Out of the “Dregs of the Eighties” and Screaming at the New World Order

Author(s):  
David Pearson

In the late 1980s, the US punk scene was plagued by Nazi skinheads, macho violence, and hostility toward leftist politics. At the dawn of the 1990s, several punk bands challenged this state of affairs by putting radical leftist politics at the heart of the scene, ejecting racists, and opening space for women, Latino, and queer participants. They fostered new and more intense musical styles distinct from New York Hardcore (NYHC) style, and built new institutions—zines, performance venues, and record labels—to give shape to their music and politics. The music of the all-Latino band Los Crudos exemplifies the trend of intense hardcore punk with a strident political message.

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-177
Author(s):  
Karl Aiginger

AbstractAfter President Trump’s departure, many expected that the transatlantic partnership would return to its previous state with the US playing a leading role. This article challenges that view. Instead, a new world order is foreseen, with different partnerships and spheres of influence. Europe can decide whether it wants to remain small and homogeneous or a larger but also more heterogenous Union that leads in welfare indicators such as life expectancy, fighting poverty and limiting climate change. Expanding this lead and communicating its uniqueness can empower Europe to combine enlargement and deepening, which appears unlikely without changes in governance and self-confidence.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-34
Author(s):  
Akhtar Gul ◽  
Tanbila Ghafoor ◽  
Fatima Zahra

The aim of this paper describes world’s future post-COVID-19. Coronavirus resemble pandemics exist in centuries. Exactly, one century ago influenza flu affected the world economy and social order. About millions of people died caused by pandemics along with weak and collapsed economies. The pandemic entirely affected every sphere of life, including, Labor demand and supply, tourism, economy, politics, and nature of the world.  There are two possible scenarios of the world post-Covid-19. First one world will enter new wars, hunger, and world order and so on. Second one, whole states collectively tackle this pandemic. Firstly, Economic and military strength determine the political power of a state. The US has been facing severe and critical crises since 2016. Thus, the US will not maintain power more and more. USA’s One Step Back Policy will collapse USA power and Trump loses the election, and new president will impose new wars on Asian land. European Union will disintegrate due to race of power among the powers along with world face. Secondly, China will impose a new world order after COVID-19. Because China policies totally different from previous superpowers. During supremacy, the Great Britain and USA were adopted aggressive political and military policies. In Contrast, China adopted an economic policy which is beneficial for every society. China started to lead the world economically and politically. So, this gap will create a new war in Asia and globally. China Economic Network policy (BRI) would cover world in 2040 years. Thirdly, world economies will face severe economic conditions like 1923, 1929 and 2008. The current recession and political scenarios are knocking a depression on world economic door. Fourthly, emerging economy India will not cover economic power till 2025. Maybe India never achieves economic prosperity due to Jingoistic approach.  In this paper, we predicate world’s economic and politics shape post-covid-19. The virus is changed every sphere and every field of life. ? We used NiGEM model. It’s just predication, will what occur in future. About 3% Gross Domestic Product, 10% consumption, 18% manufacturing and 13% to 32% trade declined due to current pandemics. Universal recession also take place. Now, how the world’s powerful state will push the world into new wars. Which one imposed new world order post-covid-19? Does a new Great Depression knock world door


1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-127
Author(s):  
Kurt Burch

Susan Strange (1996) The Retreat of the State: The Drfision of Power inthe World Economy. New York, Ny: Cambridge University Press. 218pages. $16.95 paperback.Martin J. Beck Matustik (1998) Specters of Liberation: Great ReMals inthe New World Order Albany, Ny: State University of New York Press.360 pages. $23.95 paperback.In 1996, Philip Cerny wrote in the International Journal that globalizationliterature is a set of contested stories that frame the categories andconcepts informing public debate. Retreat and Specters tell such stories toshape perceptions of globalization as a threat demanding vigorous scholarlyattention and creative political responses. Both books depict globalizationas a frightening menace heralding social tumult; dislocation; “ayawning hole of non-authority” (Strange, p. 14); and a terrifying legacy of“economic immiseration, political oppression, cultural marginalization,and racial and ethnic cleansing” (Matustik, p. x). Strange outlines potentialthreats, leaving readers to conjure responses. Matustik seeks to openthe conceptual space necessary to craft alternative conditions, leavingreaders to specify the threats and imagine how to achieve alternatives.Neither author explains or analyzes globalization. Strange disdains globalizationas no more than empty jargon, and describes it as an economicand technological phenomenon with political consequences. Matustik considersit to be social with political and cultural consequences.Both authors address prevailing stories of globalization as much asglobal conditions. Each exhorts readers to confront globalization byexploring the gritty reality and actual conditions confronting individuals,rather than by accepting prevailing stories. Thus, each confirms Cerny’s claim (1996:260) that globalization is more significant as a contested discoursethan as an analytical literature or global condition. In this light, onedoes well to read Strange and Matustik as storytellers and to ask if theirinterpretive tales reflect one’s experiences and impressions of global life.Unsurprisingly, both authors tell only partial tales, but each poses worthyquestions ...


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