham Jesús López-Peláez Casellas University of Jaén Clara Mojica Díaz Tennessee State University Malinda Blair O'Leary University of Alabama at Birmingham Susan Spezzini University of Alabama at Birmingham Rebekah Ranew Trinh University of Alabama at Birmingham Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon University of Alabama at Birmingham Table of Contents INTRODUCTION, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS & DEDICATION Lourdes Sánchez-López . x ON LSP THEORETICAL MODELS Continuing Theoretical Cartography in the LSP Era Michael S. Doyle . 2 ON THE CURRENT STATE OF LSP Language for Specific Purposes Job Announcements from the Modern Language Association Job List: A Multiyear Analysis Mary K. Long . 15 ON LSP PROGRAMS AND PRACTICES Spanish for the Professions: Program Design and Assessment Carmen King de Ramírez and Barbara A. Lafford . 31 Spanish for Professional Purposes: An Overview of the Curriculum in the Tri-state Region Leticia Barajas . 42 The Spanish for Specific Purposes Certificate (SSPC) Program: Meeting the Professional Needs of Students and Community Lourdes Sánchez López . 62 French for International Conference at The University of the West Indies, Mona: Total Simulation in the Teaching of Languages for Specific Purposes Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo and Gilles Lubeth . 73 ON THE UNEXPECTED LSP PARTICIPANT The Unexpected Spanish for Specific Purposes Professor: A Tale of Two Institutions Sheri Spaine Long . 88 A Doctoral Student's Shift from Modified AAVE to Academic English: Evidence for Establishing a Language for Specific Purposes Focus Susan Spezzini, Lisa A. La Cross, and Julia Austin . 99 ON METHODOLOGY Teaching Business Chinese: The Importance and Methodology of Building Pragmatic Competence and the Case of Buhaoyisi Yahui Anita Huang . 110 Enhancing Language for Specific Purposes through Interactive Peer-to-Peer Oral Techniques Susan Seay, Susan Spezzini, and Julia S. Austin . 121 Orchestrating a Job Search Clinic for International Scholars and Students Kristi Shaw-Saleh, Susan Olmstead-Wang, Helen Dolive, and Kent D. Hamilton . 129 iii Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes (2013) Contributors Julia S. Austin, PhD is Director of Educational Services for the University of Alabama at Birmingham Graduate School and has been a university administrator and a teacher educator for 25 years. She has been continuously funded since 2000 by the US Department of Education National Professional Development grant program to prepare teachers to effectively serve English learners. Dr. Austin has published and presented on effective teaching practices, academic writing, authorship ethics, and collaborative mentoring. Leticia Barajas, MA is a doctoral student in the Second Language Studies program at the University of Cincinnati where she also teaches academic ESL. Her areas of expertise are Language for Specific Purposes, Spanish for professional purposes and Academic English. Prior to this position, she worked for the Spanish department at the University of Kentucky and developed curriculum for Business Spanish and Spanish for Law Enforcement courses in Mexico and Spain. Leticia Barajas is currently writing her dissertation on Spanish for professionals and working on teacher training for professional development. Jennifer Brady, PhD is the Assistant Managing Editor of Hispania and Lecturer of Spanish at the University of Denver where she teaches all levels of Spanish language and Iberian Culture and Civilization. Her research interests include masculinities in contemporary Spain, doubling and repetition in contemporary Spanish fiction, and modification and illness in physical bodies in Spanish fiction. William C. Carter, PhD is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His biography Marcel Proust: A Life was selected as a ―Notable Book of 2000‖ by The New York Times, a ―Best Book of 2000‖ by the Los Angeles Times, and a ―Best Biography of 2000‖ by the Sunday Times of London. Harold Bloom has written that Carter's book, Proust in Love is ―a marvelous study of the comic splendor of the great novelist's of human eros and its discontents.‖ He co-produced the award-winning documentary Marcel Proust: A Writer's Life. His website is http://www.proust-ink.com. Alicia Cipria, PhD is Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Alabama. Her research interests include theoretical and applied issues of tense, aspect and aktionsart (Spanish and English), teaching methodology, Spanish/English contrasts, translation, and contact of Spanish with other non-indigenous languages. Helen Dolive, MA is the International Student Advisor at Birmingham-Southern College. She previously worked as an Immigration Advisor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She holds Master's degrees in English from Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) and in teaching English as a Second Language from UAB. A British citizen, Helen completed her undergraduate studies in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, during which she lived for a year in Belgium. Her research interests include ESL for adult learners, English for Specific Purposes, intercultural communication, sociolinguistics, and orienting new international students. iv Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes (2013) Michael S. Doyle, PhD is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he chaired the Department of Foreign Languages from 1993–1999. He has also served as Graduate Coordinator (1999–2003 and 2005–2009), Director of the Certificate in Business Spanish (1998–) and Director of the undergraduate and graduate Certificates in Translating and Translation Studies (2000–2012). He received his PhD in Spanish from the University of Virginia in 1981. His specialties are Spanish for Business and International Trade, Business Language Studies (BLS), Translating and Translation Studies (TTS: language, discourse, and transcultural studies, literary and non-literary), and 20th-century Spanish literature. Kent D. Hamilton, MA Ed is a graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Master of Education in ESL/EFL and is currently working southern Thailand at The Prince of Songkla University, Trang Campus as a lecturer in the Department of Languages. His teaching responsibilities include classes in listening, speaking, grammar, and assisting with professional and staff development classes to improve their English language proficiency. Before entering the field of education he had successful careers as a firefighter/paramedic and as an attorney Yahui Anita Huang, PhD is Assistant Professor in the Modern Foreign Languages Department at Birmingham-Southern College. Her principal academic specializations include Chinese linguistics, Semantics, Pragmatics, and language pedagogy. Her research includes the form and meaning of Chinese conditionals with a focus on quantification, presupposition, modal implications, pronoun occurrence as compared to English ―whatever‖ and ―whoever‖ sentences, and teaching Chinese for specific purposes with an emphasis on building students' pragmatic competence. She teaches Chinese language, culture, and linguistics courses and works as an interpreter and translator. Carmen King de Ramírez, PhD is Clinical Assistant Professor and coordinator for the Spanish for the Professions Program at Arizona State University. She teaches Latin American Culture for the Professions, Spanish in US Communities, Introduction to Interpretation, and Spanish for Health Care. Dr. King de Ramírez specializes in community based learning and professional internship placements for undergraduate students. Her current research interests include LSP programs, heritage learners, digital pedagogy, and service learning/community engagement. Lisa A. La Cross, MA is currently in a doctoral program in Linguistics at the University of Georgia. Her recent research has examined the sociolinguistic implications of the use of the schwa in French and the syntactical structure of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Her future projects include investigating the role of the social variety of French and AAVE within education. Before moving to Georgia, she taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in an urban, public, high school in Birmingham, Alabama. Barbara A. Lafford, PhD is Professor of Spanish linguistics and heads the Faculty of Languages and Cultures for the School of Letters and Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU). Since arriving at ASU she has published in the areas of Spanish sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, Spanish applied linguistics, computer assisted language learning, v Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes (2013) and Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), including the 2012 focus issue on LSP that she edited for the Modern Language Journal. In her administrative role, she has overseen the creation of a Spanish for the professions minor/certificate focused on programs offered on the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus (e.g., education, healthcare, criminology, social work, journalism). Mary K. Long, PhD is Senior Instructor and Director of the International Spanish for the Professions major in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her publications in this area focus on cross-cultural communication and cultural sustainability in the global setting as well as LSP program development. She has also published about the role of artists and writers in the nation-building projects of 20th- and 21st-century Mexico and is co-editor of the volume Mexico Reading the United States (Vanderbilt UP, 2009), which explores the dialogue between the two countries from the Mexican point of view. Sheri Spaine Long, PhD is Professor of Spanish at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is serving as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the US Air Force Academy (2011–2013). At the US Air Force Academy, she is engaged in research focused on the integration of foreign languages and leadership development. From 2006–2009, Long served as Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Language Annals, the journal of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). In 2010, she began serving as Editor of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese's (AATSP) Hispania, where she is in her second term as Editor. Long's publications include eight coauthored college textbooks as well as over 40 scholarly articles, notes and reviews on literature, culture, and language education. Jesús López-Peláez Casellas, PhD is Professor of English and Comparative literatures at the Universidad de Jaén (Spain). Currently Research Project Manager, he coordinates an international team of scholars studying the construction of English early modern identities. He has published internationally on early modern English and Spanish literature, popular culture, Joyce, and comparative literature, and he has been visiting fellow at Michigan State University, Arizona State University, and Penn State University, and at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Between 1999 and 2006 he was Vice-rector for International Relations at his university. He is a Corresponding Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE). Gilles Lubeth, MA is a native of Guadeloupe and a graduate from the Université Antilles-Guyane (UAG). He worked at The University of the West Indies, Mona as Assistant Lecturer from 2005–2010 where he taught French language from beginners to advanced level. At the advanced level, he taught the Translation into French module and French for International Conferences. He was the advisor for exchange students going to the UAG and International Relations students participating in the joint-degree program with University of Bordeaux IV-IEP/UWI/UAG. He is currently based in New York. Clara Mojica-Díaz, PhD is Professor of Spanish at Tennessee State University. She has taught elementary through advanced Spanish, foreign language teaching methods, culture and civilization, and studies in linguistics. She has presented papers on discourse analysis, cultural vi Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes (2013) issues, second language acquisition, and language teaching at national and international conferences. She is co-author of the Pueblos Activities Manual (Cengage) and various professional articles. Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo, PhD is Associate Professor of French at The University of the West Indies, Mona and the former Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (2005–2011). She is specialized in the Teaching of French as a Foreign Language and a researcher in the literature and culture of the French-speaking Caribbean. In 2004, she received the French order of the Palmes académiques (Chevalier). She is a past President of the Haitian Studies Association (2005–2006), and the recipient of the 2013 Principal's Award for Research for her article ―The Haitian Short-Story: An Overview‖ (Journal of Caribbean Literatures, 6[3]). Malinda Blair O'Leary, PhD is Assistant Professor of Spanish. At UAB, Dr. O'Leary teaches introductory, intermediate and advanced courses on Spanish language and cultures as well as Spanish for the professions and business. In addition to teaching, Dr. O'Leary serves as the foreign language student teacher supervisor in the UAB School of Education. Susan Olmstead-Wang, PhD an applied linguist, focuses on teaching English as an International Language and developing curriculum for English for Specific Purposes at the School of Education, University of Alabama, Birmingham. She is also adjunct instructor at the Paul J. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, where she teaches advanced graduate writing. Research interests include Mandarin-English code-switching and English for Medical Purposes especially in Chinese-speaking environments. Rebekah Ranew Trinh, MA is the Director of the English Language Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she is responsible for development and oversight of the Intensive English Program and English for occupational purposes programs, advocacy for issues related to second language learners at the university, and management of ESOL teachers. She holds an MA-TESOL from the University of Alabama. Lourdes Sánchez-López, PhD is Associate Professor of Spanish and founding director of the Spanish for Specific Purposes Certificate program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She directed the First International Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes (UAB, 2012). Her scholarship/teaching areas include: Spanish for specific purposes; second language acquisition; applied linguistics; cultural studies and foreign language pedagogy. She is co-author of a Spanish intermediate textbook and student activity manual and has published articles in various scholarly national and international journals. She is the editor of Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes (2013). Susan Seay, PhD is Assistant Professor in the School of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her main research interests are reading instruction and English as a Second Language. She has been a classroom teacher, a reading program director, an ESL Resource teacher, and a family literacy teacher, and she has been involved in the field of education for over 25 years. vii Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes (2013) Kristi L. Shaw-Saleh, PhD is Assistant Professor in the Master's Program for Teaching English as a Second Language at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her current research interests include identity, gender, and hybridity among distinct immigrant populations in Alabama in an effort to develop best practices for teaching English to these diverse groups of adult language learners. She is especially interested in the effectiveness of interactive teaching strategies and in addressing the need to identify and meet the goals of adult English language learners through job clinics and community-based programs. Susan Spezzini, PhD is Associate Professor of English Language Learner Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the School of Education, University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is also program director of Secondary Education and the principal investigator on two federal grants for training classroom teachers in the effective instruction of English learners. Her main research interest is promoting the scholarship of teaching and learning through collaborative mentoring, visual analogies, and oral interactive techniques. Before coming to UAB, Dr. Spezzini had been a teacher educator in Paraguay for over 20 years. Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon, PhD is Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She holds a BA in English from L'École Normale Supérieure of Sousse in Tunisia and an MA and a PhD in English from Michigan State University. Her areas of specialization are post-coloniality, feminist theory and African literature with a specific emphasis on the Maghreb. Her current research projects are: the Holocaust in North African Literature and Tunisian women during WWII. She is author of The Production of the Muslim Woman: Negotiating Text, History and Ideology (Lexington Press, 2005). viii Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes (2013) INTRODUCTION, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, AND DEDICATION ix Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes (2013) Introduction Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes is a collection of select peer-reviewed scholarly articles developed from concepts and positions presented and generated at the First International Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes (ISLSP) celebrated on April 13–14, 2012 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (United States). The symposium gathered 31 speakers and over 80 participants from all over the nation and other parts of the world. Each speaker brought a unique perspective of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), which was essential to pave the way to enlightening, fruitful and engaging discussions throughout the 2–day symposium. The keynote address was given by Business Language Studies and Translation Studies renowned scholar Dr. Michael S. Doyle (Theory and Method in Translation Studies (TS) and Business Language Studies (BLS): Illustrative Considerations for LSP in American Higher Education and Beyond). He accurately approached the need for a stronger research agenda in LSP studies (particularly in non-English LSP) while strengthening pedagogies and resources. Because of the discussions that occurred during and after the symposium, participants concluded the first ISLSP may have prepared a solid ground for something larger, collaborative and long-lasting, with strong national and international repercussions. To contextualize the current state of LSP it is helpful to briefly examine its history. The teaching of LSP originated in the 1960s in the United Kingdom and was established as a discipline as English for Specific Purposes (ESP). A landmark publication, The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching (Halliday, McIntosh & Strevens, 1964), called for linguists to carry out research based on samples of language in specific contexts to develop appropriate pedagogical materials. Moreover, the focus of the teaching of LSP has as its primary goal to fulfill the communicative needs of a specific group of people (Hutchinson & Waters, 1987). Since the 1960s, slow but steady global attention has been given to LSP in both research and the development of pedagogical materials for the classroom for the professions, such as medicine, law, sciences, social work, business, translation and interpretation, among others. However, the specificity of these types of programs does not root in the teaching of a specific language, neither it is determined by the specific professional context. The specificity of LSP depends largely on the students themselves. Courses vary depending on the students taking them, that is, a needs assessment analysis prior to the course development is paramount. Generally, these courses were—and today still are—geared towards adult learners (both traditional or regular/degree seeking and non-traditional or non-regular/non-degree seeking learners) preferably with a basic language background, who clearly necessitate the language in specific professional or academic contexts. Courses are usually developed according to: 1) the student level of communicative competence, 2) the urgency to use the language in a professional context, 3) the specific characteristics of such context, and 4) the design of a program that promotes the learning process (Hutchinson & Waters, 1987). For all these reasons, LSP represents the teaching of languages according to learners' characteristics, and its teaching is closely determined by these elements. Typically, the offering of LSP programs is mostly limited to adult or college students for two reasons: 1) the students must have a basic general target language background, and 2) the university system allows for more flexibility or experimentation in course offerings than elementary and secondary education (Almagro, 1997). Therefore, LSP is not considered a discipline separate from the teaching and learning of languages for general purposes, but x Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes (2013) rather, it is as an extension (Sánchez-López, 2006). Most researchers agree that LSP pedagogy has been consistently learner-centered, long before the term became main-streamed in pedagogy. By definition, LSP ―attempts to give learners access to the language they want and need to accomplish their own academic or occupational goals.‖ (Belcher, 2004, p. 166) Overall, LSP has a number of weaknesses in terms of institutional recognition and teacher training (Swales, 2000). There are still few professorial positions worldwide in LSP. The majority of the instruction is delivered by adjunct instructors. However, this situation is slowly changing, and, most likely, will continue to change, as the demand for languages for the professions increases in light of recent data (―Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World,‖ 2007; ―Report to the Teagle Foundation on the Undergraduate Major in Language and Literature,‖ 2009). Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes is divided into five sections. In the first section, On LSP Theoretical Models, Michael S. Doyle expands on his previous work of constructing a theoretical framework in Translation Studies (TS) and Business Language Studies (BLS). He calls for the development of non-English LSP theory development working groups to further develop theoretical cartographies and narratives, which the gathering era of global LSP will require in American higher education. He urges non-English LSP scholars and educators to expand on their work in theory and methodology to devise a general non-English Language for Specific Purposes theoretical model, essential to the maturation of the field. The second section, On the Current State of LSP, Mary K. Long presents findings on a recent study of the LSP job announcements posted in the MLA Foreign Language Job Information List. Her study seeks to find answers to the new state of the foreign language profession in light of above mentioned MLA report ―Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World‖ (2007), which recommended that the language disciplines decenter away from literature and design programs that are more directly related to everyday life and applied contexts. Long's article sheds new light on foreign language professions by presenting a multiyear analysis of LSP MLA job announcements. The third section, On LSP Programs and Practices, includes four chapters, each depicting an LSP program or curriculum currently offered in higher education. Carmen King de Ramírez and Barbara Lafford provide an overview of the Spanish for the Professions minor/certificate (SPMC) program at Arizona State University (ASU) and discuss student-learning outcomes. Leticia Barajas's study investigates whether the field of LSP has been influential in conceptualizing the design of the college-level Spanish curriculum in her region of Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. Her findings shed light on the principal factors that affect the development of Spanish for Specific Purposes in the overall Spanish curriculum. Lourdes Sánchez-López describes the history, design, implementation and outcomes of the Spanish for Specific Purposes Certificate (SSPC) program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The goal of the SSPC is to fulfill the needs of its dynamic millennial students and of the increasingly diversified community. In the last chapter of this section, Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo and Gilles Lubeth present a general overview of the LSP context in the Caribbean region—as well as recent additions to the French for Specific Purposes courses offered at the University of The West Indies, Mona—the methodological choices made, and their implication for assessment. Section four, On the Unexpected LSP Participant, explores two different cases of unexpected LSP participants. Sheri Spaine Long chronicles her transition from professor of xi Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes (2013) Spanish for general purposes (SGP) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham to professor of Spanish for Specific Purposes (SSP, with a military emphasis) at the United States Air Force Academy. Her reflection documents two transitions that mirror current curricular changes in undergraduate language programs in the United States. She urges foreign language educators to find common ground between SSP and SGP as they design hybrid programs to respond to multiple demands of today's Spanish learners. Susan Spezzini, Lisa A. La Cross and Julia S. Austin explore how a Language for Specific Purposes focus in a presentation skills course helped a doctoral student from a disadvantaged urban background shift from modified African-American Vernacular English to Academic English when giving course presentations. Their study suggests establishing an LSP focus when teaching, assessing, and researching speakers of social varieties who are learning to use an oral academic variety in a professional context. Finally, section five, On Methodology, presents three different methodological aspects of LSP. Yahui Anita Huang discusses issues in teaching Chinese to American college students for professional purposes while focusing on building students' pragmatic competence. Using the multivalent buhaoyisi as an example, Huang argues that in order to use and understand the language appropriately in a business context, pragmatic classroom-based methodology must be woven into the curriculum. Susan Seay, Susan Spezzini and Julia S. Austin propose Peer-to-peer, Oral Techniques (IPOTs) as a methodological tool to help learners understand and use language specific to a certain field or occupation. In their article, these authors describe several IPOTs that can help instructors implement effective strategies to promote interaction in the LSP classroom. And finally, Kristi Shaw-Saleh, Susan Olmstead-Wang, Helen Dolive and Kent D. Hamilton explore how a job search clinic for international scholars and students was conceptualized and implemented at their university. The goal was to help international students in negotiating a job search process in the context of the United States. Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes intends be an important contribution to the LSP field. It is our wish to follow the path of previous, well-respected collections in the disciple (Lafford, 2012; Long, 2010). Collaboration, integration and unity are key elements for the success of our growing field. If this volume helps generate debate, thoughts, new ideas and fresh energy in the LSP profession, it will have achieved its purpose. Lourdes Sánchez-López Editor xii Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes (2013) References Almagro, A. (1997). La relación entre el inglés para fines específicos y su proceso instructivo en la etapa de estudios universitarios. The Grove: Working Papers on English Studies, 4, 39–52. Belcher, D. (2004). Trends in teaching English for specific purposes. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 24, 165–186. Doyle, Michael S. (2012). Theory and method in Translation Studies (TS) and Business Language Studies (BLS): Illustrative considerations for LSP in American higher education and beyond. Keynote address given at the First International Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes (April 13–14, University of Alabama at Birmingham). First International Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes. Retrieved from http://www.uab.edu/languages/symposium Foreign languages and higher education: New structures for a changed world. (2007) MLA ad hoc committee on foreign languages. Profession published by the Modern Language Association. (May). Retrieved from http://www.mla.org/flreport Halliday, M., McIntosh, A. & Strevens P. O. (1964). The linguistic sciences and language teaching. London: Longman. Hutchinson, T. & Waters, A. (1987). English for Specific Purposes: A learning centered approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lafford, B., ed. (2012). Languages for specific purposes in the United States in a global context: Update on Grosse and Voght (1991) [Special Issue]. The Modern Language Journal, 96, 1–226. Long, S. S., ed. (2010). Curricular changes for Spanish and Portuguese in a new era. Hispania, 93(1), 66–143. Report to the Teagle Foundation on the Undergraduate Major in Language and Literature. (2009). MLA ad hoc committee on foreign languages. Profession published by the Modern Language Association (February). Retrieved from http://www.mla.org/pdf/2008_mla_whitepaper.pdf Sánchez-López, L. (2006). ―La implementación de nuevos programas de español para fines específicos en la universidad estadounidense‖. Revista ALDEEU (Asociación de Licenciados y Doctores en Estados Unidos), 11, University of Jaén Publications. Swales, J. M. (2000). Languages for Specific Purposes. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 20, 59–76. Acknowledgments First, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to all the colleagues who participated in the First International Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes and who contributed to its success. I am deeply grateful to the UAB Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and to the following individuals for their critical role in the planning and implementation of the symposium: Sheri Spaine Long, John K. Moore, Brock Cochran, Malinda O'Leary, Yahui Anita Huang, Rebekah Ranew Trinh, Susan Spezzini, Mike Perez, Niki Cochran and Karl McClure. I am also indebted to the symposium sponsors: UAB xiii Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes (2013) Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, College of Arts and Sciences; UAB Office for Research and Economic Development; UAB School of Medicine; Cengage Learning; and Pearson. I would also like to thank the colleagues who conducted the peer anonymous reviews of the proposals and to the colleagues who served as session chairs. Last but not least, I will always be indebted to Michael S. Doyle for promptly accepting my invitation to give the keynote address and for honoring us with his presence, expertise and leadership. I have no doubt that he was the perfect keynote speaker for the inaugural ISLSP. I am profoundly grateful to the Editorial Board of Scholarship and Learning on Languages for Specific Purposes who served as anonymous readers and offered invaluable feedback: Julia S. Austin, William C. Carter, Alicia Cipria, Jesús López-Peláez Casellas, Clara Mojica Díaz, Malinda Blair O'Leary, Sheri Spaine Long, Susan Spezzini, Rebekah Ranew Trinh, and Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon. I would like to offer my sincere appreciation to Jennifer Brady for her exceptional and upmost professional work as production manager of this anthology. I would like to thank the UAB Mervyn H. Sterne Library for publishing this volume and to Heather Martin, who facilitated the process. And finally, I am most appreciative of my family, who is the source of my energy and motivation every day. Dedication This book is dedicated to all Languages for Specific Purposes educators and researchers around the world. xiv Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes (2013)

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Theory Talk #55: Mary King

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Mary Elizabeth King on Civil Action for Social Change,
the Transnational Women's Movement, and the Arab Awakening

Nonviolent resistance remains by and large a marginal
topic to IR. Yet it constitutes an influential idea among idealist social
movements and non-Western populations alike, one that has moved to the center
stage in recent events in the Middle East. In this Talk, Mary King—who has spent over 40 years promoting nonviolence—elaborates
on, amongst others, the women's movement, nonviolence, and civil action more
broadly.

Print version of this Talk (pdf)

What is, according to you, the central challenge or principal debate in
International Relations? And what is your position regarding this challenge/in
this debate?

The field of International Relations is different from
Peace and Conflict Studies; it has essentially to do with relationships between
states and developed after World War I. In the 1920s, the big debates concerned
whether international cooperation was possible, and the diplomatic elite were
very different from diplomats today. The roots of Peace and Conflict Studies go
back much further. By the late 1800s peace studies already existed in the
Scandinavian countries. Studies of industrial strikes in the United States were
added by the 1930s, and the field had spread to Europe by the 1940s. Peace and
Conflict Studies had firmly cohered by the 1980s, and soon encircled the globe.
Broad in spectrum and inherently multi-disciplinary, it is not possible to walk
through one portal to enter the field.

To me it is also important that Peace and Conflict
studies is not wary of asking the bigger hypothetical questions such as 'Can we
built a better world?' 'How do we do a better job at resolving conflicts before
they become destructive?' 'How do we create more peaceable societies?' If we do
not pose these questions, we are unlikely to find the answers. Some political scientists say that they do not wish to
privilege either violence or nonviolent action. I am not in that category,
trying not to privilege violence or
nonviolent action. The field of peace and conflict studies is value-laden in
its pursuit of more peaceable societies. We need more knowledge and study of
how conflicts can be addressed without
violence, including to the eventual benefit of all the parties and the larger
society. When in 1964 Martin Luther King Jr received
the Nobel Peace Prize, his remarks in Oslo that December tied the nonviolent
struggle in the United States to the whole planet's need for disarmament. He said
that the most exceptional characteristic of the civil rights movement was the
direct participation of masses of people in it. King's remarks in Oslo were also
his toughest call for the use of nonviolent resistance on issues other than
racial injustice. International nonviolent action, he said, could be utilized
to let global leaders know that beyond racial and economic justice, individuals
across the world were concerned about world peace:

I venture to suggest [above all] . . . that . . . nonviolence become
immediately a subject for study and for serious experimentation in every field
of human conflict, by no means excluding relations between nations . . . which
[ultimately] make war. . . .

In the half century since King made his address in
Oslo, nonviolent civil resistance has not been allocated even a tiny fraction
of the resources for study that have been dedicated to the fields of
democratization, development, the environment, human rights, and aspects of
national security. Many, many questions beg for research, including intensive
interrogation of failures. Among the new global developments with which to be
reckoned is the enlarging role of non-state, non-governmental organizations as
intermediaries, leading dialogue groups comprised of adversaries discussing
disputatious issues and working 'hands-on' to intervene directly in local
disputes. The role of the churches and laity in ending Mozambique's civil war
comes to mind. One challenge within IR is how to become more flexible in
viewing the world, in which the nation state cannot control social change, and
with the widening of civil space.

How did you arrive at
where you currently are in your thinking about IR?

I
came from a family that was deeply engaged with social issues. My father was the
eighth Methodist minister in six generations from North Carolina and Virginia.
The Methodist church in both Britain and the United States has a history of
concern for social responsibility ― a topic of constant discussion in my home
as a child and young adult. When four African American students began the
southern student sit-in movement in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1,
1960, by sitting-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter, I was still in college.
Although I am white, I began to think about how to join the young black people
who were intentionally violating the laws of racial segregation by conducting
sit-ins at lunch counters across the South. Soon more white people, very like
me, were joining them, and the sweep of student sit-ins had become truly
inter-racial. The sit-in movement is what provided the regional base for what
would become a mass U.S. civil rights movement, with tens of thousands of
participants, defined by the necessity for fierce nonviolent discipline. So,
coming from a home where social issues were regularly discussed it was almost
natural for me to become engaged in the civil rights movement. And I have
remained engaged with such issues for the rest of my life, while widening my
aperture. Today I work on a host of questions related to conflict, building
peace, gender, the combined field of gender and peace-building, and nonviolent
or civil resistance. At a very young age, I had started thinking as a citizen
of the world and watching what was happening worldwide, rather than merely in
the United States.

Martin Luther King (to whom I am
not related) would become one of history's most
influential agents for propagating knowledge of the potential for constructive
social change without resorting to violence. He was the most significant exemplar
for what we simply called The Movement. Yet the movement had two southern
organizations: in 1957 after the success of the Montgomery bus boycott of
1955-56, he created, along with others, the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC). The other organization was the one for which I worked for
four years: the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pron. snick), which initially came into being literally to coordinate
among the leaders of the student sit-in campaigns. As the sit-ins spread across
the South, 70,000 black, and, increasingly, white, students participated. By
the end of 1960, 3,600 would have been jailed.

SCLC and SNCC worked together but
had different emphases: one of our emphases in SNCC was on eliciting leadership
representing the voices of those who had been ignored in the past. We
identified many women with remarkable leadership skills and sought to
strengthen them. We wanted to build institutions that would make it easier for
poor black southern communities to become independent and move out of the
'serfdom' in which they lived. Thus we put less prominence on large
demonstrations, which SCLC often emphasized. Rather, we stressed the building
of alternative (or parallel) institutions, including voter registration,
alternative political parties, cooperatives, and credit unions.

What would a student
need (dispositions, skills) to become a specialist in IR or understand the
world in a global way?

One requirement is a subject that
has virtually disappeared from the schools in the United States: the field of
geography. It used to be taught on every level starting in kindergarten, but
has now been melded into a mélange called 'social sciences'. You would be
surprised at how much ignorance exists and how it affects effectiveness. I
served for years on the board of directors of an esteemed international
non-profit private voluntary organization and recall a secretary who thought
that Africa was a country. This is not simplistic — if you don't know the names
of continents, countries, regions, and the basic political and economic
history, it's much harder to think critically about the world. Secondly,
students need to possess an attitude of reciprocity and mutuality. No perfect
country exists; there is no nirvana without intractable problems in our world.
No society, for example, has solved the serious problems of gender inequity
that impede all spheres of life. Every society has predicaments and problems
that need to be addressed, necessitating a constant process. So we each need to
stand on a platform in which every nation can improve the preservation of the
natural environment, the way it monitors and protects human rights, transitions
to democratic systems, the priority it places on the empowerment of women, and
so on. On this platform, concepts of inferior and superior are of little value.

You also co-authored an article in 1965 about the role of women and how working in a political movement for equality
(the civil rights movement) has affected your perceptions of the relationship
between men and women. Do you believe that the involvement of women in the
Civil Rights Movement brought more gender equality in the USA and do you think
involvement in Nonviolent Resistance movements in other places in the world
could start such a process?

From within the heart of the civil
rights movement I wrote an article with Casey Hayden, with whom I worked in
Atlanta in the main office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and in the
Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. Casey
(Sandra Cason) and I were deeply engaged in a series of conversations involving
other women in SNCC about what we had been learning, the lessons from our work aiding
poor black people to organize, and asking ourselves whether our insights from
being part of SNCC could be applied to other forms of injustice, such as inequality
for women. The document reflected our growth and enlarging understanding of how
to mobilize communities, how to strategize, how to achieve lasting change, and
was a manifestation of this expanding awareness. The title was Sex and Caste – A Kind of Memo. Caste is an ancient Hindu demarcation
that not only determines an individual's social standing on the basis of
the group into which one is born, but also differentiates and assigns
occupational and economic roles. It cannot be
changed. Casey and I thought of caste as comparable to the sex of one's birth.
Women endure many forms of prejudice, bias, discrimination, and cruelty merely
because they are female. For these reasons we chose the term caste. We sent our
memorandum to forty women working in local peace and civil rights movements of
the United States. The anecdotal evidence is strong that it inspired other
women, who started coming together collectively to work on their own
self-emancipation in 'consciousness raising groups.' It had appeared in Liberation magazine of the War Resisters
League in April 1966 and was a catalyst in spurring the U.S. women's movement; indeed, the consciousness-raising
groups fuelled the women's movement in the United States during the 1970s. Historians
reflect that the article provided tinder for what is now called 'second-wave
feminism', and the 1965 original is anthologized as one of the
generative documents of twentieth-century gender studies.

We
have to remember that women's organizations are nothing new, but have been
poorly documented in history and that much information has been lost. Women
have been prime actors for nonviolent social change in many parts of the world
for a long time. New Zealand was the first country to grant women the vote, in
1893, after decades of organizing. Other countries followed: China, Iran, later
the United States and the United Kingdom. Women in Japan would not vote until
1946. IR expert
Fred Halliday contends that one of the most remarkable transnational movements
of the modern age was the women's suffrage movement. The movement to enfranchise women may have been the biggest
transnational nonviolent movement of human history. It was a significant
historical phenomenon that throws light on how it is sometimes easier to bring
about social and political change now than in the past.

Nonviolent movements seem to be growing
around the world, and not only in dictatorships but also in democracies in
Europe and the USA. How do you explain this?

I think that the sharing of
knowledge is the answer to this question. Study in the field of nonviolent
action has accelerated since the 1970s, often done by people who are both
practitioners and scholars, as am I. Organizing nonviolently for social justice
is not new, but the knowledge that has consolidated during the last 40 years
has been major. The works of Gene Sharp
have been significant, widely translated, and are accessible through the Albert EinsteinInstitution. His first major work, The Politics of Nonviolent
Action, in three volumes, came out in 1973 (Boston: Porter Sargent
Publishers). It marked the development of a new understanding of how this form
of cooperative action works, the conditions under which it can be optimized,
and the ways in which one can improve effectiveness. Sharp's works have since been
translated into more than 40 languages. Also valuable are the works and
translations of dozens of other scholars, who often stand on his shoulders.
Today there may be 200 scholar-activists in this field worldwide, with a great
deal of work now underway in related fields. Knowledge is being shared not only
through translated works, but also through organizations and their training
programs, such as the War Resisters League International and the International
Fellowship of Reconciliation, each of which came into existence in Britain around
World War I. Both are still running seminars, training programs, and
distributing books. George Lakey's Training for Change and a new database at Swarthmore College that
he has developed are sharing knowledge. So is the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict, which has built
a dramatic record in a short time, having run more than 400 seminars and
workshops in more than 139 countries. The three major films that ICNC has
produced (for example, 'Bringing Down a Dictator'), have
been translated into 20 languages and been publicly broadcast to more than 20
million viewers.

After its
success, leaders from the Serbian
youth movement Otpor! (Resistance) that in 2000 disintegrated the Slobodan Milošević dictatorship formed a network
of activists, including experienced veterans from civil-resistance struggles in
South Africa, the Philippines, Lebanon, Georgia, and Ukraine to share their
experiences with other movements. People can now more
easily find knowledge on the World Wide Web, often in their original language
or a second language, and they can find networks that share information about
their experiences, including their successes and failures.

I reject the Twitter explanation for
the increased use of nonviolent action or civil resistance, because all
nonviolent movements appropriate the most advanced technologies available. This
pattern is related to the importance of communications for their basic success.
Nonviolent mobilizations must be very shrewd in putting across their purpose,
their goals and objectives, preparing slogans, and conveying information on how
people can become involved. In order for people to join—bearing in mind that
numbers are important for success—it is critically important to make clear
what goal(s) you are seeking and why you have elected to work with civil
resistance. This decision is sometimes hard to understand for people who have
suffered great cruelty from their opponent, and who maintain 'but we are the
victims', making the sharing of the logic of the technique of civil resistance vital.

What would you say is the importance of
Nonviolent Resistance Studies in the field of International Relations and
Political Science? And how do you counter those who argue that some forms of
structural domination are only ended through violence?

In
this case we can look at the evidence and stay away from arguing beliefs or
ideology. Thanks to political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan,
who have produced a discerning work, Why Civil Resistance Works (2011), we now have
empirical evidence that removes this question from mystery. They studied 323
violent and nonviolent movements that occurred between 1900 and 2006 and found
that the nonviolent campaigns were twice as effective as violent struggles in
achieving their goals, while incurring fewer costly fatalities and producing
much greater prospects for democratic outcomes after the end of the campaign.
They found only one area in which violent movements have been more successful,
and that is in secessions. So, we don't need to dwell in the realm of opinion,
but can read their findings. Other scholars have written about the same issues
using qualitative data ― by doing interviews, developing case studies, and analytical
descriptions ― but the work of Chenoweth and Stephan is quantitative, putting
it in a different category due to its research methods.

Reading 'Why Civil Resistance Works' it
caught my eye that nonviolent campaigns seem less successful in the Middle East
and Asia than in other regions. Did you see that also in your own work? And if
so, do you have an explanation for it? In addition, do you believe that the
'Arab Awakening' is a significant turn in history, or did the name arise too
quickly and will it remain a temporary popular phrase?

What
I encountered in working in the Middle East was an expectation, notion, or hope
among people that a great leader would save them and bring them out of darkness.
This belief seems often to have kept the populace in a state of passivity.
Sometimes such pervasive theories of leadership are deeply elitist: one must be
well educated to be a leader, one must be born into that role, one must be
male, or the first son, etc. Such concepts of leadership discourage the taking
of independent civil action.

I think that the Arab Awakening has
been significant for a number of reasons. As one example, there had been a
widespread (and patronizing) assumption in the United States and the West that
the Arabs were not interested in democracy. We have heard from various sources
including Israel for decades that Arabs are not attracted to democracy. As a
matter of fact, I think that all people want a voice. All human beings
wish to be listened to and to be able to express their hopes and aspirations.
This is a fundamental basis of democracy and widely applicable, although
democracy may take different forms. The Arab Awakening rebutted this arrogant
assumption. This does not mean that the course will be easy. One of my Egyptian
colleagues said to me, 'We have had dictatorship since 1952, but after Tahir
Square you expect us to build a perfect democracy in 52 weeks! It cannot
happen!'

Among the first concessions
sought by the 2011 Arab revolts was rejection of the right of a dictator's sons
to succeed him. The passing of power from father to son has been a
characteristic of patriarchal societies, in the Arab world and elsewhere. Anthropologist John Borneman notes, 'The public renunciation of the son's claim to inherit the
father's power definitively ends the specific Arab model of succession that has
been incorporated into state dictatorships among tribal authorities'. In Tunisia to Egypt, Libya,
Syria, and Yemen (not all of which are successes), such movements have sought
to end the presumption of father-son inheritance of rule.

I believe that we are seeing the start of a broad democratization process
in the Middle East, not its end. The learning and preparation that had been occurring
in Egypt prior to Tahrir Square was extensive. Workshops had been underway for
10 to 15 years before people filled Tahrir Square. Women bloggers had for years
been monitoring torture and sharing news from outside. One woman blogger
translated a comic book into Arabic about the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr, from the 1960s, and had it distributed all over Cairo. Labor unions had
been very active. According
to historian Joel Beinin, from 1998 to 2010 some 3 million laborers took part
in 3,500 to 4,000 strikes, sit-ins, demonstrations, and other actions,
realizing more than 600 collective labor actions per year in 2007 and 2008. In the years immediately before the revolution, these
actions became more coherent. Wael Ghonim, a 30-year-old Google executive, set
up a Facebook page and used Google technologies to share ideas and knowledge
about what ordinary people can do. The April 6 Youth Movement, set up in 2008, three years before Tahrir, sent one of
its members to Belgrade in 2009, to learn how Otpor! had galvanized the
bringing down of Milošević. He returned to Cairo with materials and films,
lessons from other nonviolent movements, and workshop materials. This all goes
back to the sharing of knowledge. Yet the Egyptians have now come to the point
where they must assume responsibility and accountability for the whole and make
difficult decisions for their society. It will be a long and difficult process.
And it raises the question of what kind of help from outside is essential.

Why do you raise this point; do you think
outside help is essential?

I know from having
studied a large number of nonviolent movements in different parts of the globe
that the sharing of lessons laterally among mobilizations and nonviolent
struggles is highly effective. African American leaders were traveling by
steamer ship from 1919 until the outbreak of World War II to the Indian
subcontinent, to learn from Gandhi and the Indian independence struggles. This
great interchange between black leaders in the United States and the Gandhian
activists, as the historian Sudarshan Kapur shows in Raising
Up A Prophet (1992), was critically significant in the
solidification of consensus in the U.S. black community on nonviolent means. I have written about how the knowledge moved from East
to West in my book Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Scholarly exchanges and interchanges among activists
from other struggles are both potentiating and illuminating. Most
observers fail to see that nonviolent mobilizations often have very deep roots
involving the lateral sharing of experience and know-how.

You have written a book about the first
uprising, or 'intifada', in the Occupied Palestinian Territories between 1987
and 1993. The second Palestinian uprising did not contain much nonviolent
tactics though. Do you foresee another uprising soon? If not, why? If yes, do
you think that Nonviolent Actions will play again an important role in that
uprising, or is it more likely to turn violent?

Intifada is linguistically a
nonviolent word: It means shaking off and has no violent implication
whatsoever. (This word is utterly inappropriate for what happened in the
so-called Second Intifada, although it started out as a nonviolent endeavor.)
In the 1987 intifada, virtually the entire Palestinian society living under
Israel's military occupation unified itself with remarkable cohesion on the use
of nonviolent tools. The first intifada (1987-1993, especially 1987-1990)
benefited from several forces at work in the 1970s and 1980s, about which I
write in A Quiet Revolution (2007), one of which came from Palestinian activist
intellectuals working with Israeli groups, who wanted to end occupation for
their own reasons. These Israeli peace activists thought the occupation
degraded them, made them less than
human, in addition to oppressing Palestinians. The second so-called intifada
was not a 'shaking off'. For the first time, it bade attacks against the
Israeli settlements, which had not occurred before.

Let me put it this way: in virtually every situation, there is some
potential for human beings to take upon themselves their own liberation through
nonviolent action. We may expect that such potential is dormant and waiting for
enactment. Disciplined nonviolent action is underway in a number of
village-based struggles against the separation barrier in the West Bank right
now, in which Israeli allies are among the action takers. As another example,
the Freedom Theatre in Jenin is using Freedom Rides, a concept
adopted from the U.S. southern Civil Rights Movement, riding buses to the South
Hebron Hills villages and along the way using drama, music, and giant puppets
as a way of stimulating debate about Israeli occupation. Bloggers and writers
share their experiences (see e.g. this post by Nathan Schneider). For
the first time, as we speak, the Freedom Bus will travel from the West Bank to
make two performances in historic pre-1948 Palestine (Israel), in Haifa and the
Golan, in June 2013. A Palestinian 'Empty Stomach' campaign, led by Palestinian
political prisoners in Israel, has had some success in using hunger strikes to
press Israeli officials for certain demands. With the purpose of prevailing
upon Israel to conform to international resolutions pertaining to the
Palestinians and to end its military occupation, Palestinian civic
organizations in 2005 launched a Boycott, Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign,
drawing upon the notable example of third-party sanctions applied in the
anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. The Palestinian Authority has called
for non-state observer status at the United Nations and supports the boycotting
of products from Israeli settlements resistance.

More and more Palestinians are now
saying, 'We must fight for our rights with nonviolent resistance'. Many
Israelis are also deeply concerned about the future of their country. I
recently got an email from an Israeli who was deeply affected by reading Quiet
Revolution and has started to reach out to
Palestinians and take actions to bring to light the injustices that he
perceives. Tremendous debate is underway about new techniques, novel processes,
and how to shift gears to more effective mutual action. The United States
government and its people continue to pay for Israel's occupation and
militarization, which has abetted the continuation of conflict, although it is
often done in the name of peace! The United States has not incentivized the
building of peace. It has done almost nothing to help the construction of
institutions that could assist coexistence.

Also,
it is very important for the entire world, including Israelis, to recognize
intentional nonviolent action when they see it. The Israeli government
persisted in denying that the 1987 Intifada was nonviolent, when the Palestinian
populace had been maintaining extraordinary nonviolent discipline for nearly
three years, despite harsh reprisals. Israeli officials continued to call it
'unending war' and 'the seventh war'. Indeed, it was not perfect nonviolent discipline,
but enough that was indicative of a change in political thinking among the
people in the Palestinian areas that could have been built upon. Although some
Israeli social scientists accurately perceived the sea change in Palestinian
political thought about what methods to use in seeking statehood and the
lifting of the military occupation, the government of Israel generally did not
seize upon such popularly enacted nonviolent discipline to push for progress.
My sources for Quiet Revolution
include interviews with Israelis, such as the former Chief Psychologist of the
Israel Defense Force and IDF spokesperson.

Your latest book is about the transitions
of the Eastern European countries from being under Soviet rule to independent
democracies. You chose to illustrate these transitions with New York Times
articles. Why did you chose this approach; do you think the NY Times was
important as a media agency in any way or is there another reason?

There
is another reason: The New York Times
and CQ Press approached me and asked if I would write a reference book on the
nonviolent revolutions of the Eastern bloc, using articles from the Times that I would choose upon which to
hang the garments of the story. The point of the work is to help particularly
young people learn that they can study history by studying newspapers. The book
gives life to the old adage that newspaper reporters write the first draft of
history. In the book's treatment of these nonviolent revolutions, I chose ten Times articles for
each of the major ten struggles that are addressed, adding my historical
analysis to complete the saga for each country. It had been difficult for Times reporters to get into Poland, for
example, in the late 1970s and the crucial year of 1980; they sometimes risked
their lives. Yet it's in the nature of journalism that their on-the-spot
reportage needed additional analysis; furthermore newspaper accounts often
stress description.

After
the 1968 Prague Spring, when the Soviet Union sent 750,000 troops and tanks
from five Warsaw Pact countries into Czechoslovakia, crushing that revolt,
across Eastern Europe a tremendous amount of fervent work got underway by small
non-official committees, often below the radar of the communist party states.
This included samizdat (Russian for
'self published'), works not published by the state publishing machinery,
underground publications that were promoting new ways of thinking about how to
address their dilemma. Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Lithuania were the most
active in the Eastern bloc with their major but covert samizdat. As it was
illegal in Czechoslovakia for a citizen to own a photocopy machine, 'books'
were published by using ten pieces of onion-skin paper interspersed with carbon
sheets, 'publishing' each page by typing it and its copies on a manual
typewriter.

The
entire phenomenon of micro-committees, flying universities, samizdat boutiques,
seminars, drama with hidden meanings, underground journals, and rock groups
transmitting messages eluded outside observers, who were not thinking about
what the people could do for themselves. The economists and Kremlinologists who
were observing the Eastern bloc did not discern what the playwrights, small
committees of activist intellectuals, local movements, labor unions,
academicians, and church groups were undertaking. They did not imagine the
scope or scale of what the people were doing for themselves with utmost
self-reliance. In essence, no one saw these nonviolent revolutions coming, with
the exception of the rare onlooker, such as the historian Timothy Garton Ash. Even today the
peaceful transitions to democracy of the Eastern bloc are sometimes explained
by saying 'Gorby did it', when Gorbachev did not come to power until 1985. Or by
attributing the alterations to Reagan's going to Berlin and telling Gorbachov
to tear down the Wall.

By
December 1981, Poland was under martial law, which unleashed a high degree of
underground organizing, countless organizations of self-help, reimagining of
the society, and the publishing of samizdat. Still, even so, some people
believe that this sweeping political change was top-down. It is indisputably true that nonviolent
action usually interacts with other forces and forms of power, but I would say
that we need this book for its accessible substantiation of historically
significant independent nonviolent citizen action as a critical element in the
collapse of the Soviet Union.

You also mention Al Jazeera as an
important media agency in your most recent blog post at 'Waging Nonviolence'.
You wrote that Al Jazeera has an important role in influencing global affairs.
Could you explain why? And more generally, how important is diversification of
media for international politics?

Al
Jazeera generally has not been taking the point of view of the official organs
of governments of Arab countries and has usually not reported news from
ministries of information. Additionally, it often carries reports from local
correspondents in the country at issue. If you are following a report from
Gaza, it is likely to be a Gazan journalist who is transmitting to Al Jazeera.
If it is a report from Egypt, it may well be an Egyptian correspondent. Al
Jazeera also has made a point of reporting news from Israel, and utilizing
reporters in Tel Aviv, which may be a significant development. Certainly in the
2010-2011 Arab Awakening, it made a huge difference that reports were coming
directly from the action takers rather than the official news outlets of Arab
governments.

President
George W. Bush did not want Al Jazeera to come to the United States, because he
considered it too anti-American. I remember reading at the time that the first
thing that Gen. Colin Powell said to Al Jazeera was 'can you tone it down a
little?' when asking why Al Jazeera couldn't be less anti-American in its news.
To me, either you support free speech or you do not; it's free or it's not: You
can't have a little bit of control and a little bit of freedom.

Until
recently, Al Jazeera was not easily available in the United States, except in
Brattleboro, Vermont; Washington, DC; and a few other places. It was difficult
to get it straight in the United States. I mounted a special satellite so that
I could get Al Jazeera more freely. This does not speak well for freedom of the
press in the United States. This may change with the advent of Al Jazeera
America, although we still do not know to what degree it will represent an
editorially free press.

News
agencies are important for civil-resistance movements for major reasons.
Popular mobilizations need good communications internally and externally! People need to understand clearly what is the
purpose and strategy and to be part of the making of decisions. Learning also crucially
needs to take place inside the movement: activist intellectuals often act as
interpreters, framing issues anew, suggesting that an old grievance is now
actionable. No one expects the butcher, the baker, or the candlestick maker,
and everyone else in the movement to read history and theory.

When
news media are interested and following a popular movement of civil resistance,
they can enhance the spread of knowledge. In the U.S. civil rights movement,
the Southern white-owned newspapers considered the deaths of black persons or
atrocities against African Americans as not being newsworthy. There was
basically a 'black-out', if you want to call it that, with no pun. Yet dreadful
things were happening while we were trying to mobilize, organize, and get out the
word. So SNCC created its own media, and Julian Bond
and others and I set up nationwide alternative outlets. Eventually we had 12
photographers across the South. This is very much like what the people of the
Eastern bloc did with samizdat — sharing and disseminating papers, articles,
chapters, even whole books. The media can offer a tremendous boost, but
sometimes you have to create your own.

Last question. You combine scholarship
with activism. How do you reconcile the academic claim for 'neutrality' with
the emancipatory goals of activism?

To
be frank, I am not searching for neutrality in my research. Rather, I strive
for accuracy, careful transcription, and scrupulous gathering of evidence. I
believe that this is how we can become more effective in working for justice,
environmental protection, sustainable development, pursuing human rights, or
seeking gender equity as critical tools to build more peaceable societies.
Where possible I search for empirical data. So much has been ignored, for
example, with regards to the effects of gendered injustice. I do not seek
neutrality on this matter, but strong evidence. For example, since the 1970s, experts
have known that the education of women has profoundly beneficial and measurable
effects across entire societies, benefiting men, children, and women. Data from
Kerala, India; Sri Lanka; and elsewhere has shown that when you educate women
the entire society is uplifted and that all indicators shift positively. The
problem is that the data have for decades been ignored or trivialized. We need
much more than neutrality. We need to interpret evidence and data clearly to
make them compelling and harder to ignore. I think that we can do this with
methodologies that are uncompromisingly scrupulous.

Mary Elizabeth King is professor of peace and conflict studies at the
UN-affiliated University for Peace and and is Scholar-in-Residence in the
School of International Service, at the American University in Washington, D.C.
She is also a Distinguished Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at the
University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Her most recent book is The
New York Times on Emerging Democracies in Eastern Europe (Washington, D.C.:
Times Reference and CQ Press/Sage, 2009), chronicling the nonviolent
transitions that took place in Poland, Hungary, East Germany,
Czechoslovakia, the Baltic states, Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine in the late
1980s and early 1990s. She is the author of the highly acclaimed A
Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance (New
York: Nation Books, 2007; London: Perseus Books, 2008), which examines crucial
aspects of the 1987 uprising overlooked or misunderstood by the media,
government officials, and academicians.

Related links

King's personal page
Read the book edited by
King on Peace Research for Africa
(UNU, 2007) here (pdf)
Read the book by King Teaching Model: Nonviolent Transformation of
Conflict (UNU, 2006) here (pdf)

Print version of this Talk (pdf)

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Theory Talk #57: Siba Grovogui

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Siba Grovogui on IR as Theology, Reading Kant Badly, and the
Incapacity of Western Political Theory to Travel very far in Non-Western
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The study of International Relations is founded on a
series of assumptions that originate in the monotheistic traditions of the West.
For Siba Grovogui, this realization provoked him to question not only IR but to
broaden his enquiries into a multidisciplinary endeavor that encompasses law
and anthropology, journalism and linguistics, and is informed by stories and
lessons from Guinea. In this Talk, he
discusses the importance of human encounters and the problem with the Hegelian
logic which distorts our understanding of our own intellectual development and
the trajectory of the discipline of IR.

Print version of this Talk (pdf)

What is, according to you, the biggest challenge / principal
debate in current IR? What is your position or answer to this challenge / in
this debate?

I don't want to be evasive, but I
actually don't think that International Relations as a field has an object
today. And that is the problem with International Relations since Martin Wight and Stanley Hoffmann and all of
those people debated what International Relations was, whether it was an
American discipline, etc. I believe you can look at International Relations in
multiple ways: if you think of à
la Hoffmann, as a tool of dominant power, International Relations is to this
empire what anthropology was to the last. This not only has to do with the
predicates upon which it was founded initially but with its aspirations, for International
Relations shares with Anthropology the ambition to know Man—and I am using here
a very antiquated language, but that is what it was then—to know Man in certain
capacities. In the last empire, anthropology focused on the cultural dimension
and, correspondingly separated culture from civilization in a manner that
placed other regions of the world in subsidiarity vis-à-vis Europe and European
empires. In the reigning empire, IR has focused on the management and administration
of an empire that never spoke its name, reason, or subject.

Now you can believe all the stories
about liberalism and all of that stuff, but although it was predicated upon
different assumptions, the ambition is still the same: it is actually to know
Man, the way in which society is organized, to know how the entities function,
etc. If you look at it that way, then International Relations cannot be the
extension of any country's foreign policy, however significant. This is not to
say that the foreign policies of the big countries do not matter: it would be
foolish not to study them and take them into account, because they have greater
impact than smaller countries obviously. But International Relations is not—or
should not be—the extension of any country's foreign policy, nor should it be
seen as the agglomeration of a certain restricted number of foreign policies.
International Relations suggests, again, interest in the configurations of
material, moral, and symbolic spaces as well as dynamics resulting from the
relations of moral and social entities presumed to be of equal moral standings
and capacities.

If one sees it that way then we must
reimagine what International Relations should be. Foreign policy would be an
important dimension of it, but the field of foreign policy must be understood primarily
in terms of its explanations and justifications—regardless of whether these are
bundled up as realism, liberalism, or other. Today, these fields provide different
ways of explaining to the West, for itself, as a rational decision, or a
justification to the rest, that what it has done over the past five centuries,
from conquest to colonization and slavery and colonialism, is 'natural' and
that any political entities similarly situated would have done it in that same
manner. It follows therefore that this is how things should be. Those justifications,
explanations, and rationalizations of foreign policy decisions and events are
important to understand as windows into the manners in which certain regions
and political entities have construed value, interest, and ethics. But they still
belong, in some significant way, to a different domain than what is implied by
the concept of IR.

I am therefore curious about the
so-called debates about the nature of politics and the proper applicable
science or approach to historical foreign policy realms and domains, particularly
those of the West: I don't consider those debates to be 'big debates' in
International Relations, because they are really about how the West sees itself
and justifies itself and how it wants to be seen, and thus as rational. For the
West (as assumed by so-called Western scholars), these debates extend the
tradition of exculpating the West and seeing the West as the regenerative,
redemptive, and progressive force in the world. All of that language is about
that. So when you say to me, what are the debates, I don't know what they are,
so far, really, in International Relations. The constitution of the
'international', the contours and effects of the imaginaries of its
constituents, and the actualized and attainable material and symbolic spaces
within it to realize justice, peace, and a sustainable order have thus far
eluded the authoritative disciplinary traditions.

Consider the question of China today, as
it is posed in the West. The China question, too, emerges from a particular
foreign policy rationale, which may be important and particular ways to some
people or constituencies in the West but not in the same way to others, for
instance in Africa. The narrowness of the framing of the China question is why in
the West many are baffled about how Africa has been receiving China, and
China's entry into Latin America, etc. In relation to aid, for instance, if you
are an African of a certain age, or you know some history, you will know that
China formulated its foreign aid policy in 1964 and that nothing has changed.
And there are other elements, such as foreign intervention and responsibility
to self and others where China has had a distinct trajectory in Africa.

In
some regard, China may even be closer in outlook to postcolonial African states
than the former colonial powers. For instance, neither China nor African states
consider the responsibility to protect, to be essentially Western. In this
regard, it is worth bearing in mind for instance that Tanzania intervened in Uganda to depose Idi Amin in
1979; Vietnam ended the Khmer Rouge tyranny in Cambodia in 1979; India
intervened in Bangladesh in 1971—it wasn't the West. So those kinds of
understandings of responsibility, in the way they are framed today in the post-Cold
War period, superimposes ideas of responsibility that were already there and
were formulated in Bandung in 1955: differences between intervention and
interference, the latter of which today comes coded as regime change, were
actually hardly debated. So our imaginaries of the world and how it works, of responsibility,
of ethics, etc., have always had to compete with those that were formulated
since the seventeenth century in Europe, as "international ethics",
"international law", "international theory". And in fact that long history full
of sliding concepts and similar meanings may be one of the problems for
understanding how the world came into being as we know it today. And this is
why actually my classes here always begin with a semester-long discussion of
hermeneutics, of historiography, and of ethnography in IR and how they have
been incorporated.

How
did you arrive at where you currently are in IR?

I came to where I am now essentially
because of a sense of frustration, that we have a discipline that calls itself
"international" and yet seemed to be speaking either univocally or
unidirectionally: univocally in imagining the world and unidirectionally in the
way it addresses the rest of the world, and a lot of problems result from that.

I had trained as a lawyer in Guinea, and
when I came to the US I imagined that International Relations would be taught
at law school, which is the case in France, most of the time, and also in some
places in Germany in the past, because it is considered a normative science
there. But when I came here I was shocked to discover that it was going to be
in a field called Political Science, but I went along with it anyway. In the
end I did a double major: in law, at the law school in Madison, Wisconsin, and
in political science. When I came to America and went the University of
Wisconsin, I first took a class called "Nuclear Weapons and World Politics" or
something of the sort, it was more theology and less science. It was basically
articulated around chosen people and non-chosen people, those who deserve to
have weapons and those who don't. There was no rationale, no discussion of
which countries respected the Non-Proliferation Treaty, no reasoning in terms of which
countries had been wiser than others in using weapons of mass destruction,
etc.: there was nothing to it except the underlying, intuitive belief that if
something has to be done, we do it and other people don't. I'm being crass
here, but let's face it: this was a course I took in the 1980s and it is still
the same today! So I began to feel that this is really more theology and less
science. Yes, it was all neatly wrapped in rationalism, in game theory, all of
these things. So I began to ask myself deeper questions, outside of the ones
they were asking, so my Nuclear Weapons and World Politics class was really
what bothered me, or you could say it was some kind of trigger.

This way of seeing IR is related to the
fact that I don't share the implicit monotheist underpinnings of the
discipline. That translates into my perhaps unorthodox teaching style,
unorthodox within American academia anyway. Teaching all too often tends to be
less about understanding the world and more about proselytizing. In order to
try to explore this understanding I like to bring my students to consider the
world that has existed, to imagine that sovereignty and politics can be
structured differently, especially outside of monotheism with its likening of
the sovereign to god, the hierarchy modeled on the church, Saint Peter, Jesus,
God, uniformity and the power of life (to kill or let live), and to understand
that there have always been places where the sovereign was not in fact that
revered. Think of India, for example, where people have multiple gods, and some
are mischievous, some are promiscuous, some are happy and some are mean, so
there are lots of conceptions and some of these don't translate well into
different cultural contexts. The same, incidentally, goes for the Greek gods.
Of course, we had to make the Greeks Christians first, before we drew our
lineage to them. You see what I mean? Christianity left a very deep impact on
Western traditions. Whether you think of political parties and a parallel to
the Catholic orders: if you are a Jesuit, the Jesuits are always right; if you
are a Franciscan, the Franciscans are always right. The Franciscans for instance
think they have the monopoly on Christian social teaching. In a similar way, it
doesn't matter what your political party does, you follow whatever your party
says. The same thing happens when you study: are you a realist, are you
liberalist, etc. You are replicating the Jesuits, the Franciscans, those monks
and their orders. But we are all caught within that logic, of tying ourselves
into one school of thought and going along with one "truth" over another,
instead of permitting multiple takes on reality..

For me, as a non-monotheist myself,
everything revolves around this question of truth: whether truth is given or
has to be found and how we find it. Truth has to be found, discovered, revealed—we
have to continuously search. The significant point is that we never find it
absolutely. Truth is always provisional, circumstantial, and pertinent to a
context or situation. We all want truth and it is always evading us, but we
must look for it. But I don't think that truth is given. It is in the Bible,
the Quran, and the Torah. And I am
comfortable with that but I am not in the realm of theology. I dwell on human
truths and humans are imperfect and not omniscient, at least not so
individually.

If I had the truth, then I might be one
of those dictators governing in Africa today. I was raised a Catholic by the
way, I almost went to the seminary. If you just think through the story of the
Revelation in profane terms, you come to the realization that ours are multiple
revelations. Again in theology, one truth is given at a time—the Temple Mount,
the Tablets, and all that stuff—but that is not in our province. I leave that
to a different province and that is unattainable to me. The kind of revelation
I want is the one that goes through observing, through looking, through
deliberating, through inquiry—that I am comfortable with. There can be a
revelation in terms of meeting the unexpected, for example: when I went to the
New World, to Latin America for the first time, I said, 'wow, this is
interesting'. That was through my own senses, but it had a lot to do with the
way I prepared myself in order to receive the world and to interact with the
world. That kind of revelation I believe in. The other one is beyond me and I'm
not interested in that. When I want to be very blasphemous, even though I was
raised a Catholic, I tell my students: the problem with the Temple Mount is
that God did not have a Twitter account, so the rest of us didn't hear it—we
were not informed. I don't have the truth, and I don't really don't want to
have it.

What
would a student need to become a specialist in IR or understand the world in a
global way?

I am not sure I want to make a canonical
recommendation, if that's what you are asking me for. Let me tell you this: I
have trained about eleven PhD students, and none of them has ever done what I
do. I am not interested in having clones, I don't want to recreate theology,
and in fact I feel this question to betray a very Western disposition, by
implying the need to create canons and theology. I don't want that. What I want
is to understand the world, and understanding can be done in multiple ways:
people do it through music, through art, through multiple things. The problem
for me, however, is actually the elements, assumptions, predicates of studies
and languages that we use in IR, the question to whom they make sense—I am
talking about the types of ethnographies, the ways in which we talk about
diplomatic history, and all of those things. The graduate courses that I was
talking about have multiple dimensions, but there are times in my seminars here
where I just take a look at events like what happened in the New World from
1492 to 1600. This allows me to talk about human encounters. The ones we have
recorded, of people who are mutually unintelligible, are the ones that took
place on this continent, the so-called New World. And what this does is that it
allows me to talk about encounters, to talk about all of the possibilities—you
know the ones most people talk about in cultural studies like creolization,
hybridization, and all those things—and all of the others things that happened
also which are not so helpful, such as violence, usurpation, and so forth.

What that allows me to do is to cut
through all this nonsense—yes I am going to call it nonsense—that projects the
image that what we do today goes back to Thucydides and has been handed down to
us through history to today. There are many strands of thought like that. If
you think about thought, and Western thought in general, all of those
historically rooted and contingent strands of thought have something to do with
how we construct social scientific fields of analysis today—realism,
liberalism, etc.—so I'm not dispensing with that. What I'm saying is that
history itself has very little to do with those strands of thought, and that
people who came here—obviously you had scientists who came to the New World—but
the policies on the ground had nothing to do with Thucydides, nothing to do
with Machiavelli, etc. Their practices actually had more to do with the
violence that propelled those Europeans from their own countries in seeking
refuge, and how that violence shaped them, the kind of attachments they had.
But it also had to do with the kind of cultural disposition here, and the
manner in which people were able to cope, or not. Because that's where we are
today in the post-Cold War era, the age of globalization, we must provide
analyses that are germane to how the constituents (or constitutive elements) of
the historically constituted 'international' are coping with our collective
inheritance. For me, this approach is actually much more instructive. This has
nothing to do with the Melian Dialogue and the like.

All of the stuff projected today as
canonical is interesting to me but only in limited ways. I actually read the
classics and have had my students read them, but try to get my students to read
them as a resource for understanding where we are today and how we were led
there, rather than as a resource for justifying or legitimating the manner in
which European conducted their 'foreign' policies or their actions in the New
World. No. I know enough to know that no action in the New World or elsewhere
was pre-ordained, unavoidable, or inevitable. The resulting political entities
in the West must assume the manners in which they acted. It is history,
literally. And of course we know through Voltaire, we know through Montaigne, we know even through Roger Bacon, that even in those times people realized that in
fact the world had not been made and hence had not been before as it would
become later; that other ways were (and still) are possible; and that the
pathologies of the violence of religious and civil wars in Europe conditioned
some the behaviours displayed in the New World and Africa during conquest and
enslavement.

For the same reason I recommend students
to read Kant: I tell them to read Kant as a resource for understanding how we might
think about the world today, but I am compelled to say often to my students
that before Kant, hospitality, and such cultural intermediaries as theDragomans in the Ottoman Empire, the Wangara in West Africa, the Chinese Diaspora in East and
Southeast Asia, and so forth, enabled commerce across continents for centuries
before Europe was included into the existing trading networks. This is not to
dismiss Kant, it is simply to force students to put Kant in conversation with a
different trajectory of the development of commercial societies, cross-regional
networks, and the movements to envisage laws, rules, and ethics to enable
communications among populations and individual groups.

This approach causes many people to ask
whether the IR programme at Johns Hopkins really concerns IR theory or something
else. I actually often get those kinds of questions, and they are wedded to
particular conceptions of IR. I am never able to give a fixed and quick answer
but I often illustrate points that I wish to make. Consider how scholars and
policymakers relate the question of sovereignty to Africa. Many see African
sovereignty as problem, either because they think it is abused or stands in the
way of humanitarian or development actions by supposed well-meaning Westerners.
I attempt to have my students think twice when sovereignty is evoked in that
way: 'sovereignty is a problem; the extents to which sovereignty is a problem
in Africa; and why sovereignty is unproblematic in Europe or America'. This
questioning and bracketing is not simply a 'postmodernist' evasion of the
question.

Rather, I invite my students to
reconsider the issue: if sovereignty is your problem, how do you think about the
problem? For me, this is a much more interesting question; not what the problem
is. For instance, if you start basing everything around a certain mythology of
the Westphalia model, particularly when you begin to see everything as either
conforming to it (the good) or deviating from it (the bad), then you have lost
me. Because before Westphalia there were actually many ways in which sovereigns
understood themselves, and therefore organized their realms, and how
sovereignty was experienced and appreciated by its subjects. Westphalia is a crucial
moment in Europe in these regards—I grant you that. If you want to say what is
wrong with Westphalia, that's fine too. But if Westphalia is your starting
point, the discussion is unlikely to be productive to me. Seriously!

In
your work on political identity in Africa, such as your contribution to the
2012 volume edited by Arlene Tickner and David Blaney, the terms periphery,
margin, lack of historicity recur frequently. What regional or perhaps even
global representational protagonism can you envisage for IR studies emerging
from Africa and its spokespeople?

The subjects of 'periphery' and 'marginalization'
come into my own thinking from multiple directions. One of them has to do with
the African state and the kind of subsidiarity it has assumed from the
colonization onward. That's a critique of the state of affairs and a commentary
on how Africa is organized and is governed. But I do also use it sometimes as a
direct challenge to people who think they know the world. And my second book, Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy (2006), was actually about that, and that book
was triggered by an account of an event in Africa, that everybody in African
Studies has repeated and still continues to repeat, which is this: in June
1960, Africans went to defend France, because
France asked them to. This is to say that nobody could imagine that
Africans—and I am being careful here in terms of how people describe Africans—understood
that they had a stake in the 'world' under assault during World War II. And so
the book actually begins with a simple question: in 1940, which France would
have asked Africans to defend it: Vichy France which was under German control,
or the Germans who occupied half of France? But the decision to defend France
actually came partly from a discussion between French colonial officers in Chad
and African veterans of World War I, who decided that the world had to be
restructured for Africa to find its place in it. They didn't do it for France,
because it's a colonial power, they did it for the world. That's the thing. And
Pétain, to his credit, is the only French
official who asked the pertinent question about that, in a letter to his
minister of justice (which is an irony, because justice under Pétain was a
different question) he said: 'I am puzzled, that in 1918 when we were
victorious, Africans rebelled; in 1940, we are defeated, and they come to our
aid. Could you explain that to me?' The titular head of Vichy had the decency
to ask that. By contrast, every scholar of Africa just repeated, 'Oh, the
French asked Africans to go fight, and the Africans showed up'.

Our inability to understand that Africa
actually sees itself as a part of the world, as a manager of the world, has so
escaped us today that in the case of Libya for instance, when people were
debating, you saw in every single newspaper in the world, including my beloved Guardian, that the African Union decided
this, but the International Community decided that, as if Africans had
surrendered their position in the international society to somebody: to the
International Community. People actually said that! The AU, for all its 'wretchedness',
after all represents about a quarter of the member states of the UN. And yet it
was said the AU decided this and the International Community decided that. The
implication is that the International Community is still the West plus Japan
and maybe somebody else, and in this case it was Qatar and Saudi Arabia: "good
citizens of the world", very "good democracies" etc. That's how deeply-set that
is, that people don't even check themselves. Every time they talk they chuck
Africa out of the World. Nobody says,
America did this and the International Community decided that. All I am saying
is that our mindscapes are so deeply structured that nothing about Africa can
be studied on its own, can be studied as something that has universal
consequence, as something that has universal value, as something that might be
universalizing—that institutions in Africa might actually have some good use to
think about anything. Otherwise, people would have asked them how did colonial
populations—people who were colonized—overcome colonial attempts to strip them
of their humanity and extend an act of humanity, of human solidarity, to go
fight to defend them? And what was that about? Even many Africans fail to ask
that question today!

And it could be argued that this
thinking is, to some degree, down to widespread ignorance about Africa. We all
are guilty of this. And oddly, especially intellectuals are guilty of this, and
worse. Let me give you an example: recently I was in Tübingen in Germany, and I
went into a store to buy some shoes—a very fine store, wonderful people—and I
can tell you I ended up having a much more rewarding conversation with the
people working in the shoe shop than I had at Tübingen University. Because
there was a real curiosity. You would like to think that it is not so unusual
in this day and age that a person from Guinea teaches in America, but you
cannot blame them for being curious and asking many questions. At the
university, in contrast, they actually are making claims, and for me that is no
longer ignorance, that is hubris.

Your work presents an original take on the role of
language in International Relations. How is language tied up with IR theory?

The language problem has many, many
layers. The first of these is, simply, the issue of translation. If I were, for
instance, to talk to someone in my father's language about Great Power
Responsibility, they would look totally lost. Because in Guinea we have been what
white people call stateless or acephalous societies, the notion that one power
should have responsibility for another is a very difficult concept to
translate, because you are running up against imaginaries of power, of
authority, etc. that simply don't exist. So when you talk about such social scientific
categories to those people, you have to be aware of all the colonial era
enlightenment inheritances in them. When we talk about International Relations
in Africa, we thus bump into a whole set of problems: the primary problem of
translating ideas from here into those languages; another in capturing what
kind of institutions exist in those languages; and a third issue has to do with
how you translate across those languages. Consider for instance the difference
between Loma stateless societies in the rain forest
in Guinea, and Malinke who are very hierarchical, especially since SundiataKeita came to power in the 13th
century. But the one problem most people don't talk about is the very one that
is obsessing me now, is the question how I, as an African, am able to communicate
with you through Kant, without you assuming that I am a bad reader of Kant.

The difference that I am trying to make
here is actually what in linguistics is called vehicular language which is
distinct from vernacular language. Because a lot of you assume that vehicular language
is vernacular—that there is Latin and the rest is vernacular; that there is a
proper reading of Kant and everything else is vernacular; or you have
cosmopolitan and perhaps afropolitan and everything else is the vernacular of
it. But this is not in fact always the case. The most difficult thing for
linguists to understand, and for people in the social sciences to understand,
is that Kant, Hegel and other thinkers can avail themselves as resources that one
uses to try to convey imaginaries that are not always available to others—or to
Kant himself for that matter. And it is not analogical—it is not 'this is the
African Machiavelli'. It is easy to talk about power using Machiavelli, but to
smuggle into Machiavelli different kind of imaginaries is more difficult.
Nonetheless, I use Machiavelli because there is no other language available to
me to convey that to you, because you don't speak my father's language.

Moreover, there is a danger for instance
when I speak with my students that they may hear Machiavelli even when I am not
speaking of him, and I warn them to be very careful. Machiavelli is a way to
bring in a different stream of understanding of Realpolitik, but it's not entirely Machiavelli. If you spoke my
father's language, I would tell you in my father's language, but that is not
available to me here, so Machiavelli is a vehicle to talk about something else.
Sometimes people might say to me 'what you are saying sounds to me like Kant
but it's not really Kant' then I remind them that before Kant there were
actually a lot of people who talked about the sublime, the moral, the
categorical imperative, etc. in different languages; and if you are patient
with me then we will get to the point when Kant belongs to a genealogy of
people who talked about certain problems differently, and in that context Kant
is no longer a European: I place Kant in the context of people who talk about
politics, morality, etc. differently and I want to offer you a bunch of
resources and please, please don't package me, because you don't own the
interpretation of Kant, because even in your own context in Europe today Kant
is not your contemporary, so you are making a lot of translations and I am
making a lot of translations to get to something else: it is not that I am not
a bad reader.

At an ISA conference I once was attacked
by a senior colleague in IR for being a bad reader of Hegel, and I had to
explain to him that while my using Hegel might be an act of imposition, and a
result of having been colonized and given Hegel, but at this particular moment
he should consider my gesture as an act of generosity, in the sense that I was
reading Hegel generously to find resources that would allow him to understand
things that he had no idea exist out there, and Hegel is the only tool
available to me at this moment. But because all of you believe in one theology
or another, he insisted that if I spoke Hegelian then I was Hegelian, and I
retorted that I was not, but that deploying Hegel was merely an instance of
vehicular language, allowing me to explore certain predicates, certain precepts
and assumptions, and that is all. In this way, I can use Kant, or Hegel, or
Hobbes, or Locke, and my problem when I do this is not with those thinkers—I
can ignore the limitations of their thinking which was conditioned by the
realities of their time—my problem is with those people who think they own
traditions originating from long dead European thinkers. Thus, my problem today
is less with Kant than with Kantians.

Or take Hobbes: Hobbes talked about the
body in the way that it was understood in his time, and about human faculties
in the way that they were understood at that time. Anybody who quotes Hobbes
today about the faculties of human nature, I have to ask: when was the last
time you read biology? I am not saying that Hobbes wasn't a very smart man; he
was an erudite, and I am not joking. It is not his problem that people are
still trivializing human faculties and finding issue with his view of how the
body works—of course he was wrong on permeability, on cohabitation, on what
organs live in us, etc.—he was giving his account of politics through metaphors
and analogies that he understood at that time. When I think about it this way, my
problem is not that Hobbes didn't have a modern understanding of the body, the
distribution of the faculties and the extent of human capacities. Nor is my
problem that Hobbes is Western. My problem is not with Hobbes himself. My
problem is with all these realists who based their understanding of sovereignty
or borders strictly on Hobbes' illustrations but have not opened a current book
on the body that speaks of the faculties. If they did, even their own analogies
may begin to resonate differently. There is new research coming out all the
time on how we can understand the body, and this should have repercussions on
how we read Hobbes today.

The absence of contextualization and
historicization has proved a great liability for IR. Historicity allows one to
receive Hobbes and all those other writers without indulging in mindless
simplicities. It helps get away from simplistic divisions of the world—for
instance, the West here and Africa there—from the assumptions that when I speak
about postcolonialism in Africa I must be anti-Western. I am in fact growing very
tired of those kinds of categories. As a parenthesis, I must ask if some of those
guys in IR who speak so univocally and unidirectionally to others are even
capable of opening themselves up to hearing other voices. I must also reveal
that Adlai Stevenson, not some postcolonialist, alerted me
to the problem of univocality when he stated in 1954 during one UN forum that 'Everybody
needed aid, the West surely needs a hearing aid'. Hearing is indeed the one
faculty that the West is most in need of cultivating. The same, incidentally,
could be said of China nowadays.

One of the things I would like
to deny Western canonist is their inclination to think of the likes of Diderot as Westerners. In his Supplément au Voyage a Bougainville (1772), Diderot presents a
dialogue between himself and Orou, a native Tahitian. Voltaire wrote dialogues,
some real, some imaginary, about and with China. The authors' people were
reflecting on the world. It is hubris and an act of usurpation in the West
today to want to lay claim to everything that is perceived to be good for the
West. By the same token that which is bad must come from somewhere else. This
act of usurpation has led to the appropriation—or rather internal colonization—of
Diderot and Voltaire and like-minded philosophers and publicists who very much
engaged the world beyond their locales. I have quarrels with this act of
colonization, of the incipit parochialization of authors who ought not to be. I
have quarrels with Voltaire's characterization of non-Europeans at times; but I
have a greater quarrel with how he has been colonized today as distinctly European.
Voltaire rejected European orthodoxies of his day and opted explicitly to enter
into dialogue with Chinese and Africans as he understood them. Diderot, too, was
often in dialogue with Tahitians and other non-Europeans. In fact, the
relationship between Diderot and the Tahitian was exactly the same as the
relationship between Socrates and Plato, in that you have an older person
talking and a younger person and less wise person listening. A lot of Western
philosophy and political theory was actually generated—at least in the modern
period—after contact with the non-West. So how that is Western I don't know. I
encounter the same problem when I am in Africa where I am accused of being
Western just because I make the same literary references. It is a paradox today
that even literature is assigned an identity for the purpose of hegemony and/or
exclusion. Francis Galton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton) travelled widely and wrote dialogues from this
expedition in Africa, so how can we say to what extent the substance of such
dialogues was Western or British?

So in sum you are not trying to counter Western
thought, but do you feel that the African political experience and your own
perspective can bring something new to IR studies?

I am going to try and express
something very carefully here, because the theory of the state in Africa
brought about untold horrors—in Sierra Leone, in Liberia, and so on—so I am not
saying this lightly. But I have said to many people, Africans and non-Africans,
that I am glad that the postcolonial African state failed, and I wish many more
of them failed, and I'm sure a lot more will fail, because they correspond to
nothing on the ground. The idea of constitutions and constitutionalism came
with making arrangements with a lot of social elements that were generated by
certain entities that aspired to go in certain directions. What happened in
Africa is that somebody came and said: 'this worked there, it should work here'—and
it doesn't. I'll give you three short stories to illustrate this.

One of the presidents of postcolonial
Guinea, the one I despise the most, Lansana Conté (in office 1984-2008), also gave me one
of my inspirational moments. Students rebelled against him and destroyed
everything in town and so he went on national TV that day and said: 'You know
I'm very disheartened. I am disheartened about children who have become
Europeans.' Obviously the blame would be on Europe. He continued, 'They are
rude, they don't respect people or property. I understand that they may have
quarrels with me, but I also understand that we are Africans. And though we may
no longer live in the village', and it is important for me that he said that, 'though
we may no longer live in the village, when we move in the big city, the council
of elders is what parliament does for us now. We don't have the council of
elders, instead we have parliament. They, the students, can go to parliament
and complain about their father. I am their father, my children are older than
all of them. So in the village, they would have gone to the council of elders,
and they could have done this and I would have given them my explanation'. And
the next morning, the whole country turned against the students, because what
he had succeeded in doing was to touch and move people. They went to the head
of the student government, who said: 'The president was right. We had failed to
understand that our ways cannot be European ways, and we can think about our
modern institutions as iterations of what we had in the past, suited to our
circumstances, and so we should not do politics in the same way. I agree with
him, and in that spirit I want to say that among the Koranko ethnic group,
fathers let their children eat meat first, because they have growing needs, and
if the father doesn't take care of his children, then they take the children
away from the father and give them to the uncle. Our problem at the university
is that our stipends are not being paid, and father has all his mansions in
France, in Spain, and elsewhere, so we want the uncle.' He was in effect asking
for political transition: he was saying they were now going to the council of
elders, the parliament, and demand the uncle, for father no longer merits being
the father. He was able to articulate political transition and rotation in that
language. It was a very clever move.

The second one was my mother who was
completely unsympathetic to me when I came home one day and was upset that one
of my friends who was a journalist had been arrested. She said, 'if you wish
you can go back to your town but don't come here and bother me and be grumpy'. So
I started an exchange with her and explained to her why it is important that we
have journalists and why they should be free, until our discussion turned to
the subject of speaking truth to power. At that moment she said, 'now you are
talking sense' and she started to tell me how the griot functioned in West Africa for the past
eight hundred years, and why truth to power is part of our institutional
heritage. But that truth is not a personal truth, for there is an organic
connection between reporter and the community, there is a group in which they
collect information, communicate and criticize, and we began to talk about
that. And since then I have stopped teaching Jefferson in my constitutional
classes in Africa, as a way of talking about the free press, instead I talk
about speaking truth to power. But it allows me not only to talk about the
necessity of speaking truth to power, but also to criticize the organization of
the media, which is so individualised, so oriented toward the people who give
the money: think of the National Democratic Institute in
Washington, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Germany, they
have no organic connection to the people. And my mother told me, 'as long as
it's a battle between those who have the guns and those who have the pen, then
nobody is speaking to my problems, then I have no dog in that fight'. And
journalists really make a big mistake by not updating their trade and
redressing it. Because speaking truth to power is not absent in our tradition,
we have had it for eight hundred years, six centuries before Jefferson, but we
don't think about it that way. I have to remind my friends in Guinea: 'you are
vulnerable precisely because you have not understood what the profession of
journalism might look like in this community, to make your message more
relevant and effective'. You see the smart young guys tweeting away and how
they have been replaced by the Muslim Brotherhood, because we have not made the
message relevant to the community. We are communicating on media and in idioms
that have no real bearing on people's lives, so we are easily dismissed. That
is in fact the tragedy of what happened in Tunisia: the smart, young protesters
have so easily been brushed aside for this reason.

The third story is about how we had a
constitutional debate in Guinea before multipartism, and people were talking about
the separation of powers. And I went to the university to talk to a group of
people and I put it to them: why do you waste your time studying the American
Constitution and the separation of powers in America? I grant you, it is a
wonderful experiment and it has lasted two hundred years, but that would not
lead you anywhere with these people. The theocratic Futa Jallon in Guinea (in the 18th and
19th centuries) had one of the most advanced systems of separation
of powers: the king was in Labé, the constitution was in Dalaba, the people who
interpreted the constitution were in yet another city, the army was based in
Tougué. It was the most decentralised organization of government you can
imagine, and all predicated on the idea that none of the nine diwés, or provinces, should actually
have the monopoly of power. So those that kept the constitution were not
allowed to interpret it, because the readers were somewhere else. But to make
sure that what they were reading was the right document, they gave it to a
different province. So the separation of powers is not new to us.

In sum, the West is a wonderful
political experiment, and it has worked for them.
We can actualize some of what they have instituted, but we have sources here
that are more suited to the circumstances of the people in that region, without
undermining the modern ideas of democratic self-governance, without undermining
the idea of a republic. Without dispensing with all of those, we must not be
tempted to imagine constitution in the same way, to imagine separation of
powers in the same way, even to imagine and practice journalism in the same
way, in this very different environment. It is going to fail. That is my third
story.

Siba N. Grovogui has
been teaching at Johns Hopkins University after holding the DuBois-Mandela
postdoctoral fellowship of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 1989-90 and
teaching at Eastern Michigan University from 1993 to 1995. He is currently
professor of international relations theory and law at The Johns Hopkins
University. He is the author of Sovereigns,
Quasi-Sovereigns, and Africans: Race and Self-determination in International
Law (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy: Memories of International Institutions
and Order (Palgrave, April 2006). He has recently completed a ten-year long
study partly funded by the National Science Foundation of the rule of law in
Chad as enacted under the Chad Oil and Pipeline Project.

Related links

Faculty Profile at Johns Hopkins University
Read Grovogui's Postcolonial Criticism: International Reality and Modes of Inquiry (2002 book chapter) here (pdf)
Read Grovogui's The Secret Lives of Sovereignty (2009 book chapter) here (pdf)
Read Grovogui's Counterpoints and the Imaginaries Behind Them: Thinking Beyond
North American and European Traditions (2009 contribution to International Political Sociology) here (pdf)
Read Grovogui's Postcolonialism (2010 book chapter) here (pdf)
Read Grovogui's Sovereignty in Africa: Quasi-statehood and Other Myths (2001 book chapter in a volume edited by Tim Shaw and Kevin Dunn) here (pdf)

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