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The Handbook of International Security and Development provides a survey of current thinking within the field of security and development. With a wide range of chapters that offer a guide to the core approaches, methods and issues, this book explores the links between the two and includes contributions from both practitioners and academics. With topics ranging from the politics of aid by remote control through to intervention and the re-establishment of security and demobilisation of combatants, this Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature and approaches used in the fi

IT HAS BEEN ARGUED THAT DURING THE 1930S, FRANCE'S POLITICAL AND MILITARY LEADERSHIP SURRENDERED TO DRIFT AND INDECISION AND THAT FRENCH POLICY WAS SWEPT ALONG THE ROAD TO WAR BY THE COURSE OF EVENTS. AN OPPOSING INTERPRETATION STRESSES THE POWERFUL RESTRAINTS ON FRENCH POLICY AND CONTENDS THAT DECISION-MAKERS WERE PURSUING COHERENT FOREIGN AND DEFENSE POLICIES WHICH WERE REASONABLE IN LIGHT OF EXISTING ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND STRATEGIC REALITIES. THIS ARTICLE OFFERS AN EXAMINATION OF FRENCH POLICY TOWARDS ROMANIA AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH GUARANTEE TO THAT STATE WHICH PROVIDES AN INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE ON THIS DEBATE.

REFLECTIONS ON THE POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF STREET FESTIVALS IN THE CONTEXT OF AN INCREASINGLY POST-COLONIAL, POSTMODERN WORLD IS OFFERED. FOCUSING ON CARIBANA, AN ANNUAL CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL IN TORONTO, THIS PAPER EXPLORES THE POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF STREET FESTIVALS AND RELATED EVENTS. BASED ON FIELD OSERVATION, INTERVIEWS AND ARCHIVAL RESEARCH IN TORONTO, THE PAPER MAKES SOME COMPARISONS BETWEEN CARIBANA AND SIMILAR EVENTS IN BRITAIN AND OTHER PARTS OF THE AFRO-CARIBBEAN DIASPORA. IT SITUATES AN ANALYSIS OF CARIBANA WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CANADA'S OFFICIAL COMMITMENT TO MULTICULLTURALISM ARGUING THAT THIS POLICY DEFINES THE TERMS AND SETS THE LIMITS OF THE POLITICAL POTENTIAL OF CARIBANA WHICH ITS PARTICIPANTS CONSTANTLY THREATEN TO TRANSGRESS.

Much of the recent 'locality studies' literature suffers from a poorly theorised conception of the cultural dimensions of social and economic change. Despite frequent references to political cultures, regional traditions, and local loyalties, the emphasis of most 'locality studies' has been on questions of employment, spatial divisions of labour, and the geography of production, specified in terms of local labour markets. There has been some discussion of the social definition of skill, the meaning of 'work', and the intersection of class and gender relations in particular places at specific times. But the significance of local cultures has been much less carefully theorised, leading to an unnecessarily truncated analysis of urban and regional change. The author suggests some alternative theorisations of 'local culture', drawing on concepts of cultural politics (from Stuart Hall), structures of feeling (Raymond Williams), cultural capital (Pierre Bourdieu) and local knowledge (Clifford Geertz). These notions are then applied to the process of arts-related urban reinvestment, and it is concluded that the field of urban and regional studies has much to gain from a more sophisticated understanding of cultural change.