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US retaking the reins from global civil society?

October 28, 2010
By Jessica Fowler

Is the US flexing its metaphorical muscle in the realm of international affairs and the ‘Global War on Terror’ once again?  In a move that could be viewed as the reassertion of the state’s authority over an increasingly globalized arena and international commons that has more recently allowed in the last decades for the...
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Save Darfur Coalition: Model of an effective network

October 25, 2010
By Jessica Fowler

So, I had to read this report by the Save Darfur Coalition for my class this week, Issues in Humanitarian Assistance and Intervention, and although I was already familiar with the Save Darfur Coalition (SDC) I had never considered it through the lens of network theory and in terms of...
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