From gernot.kohler@sheridanc.on.ca Sun Mar 1 15:57:03 1998 Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:56:57 -0500 (EST) From: Gernot Kohler To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: comparative environmental stress ....just a small observation on the issue of "green" and "red" (environmental sanity and social justice between high-income and low-income countries), which is also touched upon in the recent special issue of JWSR.... Whereas we should do our utmost to prevent environmental collapse, it is still true that 5% economic growth by the poor countries is creating less environmental stress than 5% economic growth by the rich countries. It is less stressful for Mother Earth to have the poor grow by 5% than to have the rich grow by 5%. Why would that be? Simple arithmetic. The GDP of the rich countries is 80% of global GDP (creating 80% of global environmental stress). The GDP of the poor countries is 20% of global GDP (creating 20% of global environmental stress). 5% of 80 is 4 5% of 20 is 1 Thus, if the rich countries grow by 5%, that creates 4 times as much environmental stress as when the poor countries grow by 5%. As a matter of fact, all the poor countries would have to grow by 20% [20% of 20 = 4], before they destroy Mother Earth's health as much as 5% growth by the rich countries does [5% of 80 = 4]. In this sense, economic growth by poor countries is creating comparatively less environmental stress than economic growth by rich countries. Regards, --GK From gimenez@csf.Colorado.EDU Mon Mar 2 09:37:52 1998 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 09:37:49 -0700 (MST) From: Martha Gimenez To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: ON LINE SEMINAR: THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO Comrades and Friends: Progressive Sociologists' Network is happy to announce the beginning of a virtual seminar to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Manifesto of the Communist Party. The "Manifesto", the most widely read and defining single text in the history of modern socialism, was first published in February, 1848. "League of the Just" was a secret political organization formed in 1836 by the radical German artisans and workers living in Paris. At its London Congress in 1847,the organization changed its name to "Communist League." The "Manifesto" was the political document of the newly renamed organization. While the names of both Marx and Engels appeared as co-authors, the primary authorship of the Manifesto should be attributed to Marx. In Engels' own phrase, "the fundamental proposition which forms its nucleus belongs to Marx." But then again, the concept of authorship itself needs to be problematized. Like any other text, the Manifesto makes sense within the context of a historically embedded intertexuality. As Robert Beamish, one of the authors participating in our virtual seminar has pointed out "The manifesto was ultimately a collective effort of people who were trying to understand the prevailing social conditions so they could change them... while the document was drafted in its final form by Karl Marx, and the final credit for its organization and rhetorical style is due to him, the content and message of the Manifesto were really the product of an extended, intense, but open debate among committed communist-internationalists as they sought to define their programme nad understand the world they wanted to change." The purpose of the virtual seminar is to stimulate dialogues on the contemporary theoretical and practical relevance of the Manifesto. We encourages commentaries on the papers included in the seminar, as well as other related issues from a multiplicity of vantage points within the general terrain of progressive scholarship and activism. We have three papers so far: Rob Beamish, The Making of the Manifesto* A. Gunder Frank, ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age Charles Ostenle, Manifesto for Praxis Societies and for a Global Democratic and Socialist Political Economy Date: Marc 4 - March 12 Format: To participate in the conference send mail to LISTPROC@csf.colorado.edu in the message proper write sub psn-seminars firstname lastname Location: You can find the conference papers at http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/seminars or you can send mail to LISTPROC@csf.colorado.edu and in the message proper write: get psn-seminars beamish get psn-seminars ostenle get psn-seminars gunderfrank From dws@scs.howard.edu Mon Mar 2 12:14:19 1998 Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 14:17:36 -0400 From: David Schwartzman To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK Subject: Re: comparative environmental stress A few comments on Kohler's message on comparative environmental stress: First the qualitative aspects of economic growth need to be considered. There is some evidence supporting a contemporary peak negative impact for economies in the mid range of GNP per capita, i.e., poor countries have low impact, rich have low because of investment in environmental protection. However, this pattern doesn't apply to all impacts (e.g., C emissions). Second, future growth (yes growth, not Herman Daly's steady-state) in rich countries with economies constrained by red/green movements should ultimately occur with much less environmental stress as a result of solarization, industrial ecology, dematerialization of technology etc. Economic growth itself is not the real issue, rather its qualitative aspects and political economy (see Commoner, Making Peace with the Planet, and Science & Society Fall 1996, Marxism and Ecology issue). From dgrammen@prairienet.org Mon Mar 2 12:24:43 1998 Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:24:38 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:24:37 -0600 (CST) From: Dennis Grammenos Subject: Manufacturing Consent -- NYT War-mongering:Biowarfare To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK this is worth reading . . . It's Francis Boyle--U of Illinois Law professor, international law expert, radical public intellectual activist and his communication with NY Times reporter. PLEASE FORWARD ---------- Forwarded message ---------- "Boyle, Francis" : Dear Friends: Today's New York Times has a scare-piece entitled Iraq's Deadliest Arms: Puzzles Breed Fears, co-authored by Judith Miller. Attached is the correspondence between us in conjunction with the preparation of this article, where Miller asked my for assistance beforehand. As you can see for yourself, she had obviously read my Testimony to the United States Congress in support of the legislation which I authored, the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, as well as my comments about how hypocritical and duplicitous the charges made by the United States government against Iraq were, especially in light of outstanding US biowarfare programs. I then proceeded to send her all of my e-mail postings on this subject that have been generally put on the internet in circulation and in particular on the Abolition Caucus site. She was aware that I was the Author of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, and I offered to go on record about US biological weapons programs, as indicated in my correspondence to her below. I also offered to go on record as to the legal and criminal accountability of United States government officials for providing weapons-specific biological agents to Iraq. And yet despite this mass of information that I forwarded to her at her explicit request, there is not one word about the United States biological weapons program that I analyzed in my Testimony and numerous other posts, and I am certainly not mentioned at all in this article. That shows you the way the mainstream news media work in the United States of America, including and especially the New York Times, which has been mongering for war against Iraq for quite some time. By the way, and most critically of all, she deliberately refused to point out in the article the well-known fact that former UNSCOM inspector Raymond Zalinskas admitted to National Public Radio that UN inspectors had already seen all reasonable weapons sites and had destroyed whatever potential existed. But of course that critical piece of information did not matter to the New York Times that is so hell-bent upon manipulating these biowarfare charges into manufacturing public support for more war against Iraq. I will not bother to review the article and point out all the serious distortions, half-truths, and omissions. But again, this article is nothing more than a piece of pure propaganda mongering for war against Iraq. All the news that's fit to print? Well in America, the only news deemed fit to print and make it on the television sets are those that monger for war. George Orwell had it right: In America today, war is peace;freedom is slavery;ignorance is strength; we all love big brother; and Ronald Reagan was President in 1984. Miller really works for the NEWSPEAK TIMES. Yours very truly, Francis A. Boyle Professor of International Law Author, Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 ------------- > From: Boyle, Francis > Sent: Friday, February 20, 1998 6:22 AM > To: 'Judy Miller' > Subject: RE: WMD > Importance: High > > Dear Judy: > Yes, during the past two weeks the British Press has had several > reports of these post war shipments.I have been following them on the > computer. Concerning the US shipments, if they occurred after the > effective date of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, > they were felonies punishable by life in prison. The same is true in > Britain, where their domestic implementing legislation goes back to > 1974 and provides for life in prison. Although we were parties to the > BWC, we did not make its violation a crime until 1989, though of > course there are statutes on the books that could be used to prosecute > for the violation of a treaty or other crimes if someone really wanted > to (e.g., the general federal conspiracy statute), though by now the > statute of limitations would have probably run. > Best regards, > Francis A. Boyle > Professor of Law > Author, Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 > > ---------- > Sent: Friday, February 20, 1998 6:16 AM > To: fboyle@law.uiuc.edu > Subject: WMD > > Dear Professor Boyle, > I found your testimony very interesting. I'm a reporter for the > New York Times. While the American shipments of anthrax strains to > Baghdad during the Iran/Iraq war are now well known, do you know of any > equipment, media, and/or other material shipped to Iraq AFTER the Gulf > war? If so, from which countries? > Thanks for your help. > Judith Miller > > {At this point I proceed to send her all of my e-mail files on the subject of US biowarfare activities in general and also with respect to Iraq, many of which have been posted generally on the internet.} > Dear Judy: > well, that about ends it for now. I used to have a lot more > on my e-mail files here. But last spring our computer expert > inadvertently destroyed all of our e-mail files at the Law School. Oh > well. I first accused Bush et al of perpetrating a Nuremberg Crime on > our own troops for the experimental vaccines during the court-martial > Proceedings of Captain Dr. Yolanda Huet-Vaughan for "desertion" for > refusing to serve in the Gulf War in part because she refused to give > the vaccines in violation of her Hippocratic Oath. It was an issue in > the court-martial. She was convicted anyway, spent eight months in > Leavenworth before we could get her out, but was adopted a Prisoner of > Conscience by Amnesty International. We do have our Sakharovs and > Havels in this country. By the way, the critical point is that the > French troops resisted the vaccines and so do not have Gulf War > Syndrome. The British and American troops were forcibly inoculated and > so have come down with it. The Independent Television Station TV4 in > Britain did an extensive documentary on this in the Fall of 1993 in > which I was interviewed. It made headlines in Britain, but has not > been shown here. It is called The Dirty War. Tessa Shaw can give you a > copy. Some of the more explosive charges had to be removed because of > British libel laws--with my agreement--because they do not have a > First Amendment over there, as you well know. Hence the documentary > was watered down. But it was still explosive. Eventually, a person > working for the British Ministry of Defense publicly admitted that > there was such a thing as the Gulf War Syndrome--I read it in the > Financial Times. But here, under the corrupt influence of the > Lederberg Report.... the Pentagon is still denying it. I am willing > to go on the record with some of these things if you want. > Best regards, > Francis A. Boyle > Professor of International Law > Author, Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 > > ---------- http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+iib-site+ 11+0+wAAA+nuclear The New York Times February 26, 1998 How Iraq's Biological Weapons Program Came to Light By WILLIAM J. BROAD and JUDITH MILLER In a January day in 1995, Dr. Rod Barton, a United Nations weapons inspector with a gambler's instinct, decided to try bluffing the Iraqis. Ever since their defeat in the Persian Gulf war, they had steadfastly denied ever making any kind of germ weapons, despite much evidence to the contrary. Barton, a 46-year-old Australian biologist, did not have much in his hand -- just two pieces of paper. The documents proved nothing but were provocative: They showed that in the 1980s, Iraq had bought about 10 tons of nutrients for growing germs, far more than needed for civilian work, from a British company. "That was all I had," Barton recalled in an interview. "Not a full house, just two deuces. So I played them both." Sitting across from four Iraqi generals and scientists in a windowless room near the University of Baghdad, Barton laid the documents on the table. Did these, he asked, help refresh the Iraqis' memories? "They went ashen," he recalled. That meeting marked a turning point. In the months that followed, Iraq dropped its denials and grudgingly admitted that it had run an elaborate program to produce germ weapons, eventually confessing that it had made enough deadly microbes to kill all the people on earth several times over. . . . Among the disclosures were these: -- Just before the gulf war in 1991, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's son-in-law began a crash military program intended to give Iraq the ability to wipe out Israel's population with germ weapons, an Iraqi general told inspectors. MiG fighters, each carrying 250 gallons of microbes, were to be flown by remote control to release anthrax over Israel. One pilotless plane was flight-tested with simulated germs just before the war began, but the attack was never attempted. -- The locations of more than 150 bombs and warheads built by the Iraqis to dispense germs are a mystery, as are the whereabouts of a dozen special nozzles that Iraq fashioned in the 1980s to spray germs from helicopters and aircraft. -- On nearly all recent missions, inspectors have found undeclared "dual use" items like germ nutrients, growth tanks and concentrators, all of which have legitimate uses but can also make deadly pathogens for biological warfare. Today, despite progress in penetrating Iraqi secrecy, inspectors say they remain uncertain about most of Saddam's facilities to wage biological warfare. The inspectors have found traces of military germs and their seed stocks but none of the thousands of gallons of biological agents that the Iraqis made before the 1991 gulf war. Baghdad says it destroyed the older material but offers no proof. And the inspectors are unsure of the extent to which Iraq has solved the technical challenges of delivering germs to targets -- a problem that bedeviled other states experimenting with biological arms. Finally, the U.N. inspectors have suspicions -- but no proof -- that Baghdad is hiding germs and delivery systems. Their worries are based, in part, on a chilling calculus of missing weapons: The United Nations can account for only 25 of the 157 germ bombs that Iraq has acknowledged making for its air force. And inspectors have no idea of the whereabouts of some 25 germ warheads made for missiles with a range of 400 miles; Baghdad says it destroyed them but, again, offers no proof. Richard Butler, chairman of the U.N. Special Commission charged with eliminating such weapons, said in report after report that the uncertainties are disturbing and legion. He recently told the Security Council that the 639-page document that comprises Iraq's latest "full, final and complete" declaration, its fifth to date, "fails to give a remotely credible account" of Baghdad's long effort to make biological arms. . . . [This report is quite extensive and provides more information than found in ordinary news stories.] Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign, Ill. 61820 Phone: 217-333-7954 Fax: 217-244-1478 fboyle@law.uiuc.edu From austria@it.com.pl Wed Mar 4 00:38:54 1998 Wed, 4 Mar 1998 08:38:05 +0100 (MET) Wed, 4 Mar 1998 08:37:50 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: From: "Austrian Embassy" To: "<" Subject: Fw: Mars 1998 - Logiques... Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 17:22:25 +0100 ---------- > From: Le Monde diplomatique > To: info-diplo > Subject: Mars 1998 - Logiques... > Date: Montag, 02. 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China Terrell" Subject: China Terrell at Johns Hopkins University To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Reply-to: "L. China Terrell" greetings wsn! i am presently writing a thesis concerning the challenges that non-governmental organizations in sub-saharan africa present to the new trade agenda of the world trade organization. i would like your help. the basic tenet of my thesis is that non-governmental organizations are banding together in what i call a phenomenon of resistance to fight the adoption and implementation of new trade agreements negotiated in the WTO. these arrangements (such as the multilateral agreement on investment and the nullification of the multifiber agreement)are anti-thetical to the economic development of sub-saharan african countries. They directly conflict with international commitments already made by OECD member countries to encourage and actively support sustainable development. i am looking for case studies, sites of resistance, where all the action is taking place...if you know of any NGO summits, or the like that have dealt with issues of trade liberalization and how WTO agreements help are hurt african development, i would greatly appreciate your guidance... any information that you can offer to help guide my research would be greatly appreciated...please feel free to contact me via e-mail, telephone, or postal mail; my information is in the signature below. thank you! ________________________________________ L. China Y. Terrell 3030 North Dale Lane Bowie, MD 20716 (301) 249-4647 e-mail: chinadoll@jhu.edu "lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny..." From chriscd@jhu.edu Wed Mar 4 13:02:56 1998 Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 15:04:52 -0500 From: christopher chase-dunn Subject: International Studies Association panels of relevance for world historical systems To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Reply-to: chriscd@jhu.edu From: Robert Allen Denemark Dear WSNers; This year's International Studies Association meeting will take place between Wednesday March 18th and Saturday March 21st in Minneapolis, MN. The meetings will include a far greater number of panels oriented toward world historical systems than has been true in many years. Many scholars associated with various world system positions will be there. Individuals who want additional information about the meetings may contact ISA Headquarters at U. of Arizona (isa@arizona.edu), or Bob Denemark at denemark@udel.edu. Western, Pre-Westphalian International Systems Wednesday, 10:30 - 12:15 PM Chair Lowell S. Gustafson Villanova University Interstate Relations Among the Mayans Lowell S. Gustafson Villanova University Reflections on the Asian Origins of International Relations Theory Amitav Acharya York University The Statecraft and Polity in the Near East Farhang Rajaee Carleton University Ethnic Identities, and Religious Zeal: The Process of State Formation in Afghanistan in the Post War Period Maqsood A. Choudary Mount Mercy College Discussant John Sigler Carleton University International Relations and History: New Theoretical Departures Wednesday, 1:45 - 3:30 PM Chair Martin Hall Lund University Politics as Usual: The World Before and After "the Westphalian Moment" Yale H. Ferguson Rutgers University The Origins of the International System Richard Little University of Bristol The Convergence Trap: Re-examining Theories on Historical Change Magnus Ericson Lund University Martin Hall Lund University Discussant Pat James Iowa State University Recent Approaches to Analyzing World Historical Systems Wednesday, 3:45 - 5:30 PM Chair Christopher Chase-Dunn Johns Hopkins University Pulsations and Power in the Afro-Eurasian System: Indic City and Empire Growth and Decline Thomas D. Hall DePauw University Christopher Chase-Dunn Johns Hopkins University Susan Manning Johns Hopkins University Revolution in the Core of the World System, 1500-1990 Terry Boswell Emory University The Dialectic of Forms Barry Gills University of Newcastle upon Tyne Long Cycle Theory and Hegemonic Powers' Global Basing Network Robert E. Harkavy Pennsylvania State University Relating Civilizations to World Systems Matthew Melko Wright State University Discussant Giovanni Arrighi Binghamton University Materialism Deconstructs Post-Modernism Thursday, 8:30 - 10:15 AM Chair David N. Gibbs University of Arizona How the World System Produced the Postmodern Mind Albert Bergesen University of Arizona Is There Room for the Real World in the Postmodern Universe David N. Gibbs University of Arizona The Material Origins of Postmodernism Ronald W. Cox Florida International University The [M]other of All Wars: American Presidents, the Thanatonic Supplement, and Postmodernism - U.S. Military Intervention Larry George California State University, Long Beach Discussant Jerry-Lynn Scofield Balliol College, Oxford University TBA China in World System History Thursday, 10:30 - 12:15 PM Chair Andre Gunder Frank University of Toronto Structural Sequences in the Far Eastern World System David Wilkinson University of California, Los Angeles China Comes Full Circle Andre Gunder Frank University of Toronto Warfare in Ancient China, 2700 B.C. to 722 B.C.: The New Data Sets Claudio Cioffi-Revilla University of Colorado David Lai University of Colorado The Rise of Asia 50, 150, and 500 Year Perspectives Giovanni Arrighi Binghamton University Takeshi Hamashita Mark Selden Discussant William R. Thompson Indiana University Roundtable: Author Meets the Critics: "ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age" by Andre Gunder Frank Thursday, 1:45 - 3:30 PM Chair Albert Bergesen University of Arizona Author Andre Gunder Frank University of Toronto Discussants David Wilkinson University of California, Los Angeles Edward Farmer University of Minnesota Albert Bergesen University of Arizona IPE Distinguished Senior Scholar Panel in Honor of Immanuel Wallerstein Thursday, 3:45 - 5:30 PM Chair Christopher Chase-Dunn Johns Hopkins University Honoree Immanuel Wallerstein Binghamton University Discussants Robert O. Keohane Duke University V. Spike Peterson University of Arizona Ravi Sundaram Center for the Study of Developing Societies James H. Mittelman American University Approaching the Millenium: Fusion, Fission and Dominance in International Relations - Part I Friday, 8:30 - 10:15 AM Chair Davis B. Bobrow University of Pittsburgh Who Am I, and Whom Do I Serve? Changing Bases of 'Us' and 'Them' in Global Politics Yale H. Ferguson Rutgers University Richard W. Mansbach Iowa State University Westphalia, Philadelphia, and Tokugawa: Peering into the Future by Looking Back Takashi Inoguchi University of Tokyo Why Forecasts Fail: The Limits and Potential of Forecasting in International Relations and Economics Charles F. Doran Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Discussant Stuart J. Kaufman University of Kentucky "International Relations" in Pre-Columbian North America Friday, 8:30 - 10:15 AM Chair Thomas D. Hall DePauw University Political Strategy in the Mississippian World-System Peter Peregrine Lawrence University Minneapolis and St. Louis and the Thirteenth Century: A North/South Relationship Upside-Down Patricia O'Brien Kansas State University Was There a Semiperiphery in Precapitalist World-Systems? A View from the Plains and Southern Caddoan Regions Tim Baugh TRC - Mariah Inc. The Rise and Fall of Complex Chiefdoms in North America: Interregional Interactions and Climate Change Christopher Chase-Dunn Johns Hopkins University Thomas D. Hall DePauw University Discussant Jonathan Friedman University of Lund Approaching the Millenium: Fusion, Fission and Dominance in International Relations - Part II Friday, 10:30 - 12:15 PM Chair Davis B. Bobrow University of Pittsburgh The Next Millenium: The Long and the Short of It George Modelski University of Washington William R. Thompson Indiana University Anastrophe, Catastrophe, Stasis, Progress and Cycles in the World System AD 2000-3000 David Wilkinson University of California, Los Angeles Capitalist Dilemmas and the Geopolitics of the 21st Century Immanuel Wallerstein Binghamton University Discussant Robert A. Denemark University of Delaware SPECIAL THEME PANEL The Westphalian System in Global and Historical Perspective - V Friday, 1:45 - 3:30 PM Globalization and the Withering Away of the Westphalian System? Giovanni Arrighi Binghamton University Discussants Hayward R. Alker University of Southern California Stephen R. Gill York University Walter Goldfrank University of California, Santa Cruz History, Power and International Relations Theory Friday, 1:45 - 3:30 PM Chair Ed Kolodziej University of Illinois The Regularities of Human Societal Governance through History: The Pursuit of Order, Welfare, and Legitimacy Ed Kolodziej University of Illinois Explaining the End of the Cold War and the Rise of the Westcentric System: An Historical Perspective Gustav Schmidt Universitat Bochum State, Economy, and Empire: Revising Realism through Democratic Athens and Republican Rome Robert R. Farkasch York University History Memory: A Dual Source of State Legitimacy and Collapse Badredine Arfi Ohio State University Discussant Alan Lamborn Colorado State University SPECIAL THEME PANEL The Westphalian System in Global and Historical Perspective - VI Friday, 3:45 - 5:30 PM The Modernity of Westphalia Peter Taylor University of Loughborough Discussants Hendrik Spruyt Columbia University Kenneth Thomas University of Missouri, St. Louis J. Ann Tickner University of Southern California Was the Westphalian System Born in 1648? Saturday, 8:30 - 10:15 AM Chair Matthew Melko Wright State University The Enlightened States System: The Rise of Commercial Geopolitics James F. Marino Johns Hopkins University Feudalism-Absolutism-Capitalism: The Non-Modernity of the Westphalian Peace Treaties and its Theoretical Implications for the Discipline of International Relations Gerhard Benno Teschke London School of Economics The Doubtful Modernity of the Westphalian System: Sovereignty, Territoriality and Absolutist Rule Hannes Lacher London School of Economics Is the Westphalian System Historically Unique? Evidence from Historical Comparisons David Sylvan Graduate Institute of International Studies Discussant Matthew Melko Wright State University From chriscd@jhu.edu Wed Mar 4 13:15:09 1998 Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 15:17:07 -0500 From: christopher chase-dunn Subject: PEWs conference at Northwestern Univ. To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Reply-to: chriscd@jhu.edu From: Georgi M. Derluguian Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Northwestern University 1812 Chicago Avenue Evanston, Illinois 60208-1330 (847) 491-2741 (rabota) gderlug@nwu.edu the annual PEWS conference will meet at Northwestern University March 21-23, 1998. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE WORLD-SYSTEM (PEWS) XXII ANNUAL CONFERENCE, HOSTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND THE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES, NORTHWESTERN UNIVRSITY THE SHIFTING GEOPOLITICS OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM (Preliminary schedule) March 21, Saturday Arrival of the participants. Hotels: Omni Orrington, Janet's Place (both in downtown Evanston) March 22, Sunday Scott Hall (Political Science department, Northwestern Evanston campus) 14:00 Opening remarks 14:15 Keynote speaker: Stephen Gill 15:15 Coffee break 15:30 HEGEMONY AND THE CORE TRIAD: GEOPOLITICS IN THE EARLY 21st CENTURY Michael Loriaux (Northwestern, Political Science). International Morality Norms Burçu Bostanoglu (Bilkent and Gazi University, Ankara) Hegemony: thinking about competition and collusion in tandem Adam Webb (Princeton, Pol Sci) Timeless Clashes: A Value-Bloc Analysis of Hegemony and Systemic Evolution Discussant: Immanuel Wallerstein (SUNY-Binghamton, Fernand Braudel Center) 17:00 Break 17:15 WORLD WARS, WORLD PEACE, WORLD-EMPIRE? THE DEBATE Randall Collins (University of Pennsylvania, Socioogy) Geopolitical Theory and the World-System Giovanni Arrighi & Thomas Ehrlich Reifer (SUNY-Binghamton, Sociology) "Geopolitics and High Finance: Does World Power Still Come Out of the Barrel of the Gun?" Walter Goldfrank (UC-Santa Cruz, SociologyNew Hegemon Produced by New World War? (provisional title) Daniel Chirot (Univ. of Washington, Sociology) "Why must there be a last cycle? Capitalism's enduring power of adaptation, and what might destroy it." Discussant: Bruce Cumings 19:30 DINNER (Szechwan Palace, 1629 Chicago Ave. Evanston; walking from campus) March 23 Monday Harris Hall 108 (History Department, Northwestern Evanston campus) 9:30 REFORMULATED SEMI-PERIPHERIES Xianming Chen (University of Illinois at Chicago) The Geoeconomic Reconfiguration of the State: The New Transborder Subregions of the Asia-Pacific Georgi Derluguian (Northwestern, Sociology) Russia: The Sick Bully of Eurasia? Trajectory of a protection costs monopoly, 1550-2000. Isabella Alcaniz (Northwestern, Political Science) Slipping into Something More Comfortable: The Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Integration and the MERCOSUR Discussant: Meredith Woo-Cumings 11:00 - break 11:15 PERIPHERIES AND MARGINS IN THE PERIOD OF GLOBALIZATION Scott Greer (Northwestern, Pol Sci) Mutual Benefit? African Elites and French African Policy Steven Sherman (SUNY-Binghamton, Sociology) The Clash of Civilizations and Multiculturalism Charles Ragin and Bernie Beck (Northwestern, Sociology) The global middle classes and radical localisms in Barber's Jihad versus the MacWorld Discussant: Randall Collins 12:45-13:45 LUNCH 14:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Arif Dirlik (Duke, History) 15:00 - break 15:15 RESOURCES AND COMPETITION IN THE WORLD-ECONOMY Michael Sacks, Brian Uzzi and Marc Ventresca (Northwestern, Organization Behavior/Sociology) Stateness and System in the Global Structure of Trade: A Network Approach to Assessing Nation Status, 1965-1980. Bruce Podobnik (Johns Hopkins, Sociology) Geopolitical Competition and Global Energy Industries in World-Historical Perspective. Deniz Yenal (SUNY-Binghamton, Sociology) The Emergence of an Informal Trade Network between Turkey and Russia in the Wake of the Soviet Collapse. Discussant: Michael Wallerstein (Northwestern, Political Science) 16:45 - break 17:00 ANTI-SYSTEMIC MOVEMENTS Tom Hall (DePauw, Sociology) Resistance to Culturicide: Processes of continuing Incorporation of Indigenous Peoples into the Modern World-System Galip Isen (Head of the Deptartment of International Relations, International American University, Kyrenia, North Cyprus) The Weapon of the Weak: Hegemony, World Peace and Terrorism in the 'World-Wide War'. Jean Rossiaud (Switzerland) The emergence of a world-side citizenship movement (L'émergence d'un movement de citoyens à l'échelle mondiale.) Discussant: Bill Martin (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Sociology) 18:30 FINAL SESSION 20:00 DINNER at the Korean restaurant TUESDAY, MARCH 24, at 16:00 (an event unrelated to PEWS XXII) Immanuel Wallerstein, Director, Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations (Binghamton University) Open Social Science. Considerations on the Gulbenkian Committee Report. Public Lecture Harris Hall 108 (History Department, Northwestern Evanston campus) From Claudiu@ix.netcom.com Wed Mar 4 16:53:12 1998 by dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id rma001340; Wed Mar 4 17:52:39 1998 Reply-To: "Algora Publishing" From: "Algora Publishing" To: "WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK" Subject: Re: Mars 1998 - Logiques... Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:51:29 -0500 charset="iso-8859-1" -----Original Message----- From: Austrian Embassy To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK >---------- >> From: Le Monde diplomatique >> To: info-diplo I would like to use this opportunity to inform the list that Algora Publishing (http://www.algora.com) has acquired the English translation rights for Ignacio Ramonez's book Geopolitics of Chaos, and it will be available in the US book stores or from Amazon, to everyone, by next fall. I also like to mention another recent acquisition: Grand Fortunes: Family Dynasties and Forms of Wealth in France by Michel Pincon and Monique Pincon-Charlot, another interesting study of the distribution of wealth in France, available soon. Thanks, Andrea Sengstacken From pfl661@airmail.net Wed Mar 4 16:57:33 1998 From: pfl661@airmail.net (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.16 #30.237) with smtp for Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 17:53:22 -0600 Reply-To: pfl661@airmail.net To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK Subject: countries and companies Does anyone know where I can get a list that shows the income and assets of countries and multinationals combined? I know I saw such a list and probably have it filed away somewhere. The first dozen or so entries are countries. At about 13, companies like GM and Microsoft start showing up. I would like to use this in my class to help students understand the power of multinationals in comparison to the developing countries they operate in. Thanks Phyllis Flott University of North Texas From rkmoore@iol.ie Wed Mar 4 21:55:32 1998 Thu, 5 Mar 1998 04:55:26 GMT Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 04:55:26 GMT To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu (world-system network) From: rkmoore@iol.ie (Richard K. Moore) Subject: Re: countries and companies 3/04/98, pfl661@airmail.net wrote: >Does anyone know where I can get a list that shows the income and assets >of countries and multinationals combined? Look at New Internationalist, Nov 97, esp. p. 18. It's a very good issue for a class. rkm From austria@it.com.pl Thu Mar 5 07:50:16 1998 Reply-To: From: "Austrian Embassy" To: "<" Subject: copmanies and countries Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 14:50:11 +0100 it is surprising how little known in the social scientific community the excellent UNCTAD document World Investment Report really is. It is an ideal instrument to calculate such things (you can rank countries and MNC's by "sort"); it also contains MNC penetration scores for around 180 countries. Have a try. Also look at Le Monde (1998) "Le Bilan de Monde". Kind regards Arno Tausch From dp@hss.iitb.ernet.in Thu Mar 5 22:22:39 1998 Fri, 6 Mar 1998 10:54:21 +0530 Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 10:54:21 +0530 (IST) From: "d.parthasarathy" To: "Carl H.A. Dassbach" Subject: Re: Immanuel Wallerstein's "Ecology and Capitalist Costs of Production: No Exit" In-Reply-To: <004501bd4387$0629f1a0$2029db8d@dassbach.aux.mtu.edu> On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Carl H.A. Dassbach wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: M.A.&N.G. Jones > To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK > Date: Thursday, February 26, 1998 8:12 PM > Subject: Re: Immanuel Wallerstein's "Ecology and Capitalist Costs of > Production: No Exit" > >look forward to seeing the expressions on our faces when that day comes. I > hope > >said proles remember that 'as someone said' (as IW likes to say, when he > >actually means Karl Marx), 'political power grows out of the barrel of a > gun'. > > > The quote, btw, is from Mao. Marx lacked the practical revolutionary > experience needed to make such an observation. > The actual quote is "power flows from the barrel of a gun". D.Parthasarathy From aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu Thu Mar 5 23:07:44 1998 Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 01:07:22 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Wayne Austin To: "d.parthasarathy" Subject: Re: Immanuel Wallerstein's "Ecology and Capitalist Costs of Production: No Exit" In-Reply-To: WSN, I though Marx was thoroughly involved in revolutionary activities. Andy From chriscd@jhu.edu Fri Mar 6 08:38:09 1998 Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 10:35:53 -0500 From: christopher chase-dunn Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: no more billions for IMF!]] To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Reply-to: chriscd@jhu.edu 06 Mar 1998 07:30:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 07:30:09 -0500 From: Barbara Larcom Subject: [Fwd: no more billions for IMF!] Sender: owner-slac@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu To: Bill Harvey , Charles , Charles , Chris Chase-Dunn , Chuck Johnson , Dave Schott , Dick Ochs , "Dr. Kai Lit Phua" , Howard Ehrlich , Howdy Burns , Howdy Burns , Jim Lunday , Jim Lunday , John Dickson , Jon Kerr , Michael E Bardoff , Nan McCurdy , Peter Grimes , SLAC , Sue Hunt , Sustainable Economics , Timmons Roberts Reply-to: slac@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D41A5A103467C468032B172E --------------D41A5A103467C468032B172E Thu, 5 Mar 1998 18:59:54 -0800 (PST) Thu, 5 Mar 1998 18:43:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 18:43:47 -0800 (PST) To: clr@igc.org From: Campaign for Labor Rights Subject: no more billions for IMF! Labor Alerts: a service of Campaign for Labor Rights To receive our email labor alerts, send a message to CLR@igc.apc.org Phone: (541) 344-5410 Web site: http://www.compugraph.com/clr Membership/newsletter. Send $35.00 to Campaign for Labor Rights, 1247 "E" Street SE, Washington, DC 20003. Sample newsletter available on request. NO MORE BILLIONS FOR THE IMF! Why should our tax money finance poverty perpetuation and anti-labor policies around the globe? *********************************** See ACTION REQUESTS, at end of alert *********************************** In January, we alerted you to the Clinton Administration's proposal for a special $18 billion appropriation for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). After a few weeks' lull, the battle is re-heating, and Clinton is lobbying hard once again to get increased money for this institution which has done so much to promote the global sweatshop. EVIL TWINS: The World Bank and the IMF WORLD BANK: Appointed bureaucrats secretly negotiate loans with leaders who frequently are known dictators or crooks. In a typical World Bank-funded project, thousands of people are forced off their land, without compensation, for construction of a huge dam to provide power for cheap resource extraction and sweatshop factories owned by foreign corporations. The construction is done by U.S. and other northern corporations, using equipment provided by northern corporations. Most of the money from these "loans" never makes it to the supposed recipients, but is simply changed from one New York bank account to another. Whatever money does make it to the recipient countries ends up in the pockets of the military and the national elites. Although World Bank projects routinely fail to meet that institution's own guidelines, World Bank personnel continue to throw billions at more such schemes, while living in luxury, insulated from the poverty which their projects cause. IMF: When governments (often not answerable to their own people) have borrowed so much that they no longer can keep up even with the interest payments on those loans, then the IMF steps in. The IMF offers to loan yet more money - at interest - so that countries can "restructure" their loans from the World Bank. To be eligible for such loans (the terms of which are negotiated in secret), governments must agree to a set of policies called Structural Adjustment Programs, which typically include: * Drastic reductions in basic government services such as education and health care. * Slashing credit to farmers and small businesses, thus driving thousands off the land and out of work, creating a desperate army of the unemployed. * Establishing free trade zones, geared toward production for export, where companies (usually foreign-owned) pay no taxes and are free to ignore local labor laws and environmental regulations. Promotional literature for such zones boasts that unions are not welcome. * Freezing of wages and allowing the local currency to inflate, making labor even cheaper for foreign sweatshop corporations. * Privatizing state-owned companies (even those that are profitable), selling them to foreign corporations and local elites at fire-sale prices and busting public sector unions. Some 90 countries - including a majority of nations in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia - are under IMF structural adjustment. Governments must adopt such programs as a result of going into debt. However, while Structural Adjustment Programs are designed with a view to keeping countries current on the interest payments on their debt, they provide no basis for hope of ever escaping from that debt, which in fact continues to mount. The result of these policies is a bonanza for creditors and for foreign sweatshop investors. Such is the IMF idea of credit worthiness. LEGISLATIVE STRATEGY We understand that the Administration is now preparing to go for the $18 billion through two routes: a regular appropriations bill and a "budget supplemental" which would sharply limit the debate on the expenditure, and would link it to unrelated appropriations, such as for disaster relief in California and Florida. Clinton's people are now making deals with members of the House Banking Committee, which is due to consider a bill introduced by its chair, Jim Leach (R-Iowa), on Thursday, March 5. The danger is that the result will be an appropriations bill giving the IMF everything it wants with extremely weak conditions attached. Those IMF opponents who do not argue for outright denial of the request (as we do) are arguing that the IMF meet strict conditions with regard to human rights, labor standards and information disclosure before any money is released. The bill likely to emerge would merely "encourage" the IMF to implement such reforms. Congress has on many occasions "encouraged" the IMF in this way without results. The only time Congress achieved any change in the institution was when it withheld money until changes were made. UAW STATEMENT ON THE IMF United Auto Workers International Executive Board Resolution on U.S. Contributions to the International Monetary Fund - February 18, 1998 International Monetary Fund (IMF) involvement in the recent financial crisis in Asia and the 1994-95 crisis in Mexico, dramatizes the tremendous burden that imposed austerity measures place on working people around the world. The purpose of IMF involvement has been to bail out international banks and investors whose pursuit of excessive profits led them to make questionable, high-risk loans. IMF-dictated austerity measures worsen U.S. trade deficits, leading to the loss of solid family-supporting manufacturing jobs in auto and other industries, while driving down the already abysmally low wages of workers living in developing nations. Governments in South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Mexico and other developing nations are being told that an infusion of capital from the IMF requires them to pay down foreign loans by lowering the living standard of their citizens. The IMF's prescription calls for an increase in low-wage exports from these countries. The dollars so raised are then used to pay down loans owed to international banks and inventors. As a result, our trade deficit is expected to climb by approximately $100 billion this year alone, causing the loss of an estimated 1 million U.S. jobs. To achieve this increase in exports, the IMF insists on austerity measures that include slashing public spending, jacking up interest rates to exorbitant levels, deregulating markets, devaluing currencies, and reducing existing labor protections. The impact on workers and their families is devastating. Workers face massive layoffs and wage cuts, while prices of basics such as food, housing, energy and transportation skyrocket. Many of the governments receiving IMF funds fail to respect internationally recognized workers, rights, and the IMF has not required them to do otherwise, despite the high price that workers are forced to pay. In Indonesia, independent union leader Muchtar Pakpahan remains on trial for his life for his union activity. Yet the IMF has made no effort to use of its leverage to free him. The UAW believes that the International Monetary Fund is fully aware of the impact that its austerity measures have on working people. Yet the IMF has failed to move toward reforms of its own policies that would ensure equitable solutions to crises in financial markets. The UAW therefore opposes providing the additional funding of $18 billion that the IMF has requested from U.S. citizens. We believe that international organizations can and must play necessary and useful roles in world affairs. Our vision of their role, however, is one that places the interests of working people at least equal to those of finance and capital. ******************* ACTION REQUESTS ******************* 1) CONTACT CONGRESS Phones: Senate (202) 224-3121 House (202) 225-3121 Postal addresses: U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515 and U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510 To send an email to your Senator or Representative, visit the United Auto Workers' (UAW) very informative web site at www.uaw.org and then click the choice for "Congressional Action Center." Or go directly to the Congressional Action Center at http://www.capweb.net/uaw With easy-to-follow directions, you can find out the email addresses of your Congressional delegation. Sample letter: Dear I oppose the $18 billion appropriation currently sought by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF already has ample funds - far too much money - at its disposal which it uses to promote bailouts for bankers and other policies that end up making economic crises even worse. The conditions attached to IMF loans impoverish workers, devastate the environment, place enormous social and economic burdens on women and exclude citizens from having a voice in determining their own economic future. I urge you to vote NO on any U.S. taxpayer funding for the IMF. Sincerely, 2) PROTEST THE IMF DURING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S WEEK (MARCH 7-14). Focusing on cities that have Federal Reserve Banks but not limited to those, the 50 Years Is Enough Network and the Democratic Socialists of America already have half a dozen events in the making in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, DC, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. To find out who is organizing events in those cities or for help in organizing events elsewhere, contact the 50 Years Is Enough/U.S. Network for Economic Justice: Phones: 202-463-2265 Email: wb50years@igc.org Why we link the IMF and International Women's Week: * When the IMF tells Korea, Thailand and Indonesia to slash their workforce, WOMEN are fired first. * When the IMF orders cutbacks in social services, WOMEN have to hold the family together without adequate resources. * When the IMF promotes export industries in anti-union free trade zones, WOMEN end up working under sweatshop conditions. * When the IMF designs these policies, MEN sit at the table. The primary beneficiaries of the recent bailouts will be banks - European, U.S. and Japanese banks that made bad loans in Asia - not working families in those countries, who will be forced to accept harsh austerity. Women in Asia will be hard hit. They, like women workers around the world, are the lowest paid and are typically concentrated in domestic industries not eligible for financial assistance. Their role as household managers will be made difficult by increase food and fuel prices, decreased access to government resources and drops in personal and family income due to layoffs. --------------D41A5A103467C468032B172E-- From kpmoseley@juno.com Fri Mar 6 23:32:06 1998 To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: "Osman A. Sankoh" : Ecomog scores again for democracy - WA editorial 16-22 Feb. X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 2-162 From: kpmoseley@juno.com (Katharine P Moseley) Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 01:30:09 EST After seeing fascinating piece by RKM on renascent hegemon, China, thought many would be equally bemused by regional power politics indicated below -- KP --------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: "Osman A. Sankoh" To: LEONENET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Ecomog scores again for democracy - WA editorial 16-22 Feb. Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:46:57 +0200 ECOMOG SCORES AGAIN FOR DEMOCRACY *Editorial* -- "West Africa", 16-22 February, 1998 ================================================== As WEST AFRICA was going to press, the attention of the world was riveted to Irag. It was being hotly debated whether or not the US and UK would launch a blitzkrieg to force Saddam Hussein to pay heed to the UN resolution on arms inspection for weapons of mass destruction which he is known to have been stockpiling. While this issue dominated the international news headlines, Ecomog (by now a household name) was quietly scoring its second major success under its acknowledged role of peace enforcer and, it must be added, restorer of democracy in the West African sub-region. On the weekend of February 14-15, Ecomog forces (under new field commander Major-General Shelpidi) stormed into Freetown and routed members of the military junta that ousted, on May 25 last year, the democratically elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. It had all started with rebel forces provoking Ecomog by launching military assaults on the latter without any justification whatsoever. In self defence, Ecomog returned fire for fire and, in doing so, rightly decided to all proceedings to run into their logical conclusion. Before his ouster President Kabbah had detained Major Koroma for plotting to overthrow his government. Dissidents were later to spring the major from jail and install him as leader of their junta. Kabbah fled to neighbouring Guinea and, from there, shuttled several times to Nigeria whose leader is the incumbent chair of Ecowas, the 'father' of Ecomog; and which, as it happens, is the leading force of the latter. At the beginning, Ecowas played fair - choosing to negotiate with Koroma's junta in the hope that it would sooner rather than later realise the futility of its actions and relinquish power to Kabbah. The wider international community imposed sanctions to chivvy them along and was happy to leave the nitty gritty of enforcement to Ecomog. It is now clear that this stance lulled the putschists into a sense of complacency. They gave the game away when they encouraged one of their ministers to make several calls to WEST AFRICA, in what they obviously perceived to be a smart public relations exercise. This minister said in no uncertain terms that, contrary to the agreement reached in Conakry that the junta would step down in April this year, Koroma and his clique would cling to power well beyond that deadline. What is more, the rebels would not submit themselves to demobilisation as agreed, and fresh elections were to be arranged. After these declarations, Ecowas must have got the message. Which is probably why Ecomog acted decisively once the junta's forces provoked it into action. As anyone following its progress will recall, Ecomog came into being in 1990 following an appeal for help by then leader of Liberia, Samuel Kanyon Doe, when dissent forces led by incumbent President Charles Taylor invaded the country. Then, as now, Nigeria provided the bulk of troops and logistics. What started as a minor peace-monitoring exercise soon escalated into a full-scale war, in the process forcing Ecomog to assume the role of peace enforcer. This task became even more difficult when other factions surfaced to join Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL). Along the way, some member countries of Ecomog found the going too tough and withdrew. The UN itself opted for a limited involvement, only sending observers and providing some cash to fund Ecomog's operations. As the stalemate continued, Taylor launced OPERATION OCTOPUS in an all-out move to overwhelm Ecomog which he hated enormously because he resented Nigeria's dominance of it. It is to the credit of Nigerian authorities that, despite some domestic misgivings, they stood steadfast and prevailed. Taylor finally came round and Ecomog organised and supervised the elections that eventually saw him assuming the presidency of Liberia which he craved. After its significant success in Liberia, the soldiers of neighbouring Sierra Leone should have sat up and taken notice that in Ecomog West Africa had found a formidable sub-regional 'policeman' that would brook no nonsense as far as security, stability and democracy were concerned. Instead, they chose to rock the boat. And they were emboldened by the setbacks with Ecomog, ill prepared intially, suffered. But they should have realised that time was not on their side. All of the factions in Liberia could not break Ecomog in that country. So there was no hope that a small army that was riven by stragglers and undisciplined rebels could conceivably defeat Ecomog in Sierra Leone. Members of the junta, now in flight, must be ruing their failure to realise this. WITH MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, ECOMOG STANDS TODAY AS PROBABLY THE WORLD'S BEST PEACEKEEPING MODEL. Credit must go to Nigeria, the leading partner. For its part the INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, WHILE RIGHTLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE US-IRAG IMBROGLIO, OUGHT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS SUCCESS. After all, it had roundly condemned the overthrow of democracy in Sierra Leone. Downplaying Ecomog's achievement only reinforces Africa's position that it is being marginalised. IT IS ALSO A REMIDER THAT SECTIONS OF THE WESTERN PRESS HAD OPENLY AIRED THE VIEW THAT THE WEST WAS HAPPY TO ALLOW NIGERIA TO DO THE DIRTY WORK FOR THE WORLD. The lesson of Sierra Leone, WHICH IS BOUND TO ENDURE, is that democracy must always prevail. The junta in Freetown had its fun while the show lasted. But it is all over now. Military establishments elsewhere in West Africa at least must now be placed on notice that military coups are things of the past. It is inconceivable that an officer or groups of officers in this sub-region will in the foreseeable future wake up one day and decide to overthrow a democratically elected government, however unpopular that government may be. The right to remove an elected government rests with the voter, not the soldier. The soldier's sworn duty is to defend the sovereignty of his country and not undermine it. IF TEMPTATION SHOULD EVER GET HIS WAY, HE SHOULD REMEMBER ECOMOG. Still, as the peacekeeping force basks in its latest achievement, perhaps the leaders of Ecowas should sit back and consider Ecomog as a permanent feature. That will make the force always available for deployment at short notice if the need ever arises again. If this is done, however, there ought to be a provision that all Ecowas member countries should pull their weight. It is not fair on Nigeria that it should carry a disproportionate share of the burden all the time. ---------------------------------- Don't have time to read over, so blame me for all errors. Mallam O. ============================================== Osman A. Sankoh (Environmental and Ecological Statistics) Department of Statistics, University of Dortmund P.O.Box 500 500 D-44221 Dortmund Germany Tel.: +49 231 755 4391, Fax : +49 231 755 5303 (HOME: Tel/Fax: +49 231 728 2695) E-mail: sankoh@omega.statistik.uni-dortmund.de ================================================= --------- End forwarded message ---------- _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] From chriscd@jhu.edu Mon Mar 9 12:59:52 1998 Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 13:29:26 -0500 From: christopher chase-dunn Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: Duke: new licensing code]] To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Reply-to: chriscd@jhu.edu Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 07:33:28 -0500 From: Barbara Larcom Subject: [Fwd: Duke: new licensing code] Sender: owner-slac@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu To: SLAC Reply-to: slac@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------74EC7E18261040F0F8AF36EC --------------74EC7E18261040F0F8AF36EC Thu, 5 Mar 1998 21:44:03 -0800 (PST) Thu, 5 Mar 1998 21:32:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 21:32:19 -0800 (PST) To: clr@igc.org From: Campaign for Labor Rights Subject: Duke: new licensing code Labor Alerts: a service of Campaign for Labor Rights To receive our email labor alerts, send a message to CLR@igc.apc.org Phone: (541) 344-5410 Web site: http://www.compugraph.com/clr Membership/newsletter. Send $35.00 to Campaign for Labor Rights, 1247 "E" Street SE, Washington, DC 20003. Sample newsletter available on request. DUKE SETS NEW LICENSING POLICY A first in the nation, Duke's new standards could have an important impact on sweatshops. March 4, 1998 [Information provided by Students against Sweatshops (at Duke) and Global Exchange (415) 255-7296] On Friday, March 6 Duke University will go public with its ground-breaking new policy on licensing contracts, a policy which - if adopted widely by other campuses - could have a profound impact on reducing sweatshop abuses. The Duke student organization Students against Sweatshops, whose members have been negotiating the terms of the code with university administrators since the fall, hope that it will be a model for other schools wishing to play a role in stopping the global proliferation of sweatshops. The Code of Conduct encompasses all Duke University licensees - companies which manufacture products emblazoned with the Duke name and/or logo. Under the terms of the Code, any company seeking a contract with Duke must comply with the new regulations. The Code is designed to force companies to be accountable for the conditions under which their products are manufactured. Sections cover issues such as worker treatment and maximum work hours per week. The Code was modeled largely on existing international standards, such as those embodied in covenants of the International Labor Organization and other bodies of the United Nations. Students against Sweatshops insisted that the Code include sufficient enforcement teeth that it not end up being a cosmetic cover for business as usual. For example, the Code requires licencees to disclose to the university a complete listing of sites which have any role in the manufacturing process, from primary contractor factories or assembling centers down through all layers of the subcontracting system, whether international or domestic - including locator information for each site. Linked closely with the demand for factory disclosure is a stipulation that the university has the right to send independent monitors to inspect conditions and labor practices in those factories. The Code provides for such inspections to be conducted at least once a year and mandates that a report will be given to a committee of both students and administration representatives for review. Licensees whose manufacturing sources are found in noncompliance with the code will be granted a period in which to correct problems, after which - if substantive violations remain - Duke will terminate the licensee's contract. The Code of Conduct is based on the premise that the purchasing leverage of a university is greater than that of individual consumers - all the more so if several universities adopt the same or similar codes. Student activists pointed out that Duke currently is ranked Number One in the nation in men's basketball, greatly increasing the demand for its athletic gear. Because Duke is in a position of demand, if one company does not comply with the Code, other manufacturers would eagerly step in to assume a licensing agreement to manufacture for the university. This special leverage helps to raise the profile of Duke's Code and to establish it as a national standard for universities. The Code deals with sweatshop abuses by any licensee, whether a high-profile company such as Nike or a lesser-known brand. Nike, which currently manufactures Duke apparel, has become almost synonymous with sweatshops in the public consciousness. Under the new Code, once Nike's factory locations have been disclosed, if Nike contractors are found in persistent violation of the Code, Duke will terminate its contract with Nike. The Code does not encompass contracts with athletic teams, only licensing. Team contracts are already in place. While the athletic teams are visible advertising for companies such as Nike, the licensing industry is where all the real money-making for these companies occurs. Student activists noted that Nike's contract with the Duke athletic department prohibits coaches from freely expressing whatever concerns they may have about the company's labor practices. Nike routinely inserts into its contracts with athletic departments such provisions attempting to limit the right of free speech of players, coaches and other university employees. --------------74EC7E18261040F0F8AF36EC-- From kpmoseley@juno.com Mon Mar 9 20:24:40 1998 To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: kpmoseley@juno.com (Katharine P Moseley): "Osman A. Sankoh" : Ecomog scores again for democracy - WA editorial 16-22 Feb. X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-2,4-7,10-170,174-175 From: kpmoseley@juno.com (Katharine P Moseley) Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 22:13:08 EST --------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: kpmoseley@juno.com (Katharine P Moseley) To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK Subject: "Osman A. Sankoh" : Ecomog scores again for democracy - WA editorial 16-22 Feb. Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 01:30:09 EST After seeing fascinating piece by RKM on renascent hegemon, China, thought many would be equally bemused by regional power politics indicated below -- KP --------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: "Osman A. Sankoh" To: LEONENET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Ecomog scores again for democracy - WA editorial 16-22 Feb. Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:46:57 +0200 ECOMOG SCORES AGAIN FOR DEMOCRACY *Editorial* -- "West Africa", 16-22 February, 1998 ================================================== As WEST AFRICA was going to press, the attention of the world was riveted to Irag. It was being hotly debated whether or not the US and UK would launch a blitzkrieg to force Saddam Hussein to pay heed to the UN resolution on arms inspection for weapons of mass destruction which he is known to have been stockpiling. While this issue dominated the international news headlines, Ecomog (by now a household name) was quietly scoring its second major success under its acknowledged role of peace enforcer and, it must be added, restorer of democracy in the West African sub-region. On the weekend of February 14-15, Ecomog forces (under new field commander Major-General Shelpidi) stormed into Freetown and routed members of the military junta that ousted, on May 25 last year, the democratically elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. It had all started with rebel forces provoking Ecomog by launching military assaults on the latter without any justification whatsoever. In self defence, Ecomog returned fire for fire and, in doing so, rightly decided to all proceedings to run into their logical conclusion. Before his ouster President Kabbah had detained Major Koroma for plotting to overthrow his government. Dissidents were later to spring the major from jail and install him as leader of their junta. Kabbah fled to neighbouring Guinea and, from there, shuttled several times to Nigeria whose leader is the incumbent chair of Ecowas, the 'father' of Ecomog; and which, as it happens, is the leading force of the latter. At the beginning, Ecowas played fair - choosing to negotiate with Koroma's junta in the hope that it would sooner rather than later realise the futility of its actions and relinquish power to Kabbah. The wider international community imposed sanctions to chivvy them along and was happy to leave the nitty gritty of enforcement to Ecomog. It is now clear that this stance lulled the putschists into a sense of complacency. They gave the game away when they encouraged one of their ministers to make several calls to WEST AFRICA, in what they obviously perceived to be a smart public relations exercise. This minister said in no uncertain terms that, contrary to the agreement reached in Conakry that the junta would step down in April this year, Koroma and his clique would cling to power well beyond that deadline. What is more, the rebels would not submit themselves to demobilisation as agreed, and fresh elections were to be arranged. After these declarations, Ecowas must have got the message. Which is probably why Ecomog acted decisively once the junta's forces provoked it into action. As anyone following its progress will recall, Ecomog came into being in 1990 following an appeal for help by then leader of Liberia, Samuel Kanyon Doe, when dissent forces led by incumbent President Charles Taylor invaded the country. Then, as now, Nigeria provided the bulk of troops and logistics. What started as a minor peace-monitoring exercise soon escalated into a full-scale war, in the process forcing Ecomog to assume the role of peace enforcer. This task became even more difficult when other factions surfaced to join Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL). Along the way, some member countries of Ecomog found the going too tough and withdrew. The UN itself opted for a limited involvement, only sending observers and providing some cash to fund Ecomog's operations. As the stalemate continued, Taylor launced OPERATION OCTOPUS in an all-out move to overwhelm Ecomog which he hated enormously because he resented Nigeria's dominance of it. It is to the credit of Nigerian authorities that, despite some domestic misgivings, they stood steadfast and prevailed. Taylor finally came round and Ecomog organised and supervised the elections that eventually saw him assuming the presidency of Liberia which he craved. After its significant success in Liberia, the soldiers of neighbouring Sierra Leone should have sat up and taken notice that in Ecomog West Africa had found a formidable sub-regional 'policeman' that would brook no nonsense as far as security, stability and democracy were concerned. Instead, they chose to rock the boat. And they were emboldened by the setbacks with Ecomog, ill prepared intially, suffered. But they should have realised that time was not on their side. All of the factions in Liberia could not break Ecomog in that country. So there was no hope that a small army that was riven by stragglers and undisciplined rebels could conceivably defeat Ecomog in Sierra Leone. Members of the junta, now in flight, must be ruing their failure to realise this. WITH MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, ECOMOG STANDS TODAY AS PROBABLY THE WORLD'S BEST PEACEKEEPING MODEL. Credit must go to Nigeria, the leading partner. For its part the INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, WHILE RIGHTLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE US-IRAG IMBROGLIO, OUGHT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS SUCCESS. After all, it had roundly condemned the overthrow of democracy in Sierra Leone. Downplaying Ecomog's achievement only reinforces Africa's position that it is being marginalised. IT IS ALSO A REMIDER THAT SECTIONS OF THE WESTERN PRESS HAD OPENLY AIRED THE VIEW THAT THE WEST WAS HAPPY TO ALLOW NIGERIA TO DO THE DIRTY WORK FOR THE WORLD. The lesson of Sierra Leone, WHICH IS BOUND TO ENDURE, is that democracy must always prevail. The junta in Freetown had its fun while the show lasted. But it is all over now. Military establishments elsewhere in West Africa at least must now be placed on notice that military coups are things of the past. It is inconceivable that an officer or groups of officers in this sub-region will in the foreseeable future wake up one day and decide to overthrow a democratically elected government, however unpopular that government may be. The right to remove an elected government rests with the voter, not the soldier. The soldier's sworn duty is to defend the sovereignty of his country and not undermine it. IF TEMPTATION SHOULD EVER GET HIS WAY, HE SHOULD REMEMBER ECOMOG. Still, as the peacekeeping force basks in its latest achievement, perhaps the leaders of Ecowas should sit back and consider Ecomog as a permanent feature. That will make the force always available for deployment at short notice if the need ever arises again. If this is done, however, there ought to be a provision that all Ecowas member countries should pull their weight. It is not fair on Nigeria that it should carry a disproportionate share of the burden all the time. ---------------------------------- Don't have time to read over, so blame me for all errors. Mallam O. ============================================== Osman A. 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Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] From austria@it.com.pl Wed Mar 11 03:54:12 1998 Reply-To: From: "Austrian Embassy" To: Subject: A Polanyiean item from the international news Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:58:46 +0100 Kari Polanyi has written a - I feel - desperate round-letter on the present financial situation of the institute. Thinking about this important issue, I found meanwhile - and what a contrast - this piece of international news from the DIALOG file, which depicts the present phase of the capitalist world economy perhaps better than hundreds of scholary articles. So, Polanyiean research has no finance in this world of ours, while the Lottery thrives... Kind regards from Warsaw and a please have a thoughtful reading of this newspaper article (Arthur Andersen was elected by AIESEC, the Polish Chapter of the International Association of Economics Students, to be the Polish employer of the Year. Si I had an electronic look-around) from Arno Tausch DIALOG Select Idaho Indian Tribe to Run Controversial U.S. Lottery by Phone, Internet Don Sheron KRTBN KNIGHT-RIDDER TRIBUNE BUSINESS NEWS January 21, 1998 Language: English Text: From: San Antonio Express-News. Jan. 21--The first national lottery available by telephone and Internet began Tuesday, but not without controversy. The $1 million US Lottery is operated by an Indian reservation in Idaho, and while gambling on the Internet is illegal, the reservation said it can run its lottery because of a loophole in federal law. The Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, which also runs a legal on- site casino, claims it can offer US Lottery under the Indian Gambling Regulatory Act of 1988 because it is a sovereign nation. However, a bill before Congress would require Internet service providers to prevent online casinos from accessing their systems. The company managing US Lottery insists that the gaming operation is not a casino operation. "We are not a casino. We have no intention of offering games like a casino," said Mike Yacenda, president of UniStar Entertainment, during a media teleconference. "We imitate a state lottery completely. We weigh the balls the same, monitor the same. We are regulated by the state of Idaho and the Tribal Gaming Commission. We view ourselves completely as just another state lottery," Yacenda said. He emphasized that US Lottery is heavily regulated. Participants must be 18 or older, and the operation is under the supervision of national accounting firm Arthur Andersen & Co. That hasn't stopped legal challenges, from states such as Missouri and Wisconsin, which claim the Internet lottery is not on Indian land. Missouri's lawsuit was thrown out of court because states cannot sue Indian nations, Yacenda said. And "we believe the same thing will happen with the Wisconsin lawsuit," he added. The server for the US Lottery Web site and the phone-answering system are both on the reservation, according to a spokeswoman for US Lottery. Several state attorneys general also have voiced opposition to US Lottery, Yacenda admitted. "Some of the states are trying to stop us, but we think that's more for economic reasons than for legal reasons," he said. A spokesman for the Texas Attorney General's Office said it's too early to determine what impact the newest Internet lottery would have on Texas. While people in other states cannot participate in the Texas lottery, the issue of whether Texans can participate in in a lottery from another state is "not on our radar screen right now," the spokesman said. The Texas Lottery Commission, as well, said there was too little information about US Lottery to gauge its impact on Texas Lotto. "Maybe in six months we'll have a better answer," said Leticia Vasquez, spokeswoman for the Texas Lottery Commission. "We're certainly going to be watching it. There's no doubt about that." Meantime, the Idaho tribe and AT&T Corp. will square off in a federal appeals court over access to AT&T's toll-free telephone system. The tribe sued the telecommunications giant in tribal court claiming that as a common carrier AT&T could not discriminate against who could use its services. Mike Lordi, an AT&T spokesman, said common-carrier status also requires that a customer's service request is legal and that the customer can pay their bill, as stipulated by the Federal Communications Commission. The tribe claimed that AT&T had to provide toll-free service for its nationwide lottery, which the tribal court supported. AT&T appealed that decision to the tribal appellate court, which upheld the lower tribal court. AT&T appealed again in September 1997 to the U.S. District Court in Idaho. US Lottery is using GTE for its telephone services, Yacenda said. While Tuesday's drawing was its first online venture, the Coeur d'Alene gaming operation has been offering scratch-off games since March 1997. Yacenda said 70 percent of the lottery's proceeds will go to the tribe. He said a small number of people bought tickets for Tuesday's drawing because it wasn't heavily advertised. If there is no winner in a lottery drawing, the money is rolled over to the following week's drawing. Each drawing takes place at 11 a.m. CST on Tuesday. Yacenda said US Lottery is legal in all 50 states, but is being offered only in those 33 states that have lotteries. The other 17 states are being skipped because of "social, business and legal reasons," Yacenda said. The Tigua Indian Reservation of El Paso also operates a casino, but a spokesman for the Tigua gaming commission could not be reached for comment. The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Livingston has no plans at this time for gaming operations, said Roland Poncho, chairman of the tribe. Poncho said the Alabama- Coushatta has had a difficult time trying to start gaming operations, adding that a referendum was defeated in 1995. The US Lottery is accessible on the World Wide Web at http://www.uslottery.com or by calling (208) 665-3866. Copyright 1998 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. Source: World Reporter (Trade Mark) - Middle East Intelligence Wire. Company Names: • AT&T Corporation • ARTHUR ANDERSEN & CO. Descriptors: • Marketing • Lawsuits • Service & Product Use • New Products & Services Geographic Names: • United States of America • North America • Americas • Idaho SIC Codes: • 7999 (Amusement and Recreation NEC) • 7375 (Information Retrieval Services) World Reporter™ © 1997 The Dialog Corporation plc All rights reserved. DIALOG® File Number 20 Accession Number 787273 From gernot.kohler@sheridanc.on.ca Wed Mar 11 08:45:29 1998 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:44:58 -0500 (EST) From: Gernot Kohler To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: monocentric - polycentric - reorient A reading of Professor Frank's working paper "ReOrient..." (see wsn archive) suggests to my mind that his conceptual model of the world entails a single center; the world is a *monocentric* world. This single center moves around the world as historical time progresses. (Similar to the old Hegelian idea that the "Weltgeist" moves from place to place throughout history.) A *polycentric* concept of the world is advocated, for the future, by Professor Amin. This difference of conceptualization raises an interesting question with respect to the interpretation of current world developments, namely: Are present shifts in the world system (a) Frankian -- i.e., *one* global center shifting from the "West" to the "Orient" (where it used to be some time prior)? or, (b) Aminian -- i.e., a world with one global center ("West") is evolving into a world with several centers ("polycentric")? Under interpretation (a) one could, perhaps, expect another hegemonic power struggle and world war within the next 50 years. Under interpretation (b) one could, perhaps, expect a more peaceful evolution of the world system. Kind regards, --GK From latasha@jhu.edu Wed Mar 11 11:00:22 1998 by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:00:07 -0500 (EST) From: "L. China Terrell" Subject: Re: monocentric - polycentric - reorient In-reply-to: To: Gernot Kohler under interpretation (b) (see below), why cannot we also expect another world war/hegemonic power struggle as emerging centres strive to achieve legitimacy and compete with the sole existing centre (the west)? i imagine that the quests of competing centres to achieve legitimacy, especially in the eyes of the west, would certainly be a difficult one. would not the west attempt to undermine any opposition that threatens the status quo in order to save the supremacy of its own hegemony? it seems that the assumption that a peaceful change would occur toward a polycentric world is based on the premise that political leaders are 'rational' individuals. consequently, western political leaders, realizing they could lose more through violent resistance to change than they could if they were to negotiate peacefully with emerging centres, are willing to bequeath sacrificially areas unders their own domination in order to allow for the peaceful emergence of competing centres. i argue that political leaders are not necessarily rational people (although they can appear to be for quite some time) and that not every political leader in the west will take kindly to the shift toward a polycentric world. it is easy to think that an 'aminian' shift would be more peaceful than a 'frankian' shift because the rapid demise of the emerging asian centre makes us in the west feel comfortable that it shall always be 'we' who will agree to share our power and not 'they' who will take it from us...if 'they' choose to so attempt. chinadoll. On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Gernot Kohler wrote: > > A reading of Professor Frank's working paper "ReOrient..." (see wsn > archive) suggests to my mind that his conceptual model of the world > entails a single center; the world is a *monocentric* world. This single > center moves around the world as historical time progresses. (Similar to > the old Hegelian idea that the "Weltgeist" moves from place to place > throughout history.) > > A *polycentric* concept of the world is advocated, for the future, by > Professor Amin. > > This difference of conceptualization raises an interesting question with > respect to the interpretation of current world developments, namely: > > Are present shifts in the world system > > (a) Frankian -- i.e., *one* global center shifting from the "West" to the > "Orient" (where it used to be some time prior)? or, > > (b) Aminian -- i.e., a world with one global center ("West") is evolving > into a world with several centers ("polycentric")? > > Under interpretation (a) one could, perhaps, expect another hegemonic > power struggle and world war within the next 50 years. Under > interpretation (b) one could, perhaps, expect a more peaceful evolution > of the world system. > > Kind regards, > --GK > > ________________________________________ L. China Y. Terrell 3030 North Dale Lane Bowie, MD 20716 (301) 249-4647 "hope deferred maketh the heart sick..." From kpmoseley@juno.com Wed Mar 11 11:45:27 1998 To: latasha@jhu.edu Subject: Re: monocentric - polycentric - reorient X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 4-5,17,21-23,28-30 From: kpmoseley@juno.com (Katharine P Moseley) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:41:36 EST While it does not speak to mono/polycentrism question, an article on emerging norms of (great power) war in the context of recent Iraq standoff, is provocative (M. van Cheveld, "Saddam's Not So Strong," Wash. Post. 8 March '98). After an incisive critique of the alleged arsenal of "mass destruction" held by Iraq, Chevald concludes: While it is hard to understand the motivation behind the United States's belligerence, there is a larger and more positive lesson....Ever since 1946, when first the Nuremburg trials and then the United Nations Charter identified conducting "aggressive" war as a crime, states have been losing their previously undisputed right to use force against their neighbors. President Clinton's wrangling with the ... Security Council and its emissary...Annan, brings to mind the way in which medieval rulers once required the pope's consent before going to war; until about 1300 A.D., to wage war without the pontiff's blessing was to pay a heavy political price. Now, at the end of the millennium, even the world's sole remaining superpower finds it extraordinarily difficult to go to war without first obtaining the sanction of international law. Thus the recent crisis may be remembered, if at all, as one more steppingstone toward de-legitimizing war between nations. And. considering the havoc that such wars have wrought on the world during the first half of the 20th century, that is not such a bad thing at all. One quibble might be concerning the comment that "even" a superpower may need international legal sanction for war --- Rather, "above all" ... while a host of ethno-national, regional, local, pirate, drug-linked, warlord, and terrorist-type groups carry on with relative impunity, having little to lose. Best -- Kay Moseley _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] From agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca Wed Mar 11 18:24:06 1998 Wed, 11 Mar 1998 20:22:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 20:22:54 -0500 (EST) From: Gunder Frank To: Gernot Kohler Subject: Re: monocentric - polycentric - reorient In-Reply-To: I dunno to which paper of mine Gernot Kohler refers, but all with similar tut;les are based on my book of that title, and the book is rather clear in saying that there was NO hegemony and really also no center. So i dont get none of GK's argument. gunder frank On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Gernot Kohler wrote: > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:44:58 -0500 (EST) > From: Gernot Kohler > To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK > Subject: monocentric - polycentric - reorient > > A reading of Professor Frank's working paper "ReOrient..." (see wsn > archive) suggests to my mind that his conceptual model of the world > entails a single center; the world is a *monocentric* world. This single > center moves around the world as historical time progresses. (Similar to > the old Hegelian idea that the "Weltgeist" moves from place to place > throughout history.) > > A *polycentric* concept of the world is advocated, for the future, by > Professor Amin. > > This difference of conceptualization raises an interesting question with > respect to the interpretation of current world developments, namely: > > Are present shifts in the world system > > (a) Frankian -- i.e., *one* global center shifting from the "West" to the > "Orient" (where it used to be some time prior)? or, > > (b) Aminian -- i.e., a world with one global center ("West") is evolving > into a world with several centers ("polycentric")? > > Under interpretation (a) one could, perhaps, expect another hegemonic > power struggle and world war within the next 50 years. Under > interpretation (b) one could, perhaps, expect a more peaceful evolution > of the world system. > > Kind regards, > --GK > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andre Gunder Frank University of Toronto 96 Asquith Ave Tel. 1 416 972-0616 Toronto, ON Fax. 1 416 972-0071 CANADA M4W 1J8 Email agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca My home Page is at: http://www.whc.neu.edu/whc/resrch&curric/gunder.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rozov@nsu.ru Wed Mar 11 20:07:22 1998 From: "Nikolai S. Rozov " To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:07:22 +0000 Subject: Re: monocentric - polycentric - reorient Reply-to: rozov@nsu.ru In-reply-to: it seems that each of us intuitevily knows what is it "a world center", but E.Durkheim in his classical "Rules of sociol.method" appealed to avoid such amorphous intuitions and to start from clear, explicit, operational, "material" definitions of phenomena. my question is is there in modern WS approach (30 years after Braudelian books) if not strict definition but at least some constructive ideas for elaboration such clear concept f.e. according to IW and Chase-Dunn world center can be interpreted as a hegemon of the core of current global world-economy; a hegemony can be defined as obtaining of maximal control of a)economic, b) military-political, and mayby also c)cultural-ideological-informational resources. In this case if we get procedures for comparative evaluation of the control level, we can come to some not intuitive but real results concerning existance and address(es) of world centers today and in past epochs. A method of this kind may occur erroneous but already now you can start to criticise it best Nikolai On 11 Mar 98 Gernot Kohler wrote: > (a) Frankian -- i.e., *one* global center shifting from the "West" > to the "Orient" (where it used to be some time prior)? or, > > (b) Aminian -- i.e., a world with one global center ("West") is > evolving into a world with several centers ("polycentric")? ****************************************************** Nikolai S. Rozov, PhD, Dr.Sc. Professor of Philosophy E-MAIL: rozov@nsu.ru FAX: 7-3832-397101 ADDRESS: Philosophy Dept. Novosibirsk State University 630090, Novosibirsk, Pirogova 2, RUSSIA Moderator of the mailing list PHILOFHI (PHILosophy OF HIstory and theoretical history). URL= http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dew7e/anthronet/subscribe/philofhi.htm ********************************************************************* From harlowc@cats.ucsc.edu Thu Mar 12 00:08:24 1998 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:04:11 -0800 From: Christian Harlow To: gernot.kohler@sheridanc.on.ca, WSN , "PHILOFHI (PHILosophy OF HIstory and theoretical history)" Subject: Re: monocentric - polycentric - reorient Dear Colleagues, Franks position is not that there is/has been a "monocentric" world system; quite the contrary. He argues that there has rarely been periods in which one "superhegemon" reigned. Rather, we have usually seen interconnected/interlinked hegemons which subsequently rise and fall in synchronicity based on a (roughly)500 year cycle. His approach (and the empirical reality?) is synchronic and polycentric. Some will argue that on the issue of systemic evolution Frank's position isn't merely synchronic. To those i ask a simple question: Why is it that the logic of accumulation is said to have been the dominant dynamic of the system since the Neolithic revolution? Best, Christian Harlow UC Santa Cruz From agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca Thu Mar 12 09:49:55 1998 Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:47:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:47:10 -0500 (EST) From: Gunder Frank To: Christian Harlow Subject: Re: monocentric - polycentric - reorient In-Reply-To: <350788EB.61999F3B@cats.ucsc.edu> well , the question might be easiER to answer if we were told what synchronic and whatever [are supposed to ] mean- to us simple worms eye folks. gunder frank On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Christian Harlow wrote: > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:04:11 -0800 > From: Christian Harlow > To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK > Subject: Re: monocentric - polycentric - reorient > > Dear Colleagues, > > Franks position is not that there is/has been a "monocentric" world > system; quite the contrary. He argues that there has rarely been > periods in which one "superhegemon" reigned. Rather, we have usually > seen interconnected/interlinked hegemons which subsequently rise and > fall in synchronicity based on a (roughly)500 year cycle. > > His approach (and the empirical reality?) is synchronic and polycentric. > Some will argue that on the issue of systemic evolution Frank's position > isn't merely synchronic. To those i ask a simple question: Why is it > that the logic of accumulation is said to have been the dominant dynamic > of the system since the Neolithic revolution? > > Best, > > Christian Harlow > UC Santa Cruz > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andre Gunder Frank University of Toronto 96 Asquith Ave Tel. 1 416 972-0616 Toronto, ON Fax. 1 416 972-0071 CANADA M4W 1J8 Email agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca My home Page is at: http://www.whc.neu.edu/whc/resrch&curric/gunder.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu Thu Mar 12 11:09:54 1998 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:09:42 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Wayne Austin To: Gunder Frank Subject: Re: monocentric - polycentric - reorient In-Reply-To: Gunder Frank, I think *synchronic* means here that your model/theory of world-history posits a general theory about a single empirical mechanism of system development, this being accumulation. That is, no matter where the center is, the same general process guides its development; thus we have polycentrism posited in a monocausal model/theory. I think it implies that there is a rigid structuralism hiding beneath all your historiography. My translation may be wrong. Just trying to help, Andy From rross@clarku.edu Thu Mar 12 11:38:31 1998 id LAA05142; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:38:22 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:37:22 -0500 From: "Robert J.S. Bob Ross" Subject: [Fwd: Presentations] To: Progressive Sociology Network , World Systems Network , Labor List This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------A7BFF6E5C3C839FBC3A50638 THE PUBLIC IS WARMLY WELCOME TO THE EVENTS BELOW -- Robert J.S. Ross Professor and Chair Department of Sociology Clark University 950 Main Street Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 Voice: 508 793 7376 Fax: 508 793 8816 Webpage: http://www.clarku.edu/~rross --------------A7BFF6E5C3C839FBC3A50638 Return-path: Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:31:24 -0500 From: Jason Willoughby Subject: Presentations To: lgrandmaison@clarku.edu, mkohout@clarku.edu, rross@clarku.edu, sweintraub@clarku.edu On March 17, 3PM , In the Grace Conference Room of Higgins University Center, Prof. John McClymer, Assumption College, author/editor of the new book "The Triangle Shirtwaist Strike and Fire" will discuss the most infamous sweatshop tragedy in American history as part of Clark University's commemoration of International Women's Week. Speaking on "Memory and Resistance" McClymer will discuss the events of 1910-1911 in contemporary perspective. Prof. Robert Ross of Clark University will give an update on contemporary sweatshop conditions in the United States. On March 19th, At 4:15pm, IN Room 218, Geography, Rand Wilson of the Interantional Brotherhood of Teamsters will speak on "Lessons of the Teamster's Strike at UPS: An Inside View." for more info contact jason willoughby (5085) --------------A7BFF6E5C3C839FBC3A50638-- From wwagar@binghamton.edu Thu Mar 12 15:15:30 1998 From: wwagar@binghamton.edu Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:15:09 -0500 (EST) To: Andrew Wayne Austin Subject: Re: monocentric - polycentric - reorient In-Reply-To: To a historian, which I am, "synchronic" is the antonym of "diachronic." A synchronic approach to history assumes that things happen in pretty much the same way all the time, that there is no significant process of change and development over time. Structuralism in anthropology is a good example of a synchronic mind-set. A diachronic approach to history finds much change occurring over time. The 19th-century revolution of Historismus in historical studies (see Friedrich Meinecke et al.) illustrates the diachronic mind-set. I am not familiar with Andy's "translation," but it may be what the original user of the term had in mind. Only he can tell us. Cheers, Warren On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Andrew Wayne Austin wrote: > Gunder Frank, > > I think *synchronic* means here that your model/theory of world-history > posits a general theory about a single empirical mechanism of system > development, this being accumulation. That is, no matter where the center > is, the same general process guides its development; thus we have > polycentrism posited in a monocausal model/theory. I think it implies that > there is a rigid structuralism hiding beneath all your historiography. > > My translation may be wrong. > > Just trying to help, > Andy > > > From akwebb@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Thu Mar 12 22:52:09 1998 Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 00:51:14 -0500 (EST) From: "Adam K. Webb" To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK Subject: new use for the moon In-Reply-To: The shape of things to come? --AKW ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The New Improved Moon No longer will the moon be wasted on young lovers if advertisers Gary Betts and Malcolm Green have their way. The two London ad execs have announced plans to turn the moon into a giant billboard. After consulting with NASA scientists, the two believe they have a feasible plan for projecting corporate logos onto the moon's surface using reflected sunlight from two large umbrella shaped mirrors. In the scientific community, the major debate seems to be over how and not whether to project brand names onto the moon. French scientists have reportedly come up with a cheaper way to get corporate logos into space using reflecting satellites. Meanwhile, the news agency Reuters treats this as a promotion for the moon, adding that now "the moon could be more than just a part of the solar system." (Reuters) =============================================================================== Adam K. Webb Department of Politics Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544 USA 609-258-9028 http://www.princeton.edu/~akwebb From rragland@csir.co.za Thu Mar 12 23:11:17 1998 Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 08:15:09 +0200 From: Richard Ragland To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu, akwebb@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Subject: Re: new use for the moon I think that if the people of the world alllow this kind of thing to happen, I would be absolutely certain that I am not a part of the "human" race. Rick South Africa From futureu@teleport.com Fri Mar 13 06:34:46 1998 by user1.teleport.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) id FAA06739; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 05:33:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 05:33:12 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Augustine To: "Adam K. Webb" Subject: Re: new use for the moon In-Reply-To: Hey Great Idea,Why dont we have it change colors or something like green,pink and blue. Im wondering if anyone is selling real estate yet,be the first one on the block to own your own lot on the moon or something. paul :) futureu@teleport.COM Public Access User -- Not affiliated with Teleport Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-1016 (1200-28800, N81) future utopia 17024 helbrock dr. bend or 97707 541-593-1664 24hrs UNITY :www.teleport.com/~futureu/ : UNION .Budget by census From thall@DEPAUW.EDU Fri Mar 13 07:05:26 1998 13 Mar 1998 09:05:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 09:05:17 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas D. [Tom] Hall, THALL@DEPAUW.EDU" Subject: Neolithic and accumulation In-reply-to: <350788EB.61999F3B@cats.ucsc.edu> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Christian Harlow wrote: > To those i ask a simple question: Why is it > that the logic of accumulation is said to have been the dominant dynamic > of the system since the Neolithic revolution? > There are those of us, notably Chris Chase-Dunn and myself who argue, and we also claim the weight of evidence is on our side that the logic of accumulation has changed significantly at least twice since the neolithic. While Polanyi's initial argument that there are no markets until the "modern" capitalist age is clearly wrong, we maintain that since the rise of states some 5000 years ago tributary mode of accumulation dominated until late 17th early 18th century in the Low Countries when the first states became dominated by a form of capitalist accumulation [note tributary accumulation, accumulates capital, it does according to a tributary logic]. Within this there have been cycles of movement from multiple to single centers. So the answer to uni- vx. poly-centrism is both, depends on when, where. Detailed explications of the above are available in _Rise & Demise_ and a several of our papers [which can be grabbed via my or Chris's home pages]. While we disagree with Gunder both about keeping the hyphen in world-system, and that there has NOT been one world-system, but many since 12000 years ago, and even since 5000 years ago. We continue to have considerable respect for his arguments. While I am still formulating my own assessment of _Re-Orient_ [in part because I have read too many drafts, but not yet the final one], I think it is an important contribution to our debates, and is full of useful insights. It should be widely read and widely debated. Gunder deserves kudos for pulling off an almost one-writer paradigm shift in how we think about these issues. Thomas D. [tom] Hall thall@depauw.edu Department of Sociology DePauw University 100 Center Street Greencastle, IN 46135 765-658-4519 HOME PAGE: http://www.depauw.edu/~thall/hp1.htm From austria@it.com.pl Fri Mar 13 09:57:03 1998 Fri, 13 Mar 1998 17:47:55 +0100 (MET) Fri, 13 Mar 1998 17:47:35 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: From: "Austrian Embassy" To: Subject: Fw: March 1998 Le Monde Diplomatique Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 15:55:19 +0100 kind regards and enjoy your reading. this is the last time that I post it around the world; if you continue to be interested, follow the instruction at the end. kind regards arno tausch from warsaw ---------- > From: Le Monde diplomatique > To: English edition > Subject: March 1998. > Date: Donnerstag, 12. März 1998 12:50 > > LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE > _________________________________________________________________ > > Le Monde diplomatique > > english edition > > March 1998 > > edited by Wendy Kristianasen > > > > LEADER > > Lessons of a non-war * > > by Ignacio Ramonet > > There are three lessons to be learned from the recent Gulf crisis. > First, the United States is now tempted to act in an authoritarian > manner, as the world's only superpower. Second, it has no overall > strategy for the Middle East and third, Europe has ceased to exist. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/03/01leader.html > > Translated by Barbara Wilson > > > > UNITED STATES' DOMINATION PUT TO THE TEST > > Gulf scenario frustrated > > by Eric Rouleau > > Another Gulf war has been averted thanks to the intervention of UN > Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The United States has been forced, > for the time being, to bow to the will of the international > community and the United Nations has restored some of its > credibility. Unlike in 1991-92, the crisis has been characterised > by the refusal of public opinion to believe the disinformation put > out by the US spin doctors; and also by Washington's loss of > support from its former Middle East coalition partners on account > of its enduring double standards. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/03/02iraqer.html > > Translated by Wendy Kristianasen > > > > What strategy to topple Saddam Hussein? > > by Faleh A. Jabbar > > Washington and Baghdad remain on a fundamental collision course > despite the eleventh-hour agreement brokered by Kofi Annan. In > addition to its declared aim of eliminating Iraq's weapons of mass > destruction, the US - frustrated by Saddam's masterly tactics - now > has a more ambitious goal: his removal. Any future air campaign > might fail to get rid of the weapons, still less get rid of Saddam. > But Washington would seek to bring into play a political agenda > based on two elements: civil insurrection and army disaffection. > Which it hopes would bring about the fall of the regime when the > storm clouds next gather. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/03/03iraqfj.html > > Original text in English > > > > When our "friend" Saddam was gassing the Kurds > > by Kendal Nezan > > Baghdad's refusal to allow UN experts to inspect the presidential > sites on which chemical and biological weapons were allegedly > hidden was taken to justify a new bombing campaign on Iraq last > month. Times have changed. Ten years ago, the systematic gassing of > the Kurdish population of northern Iraq had far less impact on > America. Only six months after the slaughter at Halabja, the White > House lent Saddam Hussein another billion dollars. And in 1991, at > the end of the Gulf war, US troops stood idly by while Saddam's > presidential guard ruthlessly suppressed the popular uprising by > the Kurds for which the American president had himself called. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/03/04iraqkn.html > > Translated by Barry Smerin > > > > Western allies divided > > by Antoine Sanguinetti > > Despite the agreement between the United Nations and Baghdad, the > United States has decided to maintain its military presence in the > Gulf. In material terms, everything remains ready for military > action against Iraq. But the legality of such action is > questionable and Washington is having trouble enlisting the support > of its allies. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/03/05iraqas.html > > Translated by Barry Smerin > > > > Issues unresolved and resolutions ignored * > > With or without air strikes against Iraq, the Middle East will > continue to be a region of instability, full of unresolved > problems. Here is a concise background to each of the following > issues: the future of Iraq, the question of the Kurds, the > Palestinian problem, the occupation of the Golan Heights, the South > Lebanon "security zone" and weapons of mass destruction. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/03/06iraqgen.html > > Translated by Ed Emery > > > > THE DANGERS OF THE MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENT > > Wielding power behind the scenes * > > The cat is out of the bag and the world now knows just how > unbalanced are the proposals coming out of the current OECD > negotiations. The nature of this international organisation, which > is devoted to free market principles, explains why the MAI has been > conceived there. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/03/07mai1.html > > Translated by Julie Stoker > > > > Shackling the state * > > by Nuri Albala > > If signed, the current MAI proposals would form a benchmark for the > global investment economy, taking precedence over most existing > national obligations and agreements. The multinational corporations > would be given powerful ammunition against sovereign states and the > legal means to enforce their new "rights". It is a dynamic > agreement which would ultimately "rollback" all national laws which > did not conform. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/03/08maialba.html > > Translated by Julie Stoker > > Is this the end of copyright? > > by Jack Ralite > > The need to defend the principles of copyright has never been more > important, since the twin pincers of the MAI proposals and a recent > EU Commission Green Paper on "convergence" would together result in > the separation of authors from their works. Unless stopped, > copyright works will be turned into commodities and investments, > and current European protection mechanisms will be sacrificed to > the corporate gods of America. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/03/09maira.html > > Translated by Barbara Wilson > > > > A TANGLED WEB OF POWER POLITICS AND BIG BUSINESS > > Who holds the power in Russia? > > by Nina Bachkatov > > As Russia moves to its own brand of democracy, a new balances of > forces is taking shape. Boris Yeltsin has skilfully overseen the > changing political arena, with much of the power now held in the > regions. But it is above all the business barons who have implanted > themselves at the centres of power. There is a consensus that, > despite economic reform, the national market should still be > protected. And a system of complementarity has developed between > business and state - so far to the satisfaction of most. The danger > for Russia is not of relapsing into dictatorship but of turning > into a liberal "post-democracy". > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/03/10russia.html > > Translated by Francisca Garvie > > > > THEY SEE YOU, BUT YOU DON'T SEE THEM > > Big Brother is watching you on video > > by André Vitalis > > The cameras are everywhere. On streets, in railway stations, banks, > shopping malls and car parks. They may have their use in reducing > crime, but there are dangers of abuse. Video surveillance can be a > preventative device, but also a more sinister control mechanism. > Pictures and sound recordings of people are now defined as personal > data - for which proper protection is required. For a start, people > must be warned when and where they are being filmed. For > safeguarding individual rights is crucial if a proper balance is to > be struck between our freedom and our security. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/03/11video.html > > Translated by Barry Smerin > > > > AFRICA IN TRANSITION > > Washington sets out to conquer "virgin territory" > > by Philippe Leymarie > > At the end of March President Bill Clinton will be making his first > visit to Africa. Just as the ex-colonial powers are apparently > retiring from the scene, at a loss to come up with any constructive > ideas, the United States is starting to focus on the continent as > one of the last virgin territories for US investors. If Nelson > Mandela has set the pace in South Africa, there are plenty of other > success stories in terms of political "reliability". As economies > are growing, Africa is now ripe for integration into the US-style > market economy. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/03/12africa.html > > Translated by Lorna Dale > > > > TECHNICAL ADVANCE, IDEOLOGICAL PROJECT > > Selling off a heritage * > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/03/13telecom.html > > Towards a worldwide communications oligopoly? > > by Pierre Musso > > Technological change, followed by deregulation, has changed the > face of global telecommunications and new corporate players have > moved in. In many cases, it is the same US companies but in new > combinations and international alliances. The break-up of ATT and > privatisation of BT stimulated the process which is still far from > stable, as recent attempted or successful mergers have shown. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/03/14telemus.html > > Translated by Ed Emery > > > > Convergence, European style > > by Serge Regourd > > Deregulation of the telecommunications, media and information > technology sectors is the guiding principle of the EU Commission's > Green Paper on "convergence". Globalisation is assumed to be > positive and there are alarming parallels with the MAI proposals. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/03/15telereg.html > > Translated by Barbara Wilson > > > > FREE ZONES BUT FEW RIGHTS > > Central American workers in the hands of the maquilas > > by Maurice Lemoine > > The maquilas are factories working under contract to foreign firms, > designed to manufacture exports at minimum cost. They first > appeared in Mexico in the 1960s and are now proliferating in > Central America's free zones as part of the move to relocate from > the North and create jobs in the South. But this is far from > utopia. Trade unions are gagged and workers' rights are violated on > a grand scale. Employers are free to impose a 70-hour week (or > longer) on a largely female workforce. And pay them starvation > wages. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/03/16zonesla.html > > Translated by Malcolm Greenwood > > > > The Turkish model * > > by Emine Usakligil > > Turkey has nine free zones: three in Istanbul and six in different > cities in Anatolia. Mersin was the first of these and is also the > most productive. With the volume of trade increasing by an average > of 50% a year, the free zones are an economic success story. > Workers enjoy similar social security to their counterparts outside > but, as companies pay no taxes, wage are often higher. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/03/17zonestk.html > > Translated by Malcolm Greenwood > > > > (*) Star-marked articles are available to every reader. Other > articles ar available to paid subscribers only. > > Yearly subscription fee: 24 US $ (Institutions 48 US $). > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > For more information on our English edition, please visit > > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/ > > To subscribe to our free "dispatch" mailing-list, send an > (empty) e-mail to: > dispatch-on@london.monde-diplomatique.fr > > To unsubscribe from this list, send an (empty) e-mail to: > dispatch-off@london.monde-diplomatique.fr > > > From agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca Sat Mar 14 08:08:06 1998 Sat, 14 Mar 1998 10:06:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 10:06:46 -0500 (EST) From: Gunder Frank To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK , psn-seminars@csf.colorado.edu, "Lev S. Gonick" , gderlug@nwu.edu, Robert Denemark giovanni arrighi Subject: Gunder Frank comment on W-S in REVIEW (fwd) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andre Gunder Frank University of Toronto 96 Asquith Ave Tel. 1 416 972-0616 Toronto, ON Fax. 1 416 972-0071 CANADA M4W 1J8 Email agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca My home Page is at: http://www.whc.neu.edu/whc/resrch&curric/gunder.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 09:54:03 -0500 From: "A. Gunder Frank" To: Andre Gunder Frank Subject: Gunder Frank comment on W-S in REVIEW AN IRREVERENT ANALYSIS OF WORLD-SYSTEM ANALYSIS by ANDRE GUNDER FRANK University of Toronto 96 Asquith Ave. Toronto, Ont. Canada M4W 1J8 Tel:416-972 0616 Fax:416-972 0071 e-mail: agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca http://www.whc.neu.edu/whc/resrch & curric/gunder.html R E V I E W XXI, 1 1998 brings several articles on "world-systems analysis,"its history, conceptualization and procedures in which I have also taken an interest for some time and am now moved to comment. The third article by Forte on Anthropology (A Research Review) cites my work the most, perhaps because it is itself by far longest. However, it is the one on which I am least moved to comment other than to agree with the author's critique of the work by the oft cited Roland Robertson, which I have found less than helpful to say the least in analyzing the world-systems analysis or indeed the real world itself. I would just add that in my experience and opinion, if we must chose between identifying and emphasizing uniqueness and differences on the one hand and holistically searching for similarities and especially relations and commonalities, we do best - and can only do 'science' - by doing the latter rather than following Robertson's and others' predilection for identifying uniqueness and stressing differences. Indeed, what is most 'unique' is the one world that we all [must!] live in, whose structure and dynamic itself attract attention to the virtual exclusion of the underlying and of determinant commonalities and relations. So we cannot - indeed mostly do not even want to - see the common forest for focusing on the individual trees. That brings me to the first article on the "continuationist/ transformationist debate" regarding "how many world-systems?" or trees or groves of trees there were by Debra Straussfogel. She rightly pigeon- holes me and my some-time co-author Barry Gills among the 'continuationists' and virtually everybody else, including Wallerstein and Chase-Dunn & Hall, among the 'transformationists.' Of course, the answer to the question Gills and I pose in our book The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand? is consistent with the holistic and continuationist position. That is so even if some parts of the world were only belatedly [but contra Wallerstein certainly well before 1750] incorporated into the structure and logic of a system that itself began thousands of years earlier and still 'continues' today. Straussfogel, like Wallerstein and I as well, appeals for help to chaos and complexity [also dubbed 'chaoplexity'] theory associated with Prigogine and others. And she suggests that at least its perspective if not its analysis can help us "put system into world- system theory" and offer an answer to the continuationist/transformationist question of "how many world-systems?". Alas in this article, she never does arrive at or offer an answer to that question. Instead, she limits herself to attempts to 'operationalize' the distinction through identifiable criteria and evidence of 'transformation.' She rightly argues that both trends and cycles are quite compatible with continuation, and that we need "to be able to identify the existence of bifurcation points ... [that] indicate qualitative differences in structure and function" of the development of the system to transform from one to another, and that at least their identification, if not also explanation, is incumbent on transformationists. So far so good. She seems to join Chase-Dunn and Hall in their claim that we can and must identify a few such bifurcations, from kin-based, to tributary, to capitalist 'systems', and even for what they call - after Wilkinson and Frank/Gills - the 'central world system.' But Straussfogel also goes on to claim quite wrongly that for continuationists like me "there have been no bifurcation points in the general process creating human social structures" while for transfomationists "the argument would be that bifurcation points have been crossed resulting in a sequence of recognizably distinct types of world-systems" [p.22]. Alas, neither of these statements is empirically true in fact; and their either/or juxtaposition is a logical non- sequitur. I can and do recognize bifurcation points, which the chaos theory and its non-reversible arrow of time to which she also appeals can help us to identify and understand. But it is decidedly false that these bifurcations and how they discriminate between paths taken and not taken by the world system must result in a "sequence of recognizably distinct types of world- systems." Why and how so? There is no reason in theory to anticipate such different types and there is also not much evidence that it has happened in fact in fact in our 'central world system' any more than in our universe, independently of whether it is expanding [like the world system] or not or whether there may or may not be other universes out there [as we may wish to argue that for several thousands of years there may have been one or more 'world-systems' in the Western hemisphere]. It is perfectly logical and I believe empirically verifiable to argue that our 'world system' has been transformed by and in some major bifurcations and even revolutions, such as the neolithic one of agricultural/state society, the 'encounter' between 'two worlds' in 1492, and the industrial revolution or evolution with its global ecological consequences [and also 'causes' as Ken Pomeranz and I argue]. However, none of these transformations need theoretically have been nor in fact were from anything that transformationists can operationally identify as having been from 'recognizably' tributary, much less 'feudal,' to capitalist/ic "types of world-systems." Any and all such claims literally make NON-sense. The reason appears clearly in the fourth article by Giovanni Arrighi. He dissects two "non-debates" that went or are still going on "at cross purposes" between critics or partial dissenters of world-systems theory and Wallerstein. The latter himself in the third article denies that there is any such 'theory' but prefers the more modest 'analysis,' on which I prefer to comment on only after examining Arrighi's. The first debate that Arrighi summarizes is between Wallerstein and Theda Skocpol who wants to "bring the state back in" and with Robert Brenner who defends the primacy of class relations over all else. Both, according to Arrighi, attack the Achilles heel of world-systems theory, which is "Wallerstein's failure to account plausibly for the emergence of capitalism in the modern world" [116]. I agree, but for reasons that go well beyond those mentioned by Arrighi. He rebuts Skocpol's charge that Wallerstein fails to deal adequately with the state per se, but he accepts her argument that Wallerstein does not show how the state accounts for the developmental breakthrough of capitalism. Brenner for his part argues that only class structure and its transformation can account for that same development, and not the world-system. Even less so can the core-periphery relations and cyclical A-B phases that Wallerstein attributes to it, particularly in the 'long sixteenth century' from 1450 to 1620 or 1640. Indeed, none of these theorists, including Skocpol, Brenner and Wallerstein do or can explain 'the rise of capitalism in Europe.' The other "non-debate" is between Wallerstein and Fernand Braudel from whom Arrighi especially cites "the well-known passage in which he confesses to not sharing 'Wallerstein's fascination with the sixteenth century'.... Braudel's interpretation of the rise of the capitalist world economy in Europe departs in key respects from Wallerstein's" [123]. In particular, in Braudel's "account there is not a word about a 'crisis of feudalism' ... nor about the transition from feudalism to capitalism, which is central to Wallerstein's account. The focus is instead on how a world-economy centered on city-states was transformed into a world-economy centered on territorial states ... [which] expanded... to encompass the entire globe" [125]. For his part, Arrighi criticizes both theorists for missing what he himself regards as the real point: Wallerstein offers an only "implausible account of the emergence ... of competitive pressures" because he looks for them in the wrong place. And "Braudel offers no account at all" even though he points in the right direction for the seat of capitalist transformation: the city states and the intercity-state system that anticipated the Westphalian inter 'national' state system by two centuries and "originated in the interstices that connected those larger territorial organizations to one another and their totality to other 'worlds'." [126]. Yet however magistral and prize-winning Arrighi's own Long Twentieth Century analysis of this development is, it also remains essentially irrelevant to - or yet another 'non-debate' about - the [cause of the] real world rise of what all of the above like to call the 'European world-economy' and/or the 'modern capitalist world-system.' The reason for this failure emerges from the theoretical one already given by Straussfogel, that is the continuity in the world economy and system and the incumbency on transformationists to demonstrate, not to mention account for, some bifurcation that led to some different type of world- system. Yet as Arrighi rightly argues, none of the above do or within their parameters even can demonstrate any such thing: not Braudel with his city-states in the 'European world-economy,' not Wallerstein with his core-periphery relations and cycles in the 'modern world-system,' and also not their critics Skocpol by bringing the state back in nor Brenner with his class analysis in even smaller social 'systems.' But neither and no more so does nor can Arrighi himself! For in the real world of course, there was a well structured and fully functioning world economy and system, primarily in Asia, of which any and all of Europe was no more than a quite marginal peninsular outpost. Indeed, the very Italian city states that 'fascinate' Arrighi and Braudel derived their very existence and life-blood from their quite dependent trade relations with Asia, as Braudel himself recognized, Modelski and Thompson (1996) now demonstrate, and Arrighi also admits in fact. Alas, that fact also pulls the empirical and theoretical rug out from under the entire argument from Marx and Weber, to Braudel and Wallerstein, and still from Arrighi himself. How in the world can it still be maintained that a fundamental transformation occurred in the mere interstistecies of territorial states, or in their formation as part of an alleged transition from feudalism, or in the transformation of class structure and dynamic in any of the above in any parts or even all of Europe? For after all is said and done, Europe remained for several hundred years still totally marginal to the structure and development of the great bulk of the world economy, which was in Asia. All the less so can any of these arguments have even the slightest empirical or theoretical merit as long as the alleged transformations in Europe or its national or city states or even their entire "European world- economy" and "modern world-system" were themselves derivative from and dependent on events and developments across all of Eurasia and especially those at its far eastern end. It is surely not for nothing that the very voyages of Columbus, Vasco da Gama, and Maglellan - like the European Crusades before them - were themselves motivated and generated by the economic development especially of China and India. Still nearly three centuries later, Adam Smith recognized these regions as agriculturally, industrially, technologically, and commercially still far more developed than any or all of Europe. Moreover as Smith also emphasized, they remained far more competitive on the world market. On what imaginary European basis then can any of the above cited analysts offer the "plausible account of the competitive pressures that have promoted and sustained the capitalist transformation of the European world- economy" that Arrighi rightly demands? Rather obviously on almost no European basis whatsoever, except that of its competitively quite disadvantaged place and role among the competitive pressures that emanated from and primarily impacted on various parts of Asia and only very marginally so in Europe, or rather which they long continued to marginalize still further from where the major economic and demographic action, not to mention political, social, and cultural action was. That is why all these, alas still including Arrighi's, 'non-debates' about the [reasons for] the alleged rise of capitalism in Europe make literally NO sense at all, any more than how many imaginary European 'capitalist' or other angels could dance on the head of the marginal European pin. To make even minimal sense out of any of this, we must search for it in the structure and transformation of the real world economy and system, the motor force of whose economic and technological development remained in Asia, and especially in China, until at least 1800, and not in any imaginary 'European world-economy" or 'modern world-system.' To the extent to which there was any such, it was certainly part and parcel of a real world economy and system [without a hyphen!], of which developments in the 'European world- economy' including its American outliers were in reality far more derivative effects than they were imaginary causes. So Wallerstein is probably right in the third article in predicting the 'demise of world-systems theory ... from the eventual exhaustion of its utility.... We are clearly moving in the direction of such a demise" [108]. But Wallerstein remains wrong in the reasons to which he attributes the exhaustion of utility and the demise of his world-systems theory. His list of 'fundamental questions' [111] may be important; Wallerstein's (1996) Gulbenkian Commission critique of the alleged universalism of our nineteenth and twentieth century heritage is certainly well taken; and the call for Opening the Social Sciences instead may well be innovative. Yet none of the above cited theorists including Wallerstein himself even recognize let alone seek to replace the still ingrained Eurocentric provincialism of the historiography that underlies and underpins all of their social theory from Marx Weber to Braudel and Wallerstein, still including Arrighi [who is now turning to study China and East Asia]. In a world that is itself rapidly ReOrienting and pulling the rug out from under Eurocentric theory, that is the underlying real world reason for the exhaustion of all that 'world-systems' theory. That is also why our multiple choice must be NONE OF THE ABOVE. My forthcoming book ReORIENT: GLOBAL ECONOMY IN THE ASIAN AGE [University of California Press, April 1998] is a modest effort to help begin also to reorient our historiography and social theory. All are invited to a critique of this ReORIENT book by Giovanni Arrighi, Ed Farmer, George Modelski, and David Wilkinson, with a response from myself at an ISA/IPE Roundtable Panel chaired by Sing Chew on Thursday C-16, from 1:45 to 3:30 PM on March 19 [followed by the IPE Section panel and then the reception both honouring Immanuel Wallerstein] at the ISA Meetings in Minneapolis. I will also be at the PEWS meetings from March 21 to 24 in Evanston, Ill., where Immanuel Wallerstein will also give a lecture at Northwestern University and also discuss his Golbenkian Commission Report. From thall@DEPAUW.EDU Sat Mar 14 09:09:29 1998 14 Mar 1998 11:09:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 11:09:25 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas D. [Tom] Hall, THALL@DEPAUW.EDU" Subject: some quick comments on Gunder's post To: Network World-Systems First, let me too endorse attending the session on ReOrient at ISA--this will be lively, and informative. Also I want to underscore Gunder's contribution in forcing attention that the "center of gravity" of the Afroeurasian world-system was clearly in the east until very late, and that the transformation/evoution/continuous change at the west end of Afroeurasia was an attempt to "get in on the action." In Roman times emperors complained that the empire was being drained of silver by nobles squander their wealth on silk for their wives and mistresses [aside: here we see the ugly head of patriarchy, blaming women from men's failings]. But I do want to put in a word for the transformationist camp. The first, and to me more important point, is that in asking 500 or 5000 years of a world-system the question is already improperly framed. If one begins study with states already on the scene, one has missed probably the largest and most dramatic transformation that has occurred in social history. [I say probably because social life before 12,000 years ago (+/- couple 1000s) is so scantily understood that there may well have been more dramatic transformations before then, but we have not dug up (literally) the evidence--if it exists--yet]. Ekhom and Frieman admit to this in several places, Chase-Dunn and I argue several places; Sanderson argues this in Social Transformations, and Michael Mann aruges it from a Weberian perspective in his chapter "how prehistoric peoples evaded power" in ch 2 of sources of social power. Once states are on the scene--a result of passing a dramatic bifurcation point-there is a new game, and one that has more continuity than what went before. So there may be a modus vivendi here on the camps, there is some continuity in state based systems from 5000 yrs ago forward. However, we argue that within that continuity that has been a major transformation, another passage through a bifurcation point, that becomes clearly visible [although admittedly have very deep germinal roots] in 17th low countries when production for exchange begins to dominate the organization of first an entire state, then the rump end of a world-system, and then procedes to transform that entire world-system, and finally globalize it in the 20th century. If I read Prigogine et al correctly [probably a dubious claim at this point generically, but I think correct on this one point], when a system reorganizes, that is passes through a bifurcation point, what emerges is NOT entirely new, but rather a literal RE-organization utilizing the materials of the old organization and creating new ones, typically at a higher hierarchical level. So that there are very deep "germinal roots" of capitalism/industrialism/modernity is no surprise. Thus, there MUST be some degree of continuity. But that does not vitiate that the world works signficantly differently by the 1800s than it did as late as the 1400s. These processes take place through time and space. Some of the shifting going on canNOT be seen [or at least not clearly] by focusing too tightly on the last few centuries. This is the driving force for many of us to look at ancient world-systems. I argue further [and since Chris & I have not discussed this in detail, I am only making this claim for myself] that the result of the bifurcation, the emergence of the capitalist world-system is still not complete. This is why I reject post-modernism and post-industrialism as concepts. The entire world-system has not full industrialized or modernized. What people call post modernism and / or post industrialism mistakes characteristic of core regions for characteristics of the entire world-system. It like the famous cartoon, New Yorker's map of the world. That said, this is, for me, one of the most fascinating and insightful aspects of Gunder's Re-Orient: He in describing how the world-system is continuing thrrough the bifurcation, continugint to industrialize and modernize, and how the center of gravity of the system may, ironically --at least to the Europe is unique crowd-- shifting back to its old location at the eastern end of Afroeurasia. Such a shift is also conguent with another pattern in world-system cycles and changes, namely that changes often come to the center from the semiperiphery [this argument has been made several time by Chase-Dunn] and detailed in chap. 5 of Rise & Demise]. So, transformationist or continuationist? Maybe regarding capitalism/industrialism/modernism may be as the old song goes: Gunder says, Tah-mah-taa; we say Toe-May-Toe, but we're still discussing the same thing. Two final points: 1) Gunder's critique of the critiques I think focuses on why sorting this out is so imporant. Only if we can understand what happened and why, can we have information to know how to push, or better, perturb the system, so that what comes out of the next bifurcation [or the end of this one if one perfers] something better for more people than capitalism/industrialism/modernism has been. That is something vaguely along the lines Warren Wagar has suggested in Short History of the Future. 2) Most of what I have said here--inflicted on overextened readers of wsn--is not new for me, but for me [at least] is clearer and better organized than it has been as result of Gunder's provocative statements [and in Re-Orient, as I noted the other day]. In such provocations, Gunder does us all a great service. tom Thomas D. [tom] Hall thall@depauw.edu Department of Sociology DePauw University 100 Center Street Greencastle, IN 46135 765-658-4519 HOME PAGE: http://www.depauw.edu/~thall/hp1.htm From agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca Sat Mar 14 10:13:12 1998 Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:11:57 -0500 (EST) From: Gunder Frank To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK Subject: in response to tom hall i thanks to for the prompt and good response and endorse 99 44/100 % of his pure subsatantive wisdom, reserving doubts only about his excessive compliments to me and the part about bifurcation in 17th century holland [if i did not misread him for doing so too quickly], my endorsement includes what he writes about going farther back than 5,000 years, which i did not do in my comment mostly because most of the REVIEW issue i was commenting on went back barely 500 years, and most of that limited to an outpost 'marcher state/s' as Tom and Chris might call them and thereby draw attention to the genisis of transformation precisely in SOME of these maginal 'semi? - perhiperal' parts of the whole system. But that possibility does not mean the probability that any such hapend whered and when Tom says so. Anyway, thats an empirical question, but one thatwe cannot even address unless/until we theoretically frame the whole question muchm more holistically in tersm of the whole systgem - which 'w-s' never did and still denies even the existence of. In his otherwise good and correct comment on the Van Zanden 'merchant capitalism' issue in a previous issue of Review, Immanuel said 'lets not quibble about the unit of analysis'. that is a strange thing to say for someone who's decades long work has been precisely about WHAT the [world -system] UNIT of analysis is supposed to be. He made it larger in 1974, but not nearly large enough.that is NOT a quibble. THAT IS THE QUESTION! regards gunder [gotta go to market] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andre Gunder Frank University of Toronto 96 Asquith Ave Tel. 1 416 972-0616 Toronto, ON Fax. 1 416 972-0071 CANADA M4W 1J8 Email agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca My home Page is at: http://www.whc.neu.edu/whc/resrch&curric/gunder.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From harlowc@cats.ucsc.edu Sun Mar 15 18:23:59 1998 Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 17:19:48 -0800 From: Christian Harlow To: thall@DEPAUW.EDU Subject: Re: Neolithic and accumulation WSN, Just a few quick thoughts on these issues. Thomas D. [Tom] Hall, THALL@DEPAUW.EDU wrote: > > > There are those of us, notably Chris Chase-Dunn and myself who argue, and > we also claim the weight of evidence is on our side that the logic of > accumulation has changed significantly at least twice since the > neolithic. While Polanyi's initial argument that there are no markets > until the "modern" capitalist age is clearly wrong, we maintain that > since the rise of states some 5000 years ago tributary mode of > accumulation dominated until late 17th early 18th century in the Low > Countries when the first states became dominated by a form of capitalist > accumulation [note tributary accumulation, accumulates capital, it does > according to a tributary logic]. Regardless of the method by which capital has been accumulated, I believe that Chase-Dunn and Hall have confused the difference between an "ideological mode" (or method) employed to appropriate surplus and the "systemic- logic". The first merely refers the manner by which the system justifies or masks the unequal surplus of transfer. By example, the dominant ideologic mode in (the) world-system(s) prior to say 1500 was indeed based on religion (divine right etc..) However there the logic of the system was still based on the maintenance of complex social structures via the acquisition and transfer of surplus capital. This systemic imperative of accumulation based on a structure of unequal surplus distribution has , inarguably i think, been the driving force of all "world-systems" since the neolithic, that is, all complex (hierarchical) social systems are based on the logic of accumulation. > While we disagree with Gunder both about keeping the hyphen in > world-system, and that there has NOT been one world-system, but many > since 12000 years ago, and even since 5000 years ago. I would probably agree with this, it just seems obvious that there have been many relatively autonomous systems (guided by similar logics of accumulation) throughout the last 5000 years. However the truth is WE JUST DON'T KNOW... There has been nowhere near the necessary amount of work done on this... The question of whether there has been a singular system driven by this logic or several spread throughout the globe is also entirely different than whether/when this logic came into being. The question of how many systems is indeed an empirical one. One that I don't think Chandler's data on the rise and fall (and other population dynamics) of city states is reliable or valid enough to use to make an empirical argument; it would be better used to augement, other existing archaelogical data. (Correct me if I'm wrong but most of the data drawn upon to test these various theories is Tertius Chandlers assemblage of biblical accounts of city size). Anywho, there are two different questions here: 1) what are the different logics of world-systems, and 2)How many autonomous systems can we identify throughout history. It also seems to me that these questions (especially #2) are only relevant if they offer us something through which to better understand our current situation...How will we know when this systems is falling into demise, What have been the indicators of systemic decline throughout history? If this debate doesn't help us to understand these types of questions then what does it matter whether the world system is 15,000 or 25 years old? Cheers, Christian Harlow UC Santa Cruz From rkmoore@iol.ie Tue Mar 17 15:04:50 1998 Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:03:35 GMT Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:03:35 GMT To: many lists From: rkmoore@iol.ie (Richard K. Moore) Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Democratic Renaissance / International Workshop * Workshop Announcement * - please distribute globally - ~-===================================================-~ Seeking an Effective Democratic Response to Globalization and Corporate Power an international workshop for activist leaders Summer 1998, Canada -- details available soon Organized by: Citizens for a Democratic Renaissance ~-===================================================-~ WHO WE ARE... We are an informal association of concerned citizens from around the world who are dedicated to overcoming corporate domination through the revitalization of constitutional democracy. OUR MISSION... is to work with people and organizations everywhere to help bring about an historic transition from this "Era of Corporate Hegemony" to a new "Era of Democratic Renaissance". WHY WE ARE SPONSORING THIS WORKSHOP... 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Citizens for a Democratic Renaissance http://cyberjournal.org/cadre mailto:cadre@cyberjournal.org ~-==============================================-~ From austria@it.com.pl Wed Mar 18 01:07:00 1998 Reply-To: From: "Austrian Embassy" To: Subject: Fw: La poudriere du Kosovo Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 09:12:13 +0100 You Anglos across the big pot, I found this superb piece of journalistic work on the Kosovo in my mailbox today! I'd like to share it with you all Kind regards Arno Tausch ---------- > From: Le Monde diplomatique > To: info-diplo > Subject: La poudriere du Kosovo > Date: Dienstag, 17. März 1998 13:07 > > _________________________________________________________________ > > NOUVELLE MENACE POUR LES BALKANS > > La poudrière du Kosovo > > (17 mars 1998) > > > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/dossiers/kosovo/ > > Région du sud-ouest de la Serbie de près de 2 millions d'habitants, le > Kosovo est désormais peuplé à 90% d'Albanais. Cette petite région, qui > est une des clés de la question albanaise, a aussi servi de tremplin > au néo nationalisme serbe. > > Le Kosovo a la malchance d'être le berceau de deux nationalismes > antagonistes. C'est là, pour les Serbes, que fut installé le > Patriarcat de Pec, dans la Serbie médiévale, et que le Tsar serbe fut > vaincu par les Ottomans en 1389 à Kosovo-Polje. C'est d'ailleurs en > célébrant le 600ème anniversaire de cette bataille que M. Slobodan > Milosevic a commencé d'instrumentaliser le problème albanais à des > fins nationalistes. > > Durant l'époque ottomane la région est albanisée et islamisée. Elle > devient le berceau du renouveau albanais au XIXe siècle. Après la > rupture entre Tito et Staline en 1948, les Albanais de Yougoslavie, > coupés de la « mère patrie » albanaise isolée par la dictature d'Enver > Hodja, connaissent un développement séparé. > > En 1968, les Albanais du Kosovo manifestent à Pristina pour demander > un statut d'autonomie. Tito qui craint une résurgence du nationalisme > serbe, accorde au Kosovo, en 1974, l'autonomie au sein de la > République de Serbie. En 1981, de violentes manifestations opposent à > la police yougoslave les Kosovars qui demandent désormais un statut de > République à part entière dans la Fédération. > > A peine arrivé au pouvoir à Belgrade M. Milosevic abroge l'autonomie > du Kosovo et supprime les droits institutionnels, politiques, > culturels et sociaux des Albanais. Sous la houlette de la Ligue > démocratique du Kosovo dirigé par le pacifiste Ibrahim Rugova une > contre-société se met en place avec ses propres président, > gouvernement, parlement, écoles, dispensaires... Rapidement, ils > proclament la République indépendante du Kosovo, envoient des > ministres représenter le gouvernement en exil et ouvrent une légation > officielle à Tirana. > > Mais M. Rugova est désormais dépassé par des éléments durs qui lui > reprochent sa passivité. En 1993 est fondée l'Armée de libération du > Kosovo (UCK) , qui passe à l'action terroriste à partir de février > 1996. C'est à la suite d'un attentat de l'UCK, fin février 1998, que > la police serbe a rasé trois villages de la région et a déclenché des > opérations de grande envergure. > > CHRISTOPHE CHICLET > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Dans « Le Monde diplomatique » > > * Chronologie : seize ans de répression > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/dossiers/kosovo/art/chrono.html > > * Singulière sortie du communisme dans les Balkans, > par Jean-Yves Potel, mars 1997. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/1997/03/POTEL/8020.html > > * Pour un règlement pacifique au Kosovo, > par Evgeny Chossudovsky, juin 1993. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/dossiers/kosovo/art/199306.html > > * Le feu sous la cendre en Yougoslavie, > par Catherine Lutard, novembre 1992. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/dossiers/kosovo/art/199211.html > > * Guerre sans armes au Kosovo, > par Marie-Françoise Allain et Xavier Galmiche, mai 1992. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/dossiers/kosovo/art/199205.html > > * L'affrontement vu d'Albanie, > par Odette Marquet et Christiane Montecot, novembre 1991. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/dossiers/kosovo/art/199111.html > > * « Différenciés », les Albanais du Kosovo, > par Antoine Garapon, novembre 1989. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/dossiers/kosovo/art/198911.html > > * Que cessent les vents chauvins, par Ismaïl Kadaré, février 1989. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/dossiers/kosovo/art/198902.html > > * Confrontation avec la vérité, par Vuk Draskovic, avril 1989. > http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/dossiers/kosovo/art/198904.html > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Sur la Toile > > * Kosova crisis center. Ce centre d'informations relate les > événements récents, heure par heure, et détaille les massacres de > Drenica. - http://www.alb-net.com/html/kcc.html > > * Koha Distore. Le site du quotidien albanais du Kosovo présente des > dossiers spéciaux sur la répression. - http://www.koha.net/ > > * Radio B92. La radio libre de Belgrade diffuse ses bulletins > d'information en direct, ainsi que ses archives, texte ou son. > - http://www.opennet.org/ > > * Kosova information center. Cette agence de presse albanaise basée > à Pristina fournit quotidiennement ses dépêches d'actualité. > - http://www.kosova.com/ > > * Kosovo et Metohija. Créées par le Mouvement de Résistance Serbe, > le Mouvement Démocratique et l'Eglise orthodoxe serbe, ces pages > présentent la vision nationaliste serbe de l'histoire du Kosovo. > - http://www.kosovo.com/ > > * Centre d'informations de la République du Kosovo. Ce site > nationaliste albanais offre des informations en français sur > l'histoire, la culture et les traditions du Kosovo, et aborde la > question de la purification ethnique au Kosovo. > - http://web.eunet.ch/government/ > > * De la crise vers une solution permanente. Ce dossier, rédigé en > novembre 1997 par des diplomates européens, présente la situation > des albanais du Kosovo, et propose d'engager une négociation > visant à restaurer leurs droits civils et humains. > - http://www.ceip.org/kosovo.htm > > * Yahoo. Dépêches d'agence couvrant en particulier les initiatives > diplomatiques américaines et européennes. > - http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/World/Kosovo/ > > * Comité international de la Croix rouge. Le CICR évalue ses besoins > pour une éventuelle intervention au Kosovo (en français). > - http://www.icrc.org/ > > (Tous ces sites offrent une version en anglais, parfois en > allemand ou en serbo-croate.) > > > > > +--------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Deuxième enquête sur votre lecture du Monde diplomatique en ligne > | > | Vous pouvez participer à cette étude, menée par Valérie Jeanne, en > | répondant à 44 questions sur notre site. Le questionnaire restera > | en ligne jusqu'à la fin du mois de mars. > | http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/diplo/enquete/question1998.html > > > > From gernot.kohler@sheridanc.on.ca Wed Mar 18 08:44:37 1998 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 10:44:27 -0500 (EST) From: Gernot Kohler To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: reorient global apartheid "ReOrient" (AG Frank, reading the synopsis circulated on internet) and "global apartheid" (term used by a small group of global apartheid watchers) fit together nicely. "ReOrient" can be interpreted as a critique of the ideology of global apartheid (critique of the superiority complex of the West). One element seems to be missing in "ReOrient", however, namely: Have Europen and Western nations NOT been *exceptionally violent* in history? (I am thinking of European conquests of other continents, Germany under Hitler, USSR under Stalin, nuclear overkill in the hands of USA and Russia.) I guess I am implying that the world economic system is, at the same time, a world military-political system where both dimensions are inseparable and influence each other. If there is no Western exceptionalism in economics, as Professor Frank argues, one still wants an explanation of why the West has been at the global top for the last little while. Exceptional brutality by the West is a possible explanation. How does truly globo-level historiography assess the relative militancy/brutality by the West? --gk From jsommers@lynx.dac.neu.edu Wed Mar 18 09:08:16 1998 Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:08:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:08:13 -0500 (EST) From: Jeffrey W Sommers To: Gernot Kohler Subject: Re: reorient global apartheid In-Reply-To: Dear GK, Your point is a good one, however, I think Japan's violent excesses of the 1930s and early 1940s suggest a regional model is not primarily causal in explaining brutality. Advanced capital accumulation in a poly-centric world system, however, might better explain the phenomenon. Sincerely, Jeffrey Sommers Northeastern University World History Center (http://www.whc.neu.edu) On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Gernot Kohler wrote: > "ReOrient" (AG Frank, reading the synopsis circulated on internet) and > "global apartheid" (term used by a small group of global apartheid > watchers) fit together nicely. "ReOrient" can be interpreted as a > critique of the ideology of global apartheid (critique of the superiority > complex of the West). One element seems to be missing in "ReOrient", > however, namely: Have Europen and Western nations NOT been *exceptionally > violent* in history? (I am thinking of European conquests of other > continents, Germany under Hitler, USSR under Stalin, nuclear overkill in > the hands of USA and Russia.) I guess I am implying that the world > economic system is, at the same time, a world military-political system > where both dimensions are inseparable and influence each other. If there > is no Western exceptionalism in economics, as Professor Frank argues, one > still wants an explanation of why the West has been at the global top for > the last little while. Exceptional brutality by the West is a possible > explanation. How does truly globo-level historiography assess the > relative militancy/brutality by the West? > > --gk > From 70671.2032@compuserve.com Thu Mar 19 11:03:16 1998 for wsn@csf.colorado.edu; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:03:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 12:59:01 -0500 From: james m blaut <70671.2032@compuserve.com> Subject: Reply to Gernot Sender: james m blaut <70671.2032@compuserve.com> Date: 18-Mar-98 at 12:03 From: jim blaut, jblaut@uic.edu Gernot: If we don't study history, we're doomed to endure it a second time around. The theory that Europeans are uniquely violent, or aggressive, or predatory, or acquisitive, has a long and sordid history. Today, if I'm not mistaken, most (not all) of the people who take it seriously are either (a) racists, who believe that there is something in the genes of white people that distinguishes them from everybody else and gives them an advantage in history and that something is a gene for aggression (etc.); (b) some Afrocentrists, who maintain that there is an abiding (perhaps permanent) contrast between the peaceful, sharing peoples of Africa and the vicious, violent people of Europe (occasionally, as with Bradley, this is tied to the the idea of the Ice Man) and this explains Europe's predation toward Africa. Some scholars opine that the viciousness may be very ancient in European culture and not something in the genes (I call this cultural racism). But the idea is a drearily old myth, unsupported by any evidence that I am aware of. The problematic is wrong. You search for some elixir that, swallowed before dinner, will explain the rise of Europe before early modern times -- in early modern times we have the massive inflow of wealth from the newly-conquered Americas and soon thereatfer from the slave trade and slave plantations, forces that some of us consider to be sufficient cause for the initial (1500-1750) rise of Europe. There is no elixir. Europe was behind or on a par with other civilizations until after 1492. Cheers and boos Jim Blaut From TERRENCE.MCDONOUGH@UCG.IE Thu Mar 19 11:10:25 1998 Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:36:32 GMT 19 Mar 1998 17:32:09 +0000 ([gmt]) 19 Mar 1998 17:31:46 +0000 ([gmt]) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:30:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Terrence Mc Donough Subject: more jobs To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Dear WSN, We have new jobs open in addition to the one I posted earlier. Best, Terry McDonough From TERRENCE.MCDONOUGH@UCG.IE Thu Mar 19 11:10:27 1998 Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:37:07 GMT 19 Mar 1998 17:32:44 +0000 ([gmt]) 19 Mar 1998 17:32:35 +0000 ([gmt]) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:32:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Terrence Mc Donough Subject: more jobs To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Dear WSN, We have new jobs open in addition to the one I posted earlier. Posting below. Best, Terry McDonough Below is a job listing for four new positions here at the National University of Ireland, Galway in addition to the one I posted earlier. The jobs are two year contract positions, but may become permanent eventually. They are located at a new "branch campus" type program in Sligo. The program is interdisciplinary and anyone hired will have a big role in determining the content of the degree and administering the program. The department is heterodox friendly, without being a heterodox department. Official literature on the post may give you the impression you have to be able to speak Irish. This is NOT the case. Anyone who wishes can contact me informally. More formal contacts are listed in the posting below. Terry McDonough Dept. of Economics NUI, Galway Galway Ireland Work 353-91-524411 ext. 3164 Home 353-91-555706 email: terrence.mcdonough@ucg.ie Contract Positions in Political Science & Sociology and Economics In connection with the BA in Economic and Social Studies at St. Angela's College, Sligo, applications are invited for the following two-year contract positions commencing in July 1998. One post in Politics; one post in Sociology and two posts in Economics. For informal discussion for the posts in Sociology & Politics, contact: Professor Chris Curtin Dept. of Political Science and Sociology National University of Ireland, Galway Tel. 353-91-524411, Ext. 2355. and for the posts in Economics, contact: Mr. Gerry Turley Dept. of Economics National University of Ireland, Galway. Tel. 353-91-524411, Ext.3095. The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday, April 24th 1998. For further information, contact: The Personnel Office National University of Ireland Galway Ireland From austria@it.com.pl Mon Mar 23 09:17:06 1998 Reply-To: From: "Austrian Embassy" To: Subject: Polish News Bulletin on widening inequality in Poland Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 17:19:43 +0100 This you could read recently in the excellent Polish News Bulletin, 19 March 1998 Poland's Social Structure: The Differences Will Deepen ======================================================= The coming to power of Tadeusz Mazowiecki's government in 1989 not only marked the political death of the communist authoritarian regime but also the beginning of fundamental economic transformations changing Poland's central command and quota system in the direction of a free-market economy. For enterprising individuals, those changes provided an opportunity for upward mobility, primarily by improving their financial status, the modern determinant of one's social position. For others, unable to adjust to the new realities, the changes brought a degradation in their social and material position. An analysis of the current social structure in Poland is presented in Polityka No. 10, which brings an interview with Professor Henryk Domanski, head of the Social Structures Department of the Philosophy and Sociology Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The most characteristic feature of the changing social structure in Poland is the dynamic stratification of particular social classes caused by growing economic differences between them, Domanski told Mariusz Janicki and Wieslaw Wladyka from Polityka. The very top of the social pyramid in Poland is made up of a very narrow group of the money elite –the Polish multimillionaires. They constitute only a fraction of a percent of Polish society. The second strata is made up of the class of businessmen and of managers of prospering enterprises. Domanski observed on the basis of relevant studies that, contrary to popular belief and to the claims of certain political circles, the post-communist nomenclature constituted a relatively small percentage of fresh recruits to the new business elites. The process of taking over lucrative posts in private business by the nomenclature is a fact but it took place on a smaller scale than in certain neighbouring countries. In Domanski's opinion, the primary criteria determining recruitment to the new financial elites were education, individual enterprise, and the choice of an appropriate strategy; in short–individual merits counted more than the fact of belonging to the nomenclature. The third class in the social pyramid is made up of a new type of intelligentsia. Member of this "new style" intelligentsia have proven capable of taking advantage of and economically adjusting to the new free-market realities. Below them is the vast middle class of small businessmen, white-collar workers, service sector employees and the old intelligentsia. The middle class is the broadest of all classes and the most widely stratified. In a broad sense, trained workers and farmers also form the lowest echelons of the middle class. As a matter of fact, claims Professor Domanski, the term " middle class" is not congruent with strictly class criteria but rather denotes a wide collective group situated between the narrow financial elite and above the lower class – unskilled workers, peasants who can hardly make a living out of farming and various under-classes, which are just beginning to form in large cities. In a modern society, members of the vast middle class are distinguished in the first place by their characteristic life-style and aspirations. Members of this class wish first of all to distinguish themselves from the lower class and they are usually guided by ambitions and aspirations to move upward on the social ladder. They fear a loss of their position and social degradation. According to Domanski, they differ from the working class in that they plan long-term investments. This forces them to economise on consumer spending, in contrast to members of the working class, who are more willing to spend their earnings on more immediate consumer gratification. Lacking the middle class's ambition to move upward socially, the workers have less motivation to economise. Who gained, who lost on economic transformations At the beginning of the 1990's, in the first years of free market transformations in Poland, small and medium-size businessmen gained the most in terms of improved financial status. This group was mainly composed of individuals who quickly took advantage of the new economic possibilities and set up private businesses, thus filling in the market niches left empty by the bankrupt socialist economy. Right now the financial position of this group is getting relatively weaker, in favour of managers and the new-style intelligentsia, embodied by successful professionals, who know how to sell their professional qualifications on the market. Compared to the times of socialism, the material situation of skilled workers has worsened. Before 1989, the pay of skilled workers equalled and even surpassed the pay of the intelligentsia. Right now the salaries of top professionals and managers are decidedly higher. Skilled workers also lost in terms of financial position in relation to medium-level white-collar personnel. In the 1980s book-keepers, inspectors, medium-level managers, etc., earned on average less than skilled workers. In the mid 1990's this tendency was reversed, After 1989 the greatest material degradation was suffered by unskilled workers and small landowners who cannot make a living solely out of farming and are forced to seek additional employment outside the agricultural sector. Members of these groups have little to offer on the labour market in terms of professional skills In the days of socialism, the natural correlation between education, the prestige of a given profession and the size of pay was obliterated in the name of egalitarianism, practically reinforced by the central command and quota system. In 1982, the aforementioned correlation was 0.12 on a 0-1 scale, whereas in developed capitalist countries it equalled 0.40. Since 1991, this correlation index has been steadily rising in Poland and at present it oscillates between 0.30-0.36. This large jump of the correlation index is a sign of genuine breakthrough in Poland where it is at last becoming profitable to invest in education and in raising one's professional qualifications. At the same time this trend deepens the financial stratification of society, but studies have shown that most Poles accept the positive correlation between education, social prestige and financial remuneration. The very bottom of the social pyramid is made up of the newly-forming underclass, a new phenomenon in Poland. According to Domanski, this new group cannot be classified as belonging to the lower class as its members live outside the labour market " trapped in a cycle of hopelessness and lack of prospect, of threat and pathology and of permanent dissatisfaction." The underclass does not vote and, remaining outside the sphere of politics, it is also forgotten by politicians until its dissatisfaction escalates to a level which threatens to erupt and to destabilise public order. Domanski predicts that the financial and social differentiation of Polish society will continue to deepen as an inherent feature of a free-market economy. In his opinion, social mobility in Poland will also become increasingly difficult in a market economy, which rewards professionalism and education. At the same time Domanski stressed that even in socialist times real social equality was a fiction. It is true that unskilled workers and hired agricultural workers, for example those employed on state-run farms (subsequently liquidated) were better off, but sociological studies show that even in those days the percentage of university graduates of working class background was much smaller than the percentage of graduates from families in which at least one parent had higher education. The strict relation between the education and profession of fathers and the social position of children has been manifest in Poland since the 50s and 60s onwards and is congruent with global tendencies.. (Based on 7 March 1998 issue of Polityka No. 10, p. 60) From Kim@uwyo.edu Mon Mar 23 16:03:38 1998 23 Mar 1998 16:02:42 -0700 (MST) (Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.995.52) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:02:14 -0700 From: Quee-Young Kim Subject: videos for classroom use To: "'WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK'" Listen, WSNers. Can you suggest some useful videos that would go well with lecture topics commonly associated with world system issues? I will be teaching a course in this area next year and I have some funding to purchase videos to go with it. Any suggestions? If I get sufficient number of suggestions, I will summarize them and post them on this network. Quee-Young Kim Department of Sociology University of Wyoming Kim@uwyo.edu From br00196@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu Tue Mar 24 10:09:04 1998 From: br00196@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 12:08:51 -0500 (EST) To: Quee-Young Kim Subject: Re: videos for classroom use In-Reply-To: That's easy! "Planet of the Apes" says it all... On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Quee-Young Kim wrote: > Listen, WSNers. > > Can you suggest some useful videos > that would go well with lecture topics > commonly associated with world system issues? > > I will be teaching a course in this area next year > and I have some funding to purchase videos to > go with it. Any suggestions? > > If I get sufficient number of suggestions, I will > summarize them and post them on this network. > > > Quee-Young Kim > Department of Sociology > University of Wyoming > Kim@uwyo.edu > From mkdorsey@umcc.umcc.umich.edu Tue Mar 24 13:46:55 1998 via sendmail with smtp id (Smail-3.2.0.93 1997-Apr-12 #3 built 1997-Apr-19) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:46:25 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Dorsey To: "Lists, Major -- Env. & Latin America Network" , FEMISA Network , "Int'l Political Economy List" , Radical Anarchy List , World Systems Network Subject: Environmentalism or Racism Colleagues, Today I sent this message--below--to as many list as I am on, all over the US and the world. Please do the same, if you support the following position I outline. Most sincerely, Michael Dorsey ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 09:02:00 -0500 (EST) >APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS< Environmentalism or Racism by Michael K. Dorsey, Director National Board of the Sierra Club **An edited version of the following piece appeared in February-March 1998 Earth First! A Radical Environmental Journal** This spring, the membership of the Sierra Club, the oldest and largest environmental organization in the United States, will be faced with an important ballot question on population policy and immigration, concurrent with the election of new members to the Board of Directors. Members will be able to vote on one of two positions. One position, argues for a "comprehensive US population policy." It made it to the ballot through the petitioning efforts of a small faction of Club activists. Supported by various right wing foundations and organizations--like Alan Weeden's Weeden Foundation and the National Grassroots Alliance, a group of "immigration control advocates" in Northern California--this faction argues in that a reduction in US population growth is only possible through a "reduction in net immigration". This position targets immigrants as the cause of our domestic environmental problems. The other ballot position argues if Club members and environmental activists really want to do something about the population problem then a truly comprehensive policy is needed. Such a policy addresses not only US immigration, but migration and the factors that drive it--the lack of economic security, human rights and access to adequate health care and nutrition. This meaure was placed on the ballot by the Board of Directors and has drawn widespread support of Club leaders, as well as many other environmental organizations, activists, scholars, and government representatives. In a political climate that blames immigration and environmental regulation for the nation's economic problems, the Sierra Club must recommit itself to defend the public health, the environment and human rights. Taking a position against immigrants can easily suck the Club into a growing vortex of fear, divisiveness, xenophobia and hate. There are many reasons why the Sierra Club should take no position on immigration. First and foremost immigration is only remotely an environmental one. Although patterns of human migration have environmental consequences, immigration - the movement of individuals across specific borders - in and of itself does not. No doubt wild rivers filled to the brime with toxic and solid waste. But do we blame immigrants or American chemical companies that amass numerous violation of Clean Water Act, not to mention try to abort reauthorizing the Act? No doubt wildlands have been spoiled by the never ending press of (sub)urban sprawl. But do we blame immigrants or American consumer culture? Environmental issues in the U.S. are inextricably bound to irresponsible patterns of consumption and poor resource management. Blaming immigrants will not solve our environmental problems. There's no doubt that Americans are making a mess. The U.S., with only 5% of the world's population, consumes 32% of the world's petroleum and plastics, and produces 25% of the world's greenhouse gases. Our 265 million residents produce more solid waste than the combined populations of China and India, which total more than one and a half billion people. It is, however, specious to consider this per capita excess as an argument to close the borders, rather it argues strongly that we need to change our super-consuming economy. It is patently absurd that here in the U.S. we can consume and destroy our resources like no society on earth, and then actually use that as a rationalization against immigration. Immigration is not the cause of sprawl. Immigration is not the cause of corporate pollution. Immigration is not the cause of phosphorous loading on Eastern Shore farms. Slowing immigration solves none of these threats. The numbers illustrate this further. Take the state of Maryland, for example. There there are 5 times more births than new immigrants to the state each year. Immigrants have substantially lower unemployment rates than native Marylanders. They have lower rates for welfare assistance and food stamps. And immigrant communities are getting recognition by state agencies for resettling and revitalizing communities in already developed areas, particularly in Baltimore City and the Washington suburbs. (An aside: Why use Maryland statistics? Well, why not? It would seem one arbitrary border is as good as another. Anyhow, national statistics are similar.) The Sierra Club's interest in population issues has been, until this moment, properly deliberate. The issues of global population growth and the environment are indeed serious and worthy of our venerable organization's attention. The Club is absolutely justifiable in its strong support for full funding of global family planning programs, for example. But wading into th issue of U.S. immigration - drawing the line at the U.S. border - is perhaps the ultimate act of NIMBYism. Environmentalists are fond of saying that pollution knows no borders, so it is ironic that some environmentalists would argue for greater control over those artificial political boundaries. Indeed, it smacks as elitist, imperious, jingoist, and paternalistic. But worst of all, a particularly unfeeling strain of racism lurks just under the surface. (Fortunately, those who are attempting to mis-focus our attention on US immigration represent a small faction of members.) In an essay called "Pulling up the Ladder: the Anti-Immigrant Backlash" the author, Doug Brugge says, "It is the issue of jobs and the environment that provide the right's anti-immigrant campaign its strongest entree into mainstream attitudes." And Brugge offers the Sierra Club's coming ballot question as evidence. Indeed, a quick check of the internet home page of David Duke shows that in the middle of a listing of horrifyingly racist planks on a purported platform comes the statement "I will fight to limit overpopulation and protect our environment by stopping illegal immigration and almost all legal immigration into America." The reality is that immigration into the U.S. in the 1990s is only slightly more in absolute numbers (9 million or so) than the immigrants arriving between 1900 - 1910 (8.8 million). On a percentage basis, immigration into the U.S. is much smaller now - barely one third of what it was back then. Furthermore, the current proportion of U.S. residents that are foreign born is only 8%, high by recent standards but lower than every decade between 1850 and 1950. The main difference? Today's immigrants aren't uniformly European and white. The problem with the immigration issue in a "population and environment" discussion is that despite the claims of objectivity, neutrality and the use of slippery-slope terms like "carrying capacity" and "quality of life" the fact remains -- population control always comes dow to which populations and by whom? The Sierra Club membership will be faced with a ballot initiative this spring that, if it passes, will oblige many to reconsider their membership in the Club. To date, already more than 100 Sierrans have already written to renounce their membership. More will follow, if the Club falls into the anti-immigrant malaise. What can you do? If you're a Club member and you want to keep the Sierra Club strong and effective--resist the immigration ballot trap by supporting thousands of Club leaders, including the Board, as well as many outside organizations and voting for a the Club policy that reaffirms a committment to addressing the root causes of global population problems. This policy argues that the key to working on population by protecting the right of all families to maternal and reproductive healthcare; empowering women; and addressing the root causes of international migration by encouraging environmental sustainability, economic security and human rights in all nations and communities. If you're not a member of the Sierra Club you can encourage members you know to vote against the anti-immigrant measure, or circulate this piece to further audiences. We must all be wise to anti-immigrant measures which are nothing less than a mean-spirited attempt at scapegoating and discrimination that will never strengthed the environmental movement. BELOW IS A PARTIAL LIST OF SUPPORTERS OF THE ALTERNATIVE BOARD BALLOT MEASURE A Partial List of Organizational Endorsers California League of Conservation Voters Friends of the Earth Communities for a Better Environment Pesticide Action Network, North American Regional Center Earth Island Institute California Nurses Association United Farm Workers Environmental Working Group Headwaters Urban Habitat Transnational Resource & Action Center Chinese Progressive Association Greenlining Institute Poltical Ecology Group A Partial List of Individual Endorsements for Measure B Hazel Wolf, National Audubon Conservationist of the Year Sam Schuchat, Executive Director, California League of Conservation Voters Michael Fisher, Former Executive Director, Sierra Club Dr. Owens Wiwa, international environmental and human rights activist Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth Richard Toshiyuki Drury, Legal Director, Communities for a Better Environment Monica Moore, Program Director, Pesticide Action Network, North American Regional Center David Chatfield, Californians for Pesticide Reform* and formerRegional Dir.,Greenpeace Carl Anthony, President, Earth Island Institute, and Exec. Dir., of Urban Habitat Bill Walker, California Director, Environmental Working Group Ted Smith, Executive Director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition* Josh Karliner, Executive Director,Transnational Resource & Action Center Johanna Wald, Senior Attorney, NRDC* Ann Notthoff, Senior Planner, NRDC* Karen Garrison, Senior Policy Analyst, NRDC* Joel Reynolds, Senior Attorney, NRDC* Gordon Mar, Executive Director, Chinese Progressive Association Leslie Lowe, Executive Director, New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Renee Saucedo, Executive Director, Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights* Jim Schwab, author of Deeper Shades of Green Mark Dowie, author of Losing Ground Mark Palmer, Earth Island Institute Senator Hilda L. Solis Senator Tom Hayden Senator Richard Polanco Senator Diane Watson Assemblywoman Deborah Bowen Assemblywoman Virginia Strom-Martin Assemblywoman Sheila Kuel Assemblyman Kevin Shelly Assemblyman Kevin Murray Michele Perrault, Board of Director Member, former Club President Tony Ruckel, Board of Director Member, former Club President Chuck McGrady, Board of Director Member Robbie Cox, Board of Directors, former, Vice-Pres. of Conservation, former Club President Richard Cellarius, former Club President Denny Shaffer, former Club President Richard Cellarius, former Club President Denny Shaffer, former Club President Sue Merrow, former Club President Joe Fontaine, former Club President, past Co-Chair National Population Committee ____________________________________________________________________ VISIT ME AT: http://www.coil.com/~roclarke/dorsey.htm YOU MAY EMAIL YOUR REPLY TO: mkdorsey@jhu.edu or mkdorsey@ais.org OR SEND SOMETHING VIA REGULAR MAIL TO: Johns Hopkins University Department of Anthropology 404 Macaulay Hall Baltimore, MD 21218 410-235-5570 FAX 410-516-6279 ____________________________________________________________________ From rhutchin@U.Arizona.EDU Tue Mar 24 14:18:45 1998 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:18:41 -0700 (MST) From: Richard N Hutchinson To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Climate change World System Network- Picking up on a thread from a few weeks ago, I'm sure some of you have seen news of the recent evidence for the likelihood of sudden global >>cooling<<. Yes, as part of the revival of catastrophism, we have to fear not only asteroids, but a sudden Ice Age. This is not in contradiction with global warming. In fact, it appears that global warming from industrial emissions may cause the shutdown of the Atlantic current, precipitating a sudden global cooling. (See Calvin for the proposed mechanism, which involves increased rainfall and melting Greenland glaciers.) I make no claim that this will lead to the demise of capitalism. But it is one more reason to >>actively hasten<< the demise of "expand or die" industrial capitalism. The articles I take this information from are: "The Great Climate Flip-flop" William H. Calvin Atlantic Monthly, January 1998, 47-64 and "If Climate Changes, It May Change Quickly -- Past warmings or coolings occurred in decades -- or less" William K. Stevens New York Times, 1/27/98, B9-B10. Richard Hutchinson University of Arizona From aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu Tue Mar 24 14:35:38 1998 id QAA06847; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 16:35:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 16:35:23 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Wayne Austin To: Richard N Hutchinson Subject: Re: Climate change In-Reply-To: Richard, On December 5th, 1997, in an interview segment called "Global Warming_A Corporate Perspective" on PBS, the following exchange took place between host Margaret Warner and Fredrick Palmer, CEO of Western Fuels Association. Margaret Warner: Let me see if I can find if there's some agreement. Now, the advocates of this theory say it's indisputable that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are up 30 percent since the pre-industrial age. Fredrick Palmer: Correct. Margaret Warner: And that the temperature of at least the Earth is one degree higher in the last hundred years. Fredrick Palmer: I'll accept that. Margaret Warner: You do? Fredrick Palmer: Yes. Margaret Warner: But then what you don't accept is what, the computer projections showing that this is going to continue and accelerate? Fredrick Palmer: In the last hundred years we've come out of a little ice age. And the middle of the 19th century was the end of the little ice age. We don't want to return to the little ice age. It's being caused by the fact that we're coming out of a little ice age. Margaret Warner: The overall theory of global warming is that because you have this buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, you're trapping heat. Fredrick Palmer: Correct. Margaret Warner: Are you saying then you don't think that has any impact on the temperature of the Earth? Fredrick Palmer: I think over time there will be a modest impact on the temperature of the Earth. I think there will be some modest warming. What is ignored by the scientific community...who talks about CO2 as a pollutant, is that it's not a pollutant. CO2 is benign limiting nutrient that for plants, agriculture, and forests, a buildup of greenhouse gases of CO2 in the atmosphere is something that should be welcomed and not feared. The impact will be benign in that we will have more productivity in agriculture; we may have some modest warming, but warm is good; ice ages are bad. Margaret Warner: So that's one reason, obviously, that your industry is opposed to the emissions caps that the administration - Fredrick Palmer: Right. This is a bad treaty; it's a bad theory; and it's a bad idea. The genius of the American economy is to take...fossil fuels and to convert them into electricity, for example, to power our factories, to give us the quality of life that we enjoy, to let you and I sit here tonight in this magnificent room with these lights on, to have this conversation. This is a positive good. Fossil fuels are good and not bad. We want to use more of them. We want to use them cleanly and efficiently, but more of them. They are trying to prevent a speculative bad fifty or a hundred years from now by eliminating something that is a positive good today, and we say that is profoundly wrong. Margaret Warner: Now, and they say on the speculative bad, they acknowledge that we don't really know how bad, in their view, it would be but that because carbon dioxide, once it's up in the atmosphere, really doesn't disappear for a hundred years or more, that by the time the buildup gets enough - high enough to prove it - it's almost too late to do anything, or it will be incredibly expensive. [...] I guess what I'm asking, why should the American people think you all are right about the future versus them? Fredrick Palmer: Well, we have to live our lives based on what's in front of us. We live our lives based on what we know, what we can see. We have to go by scientific observations. What they - they talk a lot about the precautionary principle in terms of changing our lifestyle today to prevent something their flawed computers say might happen fifty or a hundred years from now. The true scientific precautionary principle is this: All of the scientists that I have talked to agree that we are in-between ice ages. I debated a man on climate change in Florida last week. He said, unless we do something, we'll have another ice age. The only thing you can do to prevent another ice age is to put more CO2 in the air. The true precautionary principle is to let industrial evolution of humans continue on the path that it is in, to let our lifestyles develop so we have longer lives, more wealth, our health is better by utilizing fossil fuels. So we reject the theory. It's a flawed, bad theory. [Note: transcript was edited - though not altered - for relevance.] Andy From rozov@nsu.ru Wed Mar 25 02:50:28 1998 Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:38:43 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Nikolai S. Rozov " To: PHILOFHI@YORKU.CA, wsn@csf.colorado.edu, MILLEN-L@AMERICAN.EDU Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 21:58:32 +0000 Subject: testing of past prognoses Reply-to: rozov@nsu.ru SOCPOL-L-REQUEST@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu.nsu.ru, tff@transnational.org, Cliomets@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu, HTech-L@SIVM.BITNET.nsu.ru Dear Colleagues, One of my fellows Julia Wertheim is working on the problem of relation between social prognostics and historical theorizing. I recommended her to study first the destiny of past social prognoses (as far as I know they were done since mid-XIX, since 1920-s rather, and since 1960-s very actively). But here in Russia there is almost no literature on this topic. We would be very grateful for references on English-language papers and/or books with systematic analysis, comparing with real facts, statistics, and evaluation of past social prognoses(as well as technical, economic, scientific, political, demographical, ecological, cultural, etc.). Thank you Nikolai Rozov ****************************************************** Nikolai S. Rozov, PhD, Dr.Sc. Professor of Philosophy E-MAIL: rozov@nsu.ru FAX: 7-3832-397101 ADDRESS: Philosophy Dept. Novosibirsk State University 630090, Novosibirsk, Pirogova 2, RUSSIA Moderator of the mailing list PHILOFHI (PHILosophy OF HIstory and theoretical history). URL= http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dew7e/anthronet/subscribe/philofhi.htm ********************************************************************* From rozov@nsu.ru Wed Mar 25 03:09:58 1998 Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:45:09 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Nikolai S. Rozov " To: MMANNERMAA@finabo.abo.fi, soc-econ@unmvma.unm.edu, SOCPOL-L-REQUEST@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu.nsu.ru, tff@transnational.org, Cliomets@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu, HTech-L@SIVM.BITNET.nsu.ru, PHILOFHI@YORKU.CA, wsn@csf.colorado.edu, MILLEN-L@AMERICAN.EDU Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:48:10 +0000 Subject: testing of past prognoses Reply-to: rozov@nsu.ru Dear Colleagues, One of my fellows Julia Wertheim is working on the problem of relation between social prognostics and historical theorizing. I recommended her to study first the destiny of past social prognoses (as far as I know they were done since mid-XIX, since 1920-s rather, and since 1960-s very actively). But here in Russia there is almost no literature on this topic. We would be very grateful for references on English-language papers and/or books with systematic analysis, comparing with real facts, statistics, and evaluation of past social prognoses(as well as technical, economic, scientific, political, demographical, ecological, cultural, etc.). Thank you, Nikolai Rozov ****************************************************** Nikolai S. Rozov, PhD, Dr.Sc. Professor of Philosophy E-MAIL: rozov@nsu.ru FAX: 7-3832-397101 ADDRESS: Philosophy Dept. Novosibirsk State University 630090, Novosibirsk, Pirogova 2, RUSSIA Moderator of the mailing list PHILOFHI (PHILosophy OF HIstory and theoretical history). URL= http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dew7e/anthronet/subscribe/philofhi.htm ********************************************************************* From rkmoore@iol.ie Fri Mar 27 01:41:59 1998 Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:41:21 GMT Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:41:21 GMT To: Executive Director CPSR , evoy@cpsr.org, Al Whaley From: rkmoore@iol.ie (Richard K. Moore) Subject: CPSR guilty of censorship, high-handed behavior, lies, and cover-up cpsr-nii@cpsr.org, roundtable@cni.org, telecomreg@relay.adp.wisc.edu, CuD Moderators Duff Axsom Executive Director Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility P.O. Box 717 Palo Alto, CA 94302 Phone: (650) 322-3778 Fax: (650) 322-4748 Email: cpsr@cpsr.org Duff Axsom Susan Envoy Al Whaley Dear Mr. Director, This episode has now escalated beyond the category of "dispute between moderator and service provider" and it is definitey not a question of "misunderstanding". CPSR is practicing censorhip, highandedness, and putlic decipt and it should be ashamed of itself. You closed down the cyberjournal list (which had over 1,000 HIGHLY appreciative subscribers) without notifying me or consulting me. There were NEVER any complaints or concerns expressed by ANYONE from CPSR about the list. In fact Susan Envoy of CPSR sent me this message only last week ~-==============================================-~ Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:45:26 -0800 (PST) From: Susan Evoy To: richard@cyberjournal.org Subject: Re: cyberjournal message received. Glad to know the list is alive and well. I'll pass your message along to others ... Susan ~-==============================================-~ You simply closed it down without notice and then you began a week-long process internal to CPSR, discussing the fate of cyberjournal -- never once consulting or even notifying me. You then told me it had been closed down because one of my postings -- which Al Whaley (sysop) simply interecepted (and deleted) from the posting queue -- had discussed another server I use, and he -- without asking me -- assumed I intended to move the list. I did NOT have any such intention, and my posting did not imply I did. I am sorry, Duff, but your story does not make sense; I DO NOT believe you; I think you are lying through your teeth, and I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW why you closed down the list! If the issue was me wanting to move the list, then obviously you or Al would have sent me a message saying "do you want to move the list? what shall we do with the old one?" or something to that effect. By closing it down without notice, waiting a week to tell me, and then giving an obviously dubious reason, it is very clear that you must have some hidden reason for this action. You make the following statement: Our volunteer staff on the website had legitimate concerns about the activity on the list. I understand these concerns were stated to you in a series of emails, prior to my being informed on Monday. The truth is, Duff, that I did not receive a series of messages nor even one message expressing concern. Perhaps there were a series of CPSR-internal messages, perhaps regarding the political content of cyberjournal. Perhaps you thought I was copied on some of those -- I wasn't. Perhaps it is the _content_ of cyberjournal that is bothering someone there. It shouldn't - everything we talk about on cyberjournal is (was!) completely responsible, democratic, progressive, legal, and according to the highest principles our country stands for. If you have any reason to doubt this, the _least_ you could is tell me what your complaint is. I repeat that no one, not even as of now, from CPSR has expressed ANY concern to me about list activity. NO ONE. NOT ONCE. This has been a shameful and high-handed action by CPSR and by you personally. I urgently request that you reconsider this shut-down and I PLEAD with you to at least tell me what the motivation is, I can only guess. I shall not await your reply to begin actions to bring you and CPSR to account for this obscene violation of everything CPSR stands for. "Responsible" indeed! The 1,000 members of cyberjournal SHALL gather again, despite your SUPPRESSION of our Freedom of Speech & Assembly, and they SHALL let you know what they think. I would thank you to send me the latest subscription list -- mine is a couple weeks out of date. SHAME ON YOU. SHAME ON CPSR. Extremely Sincerely Yours, Richard K. Moore Wexford, Ireland; USA citizen Chair: Citizens for a Democratic Renaissance Editor: cyberjournal@cpsr.org Producer: "Globalization and the Revolutionary Imperative" mailto:cadre@cyberjournal.org http://cyberjournal.org --- BTW> to people receiving this list. If you have responsible comments you wish to send, phone, or fax to CPSR I urgently request that you DO SO and copy me. DO NOT SPAM CPSR. DO NOT INCLUDE A COPY OF THIS MESSAGE IN YOUR REPLY, IT IS TOO BULKY. RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF YOUR OPPONENT. RESPONSIBLE REPLIES TO THEM DEPITE THEIR SHAME. I would greatly appreciate widespread forwards and public media (newspapers etc.) distribution of this message. Those of you in Palo Alto, and those who are CPSR members, I especially hope will take appropriate and strong action. Please send me messages suggesting strategies and tactics to save CPSR from these high-handed anti-democratic elitist tyrants. Thanks for your attention. --- (message of reference) ~-===================================================================-~ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:46:30 -0800 To: rkmoore@iol.ie From: Duff Axsom Subject: CyberJournal List transfer Jim Davis , Andy Oram , Yves Leclerc , Heiko Recktenwald , Raleigh Myers , Valis Earth , Dave Guys <76032.3274@compuserve.com>, jslakov@TartanNET.ns.ca (Jan Slakov), Susan LaBarre , Carolyn Ballard , David Russo , Rich Walker , Carol Liu , Chris Thorman , gbreitbard@compuserve.com, Jessica , Al Whaley , aki@cpsr.org, ANamioka@ActiveVoice.com, duff@cpsr.org Richard: I am very sorry that my actions have caused you, personally, such great distress and inconvenienced any of the members of the CyberJournal List. Our volunteer staff on the website had legitimate concerns about the activity on the list. I understand these concerns were stated to you in a series of emails, prior to my being informed on Monday. I made the decision to continue to restrict use of the list until I could consult with the Board of Directors and with you. I regret that our communications were so flawed that you felt my request for information was not honest and was, instead, a plot against you and the CyberJournal List. This was simply miscommunication and there was no wish to restrict your "cyber-rights". I regret that you perceive it in this way. As you are aware, CPSR provided a "home" for CyberJournal as a service to you and the members of the list for approximately three years. I understand that you have now moved the list to another server and that it is a moot point about CPSR's role in this. It is clearly understood that you are the moderator and "owner" of this list. I will consult the Board of Directors of CPSR about how we can best close this unfortunate chapter on our part. On behalf of the Board and volunteers of CPSR, I certainly wish you well as you continue your exceptional work with the CyberJournal List. Sincerely, Duff Axsom Executive Director Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility ~-===================================================================-~ From agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca Fri Mar 27 08:06:19 1998 Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:04:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:04:55 -0500 (EST) From: Gunder Frank To: H-NET List for World History Paulo Frank Subject: Ken Pomeranz on population etc in China & Europe I always agree with Ken, but... comparing time series is always tricky, since one can chose begin/end dates to show virtually anything [as with statistics!] The nearly equal population growth betewen Eur and Chin that Ken mentions is probably true, but by starting in 1300 something, he includes the high European growth rate that compensated for the high/er European death rate during the Black plague [probably cause Europeans had less imuunity because they had been more isolated!]. If we start the comparison later - and more confined to the period under discussion about tech and other growth, then China wins hands down. eg for 1600-1750 [the famous 17th century 'scientific revolution ' in Europe] the figures in my book are China & Japan 90 percent increase India 89 percent All Asia 74 percent Europe 57 percent Europe's pop grew from 1400 rom 14% of the world total to 18% in 1600, but then it remained STABLE at 18-19% till 1750, and grew to 20% in 1800. Meanwhile Asian pop grew from 60% of total world pop to 66% in 1750. moreover, these 66% of world pop produced 80% of world GNP in 1750, while Europe's about 20% of world pop produced LESS than the remaining 20% of world output, since the Africans anbd American ALSO contributed to those 20 % AND HELPED the Europeans produce their share of that 20%. So obviously Asians were far more productive, and Chinese even more than that. All calculations of GNP per capita, percapita income [by Europeans like Bairoch and Maddison! who want to show that Europe developed on its own!!], nutrition, life-expectancy, etc. favor China over Europe till at least 1800. The whole European 'miracle' before that, is no more than a Eurocentric myth invented in the 19th century. The Landes book is being reviewd - also farvorably - in the NYT and WSJ and with claims that it represents some great new advance over previous knowledge. Yet Landes still claims that "obviously culture made the difference", and of course that claim is nothing more than the same old Eurocentric myth that has been disconfirmed again and again. It is sad indeed to see this old myth resurrected now as some new revelation, instead of abandoning it entirely and going on to do history "Wie es eigentlich gewesen ist - es gibt nur universelle Geschichte" as Leopold von Ranke correctly SAID [but alas did NOT himself do!]. Landes still SAYS the same, but also DOES the opposite. So did Bairoch in his 1500 page three volume 'world' econ hist published in May 1997. so far as i know, only Ken himself and me are even TRYING to do a GLOBAL job, which is the only kind that can tell us what we need to know not only about China but about Europe and the West itself. Witness that Braudel wrote a blub for Wallerstein's Modern World-System [still on the dustcover of my 1974 edition] that says "as historians know, Europe built a world around itself". Alas what historians know is historically wrong. He also said that "Europeans invented world history and put it to good use" for themselves. Well they did not invent it, but they did RE-invent it in the 19th-20th centuries, and they did put it to good use to bamboozle people, apparently still including Landes and De Long and umpteen others. Alas the 'history' they 'know' is historically totally COUNTER factual. It's high time to get on with the real job respectfully submitted gunder frank ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andre Gunder Frank University of Toronto 96 Asquith Ave Tel. 1 416 972-0616 Toronto, ON Fax. 1 416 972-0071 CANADA M4W 1J8 Email agfrank@chass.utoronto.ca My home Page is at: http://www.whc.neu.edu/whc/resrch&curric/gunder.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rkmoore@iol.ie Fri Mar 27 08:43:05 1998 Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:38:20 GMT Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:38:20 GMT To: philofhi@yorku.ca (philosophy of history), wsn@csf.colorado.edu (world-system network) From: rkmoore@iol.ie (Richard K. Moore) Subject: CADRE> Workshop update * Workshop Announcement * - please distribute globally - ~-===================================================-~ "Seeking an Effective Democratic Response to Globalization and Corporate Power" - an international workshop for activist leaders - *>--> June 25 July 2 - 1998 - Nova Scotia - Canada <---<* - modest fee including room and board will be announced soon - > Organized by: Citizens for a Democratic Renaissance < ~-===================================================-~ IF YOU ARE INTERESTED... If you are an activist leader who is interested in being a delegate, or if you are someone with special knowledge that would be of benefit, if you want to recommend a candidate, or if you want to be kept in the loop on developments -- please go to our website and press the "Apply for Workshop" button: http://cyberjournal.org You will be presented with an explanation of how the delegate selection process will proceed, and will be given an opportunity to send us a message with the necessary particulars. Sincerely Yours, Citizens for a Democratic Renaissance (CADRE) Richard K. Moore, mailto:cadre@cyberjournal.org Chief, CADRE Producer: "Globalization and the Revolutionary Imperative" US citizen residing in Ireland Editor, cyberJournal@cpsr.org "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead ~================================================~ Restore democratic sovereignty. Create a sane and livable world. Bring corporate globalization under control. * CITIZENS FOR A DEMOCRATIC RENAISSANCE (CADRE) * http://cyberjournal.org mailto:cadre@cyberjournal.org ~================================================~ From gernot.kohler@sheridanc.on.ca Fri Mar 27 11:21:48 1998 Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:21:35 -0500 (EST) From: Gernot Kohler To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: inadequate demand in the world system (Singh + Zammit) Here is a left-Keynesian view of global demand and employment: REFERENCE Ajit Singh and Ann Zammit, "Employment and Unemployment, North and South", in: J. Mitchie and J.Grieve Smith, eds., _Managing the Global Economy_ (New York, USA: Oxford U P, 1995), p. 93-110 ISBN 0-19-828968-5 Singh and Zammit analyze unemployment and underemployment in the North and South of the world and conclude that inadequate global employment is caused by inadequate global demand. They speak of a global "demand constraint", which they describe as "deeply institutional in nature" (p. 109) The authors call for three types of institutional/structural reform, namely: (1) "a new institutional and behavioural framework within the North"; (2) "within the South, a major change in policy direction"; (3) "(o)n the global scale, a rather different system of international arrangements between the North and the South."(p.110) Furthermore, the authors note that such reforms "will have to pay full attention to ecological concerns"(p.110). Singh and Zammit's left-Keynesian views appear to be quite compatible with Amin's global socialist agenda (e.g., Samir Amin, "The Future of Global Polarisation", _Review_ (Fernand Braudel Center, USA), XVII, 3, Summer 1994, p. 337-47) and the future world system as envisaged in Chase-Dunn, _Global Formation_, 1989. As usual, there is but one small question left: How can it be done? --gk From p34d3611@jhu.edu Fri Mar 27 17:37:56 1998 by jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 19:37:19 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Grimes Subject: FOREST BILL (fwd) To: WSN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:39:20 -0500 From: Nichols.Nick@epamail.epa.gov To: Narburgh.Kate@epamail.epa.gov, Crumbling.Deana@epamail.epa.gov, Allen.Ashley@epamail.epa.gov, Nichols.Nick@epamail.epa.gov, Oliveira.Beatriz@epamail.epa.gov, Dawn_Carroll@epamail.epa.gov, Deana_Crumbling@epamail.epa.gov, Kathleen_Dodge@epamail.epa.gov, Kelly_Madalinski@epamail.epa.gov, Carlos_Pachon@epamail.epa.gov, Ashley_Allen@epamail.epa.gov, Colin_Apse@epamail.epa.gov, Rita_Chow@epamail.epa.gov, Gordon_Hui@epamail.epa.gov, Jeff_Hunt@epamail.epa.gov, Erict_Levy@epamail.epa.gov, Jennifer_Browne@epamail.epa.gov, Kate_Narburgh@epamail.epa.gov, Meg_Victor@epamail.epa.gov, Will_Bowman@epamail.epa.gov, Elizabeth_Harris@epamail.epa.gov, Andrew_Kreider@epamail.epa.gov, Seung_Lee@epamail.epa.gov, cmonkman@jhuadig.admin.jhu.edu, lubna.alvi@snyder.com, bosskk@erols.com, quality@anoka.k12.mn.us, Fary.Jim@epamail.epa.gov, cfleming@agu.org, p34d3611@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu, vivian.newman@sfsierra.sierraclub.org, spugh@dri.mcgraw-hill.com Subject: FOREST BILL Action Needed On ZERO CUT - The National Petition Originally posted in IGC member conference: wall.events Date: March 26, 1998 Posted by: keats@teleport.com -------- "NEWS: ZERO CUT -THE NATIONAL PETITI" ---------- */ Hi Folks, Momentum is so key to success. It is imperative that the grassroots take the initiative NOW to move ZERO CUT forward. Thus, ZERO CUT - THE NATIONAL PETITION. The idea is simple. Spread the word far and wide. Print out petition sheets from email or from our website. Fill them out and mail them in. ALL you need is listed below. We can do this. We will save our National Forests! Thanks Joe ___________________________________________________________________________ _ ____ On Friday October 30, 1997 an historic bill was introduced in Congress by Republican Representative Jim Leach from Iowa and Democratic Representative Cynthia McKinney (4th district of Georgia). The bill is entitled The National Forest Protection and Restoration Act of 1997 (NFPRA) and is H.R. 2789. The bill calls for the cessation of logging on all public lands and establishes the Natural Heritage Restoration Corps to assist timber workers in distressed communities. It stresses the economic savings for taxpayers who have been subsidizing the forest industry and earmarks funds to pay for the costs of assistance programs for communities hardest hit by this reprioritization. The highlights of the bill include: * Preserves America's national forest heritage, protecting and restoring the ecological values of our federal public forests by ending the federal government's timber sale program on National Forests, National Wildlife Refuges, and BLM Lands. * Immediately protects all roadless areas by canceling existing timber sales in those areas. * Immediately prohibits all timber sales, cancels Salvage Rider sales, and phases out all existing timber sales within 2 years. * Saves taxpayers over $300 million annually. * Redirects logging subsidies to provide funds for worker retraining; and gives preference to displaced timber workers for jobs in the woods doing ecological restoration. * Begins a scientifically-based ecological restoration program for federal public forests * Redirects logging subsidies to provide funding to replace 25% revenue sharing payments to States for Counties and local governments. * Redirects logging subsidies to provides funding for environmentally sensitive non-wood alternative paper and construction material. TO PASS THIS HISTORIC BILL WE NEED YOUR HELP. LESS THAN 4% OF OUR NATION'S WOOD SUPPLY COMES FROM NATIONAL FORESTS AND WE LOSE OVER 300 MILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY! BELOW YOU WILL FIND A NATIONAL PETITION SHEET. PLEASE PRINT THIS OUT AND CIRCULATE IT TO CONCERNED CITIZENS EVERYWHERE. WHEN COMPLETED PLEASE SEND THE HARD COPY TO: OWF/WALL PO BOX 5878 PORTLAND, OR 97228 ATTN: ZERO CUT OUR GOAL IS TO GATHER 20 MILLION SIGNATURES. WE CAN DO IT. TOGETHER WE CAN SAVE OUR NATIONAL FORESTS. WE CAN WIN. NOTE** You may print a more graphically pleasing petition sheet by visiting http://www.orwildlife.org/wall-zero-cut-intro.htm ___________________________________________________________________________ __ We the undersigned feel that to save taxpayer money, reduce the deficit, cut corporate welfare, and protect and restore America's National Forests and our natural heritage, that the government of the United States of America should eliminate the commercial logging program on federal public lands and assist communities dependent on this program with economic recovery and diversification. WE STRONGLY SUPPORT: THE NATIONAL FOREST PROTECTION AND RESTORATION ACT Name Address Tel # Email 1__________________________________________________________________________ ___ 2__________________________________________________________________________ ___ 3__________________________________________________________________________ ___ 4__________________________________________________________________________ ___ 5__________________________________________________________________________ ___ 6__________________________________________________________________________ ___ 7__________________________________________________________________________ ___ 8__________________________________________________________________________ ___ 9__________________________________________________________________________ ___ 10_________________________________________________________________________ ___ 11_________________________________________________________________________ ___ 12_________________________________________________________________________ ___ 13_________________________________________________________________________ ___ 14_________________________________________________________________________ ___ 15_________________________________________________________________________ ___ WHEN COMPLETED PLEASE SEND THE HARD COPY TO: OWF/WALL PO BOX 5878 PORTLAND, OR 97228 ATTN: ZERO CUT FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT http://orwildlife.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------- Joe Keating (503)234-2613 WALL Hotline;(503)295-6828 OWF/WALL website: http://orwildlife.com "On to the next horizon!" From rkmoore@iol.ie Sat Mar 28 06:28:59 1998 Sat, 28 Mar 1998 13:28:31 GMT Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 13:28:31 GMT To: list suppressed From: rkmoore@iol.ie (Richard K. Moore) Subject: * The case of CYBERJOURNAL vs. CPSR is now resolved * roundtable@cni.org, telecomreg@relay.adp.wisc.edu, CuD Moderators Dear netizens, You recently were in receipt of a campaign message from me with a Subject something like: "CPSR guilty of censorship, high-handed behavior, lies, and cover-up" I am very pleased to announce that this matter has been settled to the satisfaction of everyone concerned. Cyberjournal is now back on the air, air which in-the-process has been much cleared. CPSR was NOT guilty of censorship etc. after all. CPSR is a fine organization, deserving of everyone's support, as I had always previously assumed. Instead, a sequence of unfortunate communication breakdowns occurred within the organization, breakdowns which ultimately created a wrong impression. This kind of scenario, I have been assured, is not likely to recur. CPSR and the Cyberjournal community are now restored to the harmonious collaboration that is appropriate to entities which share a common mission. To those of you who sent concerned letters to CPSR, I thank you for your support. CPSR, under the circumstances, will surely take no offense if some of you were embittered in your missives. In fact any letters sent were in support of the principles for which CPSR stands, and which they have not strayed from after all. Over and out, rkm From gernot.kohler@sheridanc.on.ca Sun Mar 29 12:09:05 1998 Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:08:59 -0500 (EST) From: Gernot Kohler To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: response to question/ how can it be done (fwd) Mitchell Gold asked me to forward his message (below). - gk ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:40:37 -0500 From: mgold To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: response to question/ how canit be done > ---------- IN REPLY TO: ---------- > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:21:35 -0500 (EST) > From: Gernot Kohler > To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK > Subject: inadequate demand in the world system (Singh + Zammit) > > Here is a left-Keynesian view of global demand and employment: > > REFERENCE > > Ajit Singh and Ann Zammit, > "Employment and Unemployment, North and South", in: > J. Mitchie and J.Grieve Smith, eds., > _Managing the Global Economy_ > (New York, USA: Oxford U P, 1995), p. 93-110 > ISBN 0-19-828968-5 > > Singh and Zammit analyze unemployment and underemployment in the North > and South of the world and conclude that inadequate global employment is > caused by inadequate global demand. They speak of a global "demand > constraint", which they describe as "deeply institutional in nature" (p. 109) > > The authors call for three types of institutional/structural reform, > namely: (1) "a new institutional and behavioural framework within the > North"; This must come from a change in the education focus - moving towards global education, and common core curriculum - While my friend Dr. Morris Miller, formerly of the World Bank suggest that this institutional change will come from the political process, I am much more certain that we need to change the basic education focus. Learning how to learn - THis will be the stepping stone to new institutional and behavioural framework, and I would not limit this effect on the NOrth, but this new educational paradigm will of its very nature affect the second point - policy direction change. These functions will and must happen at the same time. >(2) "within the South, a major change in policy direction"; >(3) > "(o)n the global scale, a rather different system of international > arrangements between the North and the South." This again will be a result of a change in the education processes. Education will definitely be the driving force, but it will not be a top down delivery system, but rather it will be a bottom up creation of a new educational paradigm out of the ashes of the old education system that no longer educates. The International systems arrangements will have a larger perspective than the one manifested to-day by the IMF and the World Bank with its limited Nation State perspective. (p.110) Furthermore, the > authors note that such reforms "will have to pay full attention to > ecological concerns"(p.110). This again will be the result of the education processes. Not meaning to sound as if all the answers lie in education, because that is just a word. We need to look at how we educate the human to-day - not through the eyes of CNN - we must learn to go on media fasts - to make distinctions between what we see and what others would like us to see. some ideas in this regard are contained on the website www.homeplanet.org - while still under construction, it has many ideas that follow along the solutions proposed. What is the relationship between: World Citizenship? Time? Money? and Sustainability? perhaps when Institutions are educated in the language around these notions the answer will present itself? I think so. ANd that is why I write this to you. Hopefully I am not jaded by my involvement in the process. In peace Mitchell Gold IAEWP WCC Challenge IPC 2000 > Singh and Zammit's left-Keynesian views appear to be quite compatible with > Amin's global socialist agenda (e.g., Samir Amin, "The Future of Global > Polarisation", _Review_ (Fernand Braudel Center, USA), XVII, 3, Summer > 1994, p. 337-47) and the future world system as envisaged in Chase-Dunn, > _Global Formation_, 1989. > > As usual, there is but one small question left: How can it be done? > > --gk From Kim@uwyo.edu Mon Mar 30 16:16:33 1998 30 Mar 1998 16:16:03 -0700 (MST) (Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.995.52) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 16:15:56 -0700 From: Quee-Young Kim Subject: RE: videos for classroom use To: "'WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK'" This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------ =_NextPart_000_01BD5BF7.211361D0 I have received several suggestions during the last week and I have compiled the list here. More should be coming. 1. Global Assembly Line. 1993. New Day Film 2. Hungry for Profit, 1993. New Day Film. 3. Who is Getting Rich and Why Aren't You? CBS News Production. 8/8/96 4. The Prize: The Politics of Oil. PBS series. 1996 5. In Good Hands: Culture and Agriculture in the Lancandon Rainforest. PBS(?) 6. Films: Amistad, The Battle of Algiers. 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Extremely interesting remarks on the crystallization of European culture at the time, in the face of Viking, Moorish, and Mongol (?) inroads, emphasizing the massive conversion to Christianity occurring so intensively during those turn-of the-millenium centuries. New to me was detail on the warrior / conquerer character attributed to Christ at the time, esp. in Scandinavia (analogous to militarization of deities in tandem with warfare and state formation in ancient Near East, Mesoamerica, etc. - but less well known to us here, I think). Only with the stabilization of the system ca. 1400 did this imagery give way to the more pacific model that is still familiar now. Cultural materialists take heart.... It sounds like something that would go nicely with eg Lynn White's analysis of the impact of technological change (with the stirrup the key to feudal military techniques and victory against the Arabs), not least via borrowings from... China. Apart from a classic piece by Eric Wolf of many decades ago, I do not know of a similar analysis/deconstruction of the rise of Islam (in response to Jewish monotheism cum Christian cultural/commercial expansion in the eastern Mediterranean). I would appreciate any relevant references (apart from the classic chronicles and cultural exegeses). Cordially - kpm _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. 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