Articles by Susan Watkins
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The Political State of the Union
in NLR 90, November-December 2014, pp. 5-25
Subjects: Europe
Debt, deflation and stagnation have now become the familiar economic stigmata of the EU. But what of its political distortions? A survey of the three principal—and steadily worsening—imbalances in the outcome of European integration: the oligarchic cast of its governors, the lop-sided rise of Germany, and the declining autonomy of the Union as a whole in the North Atlantic universe.
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Annexations
in NLR 86, March-April 2014, pp. 5-13
Subjects: Soviet Union and Russia , International Relations
After decades of connivance with territorial seizures from Palestine to East Timor, the West rediscovers the principle of state sovereignty in Crimea. The actual record of 20th-century land grabs, and the cross-cutting geopolitical pressures bearing down on Ukraine.
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Another Turn Of The Screw?
in NLR 75, May-June 2012, pp. 5-13
Subjects: World Economy and Globalization , International Relations , Economic Policy
Beneath the roiling surface of the Euro-crisis, a further chapter of the EU integration project is underway. Susan Watkins on the institutional machinery Berlin is imposing across the Union, and the political stakes—and hypocrisies—laid bare by the struggle.
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Presentism? Reply to T.J. Clark
in NLR 74, March-April 2012, pp. 77-102
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
Responding to Clark, Susan Watkins questions the adequacy of a perspective built upon man’s propensity for violence, and defends a historicized politics of social transformation against the cramped horizon of the present.
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Peter Campbell
in NLR 72, November-December 2011, pp. 135-137
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History
Remembering the watercolourist, typographer and writer—resident art critic at the London Review of Books—who redesigned NLR.
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Blue Labour?
in NLR 63, May-June 2010, pp. 5-15
Subjects: Britain
Anatomy of the UK’s new crossbreed government, and the uneven electoral geography that produced it. Amid the ruins of New Labour’s economic model and spreading Euro-turbulence, what prospects for resistance to austerity’s impending axe?
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Shifting Sands
in NLR 61, January-February 2010, pp. 5-27
Subjects: New Left , World Economy and Globalization
What remains of the neo-liberal order after the implosion of 2008—with what implications for a journal of the left? Notes for a future research agenda, as NLR enters its quinquagenary year.
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The Nuclear Non-Protestation Treaty
in NLR 54, November-December 2008, pp. 5-26
Subjects: War and Peace , International Relations
What are the geopolitical origins of the NPT, and what are its actual effects? Non-proliferation as nuclear privilege of the few, weapon of intimidation of the one, submission of the many—and its impact on the peace movement.
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Toryism After Blair
in NLR 38, March-April 2006, pp. 128-135
Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy
Susan Watkins on Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Strange Death of Tory England. Roles of déclassement, decolonization and Thatcherite revolution in the Conservative decline.
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Continental Tremors
in NLR 33, May-June 2005, pp. 5-21
Subjects: Europe
Europe’s political landscape, revealed by the protest votes in France and the Netherlands. Mutation and dilation of the EU in the age of liberal hegemony, and lessons to be drawn from the unprecedented irruptions of discontent against it.
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Vichy on the Tigris
in NLR 28, July-August 2004, pp. 5-17
Subjects: War and Peace , Iraq
With the now unanimous support of the ‘international community’, can Washington hope to recoup its gamble in Iraq? Prospects for the resistance and the Occupation, as the UN-approved government is hoisted into place.
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A Weightless Hegemony
in NLR 25, January-February 2004, pp. 5-33
Subjects: Britain , Labour Movements and Parties
Causes and consequences of Britain’s distinctive contribution to the repertoire of latter-day neoliberalism. The domestic and foreign record of the Blair regime, and its hybrid role in a shifting Atlantic order.
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A Socialist Cassandra
in NLR 19, January-February 2003, pp. 152-160
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Political Theory and Strategy
Susan Watkins on Michael Newman, Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left. The distinctive intelligence of a continental socialist in Britain.
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Saffron Gastronomy
in NLR 17, September-October 2002, pp. 159-165
Subjects: History and Historiography , India
Susan Watkins on D. N. Jha, The Myth of the Holy Cow. The gastronomic legends and taboos of India’s modern Hindu chauvinism, as the BJP reshapes the country’s curricula.
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The Nine Lives of Karl Marx
in NLR 1, January-February 2000, pp. 169-172
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History
Susan Watkins on Francis Wheen, Karl Marx. The latest biography—a man for postmodern times?
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An Allegory from Atlantis
in NLR I/231, September-October 1998, pp. 132-145
Subjects: Germany , Literature , Gender
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