How to solve the many-state problem: a reply to the debate

This article responds to the debate provoked by the author's ‘Does capitalism need the state system?’ (Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 20:4 2007, 533–549) and his exchanges with Justin Rosenberg (Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 21:1 2008, 77–112). It is divided into three parts. The first restates the issues, situating them in the context of a growing Marxist preoccupation with the international in recent years, and contrasts the ‘high road’—Rosenberg's attempt to use Trotsky's concept of uneven and combined development to provide a transhistorical perspective on intersocietal relations—with Callinicos's own preferred ‘low road’ of more focused analysis centred on the prevailing mode(s) of production. The second addresses the fundamental criticisms addressed to him by Hannes Lacher, Benno Teschke and John M Hobson, all of whom deny that there is a necessary relation between capitalism and the interstate system. The third considers the more specific comments offered by Neil Davidson, Gonso Pozo-Martin, and Jamie Allinson and Alex Anievas, before concluding with an appeal for a move off the terrain of abstract theory to more empirical studies that can test the relative value of rival conceptual constructions.     

Notes of Major Events of CAFIU Exchanges ( From May to July )

May: (1) A 5-member delegation of the Irish Local Authority Members Association (LAMA) headed by Senator James Walsh visited China from May 7-15. The main purpose of their visit is to make an on-the-spot investigation on China抯 political and economical situation as well as the local governmental system of China. During its stay in Beijing, CAFIU Advisor and Vice-Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (IDCCCPC) Zhang Z…     

Highlights of CAFIU＇s International Exchanges （From March to May 2008）

March
（1） March 3, CAFIU Secretary-General Mr. Xu Jianguo met with the delegation headed by Mr. Nakata Sen,Chief Director of NPO Corporation Sekai, Japan.     

Organisational learning in NGOs: An example of an intervention based on the work of Chris Argyris

The research work of Harvard professor Chris Argyris gave rise to much of what is today called organisational learning, an approach subsequently promulgated by Peter Senge and his team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first section of this paper argues the relevance of organisational learning to NGOs, despite its origins in the study of the private sector. The second section describes a particular project intervention based on organisational learning theory which is currently underway in a Brazilian NGO.     

Point of Departure: A Reassessment of Charles de Gaulle and the Paris Summit of May 1960

This article argues that the Franco–American antagonism of the 1960s, which culminated with France's partial withdrawal from NATO in 1966, stems from French president Charles de Gaulle's decision in the aftermath of the failed May 1960 Paris Summit to radically redirect French foreign policy away from its post-World War Two Atlantic orientation to a more European one. By linking the failed summit to de Gaulle's new perception of the Cold War, this article moves de Gaulle scholarship away from interpretations of his foreign policy as the product of anti-Americanism or an anachronistic vision of French power to an understanding rooted in his recognition that the changing dynamics of the Cold War required the Western Europeans to reduce their military dependence on the United States. Since American leaders would never willingly relinquish their dominant position in European security affairs, de Gaulle's new design almost ensured a rising Franco–American tension.     

Four Factors That May Help Stabilize Sino-American Relations in 2007

With the Democrats-controlled new congress starts to function in 2007, the United States enters a new period in which the Republicans govern the White House while the Democrats control the Congress. In view of the orientation of interests of the Democratic Party and the struggles between the two parties, it is     

踏访拜林会农谢

难忘的拜林战场最近 ,柬埔寨政府与联合国工作小组就审判红色高棉的经费和场地等具体问题达成协议。如果顺利 ,审判将在2005年年中前后开始。在审判红色高棉的风声越来越紧的情况下 ,前红色高棉领导人的情况如何 ,他们将如何应对可能的审判 ?为了回答这些问题 ,笔者专程前往拜林 ,并在那里见到了前柬埔寨共产党(柬共)中央副书记农谢 ,听他讲述投诚后的生活和对审判红色高棉的看法。拜林市是个只有3.6万人口的群山环抱的小城镇 ,地处柬埔寨西北部 ,离泰国边界只有20公里 ,曾经是红色高棉的重要基地。1996年柬共3号人物英萨利率部脱离红色高棉…     

US foreign policy,public memory,and autism: representing September 11 and May 4

In this article, we examine the social production of autism in US foreign policy discourse. Autism, we argue, is evident in the active forgetting of US foreign policy and its consequences, both in the US and abroad. It is this forgetting, promoted by the US state, that enabled many Americans to respond to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon with the question ‘Why do they hate us?’ The explanation for the social production of an autistic attitude in US foreign policy, we argue, lies in the relations between institutional power and competing narratives and articulations of US foreign policy and domestic politics. The argument is illustrated through analysis of the politics of public memory at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, where, on May 4, 1970, 13 students were shot, four fatally, while protesting the US invasion of Cambodia.