William Thomas Worster (Amsterdam): The Frailties of Maps as Evidence in International Law. Eva Hartmann (Cambridge) and Poul F. Kjaer (CBS): The Status of Authority in the Globalizing Economy: Beyond the Public/Private Distinction. Martin Ravallion (Georgetown): Inequality and Globalization: A Review Essay. Indra Overland (NUPI): Energy: The Missing Link in Globalization. If we want to improve global health, we need to tax the things that are killing us. The demise of the nation state: After decades of globalisation, our political system has become obsolete — and spasms of resurgent nationalism are a sign of its irreversible decline. A new “resource curse” is fueling riots around the world.
From Diritto and Questioni, a special issue on Emergency Legislation in a Globalised World. Nicolas M. Perrone (Durham) and David Schneiderman (Toronto): A Critique of International Economic Law: Depoliticization, Inequality, Precarity. Fiona Adamson (SOAS): The Changing Geography of Global Security. Alexander E. Kentikelenis (Oxford) and Leonard Seabrooke (CBS): The Politics of World Polity: Script-writing in International Organizations. Nation stasis: Why the world doesn’t make new countries anymore. From TNR, Alex Gladstein on why dictators love development statistics; and Peter Vanham on why do-gooders love development statistics.
Simon Chesterman (NUS): International Law and Its Others. Marie-Eve Desrosiers and Srdjan Vucetic (Ottawa): Causal Claims and the Study of Ethnic Conflict. Polly Pallister-Wilkins (Amsterdam): Hotspots and the Geographies of Humanitarianism. Riva Kastoryano (Sciences Po): Multiculturalism and Interculturalism: Redefining Nationhood and Solidarity. “Globalization has contributed to tearing societies apart”: Asher Schechter interviews Dani Rodrik. Ann Marie Thake on the intentional destruction of cultural heritage as a genocidal act and a crime against humanity. A radical proposal to fight poverty in the developing world: Tax the rich more than the poor.
Kevin Donovan (Michigan): The Rise of the Randomistas: On the Experimental Turn in International Aid. Rafael Domingo (Emory): A Global Law for a Global Community. Lorenzo Zucca (King’s College): Two Conceptions of Global Constitutional Order. George Vasilev (Melbourne): Methodological Nationalism and the Politics of History-Writing: How Imaginary Scholarship Perpetuates the Nation. Eoin McGuirk reviews The Development Dilemma: Security, Prosperity, and a Return to History by Robert H. Bates. The advanced economies’ lost decade: A review of the policy debates of the post-crisis years suggests that flawed macroeconomic theories were given too much weight for too long.
Kerry Goettlich (LSE): The Rise of Linear Borders in World Politics. Martin Wolf reviews The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato. The introduction to The Infinite Desire for Growth by Daniel Cohen. The nation state is dead — despite what its advocates say. Is state sovereignty at risk in our modern society? The introduction to Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart by Andreas Wimmer (and more).
You can download World Crisis and Underdevelopment: A Critical Theory of Poverty, Agency, and Coercion by David Ingram (and more). You can download Street Politics in the Age of Austerity: From the Indignados to Occupy, ed. Marcos Ancelovici, Pascale Dufour and Heloise Nez (2016).
