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Modernizing Repression: Police Training, Political Violence, and Nation-Building in the "American Century"

DIPLOMATIC HISTORY, Issue 2 2009
Jeremy Kuzmarov
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The ,New War' on Terror, Cosmopolitanism and the ,Just War' Revival

GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION, Issue 1 2008
Helen Dexter
The post-Cold War era has seen the return of the ,good war' and a move away from legal pacifism , the control of war through international law , to ,just war' theorizing. This article is concerned with the re-legitimization of warfare witnessed within the post-Cold War security paradigm that is being justified via humanitarian claims. It aims to highlight the difficult relationship that has developed since the commencement of the Bush administration's ,war on terror' between the cosmopolitan beliefs of those who have long argued for legal and legitimate humanitarian intervention, and the cosmopolitanism being espoused by the neo-conservatives of the Bush administration and the Project for the New American Century. [source]

Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century by Jonathan Zimmerman

HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2007
CHARLES DORN
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D/developments after the Meltdown

ANTIPODE, Issue 2010
Gillian Hart
Abstract:, Part of what makes the current conjuncture so extraordinary is the coincidence of the massive economic meltdown with the implosion of the neoconservative Project for a New American Century, and the reappearance of US liberal internationalism in the guise of "smart power" defined in terms of Diplomacy, Development, and Defence. This essay engages these challenges through a framework that distinguishes between "Development" as a post-war international project that emerged in the context of decolonization and the Cold War, and capitalist development as a dynamic and highly uneven process of creation and destruction. Closely attentive to what Gramsci calls "the relations of force at various levels", my task in this essay is to suggest how the instabilities and constant redefinitions of official discourses and practices of Development since the 1940s shed light on the conditions in which we now find ourselves. [source]