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Political Dissent and Practices of Security: Repression and Regulation of Anti-globalization Movements in North America This paper applies a critical Security Studies reading of anti-globalization movements in North America as new objects of security. This departs from realist concepts of security as informed by systemic constraints that are restricted to interactions between states and domestic factors are treated as the purview of foreign policy analysis. Non-state actors that work both within and across state borders are rendered invisible to the analytical precepts of traditional Security Studies. As the state is treated as the primary locus of security, the security concerns of citizens are identified with those of the state. Yet, convergences of dissent against globalization disrupt realist conceptions of the state as a unitary political community. While this problematic is only found in the interstices of conventional Security Studies, the realist paradigm is unable to address this dynamic shaping contemporary security practices. My research concerns two areas of inquiry that address the treatment of anti-globalization protest in North America, first as a threat to state security and subject to repression, and second, as an object of which to securitize through practices of regulation. New security practices posit anti-globalization movements as objects to be treated with both mechanisms of surveillance and repression, and as objects of regulation and self-regulation by constituting anti-globalization movements as internal to liberal democratic politics and as responsible civil actors in North American liberal democracy. This paper, through its consideration of contemporary state security practices, will address the central importance that anti-globalization assumes in the evolving nature of security in North America in the context of liberal democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks at the assumptions of the emerging literature on global justice and show how some of the debates are distorted by inappropriate ideas borrowed from the domestic social contract theories out of which they grow. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an empirical analysis of the protests that occured during the 1999 World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference held in Seattle. It is a somewhat different approach to the study of protest, as it does not rely upon survey data of protestors, but rather looks at the secondary impact of protest events upon media coverage. The time series data for the study result from the quantification of two LexusNexus searchs of the Associated Press, BBC Worldwide Monitoring, and the New York Times from 1994 through 2002. The first dataset addresses the emergence of the antiglobalization protest movment in the three new sources, and produces a useable sample of 292 articles over the period. The second dataset addresses the impact of protest events upon overall media coverage of the WTO, and relies upon a sample of 2037 Associated Press articles. The results of the analysis are generally positive. Seattle does mark the beginning of a broader protest movement against trade liberalization. There is also evidence that the WTO has greater salience in the post seattle environment. This result is stronger for press coverage in the North and South American region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines through ethnography methods, in the words, of premillennialists the relationship between their understandings of premillennial doctrine and its relationship to preference for anti-globalization, anti-government regulation, anti-secularization, anti-environmentalism, and pro-Israeli policies. I hypothesize that premillennialism is a source of preference for these policies among those socialized within this tradition. The ethnographic project presented here consists of in-depth interview with premillennialists and participant observation of premillennial conferences and events. The analysis identifies whether or not, the message is understood by individuals within the mass public, participants hold the premillennial policy positions noted above, and there is a link between their views about premillennialism and preference for these policies. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the relationship in elite discourse between premillennial theology and anti-globalization, anti-government regulation, anti-secularization and pro-Israel policies ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Protest event analysis and interviews help to explain how competition with anti-war movements and institutional reforms spurned tactical repertoire shifts by increasingly reformist activists and thus decreased anti-globalization protest mobilization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Argues for building an anticipatory, future-shaping capacity to manage for sound governance in the age of rapid globalization and hyper-uncertainty; offers as a modest prescription for survival strategic capacities to manage for public governance. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In some East European countries, up to a third of the electorate voted against their countries? membership in the European Union. I argue that this was a vote of anti-capitalist protest in the context of failed Western-oriented economic reforms. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]