When Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay first called for an ‘alliance of democracies’ to replace the United Nations in the Washington Post in 2004, ‘it caused uproar.‘ Here they explain why their proposal for a new international democratic body would not only solve international disputes more effectively than the UN but would, ‘post‐Iraq,‘ ensure a United States of America that again plays by the rule.
In April, 2020, Dr. Geoff Cole published, “Why the ‘Hoax’ Paper of Baldwin (2018) Should Be Reinstated.” We are the authors of the “Baldwin” paper published in Fat Studies. The paper satirized theoretical ideas within Fat Studies as part of a larger project to demonstrate the lack of rigor in certain theoretical approaches to cultural studies. In this response, we agree with Cole that our project should not be understood as hoaxes and that the retracted article should be reinstated, but defend our methods.
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