The treatment of Internet traffic is increasingly affected by national policies that require the ISPs in a country to adopt common protocols or practices. Examples include government enforced censorship, wiretapping, and protocol deployment mandates for IPv6 and DNSSEC. If an entire nation’s worth of ISPs apply common policies to Internet traffic, the global implications could be significant. F...

Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form “nationhood,” igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we seek to investigate the nature, role and relationshi...

While there has been an improvement in some dimensions of immigrant labour market perf o r mance over time, immigrants of non-English speaking background are carrying an incre a s i n g l y inequitable burden of unemployment in the 1990s compared with the 1970s. This is particularly the case for women, young people and refugees. In short, the gap in unemployment rates betwe e n the Australian b...

The paper discusses pro-nationalist authors (D. Miller, A. Oldenquist, M.Canovan) who claim that states formed around a particular ethno-cultural nation have been historically sucessful, in terms of economic success, justice, democracy and solidarity. It is argued that their claims fail: in typical and wellknown cases there is an inverse correlation between the strenght of nationalism and the s...

Bu makale, ulus gibi hayali cemaatlere dayanan topyekûn egemen devlet anlayışlarının yerine gerçek ve fiili toplum veya toplumlararası ilişkilere bir siyasa biçimi olarak emperyal tahayyülü ele almaktadır. Burada alındığı şekliyle tahayyül ulus-devlet fikrine alternatif olmayı değil toplulukların ulus-devletlerin kendi öteki ile ilişkilerini yeniden gözden geçirmelerine daha yapıcı ilişkiler ku...