Economics 357L
Political Economy of International Crisis
(28865)
Professor Harry Cleaver
Spring 2000
TTH 12:30-2:00pm, UTC 3.124
This web page contains materials for:
Crises of Diplomacy
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Harry Cleaver,"The Zapatista Effect: The Internet and the Rise of an Alternative Political Fabric"Journal of International Affairs
Analysis of the central role of the Internet in the international circulation of the struggles of the Zapatistas in Southern Mexico and of the way this technology is speeding up the development of grassroots mobilization against elite foreign policy making. Published before the "Battle in Seattle" this piece provides the background necessary for understanding how such a effort could have occurred and successfully blocked the anticipated passage of new "free trade" rules.
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Trade War in Burma.
This is a selection of texts taken from the Internet. Most come from the grassroots group in Massachusetts that is fighting to retain a law passed in that state that prevented companies from doing business with the state government if they were also doing business with the repressive Myanmar state. The law was ruled unconstitutional by a Federal Court and is now being appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States.