The tremendous changes in the Middle East over the last two years have provoked a range of debates around the nature of the regions political economy. This presentation argues that an important - and often overlooked - dimension to this is the growing weight of accumulation at the regional scale....

US hegemony in the Tricontinents has always hinged on the threat and enactment of military force. Given the astronomical costs of its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its military posture has recently shifted pronouncedly from personnel-intensive liberal counterinsurgencies -with their discourse of...

Andreas shall deal with airs and sounds and scents, while keeping an eye on the law. His field of enquiry is the concept of atmosphere, namely the interstitial area between sensory and affective occurrences. Atmospheres are legally determined. The law controls affective occurrences by regulating...