{"title":"Hollywood and airpower: Myths and realities","authors":"Lily Hamourtziadou, Jonathan Jackson","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.10.1.0120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.10.1.0120","url":null,"abstract":"Narratives on state and power are constructed and propagated through events such as the Platinum Jubilee, with all its grandeur, pomp and glory, and its stories of British military superiority, as well as the popular fictions of Hollywood films, the latest of which builds on the usual war narratives of heroism, risk and sacrifice, while concealing realities of weakness, decline and risk-free wars. The rise of high-tech assassins in drone warfare, which are heavily used by the UK and the US in the War on Terror, has eliminated combat and instead has turned killing into an unfeeling, amoral exercise of power, safely conducted from a distance.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121093860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on the economics of socialism","authors":"Nick Rogers","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.9.2.0138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.9.2.0138","url":null,"abstract":"Socialist economic management should be reconceptualized. Economic planning conceived as the ex ante allocation of everything that is to be produced in any given production cycle does not capture how any organization, let alone a whole economy, works. Planning should involve preparing in advance to respond flexibly to a range of possible eventualities. The way corporations, such as Walmart and Amazon, manage their supply chains points towards how non-commodity production and non-market allocation could work efficiently, while responding flexibly to the consumers of a socialist economy. Openness, sharing of information, and transparency about the use of labor-time in the economy (we should take Marx’s discussion of “labour certificates” seriously) are critical to overcoming the fragmentation of decision-making that is a key feature and a key weakness of a capitalist economy. A system of socialist goal-directed economic coordination could outperform capitalism in the provision of goods and services, while enabling economic decision-making to be decentralized and political power dispersed throughout society, so as to make a reality of the “withering away of the state”.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121603152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The triple paradigm crisis: economy, environment, and security","authors":"Rogers","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.6.2.0139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.6.2.0139","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126604964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid","authors":"Luvuyo Zantsi","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.9.2.0240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.9.2.0240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131836560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The panel on ‘Decolonisation, Curriculum, Challenging Current Hierarchies’ at Keele Institute for Social Inclusion, ‘Tackling Inequalities’ Conference, Thursday June 13, 2019","authors":"Taha, Bakare, Dagongdong","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.6.1.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.6.1.0105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131268434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Soviet model and the economic Cold War: A vindication of the viability of socialism","authors":"Noah Tucker","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.9.2.0158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.9.2.0158","url":null,"abstract":"The most devastating rebuttal of socialism – eclipsing all the evils and failures of the capitalist system – is that it just does not work; for which the prime evidence is the (alleged) dismal performance of the USSR’s economic model of state ownership and planning. Underpinning that narrative are pro-market theories which are falsified, in what they say about capitalism, by our daily experience; this article challenges their claims and explanations regarding socialism. The attempt to build an economy which could power the road to a communist future encompassed astonishing successes, as well as serious difficulties presaging its eventual defeat. To understand these problems, as well as the achievements, requires consideration of something which is absent from the prevailing narratives about the “actually existing socialism” of the 20th century: the huge importance of international technology transfers in economic development, and of the power deployed by the USA - during the Cold War, and increasingly again today – in imposing technology sanctions to reinforce its global dominance.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131357001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Unjust” War, wrongful justification, and international humanitarian law","authors":"Zia Akhtar","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.10.1.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.10.1.0027","url":null,"abstract":"The potential exists for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against the perpetrators of the invasion of Iraq, namely, former Prime Minister Tony Blair and his entourage. The findings of the Chilcot Inquiry in 2016 do not rule out the International Criminal Court taking action, and this article argues that it is plausible for those leaders who took the UK to war to be prosecuted for breaching international human rights law and international humanitarian law. This is because, first, the UNSCR 1441 was not respected by the British government that gave UN inspectors more time to investigate if Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and, second, there is a measure of personal responsibility for those who gave the order for the invasion that has led to catastrophic consequences both in terms of human casualties and material damage in its aftermath.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123909965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinking about the crisis of the modern liberal state","authors":"Darrell Whitman","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.9.2.0216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.9.2.0216","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126403976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State legitimacy and Third World conflicts","authors":"W. A. Khan","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.9.1.0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.9.1.0069","url":null,"abstract":"Dealing with the post-World War II security issues, in this article I outline an approach that takes into account the context of the weak states in Third World environments. In this respect, first of all I make a case that domestic politics should be factored in the security concerns of states. Especially in the Third World context domestic political and social dissentions become key factors in defining foreign policy behavior of such states. Secondly, I highlight regional context, especially unstable regional conditions, regional hierarchies, and other factors that contribute to conflict propensities of states situated in the Third World environments. Finally, I make a case that, compared to democracy, legitimacy is a better variable to explain the link between domestic politics and foreign policy behavior of the Third World states. Legitimacy is not only value-neutral variable, but can also be applied across time and place.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114883531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russia’s War in Ukraine: State Patriotism or Economic Gain?","authors":"P. Lawrence","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.9.2.0198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.9.2.0198","url":null,"abstract":"Are the objectives of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 based on Putin’s ideological view of Russia’s history and the place of Ukraine in it in the process re-establishing Russia’s position as a world power challenging US hegemony? Or are there underlying economic objectives shared with Russia’s oligarchs to gain control of Ukraine’s mineral wealth and strategic economic position at the crossroads of Europe and Eurasia? This article compares the economies of Russia and Ukraine and their performance since the end of the Soviet Union and finds that their economic structures and performance are very similar over the last three decades, as is the domination of their respective oligarchs, but that the war has hit Ukraine much more disastrously than sanctions have hit Russia. It concludes that Russia does not need Ukraine’s mineral wealth but that control of Ukraine would bring Russia economic gains. However, the principal reason for the invasion is to push back the potential NATO advance to the Russian border, itself a reaction to US fears of Europe’s increasing dependence on Russia for gas, and in doing so challenge US hegemony not just in Europe by across the world by building bridges to Asia and other parts of the Global South.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130806874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}