Contestation, a Deeper Seduction

Disdain as defense against paternal seduction.

Seduction and insight from cross-national comparisons.

In this issue of the Journal (pp. 875–880), Wunsch and colleagues provide a thought-provoking paired comparison of intensive care services during terminal hospitalizations in theUnited States and England (1). They demonstrate that the English are more likely to die in a hospital than are Americans, but that far fewer terminal hospitalizations in England involve the intensive care unit (ICU). Ol...

The seduction of asthma severity categorization.

I n 1997, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute published the seminal and comprehensive treatise “Expert Panel Report II: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma.”1 The fundamental principle guiding recommendations for asthma management in this handbook was a stepwise approach to pharmacotherapy based on a simple, clinically relevant, standardized method for classifying as...

Drivers of strategic contestation in South America

The politics of contestation on the part of secondary regional powers such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela towards Brazil as the regional leader oscillate between competition and cooperation, inasmuch as the South American region has one regional power and is a zone of negative peace without aggressive rivalries. The secondary powers use different tactics, which c...

Political Contestation in Global Production Networks

This paper develops a critical framework on international management and production that draws from the literatures on global commodity chains and global production networks (GPNs), from institutional entrepreneurship, as well as from neo-Gramscian theory in international political economy. The framework views GPNs as integrated economic, political, and discursive systems, in which market and p...