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Shifting to New Paradigm, New Strategies, and New Livelihoods in Mexico
Written by Luis Lopezllera   
Friday, 29 December 2006

“The 2006 juncture, a hard battle for the representative democracy is ending. Now it starts a middle term challenge, a hard battle for the participative democracy. Something new is emerging. The near future will bring new visions and new strategies. The institutional structure of power lost its legitimacy in front of millions of Mexicans. The people this time decided not to be deceived any more.”

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What Is Happening in Mexico?
Written by Luis Lopezllera   
Tuesday, 19 December 2006
Towards Post Hegemony
Written by JOHAN SARAVANAMUTTU   
Monday, 18 December 2006

“My interest is how the project of ‘post-hegemony’ can be further advanced, given the current constellation of global political forces… That the so-called war against terrorism, which essentially targets political Islam, rides roughshod over the injustices perpetrated by the current globalized world order in which a hegemonic ‘West’ still dictates the terms of social, political and economic engagement in most societies. The underlying problems of economic, social and political injustice across the globe cannot be ‘fixed’ by a new imperialism…(T)he project of post-hegemony in contemporary terms involves more than unseating the United States…”


THERE are usually two perspectives on the terror attacks on New York’s World Trade Centre, now commonly referred to as ‘9/11’. The first holds that 9/11 was a transformative event of egregious proportions and that international relations and politics will never remain the same henceforth. The second accepts that while 9/11 was a major political event, it did not alter world politics in any significant way and indeed merely symbolised what was already an anarchic global system.

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