Marcos (Mark) T Berger
Naval Postgraduate School, Defense Analysis, Faculty Member
- Adjunt Professor, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California. USAedit
Contrary to the view of some observers who insist that the Cold War was of limited or no relevance to the transition from colonies to nation-states after 1945 we argue that the geopolitics of the Cold War played a crucial role in shaping... more
Contrary to the view of some observers who insist that the Cold War was of limited or no relevance to the transition from colonies to nation-states after 1945 we argue that the geopolitics of the Cold War played a crucial role in shaping the character and direction of the trajectories of nation-states in Asia, if not the erstwhile Third World as a whole. More particularly, the geopolitics of the Cold War provided the crucial backdrop for the rise and fall of developmental nationalism, while the post–Cold War era has set the scene for an array of cultural nationalisms. These issues are explored with a particular focus on India. The case of India makes clear that it is impossible to separate the emergence of new nation-states and their success or failure after 1945 from the geopolitics of the Cold War. It will also make clear that the shifting geopolitics of the end of the Cold War reinforced the demise of developmental nationalism. Since the late 1980s, the problems facing the nation-states of the former Third World, are being played out in a geo-political context, which includes an important shift from developmental nationalisms to cultural nationalisms, while the nation-state system itself is sliding deeper into crisis against the backdrop of the global framework of ‘genuinely existing’ liberal capitalism and the changing geopolitics of the early twenty-first century.
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Book Review: Devesh Kapur, John Lewis, and Richard Webb (eds.), The World Bank: Its First Half-Century, Volume, I: Histoty (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1997, 1,275 pp., $79.95 hbk.): Devesh Kapur, John Lewis, and Richard Webb (eds.), The World Bank: Its First Half-Century, Volume 2...more
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This article is an effort to advance the political and intellectual debate on the theory and practice of nation building in an era of collapsing states. I assume at the outset that we are in the midst of a crisis of the nation-state... more
This article is an effort to advance the political and intellectual debate on the theory and practice of nation building in an era of collapsing states. I assume at the outset that we are in the midst of a crisis of the nation-state system as a whole and, thus of the vast majority of its constituent polities. This is not
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Page 1. Third World Quarterly, Vol 22, No 6, pp 1003-1024, 2001 The break-up of Indonesia? Nationalisms after decolonisation and the limits of the nation-state in post-cold war Southeast Asia EDWARD ASPINALL & MARK T BERGER ...
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As the March 1998 presidential election (which was preceded by a general election in May 1997) approaches there is every indication that President Suharto of Indonesia will be elected to his seventh® ve-year term. There was speculation... more
As the March 1998 presidential election (which was preceded by a general election in May 1997) approaches there is every indication that President Suharto of Indonesia will be elected to his seventh® ve-year term. There was speculation that the long-serving former ...
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... 'Democratic imperialism': Geopolitics and 'America's ... whether in the military, political or economic spheres), the transcendent character of its overall geopolitical vision means ... civil war,... more
... 'Democratic imperialism': Geopolitics and 'America's ... whether in the military, political or economic spheres), the transcendent character of its overall geopolitical vision means ... civil war, but there was, it was argued, no strong connection between high levels of social inequality and ...
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... 1999 FEATURE REVIEW Up from neoliberalism: free-market mythologies and the coming crisis of global capitalism Mark T Berger The ...
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... Hyam points out, rightly enough, that the British did not bring prostitution to India, but he is on much shakier ground when he gives credence to the idea, often asserted by the British at the time, that it was an old and... more
... Hyam points out, rightly enough, that the British did not bring prostitution to India, but he is on much shakier ground when he gives credence to the idea, often asserted by the British at the time, that it was an old and 'honourably established business'.10 Old it was, but prostitution ...
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Page 1. Yellow Mythologies: The East Asian Miracle and Post-Cold War Capitalism Mark T. Berger ... Over- Page 8. Berger I Yellow Mythologies 97 ...
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... In the case of Central America this shift was reflected in a strategy that emphasized the imposition of pluralist electoral politics and a neoliberal economic model (Conaghan, Malloy, and Abugattas, 1990: 28; Roxborough, 1992; Petras... more
... In the case of Central America this shift was reflected in a strategy that emphasized the imposition of pluralist electoral politics and a neoliberal economic model (Conaghan, Malloy, and Abugattas, 1990: 28; Roxborough, 1992; Petras and Vieux, 1992). ...
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In early December 1992, in a brief address to the Annual Conference on Trade, Investment and Development in the Caribbean Basin held in Miami, U.S. President-Elect Bill Clinton, proclaimed that ‘today we face an unprecedented convergence... more
In early December 1992, in a brief address to the Annual Conference on Trade, Investment and Development in the Caribbean Basin held in Miami, U.S. President-Elect Bill Clinton, proclaimed that ‘today we face an unprecedented convergence of ideals’ and ‘together, we can construct a genuine hemispheric community of democracies’. This post-Cold War manifestation of Pan Americanism reached new heights at the Summit of the Americas in Miami in late 1994, where the idea of continued political and economic convergence (with an emphasis on the latter) was celebrated and encouraged. By the time of the second summit, which was held in Santiago, Chile in April 1998, enthusiasm for regional integration had waned somewhat. Nevertheless, Clinton reassured the heads of government assembled in the Chilean capital (and representing all the governments of the region except for Cuba which, as in Miami in 1994, was not invited) that the Americas had experienced a ‘profound revolution in the last few years, a revolution of peace and freedom and prosperity’. Central to the ‘Plan of Action’ agreed to at the meeting was a reiteration of a commitment, mapped out at the first summit in Miami, which set early 2005 as the deadline for the completion of the negotiation of a hemispheric free-trade zone (Free Trade Area of the Americas-FTAA).
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William LeoGrande has written an important history of U. S. policy in Central America with a focus on the crucial period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. The author is exceedingly well qualified to write critically about the Reagan... more
William LeoGrande has written an important history of U. S. policy in Central America with a focus on the crucial period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. The author is exceedingly well qualified to write critically about the Reagan years. In the late 1970s he gained a reputation for his research on Cuban foreign policy, and after 1981
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... This celebration of Confucian values generally, and the work ethic of Chinese entrepreneurs more specifically, appears to have ... Cold War and renewed pressure for liberalization provided the context for a reorientation in... more
... This celebration of Confucian values generally, and the work ethic of Chinese entrepreneurs more specifically, appears to have ... Cold War and renewed pressure for liberalization provided the context for a reorientation in Mahathir's national and regional visions of progress. ...
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... The main leaders of the national liberation movement (the Patriotic Front), Joshua Nkomo of the Zimbabwe African Political Union (ZAPU) and Robert ... DeRoche aligns himself with Thomas J.Noer's argument that in the 1950s and... more
... The main leaders of the national liberation movement (the Patriotic Front), Joshua Nkomo of the Zimbabwe African Political Union (ZAPU) and Robert ... DeRoche aligns himself with Thomas J.Noer's argument that in the 1950s and 1960s the US tried to use moderate forms of ...
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This paper focuses on the theory and practice of nation-building. This is done primarily in an effort to explicate how area studies (AS), development studies (DS), and international studies (IS) have been, and continue to be, embedded in... more
This paper focuses on the theory and practice of nation-building. This is done primarily in an effort to explicate how area studies (AS), development studies (DS), and international studies (IS) have been, and continue to be, embedded in international security and economic/development policy processes and questions of national sovereignty, international relations, and global governance. The central argument is that at
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... Lloyd con cludes that the takeover of Bengal was a result of "Siraj-ud-Daula's incompetence and partly because of the eagerness of the Company's employees to supplement their incomes by plunging into Indian... more
... Lloyd con cludes that the takeover of Bengal was a result of "Siraj-ud-Daula's incompetence and partly because of the eagerness of the Company's employees to supplement their incomes by plunging into Indian politics."14 Judith Brown has also argued for a more or less ...