Arena Magazine Feature

Category Archives: Arena Magazine Feature

Global Challenges and the City

September 22, 2011 – 2:46 pm

Saskia Sassen asks can cities take us beyond asymmetric war and environmental violence.

Comments (1)

The Militarisation of Defence

March 11, 2011 – 10:25 am

The Defence White Paper assumes an aggressive posture and receives unprecedented funding

Tagged Afghanistan, ANZAC, Arena Magazine February-March 2011, Australian Defence Forces, Australian Federal Police, Defence Department, Defence White Paper, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, East Timor, Iraq, John Langmore, military expenditure, peacekeeping, security, solomon islands, terrorism, The Australian Strategic Policy Institute | Comments (2)

Tom Nairn: The beginnings of a new and undisguised american unilateralism has led many to suggest global forms of justice. But peace may only be achieved by overcoming the impasse of nationalisms in the region

Also posted in arena magazine features, features | Tagged 9/11, anti-Americanism, authoritarianism, Brendan O’Leary, capitalism, Christian conservatism, Christianity, Colin Powell, democracy, ethnic cleansing, free trade, fundamentalism, globalisation, hierarchy, imperialism, information technology, Islam, justice, nationalism, OpenDemocracy, oppression, Osama bin Laden, Palestine, propaganda, rationality, recession, religious toleration, secularism, sharia law, technology, terrorism, theocracy, Tom Nairn, unilateralism, United States, war | Comments (0)

Them’s Fighting Words

October 2, 2001 – 8:00 pm

Douglas McQueen-Thomson: Language of War and War Through Language.

Also posted in arena magazine features, features | Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Alexander Downer, anti-Muslim feeling, anti-totalitarianism, Bill Clinton, Christians, civil liberties, Colin Powell, diplomacy, Douglas McQueen-Thomson, egalitarian principles, freedom, George W Bush, high tech, Jihad, language, media, Muslims, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Infinite Justice, Osama bin Laden, political dissent, rhetoric, Sikhs, surveillance, Taliban, terror, terrorism, Tony Blair, United States, war | Comments (0)

High Towers, High Stakes, High Risks

October 2, 2001 – 7:59 pm

John Hinkson: The financial fallout of the attack has laid bare the risky and crisis-ridden nature of a hi-tech society. The aftershocks will echo through every sector of the economy.

Also posted in arena magazine features, features | Tagged 9/11, adical mobility, bio-technology, consumption, e-commerce, economic crisis, futures, hedge funds, high tech, hijaking, insurance, John Hinkson, oil, recession, risk, security, terrorism, tourism, war | Comments (0)

What Hope for Years to Come?

October 2, 2001 – 7:53 pm

Geoff Sharp: In the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States, the tension between religious piety and imperial power reveals the urgent need for re-examination of the new social forms

Also posted in arena magazine features, features | Tagged 9/11, civilisation, colonialism, community, conscience, consumption, democracy, elites, gender, Geoff Sharp, George W Bush, globalisation, government, high tech, humanism, individualism, inequality, international markets, market, market fundamentalism, materialism, mediation, modernity, mortality, oppression, peace movement, reconciliation, religion, self-gratification, state terrorism, technology, technosciences, terrorism, United Nations (UN), United States, war, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments (0)

Habeas Corpus

October 2, 2001 – 7:51 pm

Angela Mitropoulos: Citizens are commodities, dialogue is dead and civilisation is barbaric in the new global order. Against capital and state, open borders represent hope.