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From bazooka to backstop: the political economy of standing swap facilities

Abstract The permanent international lender of last resort consists of a swap line network between six major central banks (C6), centring around the US Federal Reserve. Arguably, this network is a solution to a long-debated problem as it provides public emergency liquidity provision to the world’s largest financial market, the Eurodollar market. Drawing on exclusive interviews with monetary technocrats as well as a textual analysis of Federal Open Market Committee meeting transcripts over the course of 14 years, we reconstruct how this facility came into being. Building on Kalyanpur and Newman (2017) and Braun (2015), we develop an interpretive framework of bricolage to contextualise its formation: in times of crisis, central bankers rely on retrospection, experimentation and creative re-deployment to develop their tools. In non-crisis times, however, the tools that prevail are those that offer what we call ‘bureaucratic familiarity’: the C6 swap line network became a permanent feature of international finance because technocrats had got used to it.

THE LIFE OF TAN SRI HARUN M. HASHIM: A MEMOIR

This article will provide an insight into the colourful journey of Tan Sri Harun Hashim – his life experience, education background, his distinguished career path and achievements as well as contributions made especially to the education sector and the legal profession. It is also an attempt to provide a glimpse of the other side of Tan Sri Harun Hashim, off the limelight – as a father, a grandfather, a mentor and a friend, as he left his footprints firmly etched in the memory of his loved ones. This research employs a qualitative method focusing on in-depth interviews as well as a comprehensive analysis of relevant books, articles, newspaper reports and documentations. In this article, fragments from the colourful journey of Tan Sri Harun Hashim come from stories narrated through interviews with those who were close to him and had personal encounters with Tan Sri while some other information is extracted from his well-known column, “The Benchmark”, appearing in the New Straits Times from 1994 until his demise in 2003. “The Benchmark” provided useful insights into the ideals and aspirations of Tan Sri, and relayed some first-hand information on his life journey and extraordinary experiences. Some information on Tan Sri’s personal life is gathered from exclusive interviews with Tan Sri’s family members themselves, conducted by the authors and Hisham Harun, Tan Sri Harun’s son. This article aims at offering a unique biography of Tan Sri Harun Hashim who was known to be a gem to the nation, especially in the legal and education sectors in Malaysia. It is an effort to highlight and set in stone the legacy left by him so that it becomes a benchmark for the younger generations to follow and emulate.

Screening postcolonial intellectuals: cinematic engagements and postcolonial activism

ABSTRACT This special issue proposes new ways of seeing and thinking about postcolonial intellectuals through the frame of transnational screens. For this purpose, the issue develops around the twofold notion of the intellectual as a filmmaker and the intellectual as an object of filmmaking. In particular, it focuses on the ways in which this interrelationship expands notions of postcolonial theory and practice regarding the aesthetic and political intervention of intellectuals in transnational screen culture. Many postcolonial figures have been influential not only in rethinking the ways in which representation should be conceived and theorized but also in inspiring new forms of visuality and aesthetics through their life and work. These figures include Frantz Fanon, Assia Djebar, and Stuart Hall, and others explored in this issue, such as Toni Morrison, Raoul Peck, Ai Weiwei, and Steve McQueen. The special issue also includes exclusive interviews with Ai Weiwei and Trinh T. Minh-ha, artists, intellectuals, activists, and filmmakers whose engagement with postcolonial debates, and more broadly with the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking, have contributed to a reshaping of contemporary postcolonial realities and discourses, in scholarship and the public sphere.

Race and Local Television News: The Emergence of Black Journalists in New Orleans

WDSU-TV, the first New Orleans broadcast station in the city to hire a Black reporter and thus racially integrate, claimed that its liberal-leaning owner, Edgar Stern Jr., independently decided to hire Bill Rouselle in 1968, rather than being influenced to do so by federal entities and other factors. Through archival materials, newspaper content, federal reports, and exclusive in-depth interviews of journalists of the period, this study argues to the contrary: federal instigation, a decline in the local white population, and competition among New Orleans TV stations preceded integration at WDSU. While WDSU’s editorials advocated for integration in the early 1960s, years elapsed before the station integrated. Management hired Rouselle because it wanted to televise an African American face, not Black voices. Nevertheless, local Black television reporters instilled hope and pride in the city’s Black community.

“A True Newspaper Woman”: The Career of Sadie Kneller Miller

ABSTRACT This article examines the life and career of Sadie Kneller Miller, a journalist who enjoyed a thirty-year career as a baseball reporter, national and international correspondent, and photojournalist at the turn of the twentieth century. Her many accomplishments include being one of the first women to cover a sports beat for a newspaper, covering armed conflicts in Spanish-controlled Morocco, and obtaining exclusive interviews with figures such as Pancho Villa. Miller’s career was also distinct in several important ways from those of most women journalists of her time, particularly in how she negotiated her professional ambitions with traditional gender roles. Miller earned a prominent contemporary reputation and left behind a rich collection of print and visual journalism, but her career has largely been lost to posterity. Using an unexplored and unprocessed archival collection, this article reconstructs Miller’s career, emphasizing her most significant work in each journalistic function she performed, and shows the ways Miller both challenged and conformed to norms and expectations of women journalists of the period.

Representation of Female Footballers in Interviews on PSSI TV: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Sports is inseparable from gender inequality and is attached to masculine image even though nowadays the two things are fading, particularly, in the realm of football. In Indonesia, female footballers are increasingly starting to exist not only on the field but also in the media, one of which is on the PSSI TV YouTube channel which shows videos of exclusive interviews with female footballers. This study examines how female footballers are represented in the video interview. Using the Sara Mills’ Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) method, it is known that female footballers who are the interviewees are positioned as both the subject and object of narrating and being narrated. Meanwhile, the representation of female footballers which is reflected emphasizes on two things, namely the ones who uphold gender equality and professionalism. The interviewees also make use mediation with a dominantly showing portion in media and several cultural codes to represent themselves. Keywords: sports; football;, female footballer; critical discourse analysis

Upscaling non-residential bio-based circular construction in the United Kingdom

Non-residential circular construction projects using bio-based materials have been realised in the United Kingdom. Case studies include the Adnams Distribution Centre, the University of East Anglia’s Enterprise Centre and the British Science Museum’s hempcrete storage facility. The bio-based buildings utilise the natural properties of bio-based materials to insulate and regulate internal environments, particularly with reducing fluctuations in temperature and relative humidity, which can be harmful to sensitive stored products and artefacts. Projects have been successful on both on environmental and physical performance levels; however, they have not led to a subsequent proliferation of non-residential large-scale circular projects within the UK using emerging bio-based materials. This study examines why and uses analysis based upon exclusive interviews with key figures associated with bio-based case studies. Challenges faced include the ability to upscale production by manufacturers of bio-based materials, problems surrounding initial costs, gaining accreditation for materials, the vested interests present in the construction industry and levels of knowledge among clients and construction professionals. Potential upscaling solutions identified include long-term financial savings on running costs and high staff productivity, policies regarding grants, incentives and planning applications and local economic regeneration.

CLOSE TO THE EDGE: Exclusive Live Interviews with Biotech Executives from GEN EDGE

CLOSE TO THE EDGE: Exclusive Live Interviews with Biotech Executives from GEN EDGE

Love and Jihad. Female Trajectories from North Caucasus to the Islamic State

In the 2000s, Al-Qaeda, represented by the Caucasus Emirate, took over the first Chechen resistance, as well as local Islamist armed groups in Dagestan and other republics of the North Caucasus. However, a decade later, the Islamic State won the competition with Al-Qaeda, by including the involvement of women in its project. Hundreds of Russian-speaking Muslim women followed men to live by the rules of Islam. Some joined their husbands or children. Others travelled to the Islamic State in pursuit of love and romance with future husbands they had met on the internet. Based on exclusive interviews done with women detained in the Roj detention camp in the Kurdish territories in northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border, this article analyzes some of the trajectories that has pushed young North Caucasian women to the Syrian war theater in the name of love.

Neoclassical realism and small states: systemic constraints and domestic filters in Georgia’s foreign policy

ABSTRACTUnlike structural realism, neoclassical realism focuses on how the interaction between systemic and unit-level variables influences foreign policy. This article assesses neoclassical realism against two alternative accounts – balance of threat and economic dependence – to explain change in Georgia's foreign policy. While structural realism highlights how the external security environment shapes general tendencies in foreign policy, specific strategies depend largely on unit-level factors, specifically elite cohesion and state capacity. The analysis of primary sources and exclusive interviews with high-level policy-makers suggests that neoclassical realism affords a more nuanced and precise account of foreign policy change over time than structural realism.

From Rebel Rule to a Post-Capitulation Era in Daraa Southern Syria: The Impacts and Outcomes of Rebel Behaviour During Negotiations

In June 2018, the Syrian Arab Army launched a military campaign that aimed at ending rebel rule and restoring territorial control over Daraa and Quneitra govern orates southern Syria. This research presents a wide-range of developments that occurred in Daraa govern orate after a Russian-brokered agreement that ended rebel rule. Based on exclusive interviews with senior ex-rebel and civilian actors, this study investigates how rebel leaders’ behaviour at the negotiating table shaped Russia’s level of commitment towards each former rebel leader as well as former rebels and civilians of their localities in the post-surrender era. Finally, this research identifies the main territorial configurations in Daraa govern orate as well as the main challenges facing local institutions and service provision after the resurgence of state rule.

Françoise Clary, Plus sur Caryl Phillips. Includes exclusive interviews with Caryl Phillips

En 2017, dans Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River, Francoise Clary nous avait livre une premiere analyse particulierement riche de l’œuvre maitresse de Caryl Phillips ; elle poursuit son travail et sa reflexion avec ce second ouvrage ou Caryl Phillips s’exprime directement. La parole de l’ecrivain est en effet le pivot central de l’ouvrage et les divers entretiens consacres a Francoise Clary sont un moyen supplementaire, pour le lecteur, de comprendre les questionnements autour de l’alterite,...

Kajian Kepribadian Presiden Perancis Emmanuel Macron Menggunakan Level Analisis Individu

<p class="06IsiAbstrak"><strong>Individual Level Analysis of France President Emmanuel Macron.</strong><strong> </strong>This paper is the result of an individual level analysis study conducted to explain qualitatively the personality, motivation and beliefs of French President Emmanuel Macron. This study employs qualitative data consisting of event data collected from various news sources with exclusionof exclusive interviews and state speeches and studied since Emmanuel Macron was inaugurated as President of France on May 17, 2017. Explanations regarding personality, motivation and beliefs assist to compile the rationality built on the record of educational background, family background, personality also helps to identify the relationship between leadership styles, motivation for decisions and actions that reflect the direction of French foreign policy. While beliefs are recognized through statements and answers given by for questions raised by journalists or foreign journalists in certain situations. This paper using a framework of individual analysis studies by Valerie Hudson, Jerrold Post and Margaret Hermann, it is concluded that Emmanuelle Macron is classified as a type of leader who is inconsistent with the characteristics of expansionist ambitions, high information complexity, good level of diplomatic knowledge or training and always had a consideration to invite other countries to establish harmonious and strategic relations with France.</p><p class="07KatakunciKeywords">Keywords: individual level analysis, leadership type, conciliatory leadership type, foreign policy analysis</p>

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Halal Compliance Decisions by Food Suppliers Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process

The halal food chain is one of the leading industries that is aggressively adapting to newly emerging consumer interests like food safety, animal welfare and convenience in cooking and eating. Past studies, on tracking movement of imported food products reveals a critical level of non-compliance among halal logistics operators. In extension, this paper aims to review and identify criteria of behavior among halal food suppliers. The study used Analytic Hierarchy Process to provide insights on criteria and sub-criteria that influence food suppliers’ decisions on integrating and complying to halal standard. Exclusive interviews with 12 food suppliers were conducted. This study discovers that suppliers give priority to knowledge on halal, followed by practice, activity and resource. The study proposed that there is a critical need for JAKIM and JAIN, or any halal certification authority in any part of the world, to increase awareness on various issues related to halal standard, halal certification and halal regulation to encourage food suppliers to comply to all requirements in total. Further, it is also knowledge that will increase their integrity to provide food that encapsulate the true concept of Halalan Toyyiban.

Why stand-up matters: how comedians manipulate and influence

Funny, lively and unpredictable, stand-up comedy is above all a medium to be enjoyed. Popular as a good night out and packing the TV schedules, stand-up permeates British society and culture. Ubiquitous though it is, we are generally reluctant to consider comedy's social consequences. When comedians offend we seem ready to consider the potential for stand-up to do some wider harm, yet we rarely consider the good that it might do. This book looks at the social and political impact of stand-up comedy in both its positive and negative forms. Drawing on exclusive interviews with comedians such as Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Joe Wilkinson and Mark Thomas, and examples of comic material on everything from revolution, terrorism and homosexuality, to knitting and the inefficiency of the home shower, it explores comedy's role in determining our attitudes and opinions. While revealing the conventions comics use to manage audience response, Sophie Quirk demonstrates how comedy audiences allow themselves to be manipulated, and the potential harm – and real benefits – that may arise from 'just' being funny.

Becoming iron men: the story of the 1963 Loyola Ramblers

Loyola University Chicago was ahead of its time when racial matters were forefront in a long overdue revolution in civil rights. The Ramblers of the 1962-1963 NCAA college basketball season were pioneers in race relations in sport, though most of the time they were simply playing the sport they loved. When the NCAA tournament began in March, the Ramblers engaged in a series for the ages, daring to be the first NCAA Division I school to play five black athletes on the court at once and capturing the most prestigious title in college basketball at a time when states below the Mason-Dixon line still had laws on the books preventing black and white athletes from mixing even in pick-up games. Records were set, rivals faced and one of the most famous and significant contests in college basketball playoff history played out in what incidentally became a model showcase for race relations. Nearly every time the Ramblers took the court, the game was unique in its magnitude. Relying significantly on exclusive interviews with surviving players, now in their seventies, Lew Freedman chronicles the entire journey, the adventure of the season that bound tight for a lifetime the group of men who lived through it.

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Performing the East: performance art in Russia, Latvia and Poland since 1980

art in Western Europe and North America developed in part as a response to the commercialisation of the art object, as artists endeavoured to create works of art that could not be bought or sold. But what are the roots of performance art in Eastern Europe and Russia, where there was no real art market to speak of? While many artworks created in the 'East' may resemble Western performance art practices, their origins, as well as their meaning and significance, is decidedly different. By placing specific performances from Russia, Latvia and Poland from the late- and post-communist periods within a local and international context, this book pinpoints the nuances between performance art East and West. Performance art in Eastern Europe is examined for the first time as agent and chronicle of the transition from Soviet and satellite states to free-market democracies. Drawing upon previously unpublished sources and exclusive interviews with the artists themselves, Amy Bryzgel explores the actions of the period, from Miervaldis Polis's Bronze Man to Oleg Kulik's Russian Dog performances. Bryzgel demonstrates that in the late-1980s and early 1990s, performance art in Eastern Europe went beyond the modernist critique to express ideas outside the official discourse, shocking and empowering the citizenry, both effecting and mirroring the social changes taking place at the time. Performing the East opens the way to an urgent reassessment of the history, function and meaning of performance art practices in East-Central Europe. -- Publisher's website.