Introduction: Anarchism and World Politics

Introduction : Disasters as Politics – Politics as Disasters

What is the relationship between politics and disasters and how does this relate to the recent boom in disaster studies? The introduction to this volume argues that the recent interest in disasters is not because there are more disasters, but because of two recent developments within the social sciences: first, a focus on rupture rather than on continuity and second, a focus on materiality. Dis...

Introduction: politics, misperception, or apropos?

Anarchy and Anarchism

The use of „anarchy‟ in international relations theory appears very different from its incarnations in political philosophy. Whilst realist scholars have used anarchy to describe a condition of absence of centralised political authority in which states wield differential power, political philosophers in the anarchist tradition have mounted a critique of the coercive and compulsory powers of sta...

Demographic dimensions of world politics.

Articles Demographic Dimensions of World Politics: P. M. Hauser .......................... 1641 Population explosion has implications for the coinflict between the free world and the Communist bloc. Sir Francis Simon: P. W. Bridgman ...... .................................. 1647 Knowledge of the properties of matter at tenmperatures near absolute zero has been increased greatly by his work. Cha...

Distributive Politics Around the World

We inventory more than 150 studies of distributive politics in more than three dozen countries other than the United States. We organize existing studies under two theories: theories of democratic accountability and theories of government responsiveness. Studies that concern democratic accountability conceptualize distributive allocations as attempts by politicians to protect themselves elector...