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Edited Journal Volumes by John Hickman

Special issue on South Asia, co-edited with John Hickman. Featuring articles by David Gordon Whit... more Special issue on South Asia, co-edited with John Hickman. Featuring articles by David Gordon White, Sthaneshwar Timalsina, David Lawrence, Hugh Urban & Kerry Skora.

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Papers by John Hickman

Journal of Human Rights, 2011

ABSTRACT Missing from popular nonfiction treatments of the Bush administration decision to impris... more ABSTRACT Missing from popular nonfiction treatments of the Bush administration decision to imprison captives taken in the War in Afghanistan at Guantánamo Bay are challenges to the official explanation that the prisoners were extraordinarily dangerous, presented valuable intelligence subjects, and would be tried for war crimes. This review article suggests three alternative rationales: spectacle, punishment, and the announcement of a new international order.

Comparative Strategy, 2002

... space regime than the same decision by Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, or Papua New Guinea—the equa... more ... space regime than the same decision by Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, or Papua New Guinea—the equality of states under international law remains nothing more than a useful fiction ... space faring states of the 21st Century: the United States, Russia, the European Union, Japan ...

While popular science writers typically describe the benefits to be derived from their favorite v... more While popular science writers typically describe the benefits to be derived from their favorite very large space development project in detail, their treatment of the crucial initial capitalization of such projects is typically sparse or implausible. Capitalization is a crucial problem for these projects because the total capital investment required is very large and the investment takes a very long time before producing economic returns. "Chunky" investments are unattractive to most private investors and lenders. Very large space development projects are best understood as massive public works projects which are necessary to open frontiers. Despite the libertarian sentiments in much of the popular science writing on very large space development projects, government would likely have to play a large role in capitalizing such projects.

Astropolitics

This article argues that a hypothetical decision by the People's Republic of China to assert ... more This article argues that a hypothetical decision by the People's Republic of China to assert territorial sovereignty over the area surrounding its planned manned Moon base is plausible. Enhanced international prestige in the near term and access to natural resources and strategic military positions in the long term may be sufficient temptations for China's leaders to challenge the United States to a twenty-first century space race. Strategic surprise could be successfully employed, given the opacity of Chinese decision-making; the conceptual blindness of external observers, including decision-makers, analysts, and academics; and China's repeatedly demonstrated capacity for executing military or diplomatic surprises of comparable magnitude. The ability of signatory states to withdraw from the 1967 Outer Space Treaty with one-year's notice means that international law only poses a temporary obstacle to such a decision. A manned Moon base would fulfill the condition of ...

Scientia Militaria - South African Journal of Military Studies, 2011

... a different government and its military but does not require abandoning the national homeland... more ... a different government and its military but does not require abandoning the national homeland. ... of which may have been fully grasped only in recent guerrilla wars when ideological ... drive some men to despair The loudspeakers would simply wear some people down (Clough ...

Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior, 2008

Studies in History, 2008

ABSTRACT What Churchill's biographers have written about his life matter because he conti... more ABSTRACT What Churchill's biographers have written about his life matter because he continues to be deployed by ideological conservatives in the Anglo-Saxon countries as the ideal leader exemplifying decisiveness and moral courage. This content analysis of seventeen popular biographies of Britain's emblematic prime minister show that they consistently ignore material about a decision taken by his government during the Second World War that had disastrous consequences for the Indians. While nearly all of the biographies treat the controversial area bombing of Germany by the Royal Air Force, which resulted in approximately 900,000 deaths of non-combatants, none treat the failure to respond to the 1943 Bengal Famine, which resulted in more deaths than the number of non-combatant deaths. This discrepancy may be explained by unconscious or conscious racist Eurocentrism that places greater value on the lives of Europeans than those of Asians. That was certainly true of their subject, and their choice of subject may reflect shared identity of values.

Review of Religious Research, 2001

Recognition that religion is now more &quot;newsworthy&quot; than at any time in ... more Recognition that religion is now more &quot;newsworthy&quot; than at any time in post-war American history has increased both the salience and amount of news cov-erage devoted to it in major news organizations. However, religious elites on the one hand and religion journalists and ...