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Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law
Antony Anghie opened a new direction in the study of international law with his book “Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law” (2005), published by Cambridge. The book is a significant contribution (nearly 5,000 citations as of this writing, not including the citations to the papers that are included in the book). This highly […]
Tags: #Antony Anghie #Colonialism #Emperialism #International Law #sovereignty
The Postcolonial African State in Transition
I have had Amy Niang’s 2018 “The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty” in my to-read pile for too long, and I am glad I finally got to it. This is a heavy book, but one that makes really interesting contributions and raises thought provoking questions. In the opening, the author […]
Tags: #Amy Niang #postcolonial #sovereignty #State #Stateness
Ending the Crisis of Capitalism, or Ending Capitalism?
I have covered several of Samir Amin works, including Unequal Development (1976), Capitalism in the Age of Globalization (1997) and The Liberal Virus (2004). This post covers his book Ending the Crisis of Capitalism, or Ending Capitalism? (originally published in French in 2009, and the translation I have was published in 2011 by Pambazuka Press). […]
War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
This “thought provoker” presents views on political philosophy and democracy from Hardt and Negri’s “Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire” (2004). Some have criticized the book as lacking concrete data to support its claims, however it is essentially a work of philosophy, and thus that is necessarily expected of it. For those […]
Tags: #biopolitical weapons #Democracy #Multitude #Political Philosophy #sovereignty
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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