45 research outputs found
US Trade Strategy and European Interests
Außenwirtschaftspolitik, Handelsregionalismus, Vereinigte Staaten, EU-Staaten, Foreign economic policy, Economic regionalism, United States, EU countries
Email from Robert B. Zoellick Regarding PM Rudd of Australia
Email (9/16/2008 3:01 pm)From: [email protected] To: David McCormick, Jim Wilkinson, Taiya Smith, cc: Caroline Anstey re: PM Rudd of Australi
Security and Development? A Story about Petty Crime, the Petty State and its Petty Law
In this article we engage with the promises and limits of the ‘Security and
Development’ discourse. Using Cali as our case study, we show how initiatives
associated with this discourse, instead of helping states move beyond insecurity,
exclusion and low levels of development by strengthening social relations,
official institutions and legal frameworks, end up producing, instead, a particular
set of precarious institutional and human arrangements. We characterise this
precarity as moving in the realm of ‘pettiness’: a characterisation that for us
suggests both the marginal kinds of solutions that ultimately form the core of
Security and Development, and the flimsiness that has come to mark those
institutional and human arrangements resulting from it. The result is a resilient
liminality across the board and the continuation of insecurity