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Jodok Troy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Global Politics according to pope francis
Social Science Research Network, 2018Co-Authors: Jodok TroyAbstract:Pope Francis conceptualizes the papacy’s and the Church’s theological, social, and political aspirations from a Global perspective as seen from the periphery of society and Politics, not from the centrist perspective of the international realm of a world of states. Mapping Francis’ conception of Global Politics has various benefits for international studies: First, it fills a part of the lacunae in the literature which has been tagged with a missing mapping of “ideological visions of Global Politics”. Second, it helps to better understand the Church’s international political engagement and the Holy See’s further course of foreign policy under this pontificate. Third, at the example of Francis’s conception of the Global realm and the place of the Church therein, the paper contributes to a burgeoning literature that moves beyond topically recognizing religion in international Politics by outlining the relational dimensions of religion and Global Politics. If international and Global studies want to make bold claims about the Holy See and take it serious as the largest transnational religious actor, then it needs to take serious its principal’s conceptualization of Global Politics.
Carolyn Deere - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the implementation game the trips agreement and the Global Politics of intellectual property reform in developing countries
OUP Catalogue, 2011Co-Authors: Carolyn DeereAbstract:With the launch of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, its Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) emerged as a symbol of coercion in international economic relations. In the decade that followed, intellectual property became one of the most contentious topics of Global policy debate. This book is the first full-length study of the Politics surrounding what developing countries did to implement TRIPS and why. Based on a review of the evidence from 1995 to 2007, this book emphasises that developing countries exhibited considerable variation in their approach to TRIPS implementation. In particular, developing countries took varying degrees of advantage of the legal safeguards and options-commonly known as TRIPS 'flexibilities'-that the Agreement provides. To explain this variation, this book argues that TRIPS implementation must be understood as a complex political game played out among developing country governments and a range of stakeholders-developed countries, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), intergovernmental organisations (IGOs), and industry groups. The contested nature of the TRIPS bargain spurred competing efforts to revise the terms of TRIPS and to influence Global IP regulation more broadly. The intensity of the implementation game was amplified by an awareness among the various stakeholders that the IP reforms developing countries pursued would influence these ongoing international negotiations. The book attributes the variation in TRIPS implementation to the interplay between these Global IP debates, international power pressures, and political dynamics within developing countries. The book includes historical analysis, compilations of evidence, and analysis supported by examples from across the developing world. The Implementation Game will be of interest both to scholars of international relations, law, and international political economy as well as to policymakers, commentators, and activists engaged in debates on the Global governance of intellectual property.
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the implementation game the trips agreement and the Global Politics of intellectual property reform in developing countries
2009Co-Authors: Carolyn DeereAbstract:List of Figures and Tables Preface List of Abbreviations 1. The TRIPS Implementation Game: A Fight for Ideas 2. Developing Countries in the Global IP System 3. Variation in TRIPS Implementation (1995-2007) 4. Post-TRIPS Tensions and Global IP Debates 5. International Pressures on Developing Countries 6. The Developing Country Dimension: How National Politics Mattered 7. TRIPS Implementation in Francophone Africa 8. The Implementation Game and the Variation Puzzle Appendices Bibliography Index
Simon Dulby - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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against Globalization from above critical geoPolitics and the world order models project
Environment and Planning D-society & Space, 1999Co-Authors: Simon DulbyAbstract:In the last decade numerous arguments have been developed in critical geoPolitics concerning the limitations of conventional spatialities of Global Politics. These themes have raised numerous questions about how one might work to reimagine Global Politics. One source of reimaginings has been the World Order Models Project (WOMP). For the last three decades WOMP has developed models of desirable futures for a Global polity of humane governance most recently posited as an alternative to current processes of ‘Globalization from above’. By engaging with activists in social movements over the 1980s and 1990s on peace, justice, and environmental matters, the scholars of the project have developed a series of ‘world order values’ to guide normative considerations of Global Politics. I suggest, after my reading these documents in the light of contemporary writing in critical geoPolitics, that by thinking ethically about Politics in the 1990s one may further challenge the geographical assumptions about place and s...
Roland Bleiker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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visual Global Politics
2018Co-Authors: Roland BleikerAbstract:We live in a visual age. Images and visual artefacts shape international events and our understanding of them. Photographs, film and television influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse as war, diplomacy, financial crises and election campaigns. Other visual fields, from art and cartoons to maps, monuments and videogames, frame how Politics is perceived and enacted. Drones, satellites and surveillance cameras watch us around the clock and deliver images that are then put to political use. Add to this that new technologies now allow for a rapid distribution of still and moving images around the world. Digital media platforms, such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, play an important role across the political spectrum, from terrorist recruitment drives to social justice campaigns. This book offers the first comprehensive engagement with visual Global Politics. Written by leading experts in numerous scholarly disciplines and presented in accessible and engaging language, Visual Global Politics is a one-stop source for students, scholars and practitioners interested in understanding the crucial and persistent role of images in today’s world.
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pluralist methods for visual Global Politics
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2015Co-Authors: Roland BleikerAbstract:Images play an increasingly important role in Global Politics but pose significant and so far largely unexplored methodological challenges. Images are different from words. They circulate in ever more complex and rapid ways. I argue that the political significance of images is best understood through an interdisciplinary framework that relies on multiple methods, even if they are at times incompatible. I defend such a pluralist approach as both controversial and essential: controversial because giving up a unitary standard of evidence violates social scientific conventions; essential because such a strategy offers the best opportunity to assess how images work across their construction, content and impact. I counter fears of relativism, arguing that the hubris of indisputable knowledge is more dangerous than a clash of different perspectives. The very combination of incompatible methods makes us constantly aware of our own contingent standpoints, thus increasing the self-reflectiveness required to understand the complexities of visual Global Politics.
Damiano Matasci - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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assessing needs fostering development unesco illiteracy and the Global Politics of education 1945 1960
Comparative Education, 2017Co-Authors: Damiano MatasciAbstract:ABSTRACTIn the aftermath of the World War II, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched an ambitious campaign to improve access to education and to fight illiteracy worldwide. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 had legitimised international action to raise educational and living standards in the ‘underdeveloped’ areas of the world, many of which were still under colonial rule. Based on primary archival material, this article sheds light on UNESCO’s efforts to assess educational levels in these territories, notably by collecting, standardising and processing data and statistics. The analysis shows how the work UNESCO undertook to measure inequalities contributed to the reappraisal of the economic and social role of literacy thus laying the foundations of a number of pedagogical programmes designed for developing countries. The limits of UNESCO’s Global policies are also considered. Against the background of the Cold War and decolonisation, UNESCO’s as...
