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Global Challenges

September 2, 2011 – 3:09 pm

Can cities take us beyond asymmetric war and environmental violence?

Posted in arena essay | Also tagged conflict, energy security, global challenges, global warming, urban insecurity, violence, water security | Comments (0)

Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?

November 14, 2010 – 9:10 am

It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Adam Smith, Arab, capitalism, China, colonialism, democracy, global markets, Greens, Greg Sheridan, intifada, Iraq, Israel, John Hinkson, Julia Gillard, market, media, Middle East, Muslim, Pakistan, technology, terrorism, Tony Abbott, United Sates, universities, Western culture | Comments (0)

The Age of Meta-War

April 2, 2003 – 6:55 pm

The distancing effects of techno-weaponry and a sanitised global media are the altering the structural basis of modern warfare writes Paul James

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Arena Magazine April-May 2003, Paul James, technosciences | Comments (0)

Black Pluto’s Door

October 2, 2001 – 8:02 pm

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

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also 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 | Comments (0)

Them’s Fighting Words

October 2, 2001 – 8:00 pm

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

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also 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 | 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.

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also 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 | Comments (0)

In Terror and Hope

October 2, 2001 – 7:57 pm

Guy Rundle

Posted in Arena Magazine Editorial, editorial | Also tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Albanian terrorists, Andy Butfoy, Angela Mitropoulos, anti-globalisation, anti-semitism, biological weapons, chemical weapons, civil liberties, civil society, colonialism, Damien Lawson, development, Douglas McQueen-Thomson, ethnic cleansing, executive power, foreign policy, free trade, GATT, Geoff Sharp, George W Bush, global justice, globalisation, Gulf War, Guy Rundle, heroin, holocaust, International Monetary Fund (IMF), IRA, Iraq, Jimmy Carter, John Hinkson, John Howard, Kashmiri terrorists, Kimberley Serca, Kosovo, labour rights, malnutrition, market, militant Islam, Mullah Omar, Nauru, Nehal Bhuta, neo-liberalism, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine, peace movement, Pentagon, preventable disease, propaganda, protectionism, reconciliation, refugee action movement, security, shar’ia, solidarity, sovereignty, Taliban, terror organisations, terrorism, UN Security Council, United Nations (UN), United States, violence, Winston Churchill, World Bank, World Trade Centre (WTC), World Trade Organization (WTO), Zapatista uprising | 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

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also 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, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments (0)

The Terrorist Syndrome

October 2, 2001 – 7:49 pm

Paul James: Mainstream Western responses to global violence involve disturbing reassertions of nationalistic parochialism.

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, American exceptionalism, civilisation, doubt, expansionism, Flight 93, freedom, George W Bush, global justice, hijacking, infrastructure, international law, isolationism, mainstream media, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Infinite Justice, Osama bin Laden, patriotism, Paul James, peace-keeping forces, Pentagon, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, security, surveillance, terrorism, United Nations (UN), United States, US government, Vietnam Syndrome, weakness, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments (0)

Will Democracy Come to the USA?

October 2, 2001 – 7:48 pm

Simon Cooper: Political dissent, so-called un-Americanism and the erosion of civil liberties in the US

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, anti-globalisation, anti-government groups, arrest powers, big government, civil liberties, Dan Rather, democracy, depoliticisation, Dick Cheney, doubt, foreign policy, George W Bush, infrastructure, intelligence agencies, mainstream media, militia, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Infinite Justice, patriotism, political correctness, political dissent, privacy, security, Simon Cooper, sports, surveillance, terrorism, United States, wiretapping, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments (0)

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