Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 on the heels of a decade of political violence and protest not only in remote corners of Africa and Southeast Asia, but also at home in the United States. Forty years later, the world is riveted on uprisings in the Middle East, and the United States has been overtaken by a focus on international terrorism and a fascination with citizen movements at home and abroad. Do the arguments of 1970 apply today? Why Men Rebel lends new insight into contemporary challenges of transnational recruitment and organization, multimedia mobilization, and terrorism.

Why Men Rebel

WOMEN Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, by Saba Mahmood Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2004 xvi + 199 pages Gloss, to p 203 Refs to p 223 Index to p 233 $55 cloth; $1795 paper This book explores "the conceptual challenges that women's involvement in the Islamist movement poses to feminist theory in particular and to secular-liberal thought in general through an ethnographic account of the urban women's mosque movement that is part of the Islamic Revival in Cairo, Egypt" (p 2) However, Saba Mahmood promises more than an ethnography based on two years of fieldwork (1995-1997) She embarks on an intellectual journey of selfreflection in which she has come "to believe that a certain amount of self-scrutiny and skepticism is essential regarding the certainty of my own political commitments, when trying to understand the lives of others who do not necessarily share these commitments" (p xi) By refusing to take her own political stance as the necessary lens through which the analysis proceeds, the author opens up the possibility that "my analysis may come to complicate the vision of human flourishing that I hold most dear and which has provided the bedrock of my personal existence" (p xii) It is necessary, the author cautions as she embarks upon her inquiry, not to assume that the political position we uphold will necessarily be vindicated or provide the ground for our theoretical analysis As readers, we are invited to join her in "parochializing our assumptions, about the constitutive relationship between action and embodiment, resistance and agency, self and authority - that inform most feminist judgments from across a broad range of the political spectrum about non-liberal movements such as the women's mosque movement" (p 38) It is within that spirit that I have critiqued this book The five chapters are a running argument with and against key analytic concepts in liberal thought as these concepts have come to inform various strands of feminist theory through which non-liberal movements, such as the women's mosque movement, are analyzed Through each chapter Mahmood makes her ethnographic talk back to the normative liberal assumptions about human nature against which such a movement is held accountable "The Subject of Freedom" illustrates the different ways in which the activism of the mosque movement challenges the liberal conception of politics Mahmood analyzes the conception of self, moral agency, and politics that undergird the practices of this non-liberal movement in order to come to an understanding of the historical projects that animate it The pious subjects of the mosque movement occupy an uncomfortable place in feminist scholarship because they pursue practices and ideals embedded in a tradition that has historically accorded women a subordinate status "Topography of the Piety Movement" provides a brief sketch of the historical development against which the contemporary mosque movement has emerged and critically engages with themes within scholarship of Islamic modernism regarding such movements We sense the broad-based character of the women's mosque movement through the author's description and analysis of three of six mosques where she concentrated her fieldwork Despite the differences among the mosque groups - ranging from the poorest to the upper-middle income neighborhoods of Cairo - they all shared a concern for the increased secularization of Egyptian society and illustrate the increasing respect accorded to the da 'iya preacher/religious teacher (who undertakes da'waliterally call, summons or appeal that in the 20th century came to be associated with proselytization activity) "Women and the Da'wa" (pp 64-72) is particularly insightful, as the author juxtaposes the emergence of secular liberalism with the da'wa movement and concludes that "the modernist project of the regulation of religious sensibilities, undertaken by a range of postcolonial states (and not simply Muslim states), has elicited in its wake a variety of resistances, responses and challenges …

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

of distinguished and rather senior economists – makes at the end of the book. Their priorities tend to be quick-fixes of problems that might, at least partly, be caused by some other challenge. More importantly, the panellists tend to disregard some of the evidence assembled by the authors. The reactions to the excellent chapter on armed conflict by Collier & Hoeffler illustrate that Nobel awards are no protection against bias. One member of the panel dismisses the economic sources of war that the Oxford economists analyse and points out that free trade is the main pacifying force, while another famous panellist mentions ethnic or religious hatred as a source of conflict. Gerald Schneider

At War’s End: Building Peace After Civil Conflict:

1. Introduction Neil Gilbert, Nigel Parton, and Marit Skivenes I. ANGLO-AMERICAN SYSTEMS 2. Trends and Issues in the U.S. Child Welfare System Jill Duerr Berrick 3. Canadian Child Welfare: Child Protection and the Status Quo Karen Swift 4. Child Protection in England Nigel Parton and David Berridge II. NORDIC SYSTEMS 5. The Dark Side of the Universal Welfare State? Child Abuse and Protection in Sweden Madeleine Cocozza and Sven E. O. Hort 6. Combatting Child Abuse in Finland: From Family to Child-Centered Orientation Tarja Poso 7. Denmark: A Child Welfare System Under Reframing Anne-Dorthe Hestbaek 8. Norway: Towards a Child-Centric Perspective Marit Skivenes III. CONTINENTAL SYSTEMS 9. Child Protection in an Age of Uncertainty: Germany's Response Reinhart Wolff, Kay Biesel, and Stefan Heinitz 10. Policy Towards Child Abuse and Neglect in Belgium: In Search of a Democratic Approach Kristof Desair and Peter Adriaenssens 11. Child Welfare in the Netherlands: Between Privacy and Protection Trudie Knijn and Carolus van Nijnatten IV. CONCLUSION 12. Changing Patterns of Response and Emerging Orientations Neil Gilbert, Nigel Parton, and Marit Skivenes

Child protection systems : international trends and orientations

We conceive authority of an international organization as latent in two independent dimensions: delegation by states to international agents and pooling in collective decision making bodies. We theorize that delegation and pooling are empirically as well as conceptually different. Delegation is an effort to deal with the transaction costs of cooperation which are greater in larger, broader, and correspondingly more complex organizations. Pooling reflects the tension between protecting or surrendering the national veto. This paper theorizes that delegation and pooling are constrained by two basic design features: a) the scope of an IO’s policy portfolio and b) the scale of its membership. We test these hypotheses with a new cross-sectional dataset that provides detailed and reliable information on IO decision making. Our major finding is that the design of international organizations is framed by stark and intelligible choices, but in surprising ways. Large membership organizations tend to have both more delegation and more pooling. The broader the policy scope of an IO, the more willing are its members to delegate, but the less willing they are to pool authority.

Delegation and pooling in international organizations

This book explores the phenomenon of regionalism In a seeming contradiction to globalization, there is a growing tendency for countries to enter into regional arrangements as a response to the pressures of operating in a global marketplace But regionalism is also emerging as a phenomenon in its own right, serving distinct purposes and taking different forms in different areas The contributors explore how these patterns impact on wider issues such as global governance, democracy and trade The book reviews the major theoretical approaches to regional cooperation including perspectives from international relations, political economy, economics and sociology It is divided into three main sections: theoretical approaches to regionalism; issues of regional cooperation (such as security, monetary issues, identity and integration); and an exploration of specific case studies including the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, China, Europe, Asia and the Pacific With an international range of contributors, including Bjorn Hettne, Louise Fawcett and Andrew Hurrell, this in-depth and multi-disciplinary guide will be of interest to students across the social sciences and to the wider policy community

Global Politics of Regionalism : Theory and Practice

* 1 Introduction: A Framework for Understanding Regionalization - Michael Schulz, Fredrik Soderbaum & Joakim Ojendal * 2 Europe: Paradigm and Paradox - Bjorn Hettne * 3 Regionalization in the Middle East? - Marianne Laanatza, Helena Lindholm Schulz & Michael Schulz * 4 Turbulent Regionalization in West Africa - Fredrik Soderbaum * 5 Regionalization in Southern Africa: The Role of the Dominant - Bertil Oden * 6 Regionalization in Caucasia and Central Asia - Patrik Jotun * 7 South Asia: An Anxious Journey towards Regionalization? - Bent D Jorgensen * 8 South East Asia at a Constant Crossroads: An Ambiguous New Region? - Joakim Ojendal * 9 East Asia: Regionalization Still Waiting to Happen? - Claes G Alvstam * 10 North American Regionalisms and Regionalization in the 1990s - Marianne H Marchand * 11 The Caribbean: Legacy and Change - Ake Widfeldt * 12 The New Regionalism in South America - Cyro Banega, Bjorn Hettne and Fredrik Soderbaum * 13 Conclusion: A Comparative Perspective - Michael Schulz, Fredrik Soderbaum and Joakim Ojendal

Regionalization in a Globalizing World: A Comparative Perspective on Forms, Actors and Processes

Lately, the concept of ‘resistance’ has gained considerable traction as a tool for critically exploring subaltern practices in relation to power. Few researchers, however, have elaborated on the inter-linkage of shifting forms of resistance; and above all, how acts of everyday resistance entangle with more organized and sometimes mass-based resistance activities. In this paper, these entanglements are analysed by taking into consideration the connections between articulations of resistance and technologies of power. Empirical observations from Cambodia are theorized in order to provide better theoretical tools for searching and investigating the inter-linkage between different resistance forms that contribute to social change. In addition, it is argued that modalities of power and its related resistance must be understood, or theorized, in relation to the concepts of ‘agency’, ‘self-reflexivity’ and ‘techniques of the self’.

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How resistance encourages resistance: theorizing the nexus between power, ‘Organised Resistance’ and ‘Everyday Resistance’

This article explores the meaning of “resistance” and suggests a new path for “resistance studies,” which is an emerging and interdisciplinary field of the social sciences that is still relatively ...

Defining and Analyzing “Resistance”: Possible Entrances to the Study of Subversive Practices

Contents: Introduction, Philippe De Lombaerde and Michael Schulz Supporting regional integration and cooperation worldwide: an overview of the European Union approach, Giulia Pietrangeli Exporting the European model of regional integration: the case of agriculture, Sebastian Zaleski and Felix Mittermayer EU trade strategy and regionalism: assessing the impact on Europe's developing country partners, Clive George, Tomasz Iwanow and Colin Kirkpatrick Toes in the water: the 'makability' of ASEAN and European Commission support to economic integration in Southeast Asia under the ASEAN-EU programme for regional integration support (APRIS), David Martin The European Union and the 'making' of South American regionalism, JosA(c) BriceA+-o and AndrA(c)s Rivarola Puntigliano NAFTA parity in real time and the 'making' of the EU-Mexico partnership, Rosalba Icaza Garza Normative Europe: changing values and attitudes in Central America, JosA(c) Caballero An assessment of European Union cooperation towards the Andean community (1992a "2007), Marleny Bustamante and Rita Giacalone The role of epistemic communities in the 'makability' of MERCOSUR, Mercedes Isabel Botto An evaluation of the EU-Mediterranean region-building from the perspective of the regionalization process in the Mediterranean, Ana Bojinovic Fenko The EU's ambitious regionalization of the South Caucasus, Syuzanna Vasilyan The EU and (sub-)regional organizations in North-Eastern Europe: impact on (sub-)regional cooperation and integration, Tobias Etzold The making of the East African community: a case study, Karel van Hoestenberghe, Hein Roelfsema and Swabiri Khalidi The EU and regional integration in Central Africa: promoting inter-regionalism as an incentive to the regionalist scheme?, Firmin Mbala Commonwealth(s) of regions extra-EU? Anglophone globalization and new regionalisms, Timothy M. Shaw EU support to regional integration worldwide and the 'makability' of regions: conclusions, Philippe De Lombaerde and Michael Schulz Index.

Michael Schulz

Papers

Global Politics of Regionalism : Theory and Practice

Regionalization in a Globalizing World: A Comparative Perspective on Forms, Actors and Processes

How resistance encourages resistance: theorizing the nexus between power, ‘Organised Resistance’ and ‘Everyday Resistance’

Defining and Analyzing “Resistance”: Possible Entrances to the Study of Subversive Practices

The Eu and World Regionalism: The Makability of Regions in the 21st Century