From <@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU:CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU> Wed Jun 1 20:33:37 1994 Date: Wed, 01 Jun 94 22:32:45 EDT From: CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU To: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU THIS IS A TEST. From Craig=Harris%SOC%SSC@banyan.cl.msu.edu Thu Jun 2 03:56:26 1994 From: Craig=Harris%SOC%SSC@banyan.cl.msu.edu Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 04:52:48 EDT Subject: re: To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu CHRISCD@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu Wrote: | THIS IS A TEST. | How would I know if I passed or failed? Craig Harri From <@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU:P34D3611@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU> Sun Jun 5 05:46:40 1994 Date: Sun, 05 Jun 94 07:45:45 EDT From: Peter To: wsn@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Craig; Don't worry about the test. I'm suspect that Chris was just trying to see whether or not he still exists. -Peter Grimes From <@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU:CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU> Mon Jun 6 16:31:39 1994 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 09:08:31 -0500 Errors-To: ilasut@uts.cc.utexas.edu Originator: lasnet@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu Sender: lasnet@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu Precedence: bulk From: IFBEM@fpsp.fapesp.br To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Job Announcement (Please Circulate) X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Latin American Studies Network ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- JOB ANNOUNCEMENT (Please Circulate) The Fernand Braudel Institute of World Economics seeks an energetic, recent college graduate to serve for 12-18 months in Sao Paulo as INTERNATIONAL COORDINATOR. Responsibilities include: -Editing of desktop publications; -Original research on topics related to Latin American economics (Recent studies include violence in Brazil, health care in Latin America, corruption in the Brazilian Congress, and economic indexation); -Active administration of correspondence with U.S. and European members and sponsors; -Active fundraising; -Coordination of international seminars and conferences, in conjunction with Brazilian colleagues. Applicants must be native speakers of English and extremely proficient in Portuguese (preferably bilingual). Position requires excellent writing ability and availability as of January 1, 1995. Inquiries, including resume, writing sample, and a list of three references (name, phone/fax, address), should be sent to: Matthew Taylor Fernand Braudel Institute of World Economics Rua Ceara 2 * 01243-010 Higienopolis * Sao Paulo, Brazil Phone: (55-11) 824-9633 * Fax: (55-11) 825-2637 Email: IFBEM@FPSP.FAPESP.BR From <@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU:CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU> Wed Jun 8 14:08:33 1994 Date: 07 Jun 1994 16:06:43 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Hall Subject: FYI, tom, too late for me To: chriscd@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- From: IN%"mhurst@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu" 7-JUN-1994 10:53:22.17 To: IN%"ane@mithra-orinst.uchicago.edu" CC: Subj: "3rd Mill. Climate Change and the Old World Social Collapse" Return-path: midway.uchicago.edu for ane@mithra-orinst.uchicago.edu Tue, Date: 07 Jun 1994 10:41:13 -0500 (CDT) From: mhurst@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (Mary Hurst) Subject: "3rd Mill. Climate Change and the Old World Social Collapse" Sender: ane-owner@mithra-orinst.uchicago.edu To: ane@mithra-orinst.uchicago.edu (by way of cejo@midway.uchicago.edu (Charles E. Jones)) Precedence: bulk Announcment of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the "Third Millenium Climate Change and the Old World Social Collapse" to be held in Kemer,near Antalya, Turkey between September 19 and 25, 1994. The objective of the workshop is the state-of-the-art review of existing information on the sequence of climate changes between 3 and 5 thousand years ago and their impact on early civilation. The climate shift was marked by a large scale dessication in Africa, Middle East and India and by cooling in the high latitudes. The workshop is designed to bring in closer contact students of paleoclimatology archeology, prehistory and history and exploit the information found by these disciplines for the improved understanding of global climate system. For further information contact: George Kukla Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory RT.9W Palisades, N.Y. 10964 E-mail: kukla@ldgo.columbia.edu Phone: (914)365-8421 Fax: (914)365-8154 From INTT@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA Thu Jun 9 08:15:12 1994 Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1994 10:13:25 -0400 (EDT) From: INTT000 Subject: Stop War! To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu NUCLEAR CRISIS ON THE KOREAN PENINSULAR There are quite a few countries in the world that possess nuclear bombs or may soon have the bombs. Not to mention the big ones, Pakistan, India, South Africa, etc. are recent examples. What is this fuss about North Korea then? Because North Korea is dangerous and aggressive, proponents of sanction and "surgical" act would say. You wonder why North Korea is more aggressive than during the 60's, 70's, or 80's when it had staunch support from such powerful allies as the Soviet Union and China. The Soviet Union has collapsed and a barrier is built between North Korea and China, which has recently established a close relationship with South Korea. True the North Korea has massed 70% of its troops along the North-South boarders. But as Bruce Cummings correctly pointed out, they were there ever since the 1970's. Why suddenly it becomes an issue? But the proponents would argue, North Korea is a "terrorist" state and it is reckless enough to throw a nuclear bomb if it has one. Look the bombing of a South Korea plane a few year ago. Don't you get it? In the 1960's, Kumintang from Taiwan blew up a Chinese plane carrying a delegate to Indonesia with all the people on board blown to pieces. Only by chance, Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai was not on that plane. Without raising an eyebrow, the U.S. government continued to support its cold war ally. Of course this type of terrorist acts are not justifiable. But if you insist in finding a terrible act, it won't be too difficult to find any in many countries. Also in the 1960's, China was viewed by the U.S. as more "terrorist" and radical as it actively exported revolution. But even with the U.S. massive invasion of Viet Nam, China did not use nuclear bombs. Isn't it true that not long ago, North Korea made a friendly and compromising gesture to the U.S. by sending back remains of the U.S. soldiers died during the Korean War? How about nuclear proliferation? As I said at the very beginning, it is not just North Korea that may (may!!) have the bomb (and she is willing to talk about it). Thus the issue has to be resolved on a multilateral basis. Then why is this fuss? The U.S. government officials are reticent about the real motif. Formal officials are less so. Some are quite blunt. According to Lawrence Eagleberger(?), the former Under Secretary of State under the Reagan administration, it is Japan(!) and its nuclear armament that the U.S. fears. Japan has the capacity to produce the bomb but it needs an accuse. The U.S. fears that a bomb by North Korea will prompt Japan to go nuclear. But if this is a concern about Japan, why don't you engage in a direct dialogue with Japan. Let the issue be settled peacefully between the U.S. and Japan. By dragging Korea into this will only make things worse. Besides if Japan wants to find an accuse to go nuclear, it will find it. For example, recently, thousands of Chinese workers working in Japanese invested plants in Northeast China went on strike because of low wages and abuses. Just imagine that the Chinese workers had done what the Indonesian workers recently did to Chinese shop owners (killing them) and because of popular pressure Chinese government wouldn't be able to meet the Japanese demands. Wouldn't that be strong enough a reason for Japan to go nuclear? In fact, that's exactly the excuse Japan used in the 1930's to invade China's lower Yangtze River area. A sanction would enable Japanese rulers to suppress Korean dissidents (over half of the Koreans living in Japan are supporters of North Korea) who are a viable force for peace inside Japan. A sanction would enable Japan to expand its already powerful navy (as it has already agreed to join a navy blockade) while not eliminating the excuse for Japan to go nuclear. In the highly personalized U.S. politics, North Korea is nothing more than King II Sung and his family. North Korea is more than King's family. The blockade would only harden the North Korean resistance especially with Japan as part of the team, which committed horrible atrocities during its occupation of Korea for the most of the first half of this century and has not repented for what it did. For Japanese, the victim complex because of the use of the U.S. nuclear bombs on civilians has prevented them from systematically examining their war guilt in the past. Such an example is the resurface of people like Nagano, the former Minister of Justice, who denied that Nanjing Massacre has ever occurred, in which 300,000 Chinese were murdered. I'm appalled at the recent media worship of war, at discussions by the U.S. policy makers and advisers on "surgical" bombing on North Korea and even the use of nuclear bomb, and at the result of a poll which shows that 80% of the America public support tough measures against the North Korea. I appeal to the netters (and thus indirectly to the U.S. public and the public worldwide ) to stop this war mongering. You may transmit this message to any net you want. Tieting Su Department of Sociology McGill University, Montreal, Canada From <@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU:CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU> Thu Jun 9 08:44:26 1994 Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 14:51:24 -0600 Errors-To: gimenez@spot.colorado.edu Originator: psn@csf.colorado.edu Sender: psn@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Precedence: bulk From: "Daniel A. Foss" To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: dead-of-night marxist version of a pop-archeology scoop X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0 -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The following was part of an offline letter to a friend in New Zealand; it is to be hoped I'm not caught. The tale is told to illustrate the Marxist vision of creepy-crawliness of human[?] history, especially at the midnight hour: ---------------- begin inserted text ------------------------------------ The New York Knicks are in the National Basketball Association Finals, against the Houston Rockets. The New York Times found this of such major historic importance it ran an editorial coming out in favor. This is one way to run an Elimination Tournament. Cut to the May 1994 issue of Natural History magazine, on sale for $2.95 in better Long Island Railroad stations everywhere. "Tales from a Peruvian Crypt." Seems the looting of a Moche tomb provoked a crash program to excavate the site, and they have four "royal tombs," including the looted one, also three "badly eroded" pyramids, one of which is the Pyramid of the Sun, how do they know this. "As far as we can tell, the Moche warriors fought with one another, not against some foreign enemy. Once an opponent was defeated, he was stripped of some or all of his clothing and a rope was placed around his neck. The victor made a bundle of the prisoner's clothing and weapons and tied it to his own war club as a trophy. After a public parading of the spoils, the prisoners were arraigned before a high-status individual and finally brought back to the Moche settlements or ceremonial precincts. There the priests and their attendants sacrificed them, cutting their throats and drinking the blood from tall goblets. The bodies were then dismembered and the heads, hands, and feet tied individually with ropes to create trophies." This is sheer guesswork, based on the rule of thumb that whatever people are doing generally speaking appears entirely logical to whomever's doing it. You have one of these coastal Peruvian river valleys, each one separated from the valley to the north and the one to the south by infernal desert. A little state system arises not long after the people have learned how to grow Nobles; the Nobles then domesticate the people and live off them. The scarcer the agricultural land gets, the more Nobles must be grown to fight wars, in which it's the glory of the Nobles to get sacrificed when captured by the Enemy, as with the Maya, the Aztecs; this is almost as good as capturing a distinguished Enemy Noble, who is sacrificed with great pomp. "May he meet death on the battlefield or on the sacrificial stone." Finally, the unthinkable happens, one statelet unifies the whole valley, becomes a little World Empire unto itself. As it goes without saying that there must continue to be Nobles at all costs, and there is sunbaked desert to cross to get to the next valley over, and there's nobody there worth fighting anyhow, the Nobles make glorious careers fighting each other. Something like the World Boxing Association has become the government. Except that there are no Comebacks. No Rematches, no Grudge Fights, no Next Season. Everyone still in the game is by definition undefeated and untied, in more ways than one; losers are shown with hands bound while their throats are cut. What with polygyny, it should have been no trick replenishing the Noble lineages, each young warrior ambitious for a shot at the Crown. The bodies in the "royal tombs" are actually those of "warrior priests," at least two of them, and one "bird priest." The principal deceased was between forty-five and fifty, accompanied by one or two young women and a young man; also, lots of hands and feet. Just maybe, the big prize from winning a Championship Match was becoming Warrior Priest, in which case the incumbent's offspring and heirs were buried along with him and his accumulated trophies from repeated defenses of the Crown. This is an Elimination Tournament, and whoever survives to reach the Finals has got to be pretty good, defending the Title, who knows, once a year; lasts until he's too slow; the Challenger gets him. "Moche civilization collapsed suddenly, probably as a result of one or more of the natural cataclysms that periodically devastate coastal Peru-- earthquake, flooding, or drought." "[obscenity]," is my guess about this, since if any civilization is in a stable hierarchical holding pattern when this sort of thing, earthquake, flood, epidemic, drought, it's usually a case of, "Looks like the gods made lot's of work for you people, don't it," and there is damage control, with only slightly smaller luxury production squeezed out of maybe a considerably reduced underlying population. Civilization, the racket where one crowd does the work, and an entirely different bunch does the Civilization, goes on as usual. Like the Byzantine Empire after the Plague of Justinian in 542. Or, further back, the rebuilding of the Minoan Palaces after the Thera tidal wave in what-was-it 1627 BC. It's probably something more indirect: Catastrophes can cause gods to gets sick in the magic, if they weren't properly designed in the Cultural Engineering Department. The Moche maybe hadn't developed the theological sublety of a later god like Viracocha, with all the aspects and such, which can be self-contradictory, or look that way, even if you understand the category system, which I don't. One day some ignorant lout gets Possessed, has a Blinding Revelation, tells the masses, "Ya know what, the War God doesn't exist, these Nobles are completely Useless, besides which they are Expensive." And from the back of the crowd someone yells, "Yah, who needs Civilization anyway!" And somebody else says, "The Nobles is who!" And after a tough, gruelling Championship Season, there were too few Nobles left alive to defend themselves. Yet another try at Civilization bites the dust to Social Revolution, and so it goes for maybe a long time before you can get Sumerians recording, "When Kingship came down to Earth, the Kingship was at Kish." Or the Chinese telling how Shen Nung, culture- hero Emperor, gave rice to People. The idea in either case being, the State, out of sheer benevolence, created Taxpayers to support itself. ------------- end inserted text ------------------- Daniel A. Foss From pericles@astro.ocis.temple.edu Fri Jun 10 01:44:39 1994 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 03:40:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Daniel P. Tompkins" Subject: Kubrick To: wsn Listmembers might be interested in Terry Southern's hilarious but all too short essay on the making of *Dr. Strangelove* in the latest issue of the journal Grand Street (#49, 1994). He quotes Kubrick quoting the hated producer Mo Rothman: "The publicity department is having a hard time getting a handle on how to promote a comedy about the destruction of the planet." Columbia did all it could to sabotage the film until the Library of Congress named it one of the 50 best AMerican films of all time: then, Rothman appeared in triumph. Dan Tompkins From <@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU:CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU> Fri Jun 10 05:01:40 1994 Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 14:23:01 -0600 Errors-To: gimenez@spot.colorado.edu Originator: psn@csf.colorado.edu Sender: psn@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Precedence: bulk From: Andrew Sessions To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: India and World bank X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0 -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- From: IN%"budaraju@cae.Wisc.EDU" To: adve@cs.rice.edu Subject: ANTI-WORLD BANK DAM DECLARATION (fwd) Return-path: budaraju@cae.Wisc.EDU Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 08:05:53 -0500 From: budaraju@cae.Wisc.EDU Subject: ANTI-WORLD BANK DAM DECLARATION (fwd) To: adve@cs.rice.edu Precedence: bulk Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 18:28:51 -0700 From: International Rivers Network /* Written 6:25 pm Jun 1, 1994 by irn@igc.apc.org in igc:env.dams */ /* ---------- "ANTI-WORLD BANK DAM DECLARATION" ---------- */ June 1, 1994 Dear Friends, We are writing to ask the support of your organization for the attached Manibeli Declaration, calling for a moratorium on World Bank funding for large dams around the world. International Rivers Network's goal is to submit this declaration to the World Bank, the member governments, and the world's media with 1,000 signatory organizations as part of the campaign on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Bank. It is called the Manibeli Declaration in honor of the heroic resistance of the people of India's Narmada Valley to the Bank-funded Sardar Sarovar Dam, who today are facing forced eviction from their homes and lands as the waters rise behind the dam. We are asking that you add the name of your organization (but not the names or titles of any individuals) to the list of signatories to the Manibeli Declaration, and that you contact other organizations in your country who may support this position and be willing to sign on as well. In addition to listing the endorsing organizations we would like to state how many people these organizations represent. If appropriate, please indicate how many people or members of the community are represented by your organization. We plan to release the declaration Wednesday, June 15, so please respond before then. There are a number of ways you can communicate your response to this appeal directly to Leonard in the Berkeley IRN office: by fax to 1-510-848-1008; by telephone to 1-510-848-1155; by Email to "leonardirn@igc.apc.org"; and by post to IRN, 1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley CA 94703 USA. If you would like more information on the positions taken in the Manibeli Declaration IRN would be very glad to provide detailed background materials. Thank you for considering this appeal, we look forward to your response. Sincerely, Leonard Sklar Research Director ------------------------------------------------------- MANIBELI DECLARATION* Calling for a Moratorium on World Bank** Funding of Large Dams June, 1994 * In honor of the heroic resistance by the people of the village of Manibeli and others in India's Narmada Valley to the World Bank-funded Sardar Sarovar Dam, and of the millions of reservoir refugees around the world. At this moment the people of Manibeli face forced eviction and flooding of their lands. ** "World Bank" includes International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), International Development Association (IDA), International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA). WHEREAS: 1 The World Bank is the greatest single source of funds for large dam construction, having provided more than US$50 billion (1992 dollars) for construction of more than 500 large dams in 92 countries. Despite this enormous investment, no independent analysis or evidence exists to demonstrate that the financial, social and environmental costs were justified by the benefits realized; 2 Since 1948, the World Bank has financed large dam projects which have forcibly displaced on the order of 10 million people from their homes and lands. The Bank's own 1994 "Resettlement and Development" review admits that the vast majority of women, men and children evicted by Bank-funded projects never regained their former incomes nor received any direct benefits from the dams for which they were forced to sacrifice their homes and lands. The Bank has consistently failed to implement and enforce its own policy on forced resettlement, first established in 1980, and despite several policy reviews the Bank has no plans to fundamentally change its approach to forced resettlement; 3 The World Bank is planning to fund over the next three years 18 large dam projects which will forcibly displace another 450,000 people, without any credible guarantee that its policy on resettlement will be enforced. Meanwhile the Bank has no plans to properly compensate and rehabilitate the millions displaced by past Bank-funded dam projects, including populations displaced since 1980 in violation of the Bank's policy; 4 World Bank-funded large dams have had extensive negative environmental impacts, destroying forests, wetlands, fisheries, habitat for threatened and endangered species, and increasing the spread of waterborne diseases; 5 The environmental and social costs of World Bank- funded large dams, in terms of people forced from their homes, destruction of forests and fisheries, and spread of waterborne diseases, have fallen disproportionately on women, indigenous communities, tribal peoples and the poorest and most marginalized sectors of the population. This is in direct contradiction to the World Bank's often-stated "overarching objective of alleviating poverty;" 6 The World Bank has prioritized lending for large dams which provide electricity to trans-national industry and to urban elites, and irrigation water supply for export-oriented agriculture, neglecting the most pressing needs of the rural poor and other disadvantaged groups. The Bank has provided $8.3 billion (1992 dollars) for large dams through the International Development Association (IDA), the "soft" credit window which is supposed to aid the poorest populations in developing countries; 7 The World Bank has tolerated and thus contributed to gross violations of human rights by governments in the process of implementing Bank-funded large dams, including arbitrary arrests, beatings, rapes, and shootings of peaceful demonstrators. Many Bank- funded large dams projects cannot be implemented without gross violations of human rights because affected communities inevitably resist the imposition of projects so harmful to their interests; 8 The World Bank plans, designs, funds, and monitors the construction of large dams in a secretive and unaccountable manner, imposing projects without meaningful consultation or participation by the communities affected, often denying access to information even to local governments in the areas affected; 9 The World Bank has consistently ignored cost-effective and environmentally and socially sound alternatives to large dams, including wind, solar and biomass energy sources, energy demand management, irrigation rehabilitation, efficiency improvements and rainwater harvesting, and non-structural flood management. The Bank has even convinced governments to accept loans for large dams when more cost-effective and less destructive alternative plans existed, as may be the case again with the Arun III project in Nepal; 10 The economic analyses on which the World Bank bases its decisions to fund large dams fail to apply the lessons learned from the poor record of past Bank- funded dams, underestimating the potential for delays and cost over-runs. Project appraisals typically are based on unrealistically optimistic assumptions about project performance, and fail to account for the direct and indirect costs of negative environmental and social impacts. The Bank's own 1992 portfolio review admits that project appraisals are treated as "marketing devices" which fail to establish that projects are in the public interest; 11 The primary beneficiaries of procurement contracts for World Bank-funded large dams have been consultants, manufacturers and contractors based in the donor countries, who profit while citizens of the borrowing countries are burdened by debt and the destructive economic, environmental and social impacts of the large dams themselves. The Bank has consistently failed to build local capacity and expertise, promoting dependency instead; 12 World Bank-funded large dams have flooded cultural monuments, religious and sacred sites, and national parks and other wildlife sanctuaries; 13 In its lending for large dams the World Bank has tolerated and thus condoned theft of funds supplied by the Bank, often by corrupt military and undemocratic regimes, and has often made additional loans to cover cost-over-runs brought on by what the Bank refers to as "rent seeking behavior." Examples include Yacyreta Dam in Argentina and Chixoy Dam in Guatemala; 14 The World Bank has consistently violated its policy on environmental assessment, and has allowed environmental assessments to be produced by project promoters and used to justify prior decisions to proceed with destructive large dam projects. 15 The World Bank has never addressed in policy, research, or project planning documents, the decommissioning of large dams after their useful lifetime has expired due to reservoir sedimentation and physical deterioration; 16 The World Bank has never properly assessed its record of funding large dams and has no mechanism for measuring the actual long-term costs and benefits of the large dams it funds; 17 Throughout its involvement in the Sardar Sarovar Dam in India's Narmada Valley, a world-wide symbol of destructive development, the World Bank has consistently ignored its own policy guidelines regarding resettlement and environmental assessment, and attempted to cover-up the conclusions of the severely critical official independent review, the Morse Report. With the ongoing forcible evictions and flooding of tribal lands, the Bank bears direct legal and moral responsibility for the human rights abuses taking place in the Narmada Valley. THEREFORE, the undersigned organizations: * CONCLUDE that the World Bank has to date been unwilling and incapable of reforming its lending for large dams; and * CALL for an immediate moratorium on all World Bank funding of large dams including all projects currently in the funding pipeline, until: 1 The World Bank establishes a fund to provide reparations to the people forcibly evicted from their homes and lands by Bank-funded large dams without adequate compensation and rehabilitation. The fund should be administered by a transparent and accountable institution completely independent of the Bank and should provide funds to communities affected by Bank-funded large dams to prepare reparations claims; 2 The World Bank strengthens its policies and operational practices to guarantee that no large dam projects which require forced resettlement will be funded in countries that do not have policies and legal frameworks in place to assure restoration of the living standards of displaced peoples. Furthermore, communities to be displaced must be involved throughout the identification, design, implementation and monitoring of the projects, and give their informed consent before the project can be implemented; 3 The World Bank commissions, reviews, and implements the recommendations of an independent comprehensive review of all Bank-funded large dam projects to establish the actual costs, including direct and indirect economic, environmental and social costs, and the actually realized benefits of each project. The review should evaluate the degree to which project appraisals erred in estimating costs and benefits, identify specific violations of Bank policies and staff responsible, and address opportunity costs of not supporting project alternatives. The review must be conducted by individuals completely independent of the Bank without any stake in the outcome of the review. 4 The World Bank cancels the debt owed for large dam projects in which the economic, environmental and social costs are found to outweigh the realized benefits; 5 The World Bank develops new project appraisal techniques to assure that estimates of the costs and benefits, risks and impacts, of large dams under consideration are rigorously based on the actual experience with past Bank-funded large dams; 6 The World Bank requires that any large dam under consideration be a necessary part of a locally -approved comprehensive river basin management plan, and that the project be a last resort after all less damaging and costly alternatives for flood management, transportation, water supply, irrigation and power supply are exhausted; 7 The World Bank makes all information on large dam projects, including past and current projects and projects under consideration, freely available to the public; 8 The World Bank requires independent monitoring and evaluation of preparation of large dam projects and systematic monitoring and auditing of project implementation, by persons outside the Bank and with no stake in the outcome of the project; 9 A formal decision is taken by the Bank to permanently halt all funding of large dams through the International Development Association (IDA), funding which is inconsistent with the IDA-10 donor's agreement. Endorsed by: ----------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To submit an article to the India Alert India Alert-Madison Mailing List, address it to: P.O. Box 1, Union South ia-submit@nacho.cs.wisc.edu Madison, WI 53706 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From pericles@astro.ocis.temple.edu Tue Jun 14 07:59:30 MDT 1994 >From pericles@astro.ocis.temple.edu Tue Jun 14 07:59:29 1994 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 09:49:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Daniel P. Tompkins" Subject: Mutual Funds To: wsn Today's Wall St Journal has a very interesting page one article, "Market Forces. Some Mutual Funds Wield Growing Clout in Developing Nations." The point is that mutual funds now have so much money invested in places like Mexico and Turkey that they command tremendous influence with local officials and can dictate state policies, with the threat to pull their investments out if they aren't followed. In Mexico, Fidelity et al told Ortiz to curb the peso devaluation, assure investors against currency losse, to allow banks to increase foreign currency liabilities, to issue long term bonds with devaluation insurance, and buy pesos to push the currency up--using central bank reserves. In Turkey, the stock market has fallen 60% in the first quarter as mutual funds have pulled out. Etc. etc. I spent four years in a library where the central memorable decoration was Orozco's great painting of an American capitalist killing Mexicans midst a pile of coins. That image comes to mind. It would be hard to argue that investment doesn't also bring benefits of some sort, but there seems to be tremendous danger in a system like this. I wonder if there is good research being done on it: it's different from older systems in which US capital was invested in local commodity production, and thus was at least for a while imbedded in an economy. Now the money can be pulled out in a flash. Pardon any naivete in the above; this isn't my field. Dan Tompkins From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Tue Jun 14 08:42:23 MDT 1994 >From leden@ccs.carleton.ca Tue Jun 14 08:42:19 1994 From: leden@ccs.carleton.ca (Lorraine Eden) Subject: Re: looking for ISA panel participants To: ipe@csf.colorado.edu (IPEnet), isafp@csf.colorado.edu (Foreign Policy Section of ISA Network), wsn@csf.colorado.edu (World Historical Systems Network), pew@csf.colorado.edu (PEW electronic email network) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 94 10:42:07 EDT Gary Sagiv asked me to put this on the nets for him. Lorraine Eden, IPE Section Chair, ISA Gary J. Sagiv writes: > Date: Sun, 05 Jun 94 13:18:28 IST > From: "Gary J. Sagiv" > Subject: Re: IPE/ISS standing groups and working panels > To: Lorraine Eden > > I am interested in delivering a paper dealing with the role of the IPE in Ameri > can Foreign Policy. Most likely I will use a case study or two, Grenada, South > Africa or Iraq. If you think that anyone will be interested in forming a pane > l dealing with this topic, please let me know. > > Sincerely > > Gary J. Sagiv > Dept. of Political Science > University of Haifa > Haifa, Israel > Bitnet: G.SAGIV at HAIFAUVM > -- ------------- Lorraine Eden Professor of International Affairs The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 CANADA Phone 613-788-2600x6661 Fax 613-788-2889 Email leden@ccs.carleton.ca From dhenwood@panix.com Tue Jun 14 09:32:41 MDT 1994 >From dhenwood@panix.com Tue Jun 14 09:32:40 1994 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 11:32:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Henwood Subject: Re: Mutual Funds To: "Daniel P. Tompkins" Cc: Multiple recipients of list These "country funds" have in many cases been put together with the assistance of the World Bank's private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation. Such floods of foreign portfolio (security, as opposed to direct, in real things) investment are hardly unprecedented; Latin American bonds and shares were hot at various periods during the late 19th century and again in the 1920s. Frequently they defaulted and were then regarded cautiously. Now they are all the rage again. Their benefits are extremely dubious. South Korea has had minimal portfolio inflows over the last 20-30 years, and has one of the best growth rates (leaving aside the issue of the relations between growth and real development) in the "developing" world; Mexico has had massive inflows, and low real investment and growth rates. On a related topic, a recent article in the New York Federal Reserve's Quarterly Review shows that new share issues have had minimal impact on real fixed investment; they have been used mainly to transform ownership structures - from family- or state-owned enterprises to joint-stock companies, often with significant foreign participation. Doug Doug Henwood [dhenwood@panix.com] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Tue, 14 Jun 1994, Daniel P. Tompkins wrote: > Today's Wall St Journal has a very interesting page one article, "Market > Forces. Some Mutual Funds Wield Growing Clout in Developing Nations." > The point is that mutual funds now have so much money invested in places > like Mexico and Turkey that they command tremendous influence with local > officials and can dictate state policies, with the threat to pull their > investments out if they aren't followed. In Mexico, Fidelity et al told > Ortiz to curb the peso devaluation, assure investors against currency > losse, to allow banks to increase foreign currency liabilities, to issue > long term bonds with devaluation insurance, and buy pesos to push the > currency up--using central bank reserves. In Turkey, the stock market > has fallen 60% in the first quarter as mutual funds have pulled out. Etc. > etc. > > I spent four years in a library where the central memorable decoration was > Orozco's great painting of an American capitalist killing Mexicans midst a > pile of coins. That image comes to mind. It would be hard to argue that > investment doesn't also bring benefits of some sort, but there seems to be > tremendous danger in a system like this. I wonder if there is good > research being done on it: it's different from older systems in which US > capital was invested in local commodity production, and thus was at least > for a while imbedded in an economy. Now the money can be pulled out in a > flash. > > Pardon any naivete in the above; this isn't my field. > > Dan Tompkins > > > > > From chriscd@csf.Colorado.EDU Wed Jun 15 05:00:05 MDT 1994 >From chriscd@csf.Colorado.EDU Wed Jun 15 05:00:03 1994 Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 05:00:03 -0600 From: Chris Chase-Dunn To: wsn@csf.Colorado.EDU Subject: monthly reminder Wed Jun 15 05:00:01 MDT 1994 Dear Systemites: This is my monthly reminder of some of the listserv commands at your disposal. I have written the commands in caps for emphasis. These commands should be sent to LISTSERV@csf.colorado.edu UNSUB WSN <== two word command Most common mistakes: 1. The inclusion of personal names with the unsub request. 2. Punctuation marks near the two words E.g., "unsub wsn" rather than unsub wsn >unsub wsn rather than unsub wsn unsub wsn. rather than unsub wsn 3. Trying to unsubscribe from an (internet) .edu address when your subscription is registered under a .bitnet address. 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Chris Chase-Dunn chriscd@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu From INTT@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA Wed Jun 15 13:45:11 MDT 1994 >From <@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU:CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU> Wed Jun 15 13:45:10 1994 Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 12:23:24 -0600 Errors-To: gimenez.martha@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Originator: psn@csf.colorado.edu Sender: psn@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Precedence: bulk From: INTT000 To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Hegemonic Rivalry and Korean Crisis X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0 -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hegemonic Rivalry and Korean Crisis As Lawrence Eagleberger, the former undersecretary of State in the Bush administration, bluntly pointed out the U.S. concern that Japan may use the North Korean situation to go nuclear itself, you have to wonder: why is this "grave" concern about Japan? This has to be viewed in a larger framework and longer historical perspective. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war, people start to ask: what's next? Huntington speculates that future clashes will be between "civilizations" and he calls the US, "the leader of the Western Civilization" to stop the rise of other civilizations. (Huntington, 1993) Well, he is not the first one to call for a racial and "cultural" unity within "the Western Civilization". In a speech given at Leicester in 1899, Joseph Chamberlain appealed to Germany and called for "a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race" (Remak, 1967:33) and active measures were adopted to promote this "unity". For example, the Rhodes scholarships were established for citizens of Great Britain, the United States, and Germany. Despite all those efforts, during the First World War the Great Britain fought on the one side and Germany the other. What about the realists' "geopolitical and national security concerns"? You have to wonder why the U.S. has to extend its force thousands and thousands of miles away from its boarder to guard its "security", unless it is an empire. But it is not in the literary sense of it. During a talk at McGill given by a realist from the States, boarder dispute was named as one of the most important reasons that gave rise to major wars (World Wars). I asked him: "What is the boarder dispute that gave rise to the Pacific War between the U.S. and Japan?" The answer: "the Philippines." Well, let's see what General Macarther has to say about this. According to him, the Philippines is important because the islands "together with Singapore, form a barricade protecting the oil, rubber, quinine, teak, and tin in the Dutch East Indies to the south." (Manchester: 1978: 186) Let's follow the "Macartherian logic" (of course, he is not the first one to point out the link between economic interests and "security".). World System theorist have done by far most of the work in this area. Most studies from this perspective have so far concentrated on long economic waves and outbreak of major wars. How about economic structural factors? Economists and economic historians have pointed the link between trade blocs and major clashes (Arndt, 1944/1972; Condliffe, 1950; Hirschman, 1969; Kindelberger, 1973). Using trade as an indicator, my own research analyzes networks of actual trade flows in 1938, 1960 and 1990 (instead of relying on such professed policy blocs as NAFTA, EU, ASEAN, South Common Market, etc., etc.). The preliminary findings of my research indicate that the 1938 and 1990 trade networks are similar in significant ways: both identify major powers with competing spheres of economic influence in geographically localized areas. The 1960 network, at a time of stable U.S. dominance, looks significantly different. Specifically the 1990 network identifies a Japan bloc and a U.S. bloc overlapping greatly in the Asia-Pacific area and a separate German bloc. The 1990 structure is more like the 1938 structure than that of 1960. Furthermore, the 1990 structure resembles, to a remarkable degree, the "Grand Area" plan designed by the U.S. policy advisers and makers in the early 1940s. According to Shoup and Minter (1977), who based their analysis on Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) archives, as soon as World War II broke out in Europe, CFR organized a study group, working with the U.S. State Department, to plan what the world should be like after the war was over. The CFR analysis explicitly considered the relative self-sufficiency of the German bloc as compared to the U.S. bloc. The question they posed was: As the Western Hemisphere is endowed with abundant resources, if the U.S. were confined to the Western Hemisphere would it be able to compete with the German Bloc? They decided that Germany was better positioned than the United States because it could get a higher proportion of the materials it needed to dominate the world from within the countries it controlled. In order to match Germany, the U.S. needed to control the Asia-Pacific area as well. Accordingly, the Council on Foreign Relations, in conjunction with the State Department, started planning a "life space" called the "Grand Area", which initially included the western hemisphere and the Asia-Pacific area and later incorporated the United Kingdom as well. Shoup and Minter detail a number of steps which the United States took in 1940 and 1941 in order to increase U.S. economic leverage in the Pacific. These steps exacerbated tensions with Japan. Similarly, some years earlier Japanese military and industrial circles had concluded that their colonies in Korea, Taiwan and Manchuria were not enough to sustain a Japanese war economy (Barnhart, 1987). Japan aimed to create a "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" to provide for its economic self- sufficiency. The design of the "Co-prosperity Sphere" overlapped with that of the Grand Area and their interests inevitably clashed in this area. The conflict escalated into a full-scale Pacific War after the U.S. imposed an economic blockade to check Japanese expansion in the area. The most effective "weapon" in this blockade is oil as 80% of Japan's oil was supplied by the U.S.. Needless to say great economic, social and political changes have taken place between the World War II and the present. The question, however, is whether there have been fundamental changes in the world system that have changed its course and whether historical momentum is still reflected in the current strategic thinking of policy advisers and makers in the U.S.. In 1990, as in 1938, there was competition for both resources and markets, although in 1990 competition in Latin America and the Asia-Pacific (two important regions of the traditional "Grand Area") for markets was more important than for resources, as analyzed by Feldstein, Reagan's economic adviser and his associates (Feldstein, 1988). Since 70% of the growth in the U.S. economy occurred in the export sector, and since the Asia-Pacific area had the most rapid growth in production by U.S. multinationals, and since it is also one of the major areas absorbing U.S. exports, the U.S. is not likely to give up this market to Japan. At the APEC summit meetings in Seattle in 1993 and on many other occasions, Warren Christopher, the U.S. Secretary of State, emphasized that there is no region in the world that is more important to the U.S. than the Asian-Pacific region. It is understood that the major "competitors" mentioned in the Pentagon's 1994-1999 Defence Guideline refer to Japan and Germany (Layne and Schwarz, 1993). Krugman has pointed out the danger of that mindless obsession with confrontational style "competitiveness" (1994). Just have a glance at that literature: Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle among Japan, Europe and America; The Silent War: Inside the Global Business Battles Shaping America's Future; ...How to win the Geo- economic Struggle for Industrial Supremacy; ... How We Allowed Japan to Take the Lead; In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: The Political Roots of American Economic Decline; A Cold Peace: America, Japan, Germany and the struggle for Supremacy; The Highest Stakes: The Economic Foundations of the Next Security System; ... Contrary to these mindless "competitors", some concerned and good-intentioned engineers and scientists have been proposing global cooperation in many fields such as sharing of energy such as electricity. They have pointed out the technical feasibility in allocating resources worldwide by extending a global electrical network. This could (1) make the most efficient use of energy by eliminating day-night fluctuations; (2) solve the problem of lack of energy in many poor third world countries; (3) lessen the great pressure on environment. Can this be achieved under the present confrontational "competitive" system? In conclusion, the Korean Crisis should be a concern to all humanity (not just to Koreans) as it is closely linked to hegemonic rivalry which could lead us all to disaster. Should we just let "nature" take its course? By the way, I'm not a Korean. (just to answer the question raised by some netters.) Tieting Su Department of Sociology McGill University Montreal, Canada P.S. The following is a list of articles with detailed discussions on my research subject: Tieting Su. 1994, "Changes in Trade Networks: 1938, 1960, 1990". Economy and Society Session on "THE FUTURE OF HEGEMONIC RIVALRY: II", World Congress of Sociology Conference, Biefeld, Germany, July 18-23. (Note: There will be eleven papers on this topic in two panels organized by Volker Bornschier and Chris Chase-Dunn) Tieting Su and Dan Clawson. forthcoming. "Trade Networks: Enduring Realities". Sociological Inquiry Volumn 65, No. 1. Tieting Su. forthcoming. "Shengcun Kongjian - Liyi Jieguo de Chongtu" (Clash of "Life Spaces"). Ershiyi Shiji (Twenty-First Century) (in Chinese) Tieting Su. forthcoming. "Changes in World Trade Networks: 1938, 1960, 1990" Review Reference Arndt, H.W. 1944/1972. The Economic Lessons of the Nineteen- Thirties. London: Frank Cass. Barnhart, Michael A. 1987. Japan Prepares for Total War: the search for economic security, 1919-1941. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Condliffe, J. B. 1950. The Commerce of Nations. New York: W.W. Norton and Co. Council on Foreign Relations. (1940-1945). Studies of American Interests in the War and Peace: economic and financial series. New York: CFR. Feldstein, Martin. (ed.) 1988. The United States in the World Economy. Chicago: the University of Chicago Press. Hirschman, Albert. 1969. National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade. Berkeley: University of California Press. Huntington, Samuel P. 1993. "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs. 72:3 (Summer) Kindelberger, Charles P. 1973. The World in Depression 1929-1939. Berkeley: University of California. Krugman, Paul. 1994. "Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession" Foreign Affairs. March/April. Layne, Christopher and Benjamin Schwarz. 1993. "American Hegemony - Without an Enemy". Foreign Policy. Number 92, Fall. pp. 9-10. Manchester, William. 1978. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur. New York: Dell. Remak, Joachim. 1967. The Origins of World War I 1871-1914. Hinsdale, Ill.: The Dryden Press. Shoup, Laurence and William Minter. 1977. Imperial Brain Trust. New York: Monthly Review Press. From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Wed Jun 15 14:16:38 MDT 1994 >From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Wed Jun 15 14:16:38 1994 Date: 15 Jun 1994 15:18:32 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Hall Subject: Korea & Japan To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu While I find Tieting Su's musing interesting, I am wondering if he, or others, have comments [or new comments] on Friedman, George and Meredith Lebard. 1991. _The Coming War with Japan_. New York: St. Martin's Press. He sees the conflict in somewhat different terms. tom hall From CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU Thu Jun 16 08:05:28 MDT 1994 >From <@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU:CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU> Thu Jun 16 08:05:27 1994 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 09:54:25 EDT From: chris chase-dunn Subject: anonymity and refereeing To: systemites Dear wsn suscribers: I need some advice on the pros and cons of anonymous versus identified refereeing of journal articles. As you may know,I have founded the _Journal of World-Systems Research_ to publish original world-systems studies using the electronic media. Issues of the journal, produced semiannually at first, will be distributed free of charge via access to the World Systems Archive at csf.colorado.edu I want the articles in the journal to be first-rate contributions that have not been previously published. I also want to use email to facilitate the reviewing process. Here are the problems: 1. should I leave the authors'name(s) on pieces I send out for review or take them off? 2. should I leave the reviewer's name on review comments that I send back to the author or take it off? Please send your responses to wsn. chris chase-dunn From CHRISCD@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu Thu Jun 16 09:36:54 MDT 1994 >From dassbach@mtu.edu Thu Jun 16 09:36:53 1994 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 10:53:59 From: dassbach@mtu.edu (Carl Dassbach) To: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU (WSN) Subject: Re: anonymity and refereeing Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 08:07:20 -0600 From: chris chase-dunn To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: anonymity and refereeing Dear wsn suscribers: I need some advice on the pros and cons of anonymous versus identified refereeing of journal articles. As you may know,I have founded the _Journal of World-Systems Research_ to publish original world-systems studies using the electronic media. Issues of the journal, produced semiannually at first, will be distributed free of charge via access to the World Systems Archive at csf.colorado.edu I want the articles in the journal to be first-rate contributions that have not been previously published. I also want to use email to facilitate the reviewing process. Here are the problems: 1. should I leave the authors'name(s) on pieces I send out for review or take them off? 2. should I leave the reviewer's name on review comments that I send back to the author or take it off? Please send your responses to wsn. chris chase-dunn I have already reviewed some pieces for the Electronic Journal of Sociology and it was a conventional "double blind" - I did not know the author's name (although one can often figure it out by citations, especially citations of forthcoming works) and I assume that the authors did not know my name. I would suggest retaining this conventional format. As you know, the status of e-journals is already somewhat unclear and to depart from this convention might raise further questions about status. Carl Dassbach From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Thu Jun 16 10:28:14 MDT 1994 >From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Thu Jun 16 10:28:12 1994 Date: 16 Jun 1994 11:29:19 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Hall Subject: refereeing To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Cc: chriscd@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu I think Carl Dassbach as a persuasive argument. I would add, however, that an _explicit_ option for reviewers to identify themselves might be useful for two reasons: 1) some people, as a matter of principle give their names; 2) sometimes, when comments justify it, it is useful for author and reviewer to communicate directly. The editor must be the middleperson on this, and exercise some discretion. Another possibility given the $/gigabyte fig. is to do something like _Current Anthro_ and publish comments and rejoinder at once, although for CA I think that is done AFTER the first double blind review. No soc journal does this (I think). It a feature that makes CA particularly useful. Others might comment on CA process. Carl, what do you think. tom hall From Craig=Harris%SOC%SSC@banyan.cl.msu.edu Thu Jun 16 10:40:35 MDT 1994 >From Craig=Harris%SOC%SSC@banyan.cl.msu.edu Thu Jun 16 10:40:30 1994 From: Craig=Harris%SOC%SSC@banyan.cl.msu.edu Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 11:37:26 EDT Subject: re: anonymity and refereeing To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu chris chase-dunn Wrote: | Dear wsn suscribers: | I need some advice on the pros and cons of anonymous versus identified refereeing of journal articles. As you may know,I have founded the _Journal of World-Systems Research_ to publish original world-systems studies using the electronic media. Issues of the journal, produced semiannually at first, will be distributed free of charge via access | to the World Systems Archive at csf.colorado.edu I want the articles in the journal to be first-rate contributions that | have not been previously published. I also want to use email to facilitate the reviewing process. | Here are the problems: | 1. should I leave the authors'name(s) on pieces I send out for review or take them off? | 2. should I leave the reviewer's name on review comments that I send back to the author or take it off? | Please send your responses to wsn. | chris chase-dunn | Well, one option is to let each person choose. Thus, an author in submitting an article could ask for anonymous or identified review. And a reviewer could ask to be anonymous or identified. Craig Harris From RROSS@vax.clarku.edu Thu Jun 16 13:36:35 MDT 1994 >From RROSS@vax.clarku.edu Thu Jun 16 13:36:33 1994 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 13:59 EST From: "ROBERT J.S. (BOB) ROSS, CHAIR OF SOCIOLOGY" Subject: anonymous referees To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Dear Chris, et al, My first response, though still open to discussion, etc., is that anonymous refereeing is more likely to be candid, and the proces less politicized. As an institutional practice it did not appear gratuitously, and is probably a sound practice. Bob Ross From roper@csf.Colorado.EDU Thu Jun 16 14:28:33 MDT 1994 >From roper@csf.Colorado.EDU Thu Jun 16 14:28:32 1994 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 14:28:32 -0600 From: Don Roper 303-492-7466 To: wsn@csf.Colorado.EDU Subject: electronic refereeing To have working papers in the archives and to discuss them over wsn would be a great way to exploit the integration of electronic discussion and archives. One can then attach some of the discussion to the most highly regarded manuscripts, with replies and counter-replies, and that becomes the published refereed proceedings. ... don roper From P34D3611@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU Thu Jun 16 15:36:39 MDT 1994 >From <@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU:P34D3611@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU> Thu Jun 16 15:36:38 1994 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 17:22:02 EDT From: Peter Subject: Referrees & Anonymity To: wsn@CSF.COLORADO.EDU WSNers; My immediate response to the Anonymity question was to endorse those arguing for optional disclosure, because it empowers the direct participants more. However, upon further thought, I'm inclined to support the position that the "default" be mutual anonymity, subject to the decision of the editor(s) to disclose in particular circumstances where direct dialogue would be helpful. My concern is that OPTIONAL disclosure would tend, over the long run, to result in a pattern of favorable reviews being identified, while unfavorable ones would tend to be anonymous. MANDATORY disclosure would of course eliminate this disparity, but I fear that either of these two disclosure policies could potentially become divisive factors operating to accelerate & enhance the formation of opposing personal/political "cliques". -Peter Grimes From wilkinso@polisci.sscnet.ucla.edu Thu Jun 16 17:43:17 MDT 1994 >From wilkinso@polisci.sscnet.ucla.edu Thu Jun 16 17:43:16 1994 From: "Wilkinson, David POLI SCI" To: * World Systems Network Subject: Hall & Roper memos Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 16:41:00 PDT Encoding: 10 TEXT I second Tom Hall's suggestion that it should be permissible to publish comments and rejoinder. In that case, the referee should explicitly waive anonymity and permit publication. I also second Don Roper's suggestion. JWSR editors might take it on themselves to look at patterns of archive accessing and propose for wsn discussion the current and long-term most-accessed; and anybody might feel free to nominate any archive item. That kind of blend of order and anarchy seems about right. David Wilkinson From dassbach@mtu.edu Thu Jun 16 19:46:26 MDT 1994 >From dassbach@mtu.edu Thu Jun 16 19:46:25 1994 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 21:46:10 From: dassbach@mtu.edu (Carl Dassbach) To: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU (WSN) Subject: Re: refereeing I argee with Tom Hall that adopting a practice similar to Currernt Anthroplogy - published commentary on articles AFTER a blind review would be a good idea. Carl Dassbach From wally@cats.ucsc.edu Thu Jun 16 21:36:27 MDT 1994 >From wally@cats.ucsc.edu Thu Jun 16 21:36:26 1994 From: wally@cats.ucsc.edu Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 20:36:24 -0700 To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: refereeing my opinion is that anonymity increases efficiency and fairness, both with authors' names and reviewers'--the reviewer can always ask to be identified if she/he so wishes publishing commentary after blind reviews and the corrections/revisions they inspire is a fine idea From DFOSS@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU Thu Jun 16 21:56:10 MDT 1994 >From DFOSS@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU Thu Jun 16 21:56:09 1994 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 23:42:03 EDT From: "Daniel A. Foss" Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Subject: my soul warreth against itself To: World-Systems Network Planetoids, In undertaking to review the article it has fallen to me to review I committed myself foursquare full fathom five to what's akin to the agonies of the grading process during my days on earth among you. This-little-ID- number goes to Suburb; that-little-ID-number goes to Hell. How dare Them select to play God the least godlike, even human, of organisms! My own judgment is unreliable at soundest, as you know; of my many mistakes on Earth, only History may absolve me, as sooner or later in time my position will become True, in its turn, for 15 minutes, as has been foretold. And I shall labor upon this evaluation until its consensual soundness, to my satisfaction, has emerged; that is, I'll no longer believe a word of it. Let us resolve, comrades, comradesses, comrade-Things, from this time forth forevermore to demystify the evalution of anything by anyone for any purpose; and to this end I say to you: Nail me to the cross, the stocks, the whupping post, the post toasties, in full view of public scorn; I have nothing to hide but shameful loathsomeness itself. O great historical world-system, forgive thy servants the experts, the professionals, the Explainers; for they know full well what they do. Apersons. Daniel A. Foss From ABRAHAMI@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU Fri Jun 17 12:41:06 MDT 1994 >From ABRAHAMI@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU Fri Jun 17 12:41:05 1994 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 14:40:31 -0400 (EDT) From: ITTY ABRAHAM Subject: anon. and refs To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu My own preference, against the grain of most comments I have seen so far, is for reviewers always to be identified. This ensures, I think, sobriety and constructive input from them, pushes them to respond quicker than is usual and makes them publicly stand behind w what they think. Some of this comes from having been recently reviewed -- anonymously -- for an article in an edited book, getting a negative review, and then realizing from the tome of the review and other informal clues, who the reviewer was. He was one of the objects of some criticism in my article and clearly thought he could kill the piece without any public cost. Its worth noting that reviewers tend to be more senior scholars and reviewees more junior. Given the high stakes of contemporary academic publish and perish life, as much transparency and maturity as possible is seems only desirable. junior scholars are the ones with the most to lose. FInally, FInally, with regard to acceptability, starting an e-journal could be precisely the moment to move away from "accepted" norms, with very little loss. Innovation is more possible here than in a new hard copy journal--and should be done! Itty Abraham From ERCPTSC@grove.iup.edu Fri Jun 17 13:24:27 MDT 1994 >From ERCPTSC@grove.iup.edu Fri Jun 17 13:24:26 1994 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 15:24:17 -0400 (EDT) From: s_sanderson To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Organization: Indiana University of Pennsylvania I agree with those who are suggesting a Current Anthropology type of format for JWSR. Have double blind reviewing, and then publish critical comments along with the article Stephen Sanderson From cscpo@polsci.umass.edu Fri Jun 17 15:17:09 MDT 1994 >From cscpo@polsci.umass.edu Fri Jun 17 15:17:08 1994 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 17:16:59 -0400 From: "colin s. cavell" Subject: How should articles be reviewed? To: WSN@csf.colorado.edu On Friday, 17 Jun 1994 at 12:43:15 ITTY ABRAHAM wrote: My own preference, against the grain of most comments I have seen so far, is for reviewers always to be identified. This ensures, I think, sobriety and constructive input from them, pushes them to respond quicker than is usual and makes them publicly stand behind w what they think. Some of this comes from having been recently reviewed -- anonymously -- for an article in an edited book, getting a negative review, and then realizing from the tome of the review and other informal clues, who the reviewer was. He was one of the objects of some criticism in my article and clearly thought he could kill the piece without any public cost. Its worth noting that reviewers tend to be more senior scholars and reviewees more junior. Given the high stakes of contemporary academic publish and perish life, as much transparency and maturity as possible is seems only desirable. junior scholars are the ones with the most to lose. Finally, with regard to acceptability, starting an e-journal could be precisely the moment to move away from "accepted" norms, with very little loss. Innovation is more possible here than in a new hard copy journal--and should be done! Itty Abraham ============================================================================= Well said Itty. Regards, colin s. cavell ______________________________________________________________________________ Colin S. Cavell University of Massachusetts "There can be no perfect democracy Department of Political Science curtailed by color, race, or poverty. Thompson Tower But with all we accomplish all, Amherst, MA 01003 even peace." Internet: cscpo@polsci.umass.edu -- W.E.B. Du Bois Voice: (413) 546-3408 1868-1963 ============================================================================== From SOCTB%EMUVM1.BITNET@vaxf.Colorado.EDU Fri Jun 17 16:59:45 MDT 1994 >From SOCTB@EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU Fri Jun 17 16:59:44 1994 Date: 17 June 94, 16:27:12 EDT From: Terry Boswell To: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU2 I agree with Foss, double blind is best for this planet. That is what Foss said, right? Terry Boswell From dasmith@orion.oac.uci.edu Fri Jun 17 17:56:18 MDT 1994 >From dasmith@orion.oac.uci.edu Fri Jun 17 17:56:17 1994 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 16:55:58 -0700 (PDT) From: David Smith Sender: David Smith Subject: reviews and commentary To: world-system network Interesting that the most enthusiastic discussion on wsn lately is about how we evaluate each other's work... (but hardly surprising...) I like the idea of some sort of commentary format. It would give the "journal" a distinctive character and promote interesting dialogue that our "regular" journals don't encourage too well. But I would like to urge that this be separated from the actual review process. I much prefer blind reviews as the norm, with reviewers allowed to identify themselves to the authors if they wish and think it would be useful. I too have been the subject of unfair reviews -- but the way to mitigate that risk is 1) to be careful about who's selected to referee, and 2) make sure editorial decisions (especially with "mixed reviews" occur) are flexible enough so that inappropriate ad hominem attacks can be discounted. The commentators on an article might or might not be drawn from the confidential reviewers -- some may not be interested in participating in this way, and/or the editors may feel that some other folks could also write an interesting reponse. I won't even speculate about the relationship of my views and those of Foss. Dave Smith Sociology, UC-Irvine (Go Anteaters!) From WALLERD@UTARLG.UTA.EDU Fri Jun 17 19:15:29 MDT 1994 >From WALLERD@UTARLG.UTA.EDU Fri Jun 17 19:15:28 1994 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 20:14:04 -0600 (CST) From: "David V. Waller, UT-Arlington" Subject: Chris's inquiry about reviewing To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Dear WSN members, Chris asked that I post my private response to his inquirt about the review process for _JWSR_ to the WSN LIST. I'd like to add a comment to the latest stream about emulating Current Anthropology. There is much that would be positive in that development, yet, I fear that we might be doing too much too soon. I think we should concentrate on attracting attention to the journal from the mainstream audience. The technophiles will come to the journal anyway. We, er- _JWSR_, must get cited in the main print journals and mave the core knowledge producers contributing to _JWSR_. Once that is established then there will be greater degrees of freedom for innovation with the review process. This dovetails into the second question I asked Chris about, what happens to _JWSR_ if/when the internet becomes privatized and the pricing structures change. We should think about this issue to as it relates to the long-term viability of the journal. ---------Original message (with minor editing) below--------- Dear Chris, About the question of reviewing you raised on wns this morning, I'd like to suggest that the journal emulate the highest standards of the existing print journals because these, the electronic versions, are breaking new grounds and need all the reputational support they can get. I suppose one could state it this way, you are already breaking new ground with the electronic version so the norms of peer review might better remain stable. If this media becomes the success that its potential is, then new norms of peer review might emerge. By the way, have you encountered many conversations in cyberspace concerning the effect on the distribution of JWSR if the internet is privatized? If so, would you care to comment? Many apologies for the poor typing. Sincerely yours, Dave Waller UT-Arlington --------------end message--------------- More apologies for poor typing. Sincerely, Dave Waller UT-Arlington From DFOSS@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU Fri Jun 17 19:24:34 MDT 1994 >From DFOSS@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU Fri Jun 17 19:24:33 1994 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 21:02:16 EDT From: "Daniel A. Foss" Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Subject: what i said [?] To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK Must have been a great projective test. Terry Boswell takes it for a pitch for double blind. Dave Smith is for full disclosure, distances himself from whatever I said, no matter what it was. Which I figured as having been plain enough. Specifically, once I'd satisfied myself that the article I'm supposed to review was worth writing, I'll review it will full disclosure. Since the author's track record indicates that he would not write an article which colleagues would find not worth writing, then it must be worth writing, whatever my base visceral biases. Should nothing change after n-k+1 factorial rereadings of the article, then I say whatever i must, which must be wrong, with full disclosure, so that after the dead cats and rotten eggs have been thrown, the same mistake, ie entrusting an article to me for reviewing, will not recur. Apologies for the confusion. It should be prima facie obvious that I couldn't have said something so idiotic "in the clear" the first time; hence the bizarre style. Thank you for your patience and consideration one and all. Pleasant day, Daniel A. Foss From RROSS@vax.clarku.edu Mon Jun 20 13:52:56 MDT 1994 >From RROSS@vax.clarku.edu Mon Jun 20 13:52:54 1994 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 15:54 EST From: "ROBERT J.S. (BOB) ROSS, CHAIR OF SOCIOLOGY" Subject: internship on singlepayer To: psn@csf.colorado.edu, wsn@csf.colorado.edu, gross1@cc.swarthmore.edu MEMORANDUM Date: June 20, 1994 From: Bob Ross Sociology, Clark University 508 793 7243 fax 508 793 8816 To: PSN, WSN Subject: Paid Internship on single payer campaign There is a position available for a paid intern to help put an advisory referendum question on the ballot in an open state Senate District (now held by a Republican), in Worcester, Mass. The sponsors are a progressive coalition with labor support. Contact me at above phone(s) pronto if you are interested, or have a person to recommend. Salud. From INTT@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA Mon Jun 20 14:02:35 MDT 1994 >From INTT@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA Mon Jun 20 14:02:33 1994 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 13:42:13 -0400 (EDT) From: INTT000 Subject: re: Korea and Japan (I) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu On June 15, Tom Hall wrote: >While I find Tieting Su's musing interesting, I am wondering if >he, or others, have comments [or new comments] on Friedman, George >and Meredith Lebard. 1991. _The Coming War with Japan_. New >York: St. Martin's Press. >He sees the conflict in somewhat different terms. >tom hall I used to think Friedman and Lebard's book belonged to the "Japan Bashing crowd" because of my own "bias" towards best sellers. On re-reading the book, I found some interesting points and depictions of the U.S.-Japanese relation. I think the point about Japan's vulnerability in raw material supply is very well made. The book provides a quite detailed depiction of weaponry. The argument against the thesis that economic interdependence and integration make armed conflict obsolete is quite interesting. However, I disagree with the authors on some important points and think some important facts presented in the book are questionable. First, about some important facts: 1. The authors argue that the U.S. responded to Japan's invasion of China by engaging in boycotts and waging escalating economic warfare. (p. 11) From what I read, the U.S. engaged in boycott only after Japanese imperial troops moved south threatening one of the most vital raw material bases of the "Grand Area in Southeast Asia. (See for example, Arnold Offner. The Origin of the Second World War. New York: Praeger. 1975) 2. According to the authors, Japan has developed a clear Yen bloc in recent years. (p. 197) Some of the major currencies of the countries in Japan's trade bloc are not pegged to the Japanese Yen. Instead they are pegged to the U.S. dollar. Chinese Renminbi is such an example despite the fact that Japan is China's biggest trade partner. I should also point out that in my own study, China is one of the countries which belong to both the Japan bloc and the U.S. bloc. Secondly, about some important points: 1. According to the authors, the *cause* for the clash between the U.S. and Japan in the past and in the future is Japan's "economic necessity" and U.S. "geopolitical necessity". " Japan's search for autarky, for complete economic self- sufficiency, was understood by America to be a geopolitical challenge. This collision course, first undertaken in the 1920s, is one of the permanent and unavoidable forces driving U.S. Japanese relations." (p. 59) " Thus, the U.S., out of geopolitical necessity, had to destroy Japan's empire, created out of economic necessity." (p. 85) While I agree with the authors' assessment of the dynamic for clash on the Japanese side, I'm not convinced of the U.S. geopolitical reasons despite their lengthy discussion of the U.S. "geopolitical necessity" and the fear to be dominated by Japan. CFR's "Peace Study" group's Grand Area design and Feldstein group's analysis consistently converge on the economic motif of the U.S. in the past and at present. If there's any "geopolitical" concern, it is a concern about Germany, if "geopolitics" means contending for global political and economic hegemony which does not involve direct intense economic competition. 2. It is this analysis on "geopolitical concerns" that led the authors conclude the U.S. does not have vital economic interest in East Asia because it has a large trade deficit there. (p. 305) I have analyzed elsewhere (Su, Tieting, forthcoming. Changes in Trade Networks: 1938, 1960, 1990. Review) how powerful the trade deficit weapon is for the U.S. to pry open markets and how economically vital the U.S. policy makers regard this region. 3. The final point I disagree with the authors is on the Japanese economic expansion in the past. The authors regard this as a normal "development" process. It is out of economic necessity. This argument totally ignores the human cost of the process. Millions of people were enslaved, massacred (if you dare to resist that slavery or expansion) and killed in the war (including the ordinary Japanese). As recent as last year, a friend of mine visited a power station in the northeast China (Manchuria). To his surprise (because he thought that local people had already forgotten about the past), local engineers showed him a huge burial place for tens of thousands of labourers enslaved by Japanese utility companies. This is not confined to Manchuria. Ask someone from Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and other Southeast Asian countries who knows something about the past. This is also an important fact: Japan has not repented for what it did in the past. So on how many major points do I agree with the authors? .5. Tieting Su Department of Sociology McGill University Montreal, Canada From INTT@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA Mon Jun 20 14:02:53 MDT 1994 >From INTT@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA Mon Jun 20 14:02:52 1994 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 13:42:28 -0400 (EDT) From: INTT000 Subject: re: Korea and Japan (II) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu THREE LOGICS OF THE "NEW" WORLD DISORDER While commenting on the Friedman and Lebard's book, I did some "theorizing", of which I invite ruthless critique. It seems to me there are at least three logics that may lead to "hegemonic clashes" in the future. 1. Clash of "life spaces" 2. Rivalry for global domination 3. Imperial conquest (disguised as major power rivalry) 1. Clash of "life spaces" This specifically refers to direct economic competition for market and resources (the two are related) by major capitalist powers. As far as result from empirical research (my own network research combined with Shoup and Minter's research on CFR archives) is concerned, this mainly refers to the economic rivalry between the U.S. and Japan at present. During the World War II, this refers to the rivalry between the U.K. and Germany and that between the U.S. and Japan. As far as the U.S. is concerned, business elite may play pivotal roles in this process, as predicted by Power Structure theory. Business elite mostly act at "critical moments". In the recent battle for the renewal of MFN for China, 800 major U.S. corporations formed a powerful bloc and the victory is total. However, the opening of the vast market of China is only part of a U.S. strategy favoured by the business elite. A double- edged U.S. strategy to open the Chinese market (to compete against other capitalist powers, particularly Japan) and to support Taiwan at the same time (either to prevent the emergence of a "Greater China" life space or to prevent the emergence of a powerful "socialist market economy") is clearly elucidated by the Editor of the Forbes magazine in an issue in spring this year. Thus the U.S. China policy is quite consistent: (1) renewal of MFN and (2) selling arms to Taiwan. First it was George Bush who approved the sale of a large number of F-16s to Taiwan which set the start of an recent arms race in the Far East. Now it is Clinton who is contemplating selling Patriot Missiles to Taiwan. During the World War II, as clearly shown in CFR archives as discussed by Shoup and Minter, it is the competition between the U.S. and Japan in the Asia-Pacific that finally led to the Pacific War. Then you may ask since the U.S.-Japan economic tie is so close why would business risk their investment to resort to or support drastic confrontational measures? Strictly from a business point of view, here's the reasoning of StanVac. Before the Pacific War StanVac's investment and market share in Japan was larger than its share in either China or the Dutch East Indies. But the combination of the shares in China and the Dutch East Indies were bigger. (Anderson, 1975) Of course, this is only based on "company rationality", out of the three rationalities (company, elite, and class) followed by the business elite as pointed out by Useem (1984). In the international scene, "national" rationality should be added. Why business, especially big business has to be "national"? Susan Strange et al think that it is "psychological and sociological" (Stopford, Strange, and Henley, 1991) while Chase-Dunn argues it is so because of business reliance on state as it monopolizes the means of violence (1989). In recent years, a medium-sized oil company from Colorado, actively sought the support of the Chinese navy for its exploration of oil in the disputed Spartly (Nansha) Islands. It is difficult to imagine that a big company would rely on host countries for military protection as they are more spread out geographically and have vital sea lanes for transportation. They can only be protected by the home country. If business decide to take actions at "critical moments", their strategy can be very skilful and sophisticated. Business support of the Reagan Revolution in 1980 by targeting close races in elections and especially those which involved the 40-member "Reagan cohort" is such an example. One of the best analyses of the U.S. business strategy is summarized in Money Talks by Clawson, Neustadtl and Scott (1992). Of course in order for business to take drastic actions, the moment has to be "crucial" and the competition and rivalry has to be intense. 2. Rivalry for global domination My own empirical network research combined with Shoup and Minter's research also points to another logic that may lead to future hegemonic clash: major core powers contending for hegemony which does not involve direct intense economic competition. Empirically this is the emergence of separate economic blocs. Specially I refer to the U.S.-German rivalry in the 30s and 90s. Remember that one of the major "competitors" mentioned in the 1994- 1999 U.S. defence guideline is supposed to be Germany. Realists would argue that it is "geopolitics" that drives the rivalry. "Geopolitics" is such a generic and vague term and I suggest we throw it away. To me the rivalry is about who will dominate the world and who will be the hegemon to rearrange the world economic and political order. Of course it is not something new I just discovered. World System theorists have discussed this for quite some time. But I want to distinguish two types of rivalry for hegemony: the one which involves direct and intense economic competition (e.g. the U.S.-Japan rivalry) and the one which does not (e.g. the U.S.-German rivalry). 3. Imperial conquest (disguised as major power rivalry) If people from a small country resist the core powers' attempts to subject them to the rules of the world system and a clash happens, this is not likely to be understood as a "rivalry". And yet if people from a large country (such as Russia and China with a large military) try to do the same and a clash occurs between them and core powers, with proper media manipulation, this could be propagated as a "major power rivalry" or a battle against "Facisim" and "Dictators". Major core powers have tried to turn Russia into a resource base and a site to dump toxic waste (Germany accounts for 80% of that waste) and China into a giant "sweat shop" of the world. These attempts can not go smoothly without some resistance. In fact, the response is quite strong. Russian government recently adopts measures to stop the smuggling of vital resources out of the country and Moscow mayor has been trying to stop the privatization process in that city. Workers in various part of China have resorted to different measures to protest and their actions have already caught the attention of the Chinese government (mostly the Chinese parliament, the People's Congress). The major core powers can not rely on those governments for total cooperation because this would mean the lose of their domestic legitimacy. If the conflict further intensifies, the interests of major cores powers are severely damaged in those countries and they decide to intervene, would that be a "major power rivalry" or an imperial conquest disguised as a major power rivalry? Yes, on the surface, the Opium War was fought between the corrupt and autocratic empire and a "democratic" industrializing country. But just for that moment, can't you say that the imperial state did not represent a people who tried to resist the rules of the world system? This is not to argue that countries such as China may not engage in a true hegemonic rivalry as it becomes "developed" but for the moment as far as its financial ability to manage economic affairs is concerned, its central government is among the weakest in the world and if the current trend continues it is not too far- fetched to project that it would split up. Thus it is important to distinguish between two types of "rivalries": true rivalries and imperial conquest disguised as "power rivalry". Dupuy (1994) succinctly points out that Huntington tries to confuse two types of clashes: the clash between imperial powers and colonial conquest. To Huntington, colonial conquest is simply a clash of "cultural values". McMichael also calls our attention to the rise of "the New Colonialism". (1994) In conclusion, these three logics are not completely mutually exclusive and they are related. Changes in one logic may lead changes in others. For example, the imperial conquest logic may prompt the otherwise rivals to form a coalition (maybe this is the raison d'etre of organizations such as the Trilateral Commission). The intensification of the rivalry for global domination (without direct and intense economic competition) may also intensify the economic competition for "life spaces". If these are the major logics governing the current world system, it seems to me the indicators of the logics should be closely monitored. Again, I sincerely invite comments on and criticisms of the arguments made in this piece. Tieting Su Department of Sociology McGill University Montreal, Canada References Anderson, Irvine. 1975. The Standard-Vacuum Oil Company and United States East Asian Policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chase-Dunn, Christopher. 1989. Global Formation. 1989. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell. Clawson, Dan, Alan Neustadtl, and Denise Scott. 1992. Money Talks: Corporate PACs and Political Influence. New York: BasicBooks. Dupuy, Alex. 1994. "Ten Thesis On the New World Order and Social Change in the Americas." Xerox McMichael, Philip. 1994. "The New Colonialism: Global Regulation and the Restructuring of the Interstate System" paper presented at the PEWS XVIII Conference, University of California-Irvine. April 7-9. Stopford, John, Susan Strange and John Henley. 1991. Rival States, Rival Firms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Useem, Michael. 1984. The Inner Circle. New York: Oxford University Press. From linush@uclink.berkeley.edu Tue Jun 21 16:57:13 MDT 1994 >From linush@uclink.berkeley.edu Tue Jun 21 16:57:11 1994 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 15:49:25 -0700 From: linush@uclink.berkeley.edu (Linus Benjamin Huang) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Advice on stats packages Hello, everyone. I'm currently shopping for a stats package for Windows that's user-friendly and not ludicrously expensive, although I do have a modest budget to expend on it. The package is intended to deal with a fairly sizable (6 megabytes-plus) dataset of cross- national indicators organized in time-series fashion, so it should be able to handle multivariate panel regressions and like techniques. It would be tremendously helpful if the package was not wedded to a proprietary data format but could communicate with Excel, etc. Does anyone have advice, recommendations, etc.? If so I would greatly appreciate it. Either posting to wsn or e-mailing me in private would be fine. Thanks much, Linus Huang Dept. of Sociology, UC-Berkeley linush@uclink.berkeley.edu From ATPKM@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU Wed Jun 22 15:05:23 MDT 1994 >From ATPKM@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU Wed Jun 22 15:05:22 1994 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 13:42:45 -0700 (MST) From: Pat McGowan Subject: Journal Refereeing To: World System Network Having served as a co-editor of the International Studies Quarterly for five ye ars, and having had many negative and positive reviews as an author over the ye ars, I feel quite strongly about the refereeing process. The author(s) should always be anonymous during the refereeing process. This serves as a strong pro tection for junior and/or unknown or new authors. Referees should also be anon ymous, unless they request otherwise, in which case the editor should respect t heir wishes and supply their names to the author(s). Once the refreeing proces s is complete, and an editorial decision made to reject, call for revisions, or accept with or without revisions, should either the author(s) or reviewers ind icate that they would like to get in touch to explore issues of mutual interest , the editor should share the names around to facilitate scholarly interchange. These procedures are independent of Current Anthropology's procedures. Almost all MSS reviews I have ever read are not appropriate for publication. I think requesting referees to write publishable reviews will slow up the refereeing pr ocess greately, to the harm of the journal. If the CA approach is favored, I w ould recommend that once an article has been accepted, former referees and othe r appropriate specialists be invited by the editor to write comments for public ation, to which the author(s) should be invited to make a brief response. In sum, although our format is highly innovative, we should follow the blind re fereeing procedures of our best academic journals. Particularly our junior aut hors will want to be able to tell their senior colleagues that publication in JWSR is fully refereed. That will be important to them when annual reviews and the final promotion and tenure review is conducted. Pat McGowan Department of Political Science Arizona State University atpkm@asuvm.inre.asu.edu From ATPKM@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU Wed Jun 22 15:16:09 MDT 1994 >From ATPKM@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU Wed Jun 22 15:16:07 1994 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 14:04:58 -0700 (MST) From: Pat McGowan Subject: World-Systems Bibliographies To: World-System Network After a gap of three years, I will be teaching this Fall semester a graduate se minar on "The Modern World-System" to about a dozen Political Science (and othe rs) graduate students. The core texts will be Shannon's introduction to world- system theory, the three volumes of Wallerstein's Modern World-System, and two books by Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and Preparing for the 21st Century. I would appreciate receiving from members of this network references to any bib liographic sources on world-system literature since ca. 1990. Such references can be sent via e-mail. I would also appreciate receiving hard copies of sylla bai that might be relevant to my course via regular mail. Thanks a lot. Pat McGowan Department of Political Science Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-2001 atkpm@asuvm.inre.asu.edu From r30065@er.uqam.ca Wed Jun 22 18:13:17 MDT 1994 >From r30065@er.uqam.ca Wed Jun 22 18:13:16 1994 (4.1/SMI-4.2.1.pop NIS) id AA08874; Wed, 22 Jun 94 20:13:02-040 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 20:06:36 -0400 (EDT) From: THIBAULT JEAN-FRANCOIS Subject: Korea and Japan To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu I lost, by inadvertence, all references on Korea and Japan. Would someone be kind enough to send me via Email, papers on that theme that appeared recently on the WSN listserv. Thanks in advance. Jean-Francois Thibault Research assistant Departement de science politique Universite du Quebec a Montreal From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Thu Jun 23 08:05:26 MDT 1994 >From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Thu Jun 23 08:05:25 1994 Date: 23 Jun 1994 09:07:31 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Hall Subject: reviewing To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu I agree entirely with what Pat McGowan said. I can add, having been both reviewer and submitter under his coeditorship that this works well. Pats discussion clarifies, I think, were we seem to be moving. tom hal From CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU Thu Jun 23 11:58:56 MDT 1994 >From <@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU:CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU> Thu Jun 23 11:58:55 1994 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 13:52:02 EDT From: chris chase-dunn Subject: refereeing and anonymity To: systemites I too agree with Pat McGowan that both authors and referees should be anonymous, and I like his idea about revealing the names on request after the review process is over. The format of _Current Anthopology_ is a good one but it requires quite a bit more effort to produce an article. I will consider getting publishable comments on articles if I manage to generate more resources to support the operation of _JWSR_. Thanks to all those who sent their comments and suggestions on the reviewing process. chris chase-dunn From dasmith@orion.oac.uci.edu Fri Jun 24 16:27:54 MDT 1994 >From dasmith@orion.oac.uci.edu Fri Jun 24 16:27:51 1994 Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 15:27:43 -0700 (PDT) From: David Smith Subject: Possible positions at UC-Irvine To: world-system network The Department of Sociology has just been informed of a School of Social Sciences initiative designed to build an interdisciplinary group of scholars working in "the new international/global studies." This area is distinguished from the "old" international studies focused on strategic studies of a bipolar system, and includes a broad range of issues including international migration, inter-ethnic rivalries and conflicts, development and economic and political change, world trade and investment, etc. The potential job openings (as many as six to eight over a period of several years) would be in economics, politics and society, anthropology, and sociology. The targeted level would be advanced assistant to beginning associate professor, with the main criteria for hiring a truly OUTSTANDING record of research productivity (and a demonstrable ability to maintain that trajectory). Successful applicants will have multiple articles in "first-rate" journals (ASR, AJS, SF) and/or published books. At this point, as we await official authorization of these positions, the Department of Sociology is beginning to identify potential candidates. (It must be emphasized that this is NOT AN OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT FOR EMPLOYMENT!!!) People interested in recommending possible candidates or expressing preliminary interest themselves are invited to contact David A. Smith, Department of Sociology, UCI, Irvine, CA 92717; phone: 714-856-7292; e-mail: dasmith@uci.edu. From fredr@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Sun Jun 26 13:36:05 MDT 1994 >From fredr@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Sun Jun 26 13:36:05 1994 Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 09:35:59 -1000 (HST) From: Fred Riggs Sender: Fred Riggs Subject: "New International/Global Studies" To: David Smith Cc: tehranian majid , Adrianne@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu, Multiple recipients of list Dear David: Your position announcement excites me, not because I am looking for a new position (I'm already a retired professor) but because I think you are embarked on a bold venture. I'll just quote a bit from your announcement: > The Department of Sociology has just been informed of a School of > Social Sciences initiative designed to build an interdisciplinary group > of scholars working in "the new international/global studies." This area > is distinguished from the "old" international studies focused on > strategic studies of a bipolar system, and includes a broad range of > issues including international migration, inter-ethnic rivalries and > conflicts, development and economic and political change, world trade and > investment, etc. ..... > David A. Smith, Department of Sociology, UCI, Irvine, CA 92717; > phone: 714-856-7292; e-mail: dasmith@uci.edu. As a long-term member of the International Studies Association, I have pressed for paradigmatic changes in the direction of seeing that the world system contains not only states but actors at other levels and that they inter-act at non-state levels in many ways, though influenced by and influencing the states also. From what I read, many ISA members still think that "international studies" means, primarily, inter-state relations. The focus also remains on war and peace as inter-state problems. Personally, I think that for various reasons the kinds of inter-state conflicts which have, indeed, prevailed in recent history, are now over, and we are entering a new kind of world dynamics in which intra-state conflicts of various kinds, most notably those involving ethnonational struggles (plus genocide, and hordes of refugees) in second and third world countries (but also some in first world too) will prevail, causing immense distress--e.g. Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda--and will generate a host of new problems. The states of the world give priority to the principle of opposing boundary changes because the legitimization of such changes would threaten all of them. They will, therefore, unite to deal with intra-state violence that threatens boundaries. They will largely ignore conflicts that do not threaten boundaries--e.g. Sudan, Burma, Sri Lanka, etc. In addition to boundary changes as such, however, they will react to floods of refugees and, I expect, their numbers will increase. Why are we so excited about Haiti? There are many other dictatorships we ignore--but none of them produce as many refugees approaching our shores as Haiti. In a way this is a "world systems" approach, but with a focus on the contemporary world, though in historical perspective. I understand your announcement to say that this is what you have in mind for your new program. If so, you may be interested in a couple of papers that are now available as preparation for a conference on "Ethnonational Conflicts and Viable Constitutionalism" that I am working on. I append the abstracts for them. If you want a copy of Tehranian's paper, I think his research assistant will send it to you if you address him as above--he is now visiting Iran and Central Asia. You may ask me for a copy of my own paper. Majid's paper deals very broadly with the theme of the coming world "order" or "disorder" and factors that are relevant to it, reacting especially to Huntington's theme of the "Clash of Civilizations" and Fukuyama's on the "End of History." It provides, I think, an ideal background analysis of some of the choices and dilemmas facing the world today, and provides a good launching pad for looking at questions involving ethnonational conflicts as they relate to the development and survival of democratic constitutional government. WHERE IS THE NEW WORLD ORDER: AT THE END OF HISTORY OR CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?" by Majid Tehranian, Communications Dept., Univ. Hawaii "The discourse of the new world order in the post-Cold War era has swung from euphoric optimism to dark pessimism. It has ranged from Francis Fukuyama's declarations of the 'end of history' and the triumph of liberal democracy to Samuel Huntingtons thesis on the 'clash of civilizations' between the Christian West and a Confucian-Islamic alliance. This essay deconstructs that discourse as an ideological reproduction of the traditional geopolitical strategies of struggle between deterritorialized centers and peripheries. The essay offers an alternative reading of an emerging world dis/order caught in the contradictions of combined and uneven development in an increasingly fragmented world system. It argues that in the last 500 years, the processes of modernization have progressively incorporated the entire globe in five successive, interlocking phases encompassing cities, nation-states, empires, the planet, and cyberspace. The contradictions of the premodern, modern, and post modern societies and sensibilities have been particularly sharpened by the Fifth Modernization, the latest phase in the transnationalization of the world economy, accompanied by exploding global communication, totalization of surveillance, democratization of politics at the semiperipheries, and tribalization of identities at the peripheries. This has led to globalization of the local and localization of the global. Historically, resistance has assumed a variety of forms and movements, including hyper-modernization, de-modernization, counter-modernization, and post-modernization. The accelerating compression of time and space, characteristic of modernization, is now facing a critical choice between technocratic and communitarian formations at the local, national, regional and global levels. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is another related abstract: "Ethonational Rebellions and Viable Constitutionalism." By Fred W. Riggs, University of Hawaii ABSTRACT "The eruption of ethnonationalist movements in multi-ethnic states is a modern and growing phenomenon. It reflects both the widespread acceptance of self-determination as a democratic ideal and the availability of contemporary communication technology, organizational skills, and weapons of mass violence. The brutal realities of authoritarianism and anarchy in many countries contradict the hopes raised by modern dreams of democracy and economic prosperity. In this context, we need to understand that viable systems of constitutional government--where power is exercised responsible and effectively--offer the only hope that ethnonational violence can be replaced by the non-violent politics of ethnic competition. External interventions designed to resolve violent communal conflicts are less likely to succeed than are systemic transformations that replace authoritarianism with constitutional governance--but both pose a huge challenge to the will and capabilities of the more advanced industrial democracies." --------------------------------------------------------------- I will present this paper at an SOG-sponsored panel during the world Political Science Congress in Berlin, August 21-25. If you plan to attend the Congress, please come to this session and let's get together there. FRED W. RIGGS, Professor Emeritus Political Science Department, University of Hawaii 2424 Maile Way, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, U.S.A. Phone: (808) 956-8123 Fax: (808) 956-6877 e-mail: FREDR@UHUNIX.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU From Alan.Koeninger@anu.edu.au Tue Jun 28 04:25:32 MDT 1994 >From Alan.Koeninger@anu.edu.au Tue Jun 28 04:25:31 1994 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 20:26:45 +1000 To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu From: Alan.Koeninger@anu.edu.au (Alan Koeninger) Subject: Community Project from Australia Hello, I am from the Canberra Contemporay Art Space, a gallery in Canberra, Australia. The Gallery is hosting a forum on community to mark the 1st anniversary of its new artist run inititive "Gallery Manuka". Part of this forum, entitled "Canberra Connects" will address new technologies and the Internet. We would like invite you to contribute by answering the following question (the length or style of response is up to you) . . . "Can you describe your relationship with your fellow net users as a kind of community (albeit virtual) or are we seeing a radically new kind of relationship? How does your experiences in the net rebound on your everyday experience in your artistic, academic, or even just geographically defined communities?" As the exhibitions that take place in Gallery Manuka have been 100% grounded in the local community, and staffed by the artists that exhibit there, Gallery Manuka has been very tied into a geographical definition of community. Therefore it is fitting on our anniversary to be questioning how we come to define that community and how it is or could be linked to other similar communities elsewhere. Thanks Alan Koeninger Pease reply to . . . Alan.Koeninger@anu.edu.au ** If interested, I can send you a compilation of the various worldwide responses. Please indicate if you would be willing to recieve this and an e-mail or postal address. -- The CCAS is a not-for-profit, goverment funded exhibition space which supports experimental, critical, or non-commercial art. __________________________________ Alan Koeninger .................................. Computer Aided Art Studio Institute of the Arts Australian National University e-mail: Alan.Koeninger@anu.edu.au __________________________________ From INTT@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA Tue Jun 28 10:16:02 MDT 1994 >From INTT@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA Tue Jun 28 10:16:01 1994 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 11:06:16 -0400 (EDT) From: INTT000 Subject: re:new international/global studies To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu On June 27, Fred Riggs wrote: >As a long-term member of the International Studies Association, >I have pressed for paradigmatic changes in the direction of seeing >that the world system contains not only states but actors at other >levels and that they inter-act at non-state levels in many ways, >though influenced by and influencing the states also. > ... >Personally, I think that for various reasons the kinds of >inter-state conflicts which have, indeed, prevailed in recent >history, are now over, and we are entering a new kind of world >dynamics in which intra-state conflicts of various kinds, most >notably those involving ethnonational struggles (plus genocide, >and hordes of refugees) in second and third world countries (but >also some in first world too) will prevail, causing immense >distress--e.g. Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda--and will generate >a host of new problems. I totally agree with Fred Riggs on the point that the world system has not only states but also non-state actors. I agree that a deeper understanding of "ethnonational struggles" should be sought. The underlying factors should be explored. In addition to those "ethnonational struggles" such as those which involve Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, which the commercial media have concentrated on, I would also like to add other topics which have not received so much commercial media attention and which, in my humble opinion, are just as important (or even more important) for world system analyses: 1. The bloody conflict in Angola largely caused by a faction supported by the U.S. and the former South African regime. 2. Dumping of toxic waste from "advanced industrialized countries" to developing countries and Russia. 3. Wide-spread labour rights violations by business from "advanced industrialized countries". 4. The boom of one-million strong child prostitution in South East Asia catering to the appetite of tourists from "advanced industrialized countries" to seek underaged sex. 5. The U.S. tobacco industry's power and tricks to hook young people in developing countries to their "products". For example, there is now a Malboro professional soccer club in China. Billions of people are hooked (a large proportion were hooked in the past ten years or so as the U.S. tobacco industry became very aggressive in developing countries.) Out of these billions of smokers, who knows how many millions will die of cancer. The former U.S. Surgeon General and concerned U.S. medical workers have repeatedly warned of the dire consequences of dumping such "products" in other people's backyard. 6. The huge international arms trade, of which the U.S. accounts for over 50%. 7. Finally, what about that colossal U.S. military machinery, which could give us the "nuclear winter"? This, of course, is only a partial list, I guess all those are also a "huge challenge to the will and capabilities of" the people " of the more advanced industrial democracies." Tieting Su Department of Sociology McGill University Montreal, Canada From dassbach@mtu.edu Tue Jun 28 11:43:35 MDT 1994 >From dassbach@mtu.edu Tue Jun 28 11:43:34 1994 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 13:43:00 From: dassbach@mtu.edu (Carl Dassbach) To: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU (WSN) Subject: JWSR format Have the questions of the review process and format for JWSR been resolved? Carl Dassbach From CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU Tue Jun 28 15:41:00 MDT 1994 >From <@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU:CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU> Tue Jun 28 15:40:59 1994 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 94 16:42:01 EDT From: chriscd Subject: the world party To: systemites Terry Boswell and I would like to invite all those who will be at the World Congress of Sociology in Bielefeld to an informal discussion about the idea of a world party. Please try to read W. Warren Wagar's _A Short History of the Future_ (Chicago, 1992) in preparation for the meeting. We will gather near the message center at the conference site at 6:30 pm on Wednesday July 20 and then move to a more ambient location. chris chase-dunn From dasmith@orion.oac.uci.edu Tue Jun 28 16:26:36 MDT 1994 >From dasmith@orion.oac.uci.edu Tue Jun 28 16:26:35 1994 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 15:26:31 -0700 (PDT) From: David Smith Sender: David Smith Subject: the UCI party To: world-system network Dave Smith, Jozsef Borocz and the rest of the crew in Anteaterland would like to invite everyone at the American Sociological Assn meetings in LA to a UCI party. You don't need to read anything in preparation. The event will be held at 8 pm, Saturday, August 6th in the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in a room reserved in the name of Francesca Cancian (the incoming chair of UCI's Sociology Department). It should be an ambient setting: s'posed to be a room with a view! (PS We think that the idea of a world party may be a good one, too. We're beginning with something a bit more modest...) From INTT@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA Wed Jun 29 11:40:05 MDT 1994 >From INTT@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA Wed Jun 29 11:40:04 1994 Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 12:12:50 -0400 (EDT) From: INTT000 Subject: re: new international/global studies To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu On my point 5, "billions" of smokers should be "hundreds of millions" of smokers. In China alone, there are three hundred million smokers and a large proportion of them were hooked in the last ten years or so. Sorry for the error. Tieting Su From lerner@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca Thu Jun 30 13:55:21 MDT 1994 >From lerner@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca Thu Jun 30 13:55:20 1994 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 15:59:24 -0500 To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu From: lerner@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (S. Lerner) I am not the author, but would like this book to get a wide readership, because it is an exceelent introduction to the problems and opportunities posed by the changing nature of work. Sally Lerner, Futurework group >Note, please, an excellent new book , Shifting Time, by Armine Yalnizyan, T. >Ran Ide, and Arthur J. Cordell (Toronto: Between the Lines, 1994). > >[Order from Between the Lines, 720 Bathurst Street - Suite 404, Toronto, ON >M5S 2R4. FAX 416 535 1484. Pre-payment with VISA, check, or money order $16.53 >CAN or US - covers taxes, postage and handling] > >These Canadian authors present and analyse the new realities of a North >America polarizing between haves and have-nots, the overworked and >un(der)employed, and--probably increasingly--the information rich and poor. We >are witnessing the creation of what JK Galbraith (in The Culture of >Contentment) called a "functional underclass" and Jamie Swift, in his >hard-hitting introduction to the book, defined as "a class of workers >handcuffed to a changing labour market that is producing alot of poorly paid, >part-time jobs; a class of workers whose expectations have been ratcheted down >to the point that getting thirty hours of work at $8.50 an hour may start to >seem like a real job - or perhaps the only job they can really aspire to." > >Looking at future options, Ide and Cordell present a jolting >"business-as-usual" scenario of a world that offers a secure life only to the >small wealthy minority who increasingly run the world from behind high walls >of secrecy and security devices. These authors urge instead an "enlightened >self-interest" scenario that emphasizes community well-being. Among other >suggested new social forms, a "technology productivity tax provides the basis >for new forms of employment designed to enhance communities [and] revitalize >aging infrastructure." Increasing attention to family, community and >environmental responsibilities would characterize future communities. > >Redistributing both work and income, and domesticating investment, are seen as >perhaps the only effective ways to address the new realities that have been >created by technological change and economic globalization (including capital >mobility),and to avoid descent into a bladerunner future. The challenge is to >achieve these ends without triggering a "capital strike", or some other >draconian defense from powerholders. Yalnizyan suggests that the entire >problem set must be re-framed in terms of the need to establish "principles >for future social and economic security". Ide and Cordell argue that the >movement to a new information society in the 21st century can create exciting >new possibilities for human development, if only we can think and govern our >way out of 19th century social norms and power arrangements. >