Chapter 3 Further Resources

Web Links

• Feminist Theory Website (www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism); Utilitarianism (www.utilitarianism.com); Liberal International (www.liberal-international.org); UNIFEM and Gender Issues (www.unifem.org/gender_issues). These sites are all excellent sources of contemporary ideologies.

• Greenpeace (www.greenpeace.org/international); Socialist Worker (www.socialistworker.org). Sites which show the application of ideology in environmental and labour contexts.

Podcasts

• “Perspectives on Nationalism and the Trump Presidency”, War Studies, February 27, 2019. https://soundcloud.com/warstudies/nationalism
  
  This podcast episode explores ideas around nationalism, identity politics, and what the Trump presidency means for the world.

• “How Neoconservatism Led the US into Iraq”, On the Media, March 30, 2018. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/how-neoconservatism-led-us-iraq
  
  This podcast discusses the reasons of the US invasion in Iraq in 2003. In this episode Max Fisher, New York Times Columnist, argues that the invasion wan simply the natural unfolding of the neoconservative worldwide. This view still shapes American policies and minds today.

• “Flirting with Fascism: America’s New Path?”, CBC Radio, November 29, 2018. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/flirting-with-fascism-america-s-new-path-1.4925687
  
  This podcast discusses whether America is becoming a fascist state or not. In this episode Henry Giroux, a renowned scholar at McMaster University, argues that “savage capitalism” has moved America from a landscape of certainty to a fog of precarity and this can create a foundations of totalitarianism. 

Further Readings

• Alvarez, Sonia E., Evelina Dagnino, & Arturo Escobar, eds. (1998). Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Revisioning Latin American Social Movements. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

• Balaam, David N., & Michael Veseth (2001). Introduction to International Political Economy. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.

• Baramendi, Pablo, & Christopher J. Anderson (2008). Democracy, Inequality, and Representation: A Comparative Perspective. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

• Cohn H., Theodore (2008). Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice. New York: Pearson Longman.

• Giddens, Anthony (2001). The Global Third Way Debate. Cambridge: Polity.

• Heywood, Andrew (1994). Political Ideas and Concepts: An Introduction. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

• Kriesi, Hanspeter (1996). “The Organizational Structure of New Social Movements in a Political Context.” In Doug McAdam et al (Eds.) Comparative Perspectives of Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

• McCaffrey, Stephen C. (2006). Understanding International Law. Newark, NJ: LexisNexis Group.

• Migdal, Joel S. (2001). State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Norris, Pippa (2004). Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Olson, Mancur (1971). The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• Shklar, Judith N. (1998). Political Thought and Political Thinkers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.