These kinds of links are fascinating when developed as political and critical inquiry. See, e.g., Anne Norton’s Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005) on how Straussians and neoconservative intellectuals and academics affected U.S. foreign policy under the George W. Bush administration.
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The urgency of survival is documented in Bill McKibben’s recent book Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet ( Times Books, 2010). See Nicholas Stern’s review ("Climate: What You Need to Know") in The New York Review of Books (24 June, 2010).
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In Flexible Citizenship (Duke University Press, 1999), Aihwa Ong argues that "if we consider state power as positive agency, the issue is no longer one of the state ‘losing control’ but rather one of the state taking an active role in refashioning sovereignty to meet the challenges of global markets and supranational organizations" (p. 215).
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See the 2005documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, directed by Alex Gibney.
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"Another Torrent BP Works to Stem: Its C.E.O." Jad Mouawad and Clifford Krauss, New York Times, June 3, 2010.
