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  Internationalism (politics)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Internationalism is a political movement which advocates a greater economic and political cooperation between nations for the benefit of all.
Internationalism is by nature opposed to ultranationalism, jingoism and national chauvinism as well as to strictly economic globalization movements which deny the value of other nations' culture and differences.
The earliest such example of broad internationalism would be the drive to replace feudal systems of measurement with the metric system, long before the creation of international organizations like the World Court, the League of Nations, and the United Nations.
www.alloffinance.com /Internationalism_(politics).html   (1555 words)

  
  LSE influence
Since LSE has always intended to use the higher study of economics and political science to educate and train people for careers in administration and business, and given the Fabian politics of the School's founders and their ambitions for social reform, the criticism is perhaps unsurprising, but the accusation is unfair.
Politically, and contrary to its 'Left' image, of the five School Directors who have entered politics two were conservative (Mackinder, Hewins) and three liberal - Reeves (in New Zealand), Beveridge, and Dahrendorf (FDP in Germany).
Political thinking and influence at the School was not confined to the left and LSE has also been a home to political thought and opinion right of centre.
www.lse.ac.uk /lsehistory/lse_influence.htm   (991 words)

  
  Internationalism (politics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Internationalism is a political movement which advocates a greater economic and political cooperation between nations for the benefit of all.
Internationalism is by nature opposed to ultranationalism, jingoism and national chauvinism as well as to strictly economic globalization movements which deny the value of other nations' culture and differences.
Internationalism - the boiler of nations conducting to complete liquidation of national originality and national self-identification of the local peoples, destruction or reference(manipulation) of the local peoples in "population" not being the owners of ground and which are not having the lawful rights to apply on individual share in their use.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Internationalism_(politics)   (1482 words)

  
 Internationalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Marxist view of internationalism, see proletarian internationalism.
For the more general political movement of internationalism, see internationalism (politics).
For the groups of words called internationalisms, see internationalism (linguistics).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Internationalism   (111 words)

  
 Internationalism - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Internationalism, belief in the importance of full global participation to the security and prosperity of one's own nation and all nations....
Internationalism in 1938 suffered a terrible decline if not a temporary extinction.
The practice of collective security, peaceful change, international democracy, interdependence and non-aggression was pushed into the diseard in favor of aggressive nationalism, ultimata and threats, if not actual...
encarta.msn.com /Internationalism.html   (154 words)

  
 Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Globalization, Internationalism, and the Class Politics of Cynical Reason" by ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Political theories of globalization are, in the end, apologies for imperialism—a word that has become a taboo in transnational theory.
If textualizing politics was all that the cynic did, he would not be a cynic but a rhetorician who was perhaps committed to the principle of a semiotic politics and theorized politics as representation.
One defense of Butler is that she is performing kynicism—for Sloterdijk kynicism is the resistance to cynicism; it is the provocative resistance of "pantomimic, wily" "individualism" (1987, 218) and the cheeky, irreverent actions of a defiant body.
www.autodidactproject.org /other/cynebert.html   (5717 words)

  
 Agenda for Pakistan
There is a mushroom growth of political parties in the name of religion, history records that more harm has been done to Islam by the believers than non-believers.
So the political parties in the name of religion must come out with their programme for the alleviation of poverty of the masses instead of dividing them on sectarian basis.
Political parties, which do not have such a programme, should either be banned or they will die their own death.
www.defencejournal.com /2000/may/agenda.htm   (1219 words)

  
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The political life of individuals seems to have been homogenized at the same time as the individuals were "rationalized, individualized, and democratized." Citizens-capitalists and workers, rural and urban-seek material welfare.
Kant shows how republics, once established, lead to peaceful relations he argues that once the aggressive interests of absolutist monarchies are tamed and the habit of respect for individual rights engrained by republican government, wars would appear as the disaster to the people's welfare that he and the other liberals thought them to be.
Internationally, free speech and the effective communication of accurate conceptions of the political life of foreign peoples is essential to establishing and preserving the understanding on which the guarantee of respect depends.
www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~gobev/fp/readings/Doyle.txt   (5994 words)

  
 Solidarity Founding Statement | Solidarity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The politics of Reaganism, however, are a symbol and symptom of an increasingly aggressive stance by U.S. capital—not its cause.
By developing political program around women's issues, by insisting that those issues be recognized in common actions with other forces, by educating and supporting women activists who also participate in socialist organizations, feminist organizations have forced the revolutionary socialist left to develop politically far beyond what would have been otherwise possible.
Political evaluation often was restricted to the discussion of a Political Committee, filtered down to a National Committee through reports, then to the ranks via NC members and "fait accompli" articles in the (always homogeneous) party press.
www.solidarity-us.org /foundingstatement   (13824 words)

  
 Quadrant Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
INTERNATIONALISM is the world's newest, sexiest "ism"-and, in some ways, is as sinister as the last big "ism", socialism.
Internationalism reached its high point a few weeks ago with the new International Criminal Court, with its power to prosecute and jail individuals over vaguely defined war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide whether or not the victim's country ratifies the treaty.
But the UN's recent history suggests that, as Neil Clark said in the Spectator, internationalism is a Trojan horse for the political agenda of the politically correct liberal elite who are unable to secure their agenda through democratic institutions.
www.quadrant.org.au /php/archive_details_list.php?article_id=349   (999 words)

  
 Was the ‘Liberal Internationalism’ espoused in 1919 destined to fail or merely a concept ahead of its time.
Was the ‘Liberal Internationalism’ espoused in 1919 destined to fail or merely a concept ahead of its time.
It is possible that had there not been such a level of illusion surrounding the success of economics and politics of the mid-to-late 1920's, liberal internationalism could have succeeded.
As far as political illusions are concerned, these were equally as damaging to liberal internationalism.
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 Tony Blair’s Internationalism by Michael S. Rozeff
And Blair need not elevate the political, religious and other agendas of a variety of terrorists, separatists, secessionists, rebels, tribalists, and fundamentalists into a large-scale battle between Western secular states and Islamic fundamentalist states whether they be moderate or radical.
Internationalism is a bigger version of statism, subject to the same criticisms, only more so.
Rather it is a specious rationale for some states who camouflage their tyrannies with democratic majorities and other electoral devices to intervene in the affairs of other tyrannies who in a less sophisticated manner care not that their tyrannies are open to the view of others.
www.lewrockwell.com /rozeff/rozeff67.html   (2879 words)

  
 Multimedia--Book Review4
Both realists and Marxists, he suggests, focus too narrowly on the notion of international politics as an arena in which states, in the case of realists, or classes, in the case of Marxists, engage in an unfettered contest for power and interest.
Liberal internationalism, he observes, is characterized by a tension between a liberalism of national self-determination, on the one hand, and a cosmopolitan liberalism, on the other.
While Hoffmann is clearly inclined toward liberal internationalism as a response, he expresses concerns, as we have noted in the case of the issue of intervention, for example, about the current state of liberal internationalist theory.
www.jmss.org /2002/bookreview4.html   (745 words)

  
 The End of Left-Right Politics | TPMCafe
The US and several other industrialized nations are seeing a situation where the old political groupings can no longer be described on a left-right axis.
As long as the political power was in the hand of mainline Protestants the discrimination showed up mostly in employment and public accommodations.
Countries which were never exposed to this type of multi-ethnic population such as the Netherlands, parts of Scandinavia and the UK have seen the rise of political groups with an explicit xenophobic foundation.
www.tpmcafe.com /discussiontables/media_table/2006/dec/17/the_end_of_left_right_politics   (2127 words)

  
 Organiser
With a reehru was all for internationalism and universalism.
He was no fanatical Muslim, for the simple reason that he did not know the ABC of Islam-to the extent that he never even prayed, again for the simple reason that he did not know how to pray or what to say when at prayer.
He was a practical man to whom the Mahatma's Ahimsa and Nehru's internationalism were contemptible mysteries.
www.organiser.org /30apr2000/years.html   (601 words)

  
 America Searches for its Centre - Council on Foreign Relations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Furthermore, secular changes in American politics, not just the idiosyncrasies of George W. Bush and his neo-conservative advisers, are pushing the country away from liberal internationalism.
The generation of Americans that fought in the second world war and oversaw the building of the west is retiring from politics, to be replaced by a generation that lacks the experience that formed the foundation of liberal internationalism.
Moreover, the political divide is falling along geographic lines; the coasts tend to be liberal and Democratic, the heartland conservative and Republican.
www.cfr.org /publication/6758/america_searches_for_its_centre.html   (953 words)

  
 The New Apathy: How an Uninterested Public Is Reshaping Foreign Policy -- James M. Lindsay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This apathetic internationalism is reshaping the politics of American foreign policy—encouraging the neglect of foreign affairs, distorting policy choices to favor the noisy few over the quiet many, and making it harder for presidents to lead.
Intensity is crucial to the politics of foreign policy today because the public's commitment to internationalism has ebbed over the past decade.
Indian-Americans have used their growing political clout (membership in the Congressional Indian Caucus is nearly double that of the Congressional Study Group on Germany) to block efforts to cut aid to India and persuade Congress to condemn Pakistani "aggression" in Kashmir.
www.brook.edu /views/articles/lindsay/2000sept_fa.htm   (3379 words)

  
 Country Information, a world portal on countries, politics and governments
International Relations (IR), a branch of political science, is the study of foreign affairs of and relations among states within the international system, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and multinational corporations (MNCs).
Apart from political science, IR draws upon such diverse fields as economics, history, law, philosophy, geography, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and cultural studies.
Linked in with Marxist theories is dependency theory which argues that developed countries, in their pursuit of power, penetrate developing states through political advisors, missionaries, experts and MNCs to integrate them into the integrated capitalist system in order to appropriate natural resources and foster dependence by developing countries on developed countries.
www.countryiworld.com /wiki-International_politics   (3401 words)

  
 Crisis in the AFL-CIO: A Falling Out AmongThieves | International Communist Current
From the botched election of 2000 to its hesitancy to rally behind a candidate in 2004, the American bourgeoisie is encountering increasing difficulty in coordinating its democratic mystification, of which the unions are a key element.
This does not compare to the 1930s, the era of the CIO and its philosophy of mass industrial unionism, when the Roosevelt administration actively cooperated with the unions in order to gain greater control of the working-class and enroll more workers into these capitalist institutions as part of a long-term vision to quell class struggle.
They cannot allow themselves to be drawn into the increasing drama of bourgeois politics by allowing themselves to believe they have a stake in its outcome.
en.internationalism.org /inter/135_unionsplit.html   (1035 words)

  
 TCS Daily - Against Illiberal Internationalism
There is the always present but presently rejected isolationist choice; there is the realist choice of pure power politics; and there is the liberal internationalist choice of multilateral legalism.
In the natural sciences, the classic example of this was the prediction of new chemical elements to fill the gaps in the original periodic table of elements.
Starting from Krauthammers description of liberal internationalism, where he generously suggests that liberal internationalists are not motivated by anti-Americanism, or lack of patriotism or a late efflorescence of 1960s radicalism, but seek to turn the state of nature into a norm driven community.
www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=022004B   (1287 words)

  
 The End of History? Reflections on Some International Legal Theses
Slaughter explains that liberal internationalism promises a result that is `neither utopia nor the end of history, but holds out the hope of at least a small measure of progress toward individual rights and the global rule of law'.
This account starts with Wilsonian internationalism (or, as realists later called it, idealism), passes through the stage of realism, and reaches its conclusion with liberal internationalism, which is said to combine the strengths, but also to overcome the shortcomings, of both its forerunners.
In any event, the claim of liberal internationalism, as of the norm of democratic governance, is that this fundamental difference should, and is beginning to, be reflected in international law.
www.ejil.org /journal/Vol8/No3/art5-02.html   (4697 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties (Latin America Otherwise): Books: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new, cutting-edge Argentine art.
A bestseller in Argentina, Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics is an examination of the 1960s as a brief historical moment when artists, institutions, and critics joined to promote an international identity for Argentina’s visual arts.
Giunta’s rich narrative illuminates the contentious postwar relationships between art and politics, Latin America and the United States, and local identity and global recognition.
www.amazon.com /Avant-Garde-Internationalism-Politics-Argentine-Otherwise/dp/0822338939   (757 words)

  
 Ephilosopher :: View topic - Internationalism is over - thanks to the US and the UK
Internationalism is based on state cooperation, going as far as forming international law.
The trick to developing as fullly fledged an internationalism as is possible is the politics and rhetoric linking cooperative goals to national interest.
Contrary to what you seem to be claiming, my impression is that compared to just a few decades ago, the level of international cooperation is unparrelelled in terms of countries' willingness to work together (or at least openly disucss) on common goals that benefit the individual nations' self-interest as well.
ephilosopher.com /bb-topic-137.html   (1275 words)

  
 E. Belfort Bax: Internationalism (1908)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Labour Party and the Radicals, who go with then in this matter, are not avowedly Socialist in their aims, but they represent nevertheless, in a sense, the political instinct of the proletariat, and this instinct has ranged them, for the nonce, on the side of the principle underlying the internationalism of the Socialist Party.
The Internationalism of the Socialist Party recognises the ultimate solidarity of the human race its goal, but first and foremost, it assumes the unity of interest and the unity of development of the peoples of all the progressive races – that is, of all those countries within the pale of modern capitalist civilisation.
Modern Capitalism has for its political expression the modern centralised State or nation, autonomous as against its compeers, similar and rival States or nations, No direct relation between the internal conditions of one State and those of another is recognised.
www.marxists.org /archive/bax/1908/06/internat.htm   (949 words)

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