Universal WBC reduction

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Remembrance and Resurrection: Ry Cooder's Chavez Ravine

This article explores Los Angeles guitarist Ry Cooder’s project to excavate and resurrect through music the lost community of Chávez Ravine, the vibrant Mexican‐American neighbourhood bulldozed in 1958 to make way for the construction of the Dodger baseball stadium. The article draws critical parallels with Marcel Proust, of whom Hannah Segal writes: “On realizing the destruction of a whole world that had been his he decides to write, to sacrifice himself to the re‐creation of the dying and the dead. By virtue of his art he can give his objects an eternal life in his work”. Proust’s medium is the written word; Cooder’s is the dance music of the Pachucos, the corridos of the Ravine’s local heroes and the laments of the residents driven away by the bulldozers. Through this music, Cooder’s aim is to ensure that the name “Chávez Ravine” and “all the images that had been living in it” (Proust) will not remain eclipsed by the corporate power and self‐congratulation of the Los Angeles Dodgers

Power beyond conditionality: European organisations and the Hungarian minorities in Romania and Slovakia

The article addresses the power of three international organisations, the Council of Europe (CoE), the European Union (EU) and the High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) regarding the Hungarian minority policies of Romania, Slovakia and Hungary. It is argued that most of the academic literature within the field misses the point when relying on a rather limited conceptualisation of power as something which one actor uses to get another actor to do what it otherwise would not have done. Using a broader conceptualistion of power, including the power to interpret norms and their application, leads to a better understanding of the roles of the CoE and the HCNM. Analysing the three organisations' approaches to the Hungarian minority education policy in Romania and Slovakia, as well as the Hungarian Status Law, reveals how the CoE and the HCNM interpreted norms of national minority policy and their application to the addressed policies. These interpretations shaped EU policy on the subject, and Romania, Slovakia and Hungary had to take the EU policy seriously due to their desire to join the EU. The three organisations engaged in an exchange of power, in which the CoE and the OSCE High Commissioner bestowed legitimacy on the EU, which in return could provide them with increased leverage over the accession states. Journal of International Relations and Development (2011) 14, 440-468. doi:10.1057/jird.2011.1; published online 22 July 201