International Relations in a post-hegemonic age

In his valedictory lecture, concluding twenty-five years teaching at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Fred Halliday examines three aspects of the changing reality and intellectual context of International Relations. Placing a broad interpretation on the concept of the 'post-hegemonic' he looks at the changing nature of American power, the growing diversity of, and challenges to, the discipline of International Relations, and the mixed record of different conceptions of internationalism. This lecture is a reassertion of the necessity and vitality of academic reflection on International Relations, a challenge to much conventional thinking on issues of globalization, and a reassertion of the need for, and complexity of, a commitment to global values.     

The strategic anthropologist

Ken Booth's Strategy and ethnocentrism, published in 1979, deserves to be promoted in scholars' esteem to the very small category of works regarded as classics about strategy. Three reasons serve to explain why, over the years, it never received the acclaim it merits: the relatively undistinguished publisher; ironically, the subsequent debate over more than a quarter of a century about culture as a factor necessary for the understanding of strategy; and the attractively accessible style in which Booth expressed himself. Strategy and ethnocentrism is witty and even occasionally amusing—characteristics apt to trigger a response of some disdain from over‐serious scholars. We can now assess Booth's book in its proper context, which is the long if very thinly populated history of strategic ideas, largely free of unduly distorting ‘presentist’ concerns. The fact that Strategy and ethnocentrism was written in the context of the Cold War really does not matter for the quality of its argument. This work is a classic because it speaks to all periods and about all participants in strategic history. The originality of Booth's treatment of culture does not lie so much in the realm of his grasp of its relative strategic significance, but rather in his relentless unwrapping of the actual, or certainly potential, harm, including unanticipated self‐harm, of ethnocentricity. Today, studies of culture and strategy are not in short supply, but works that compel readers to attempt to take due account of their own ethnocentric frailties are in desperately short supply.     

THE GREYING OF SOUTH GEORGIAN BAY

Custom Statistics Canada tabulations were used to analyse the distribution of the elderly, rural nonfarmers and migrants in Census Subdivisions around the south shore of Georgian Bay in 1991. The proportion of persons 60 and over in this area is well above the provincial average. In manycsDs, over 90 percent of those 60 and over are in the rural nonfarm category. Townships on the Bruce Peninsula were particularly attractive to elderly nonfarm migrants, while Wasaga Beach was an important destination for the elderly. Forallareas, the Colden Horseshoe around the western end of Lake Ontario was the largest source of elderly migrants from 1986 to 1991.
Des totalisations spéciales de Statistiques Canada ont été utilisées pour analyser la distribution des migrants, des personnes âgées, et des non-fermiers vivant sur les bords de la Baie Georgienne en 1991. La proportion de gens âgés de 60 ans et plus est bien au dessus de la moyenne provinciale. Dans plusieurs subdivisions de recensement, plus de 90% de gens aCgés de 60 ans et plus appartiennent à la catégorie rurale non agricole. Les cantons de la Péninsule de Bruce ont particulièrement attiré les migrants âgés de secteurs non agricoles. d'autre part Wasaga Beach était une destination importante pour les personnes âgées. La région du 'Golden Horseshoe', a l'extrémité ouest du Lac Ontario, a été celle qui a fourni le plus de migrants âgés de 1986 à 1991.