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In this second commentary on Gillian Youngs's (2004) article, Carver turns from Youngs's image of the 'gulf' between mainstream/malestream international relations, on the one hand, & feminist international relations on the other, to that of 'war' & asks if critical feminist & mainstream/malestream scholars in IR are even in the same world. He senses a level of intellectual & professional conflict that amounts to a 'war of the worlds' & argues for new skills to be adopted & new ways of thinking introduced into the discipline transforming it so that gender no longer divides its practitioners methodologically & personally. Most men in IR still need to address the 'lived experience' that feminists have so far successfully tackled in mainstream IR. Adapted from the source document.

The antiglobalism of Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri -- the so-called Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels of the Internet age -- is contrasted with that opposed by their namesakes, focusing on ideas expressed in (respectively) Empire (2000) & the Communist Manifesto (Terrell Carver's edition & translation, 1996). It is argued that the neoliberal ideology of globalism "invokes illusions & erasures that promote class interests," by relying on "foundational ideologies of nature, civilization, science, progress, & consumption." To be effective, antiglobalism must counteract both these ideological & doctrinal bases. A reading of Hardt & Negri's antiglobalism through the eyes of Marx & Engels reveals it to be less than effective in accomplishing this; indeed, it resembles the "critical criticism" to which they were politically & intellectually opposed. Marx & Engels's discussion of globalization in terms of capitalism, production for profit, imperialism, class struggle, political economy, & exploitation is reviewed; their treatment of the ideology of globalism is also analyzed. While Hardt & Negri profess to oppose globalization on the same grounds as Marx & Engels, their argument is more an intellectual debate than a "credible call to political action.". K. Hyatt Stewart