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Conflicting Sites of Memory in Post-Genocide Cambodia

June 10, 2014 by Brigitte Sion
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A new road connects the towns of Siem Reap to Along Veng, in northern Cambodia; it now takes less then two hours from the temples of Angkor to reach the last bastion of the Khmer Rouge, in what used to be a dense jungle. It is enough time for my driver, thirty-one-year-old Vann, to tell me the story of his family.

Photo Essay: Ghosts of the Khmer Rouge

June 10, 2014 by Nick Heavican
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Visual documentation of the legacy of the Khmer Rouge.

Introduction to “The Concept of Piracy”

June 10, 2014 by Daniel Heller-Roazen
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There will be talk of pirates as long as something called “humanity” goes to war.

The Concept of Piracy

June 10, 2014 by Carl Schmitt
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Due to copyright restrictions, this excerpt is available only in print or on Project Muse.

Somali Piracy: The Local Contexts of an International Obsession

June 10, 2014 by Roland Marchal
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On the moral and political economy of Somali piracy, as well as what its visibility and the effort to combat it reveal about world players.

Pirate Trials, the International Criminal Court, and Mob Justice: Reflections on Postcolonial Sovereignty in Kenya

June 10, 2014 by Mateo Taussig-Rubbo
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Even as Kenya imports the original ‘‘enemy of all’’—the pirate—it prepares to export to The Hague the new ‘‘enemy of all’’—the perpetrator of crimes against humanity.

Of Pirates, Empire, and Terror: An Interview with Lauren Benton and Dan Edelstein

June 10, 2014 by Dan Edelstein, Editorial Collective and Lauren Benton
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Two important new books, histories of the early modern period, are starkly different in their topics, approaches, and conclusions. Yet they both intersect the topic of piracy in its heyday.

Child Trafficking or Labor Migration? A Historical Perspective from Mali’s Dogon Country

June 10, 2014 by Isaie Dougnon
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For demographic and historical reasons, there is no way to separate a discussion of the worst forms of child labor from the history of rural migration patterns.

The Colonial Testing Ground: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Violent End of Empire

June 10, 2014 by Fabian Klose
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The ‘‘wars of national liberation’’ in the 1950s and 1960s posed new challenges to the International Committee in Geneva, because the humanitarian objective was repeatedly overlaid and endangered by Realpolitik.

Constitutionalism Beyond the State: Myth or Necessity? (A Pluralist Approach)

June 10, 2014 by Jean Cohen
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Despite the happy consciousness of those who proclaimed the end of history and the worldwide triumph of the liberal democracy in the early 1990s, the legitimating principles for domestic polities around the globe remain diverse.

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