Editorials
Editorials in the November 2008 and August 2009 editions of The Sydney Globalist.
THE SYDNEY GLOBALIST LAUNCH
Border Politics: Conflict, Security, Identity
4 August 2010 5.30pm
Sydney Law School Foyer (Level 2)
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Global21 Newsletter
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A Word from the Editor
Christopher Beshara introduces the second issue of The Sydney Globalist for 2009, The New Face of Power.
Global power structures are in a state of flux. The centre of world gravity is shifting from West to East amid the relative decline of the United States as a hegemonic power. Meanwhile, individuals, supranational bodies, NGOs and non-state actors are vying for influence more doggedly than ever before, aided as they are by Twitter, YouTube and the humble blog.
These developments raise vexing questions for students of international relations. Will liberal democracy flounder as Russia and China seek to prove that authoritarianism and economic liberalism are not mutually exclusive? [...]
The Last Word
When the Bolsheviks seized power in October 1917, their leader, Vladimir Lenin, predicted a wholesale reconfiguration of power in Russia. The post-revolutionary Soviet state would be one in which ‘the power of the workers and the poor is assured’, he promised: tsarist Russia had endowed individual leaders with ‘dictatorial power’, whereas Bolshevik Russia would champion [...]
A Word from the Editor
A word from the editor, Christopher Beshara.
The mainstream media has spun a compelling yarn about the folly of the human condition. It goes a little something like this: our blind faith in free markets has laid waste to the economic superstructure. Africa’s failed states have become ground zero for despotism, electoral fraud, and famine. [...]
The Last Word
A final word from the Executive Director, Naomi Hart.
After the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the world knew that Germany was poised to invade France – and noone was more cognisant of the crisis than the highest echelons of the French army. The country’s best military tacticians knew, or so they thought, that any attack would come either across the highly militarised Maginot line to the east, or the plains of neutral Belgium to the north. In between these two sat the formidable Ardennes forest, a mountainous region ostensibly so impassable to heavily armoured divisions that military leaders failed to fortify it. [...]
A Word from the Editor
A word from our Editor-in-Chief, Christine Ernst
The rise of authoritarian regimes poses a frightening threat to the liberal international order and is a frontal assault on the democratic ideal. So warns U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain, who has urged like-minded governments to form a ‘League of Democracies’ as a bulwark against this trend. [...]
The Last Word
A final word from the Deputy Editor, Christopher Beshara
When Christine and I settled on ‘Democracy: A Consensus?’ as the title of this issue of The Sydney Globalist, the inclusion of that question mark was intended to convey more than just a witty pun. We wanted to emphasise not only that democracy is an elastic concept, but also that the pursuit of unwavering consensus may be a red herring in a world mired by power politics, moral partisanship and flirtations with authoritarianism. [...]
