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Romanian Political Science Review Vol. XXI, No. 1 2021
Romanian Political Science Review vol. XXI, no. 1 2021 The end of the Cold War, and the extinction of communism both as an ideology and a practice of government, not only have made possible an unparalleled experiment in building a democratic order in Central and Eastern Europe, but have opened up a most extraordinary intellectual opportunity: to understand, compare and eventually appraise what had previously been neither understandable nor comparable. Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review was established in the realization that the problems and concerns of both new and old democracies are beginning to converge. The journal fosters the work of the first generations of Romanian political scientists permeated by a sense of critical engagement with European and American intellectual and political traditions that inspired and explained the modern notions of democracy, pluralism, political liberty, individual freedom, and civil rights. Believing that ideas do matter, the Editors share a common commitment as intellectuals and scholars to try to shed light on the major political problems facing Romania, a country that has recently undergone unprecedented political and social changes. They think of Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review as a challenge and a mandate to be involved in scholarly issues of fundamental importance, related not only to the democratization of Romanian polity and politics, to the “great transformation” that is taking place in Central and Eastern Europe, but also to the make-over of the assumptions and prospects of their discipline. They hope to be joined in by those scholars in other countries who feel that the demise of communism calls for a new political science able to reassess the very foundations of democratic ideals and procedures. -
O Marxismo De Matriz Comunista E O Nacionalismo Popular No Peru E No Brasil (1928-1964)
UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO FACULDADE DE FILOSOFIA, LETRAS E CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIA POLÍTICA PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIA POLÍTICA Entre a nação e a revolução: o marxismo de matriz comunista e o nacionalismo popular no Peru e no Brasil (1928-1964) André Kaysel Velasco e Cruz São Paulo 2014 UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO FACULDADE DE FILOSOFIA, LETRAS E CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIA POLÍTICA PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIA POLÍTICA Entre a nação e a revolução: o marxismo de matriz comunista e o nacionalismo popular no Peru e no Brasil (1928-1964) André Kaysel Velasco e Cruz Tese apresentada ao Programa De Pós-Graduação do Departamento de Ciência Política da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo para a obtenção do título de Doutor em Ciência Política Orientador: Prof. Dr. Bernardo Ricupero São Paulo 2014 2 Resumo: esta tese tem por objeto as relações entre o marxismo de matriz comunista e o nacionalismo popular no Peru, entre os anos 1920 e19 30, e no Brasil, entre as décadas de 1950 e 1960. Parto da hipótese de que foram essas duas correntes ideológicas concorrentes que plasmaram, entre os anos 1920 e a Revolução Cubana, o universo político-ideológico das esquerdas latino-americanas, em particular, e das classes subalternas do subcontinente, de modo geral. O maior sucesso dos nacionalistas populares em ganhar a adesão dos trabalhadores se deveria à incompreensão dos comunistas em relação à especificidade da questão nacional na região, isto é: o caráter inconcluso da formação das “comunidades imaginadas” nacionais, tanto pela exclusão da cidadania de amplas camadas populares, como pela dependência externa. -
Anti-Semitism?
'p IsnlaWklmnicf" ,4MONS[ER CRthL T'HEHOLOCAUS r.rHE HOL ANTI..ZIONISM IN GREAT BRITAIN AND BEYOND A "Respectable" Anti-Semitism? ALVIN H. ROSENFELD THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE The American Jewish Committee protects the rights and freedoms of Jews the world over; combats bigotry and anti-Semitism and promotes human rights for all; works for the securityofIsraeland deepened understanding between Americans and Israelis; advocates public policy positions rooted in American democratic values and the perspectives of the Jewish heritage; and enhances the cre- ative vitality of the Jewish people. Founded in 1906, itis the pioneer human-relations agency in the United States. To learn more about how the American Jewish Committee fightshatred and anti-Semitism,visit our website at www.ajc.org and see related publications on the inside back cover. ANTI-ZIONISM IN GREAT BRITAIN AND BEYOND: A "Respectable" Anti-Semitism? ALVIN H. ROSENFELD THEAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A number of friends and colleagues read earlier versions of this essay and suggested ways to improve it. 'While they are not responsible for any shortcomings still present, I am certain the final version is better for their efforts. I would like to thank the following: Edward Alexan- der, Tamar Benjamin, Paul Bogdanor, Todd Endelman, Harry Geduld, Barbara Krawcowicz, Vivian Liska, Daniel Nichols, Gale Nichols, Aron Rodrigue, Erna Rosenfeld, Gavriel Rosenfeld, Natania Rosenfeld, Sidney Rosenfeld, Roger Temam, and Leona Toker. Alvin Rosenfeld Foiuwoiu Two popular national magazines have recently carried cover stories exploring "The New Face of Anti-Semitism" and "The New Anti- Semitism." One would think that a hatred as old and long-lasting as anti-Semitism could hardly be described as "new." Yet this protean virus has reared its head again, in its most recent incarnation, as a pattern of discourse that poses "merely" as criticism of Israel, but in reality propagates classic hatred and distrust of Jews. -
The Moral Mappings of South and North ANNUAL of EUROPEAN and GLOBAL STUDIES ANNUAL of EUROPEAN and GLOBAL STUDIES
The Moral Mappings of South and North ANNUAL OF EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL STUDIES ANNUAL OF EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL STUDIES Editors: Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski, Johann P. Arnason and Peter Wagner An annual collection of the best research on European and global themes, the Annual of European and Global Studies publishes issues with a specific focus, each addressing critical developments and controversies in the field. xxxxxx Peter Wagner xxxxxx The Moral Mappings of South and North Edited by Peter Wagner Edited by Peter Wagner Edited by Peter Cover image: xxxxx Cover design: www.paulsmithdesign.com ISBN: 978-1-4744-2324-3 edinburghuniversitypress.com 1 The Moral Mappings of South and North Annual of European and Global Studies An annual collection of the best research on European and global themes, the Annual of European and Global Studies publishes issues with a specific focus, each addressing critical developments and controversies in the field. Published volumes: Religion and Politics: European and Global Perspectives Edited by Johann P. Arnason and Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity: Past Oppression, Future Justice? Edited by Peter Wagner Social Transformations and Revolutions: Reflections and Analyses Edited by Johann P. Arnason & Marek Hrubec www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/aegs Annual of European and Global Studies The Moral Mappings of South and North Edited by Peter Wagner Edinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. -
Book Review 5 Book Review
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe 108 (2019): July-December, book review 5 www.erlacs.org Book Review – The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today, by James Petras & Henry Veltmeyer. Routledge, 2017. – Latin America in the Vortex of Social Change Development and Resistance Dynamics, by Henry Veltmeyer & James Petras. Routledge, 2019. The 2000s witnessed a tremendous surge for Latin America’s left-leaning social and political movements, initiated by the rise to power of Hugo Chávez in the Venezuelan presidential election of 1998. The books under review here address from a Marxist perspective the historical, political-economic, and political-sociological contexts of Latin America’s development and leftism. The Class Struggle in Latin America (CSLA) scrutinizes the changing dynamics of class struggle against the background of the rise and demise of neoliberalism in Latin America. According to James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer, the changing dynamics of Latin America’s class struggle are largely contingent on the shift of the locus of class struggle from land and labour to dispersed communities representing indigenous people, adding to the increasing prominence of precarious, unemployed, and informal workers. Neoliberalism was also accompanied by the ascendancy of extractive capital and China as catalysts for the primary commodities boom of the 2000s. In explaining the negative socioeconomic and ecological impacts of rising extractivism (or excessive dependency on extractive capital), Petras and Veltmeyer refer to David Harvey’s notion of accumulation by dispossession, understood as a process by which popular sectors are forced to abandon their communities. -
From Brexit and Trump to Le Pen
From ,re-it and Trump to .e Pen The systematic effort of the Transnational .lite to crush the /0re1it revolution23 From 0re1it and Trump to 4e Pen TADIS FOTOPOB4OS (05.05.2017) Abstract3 It is shown that the 0re1it revolution of the victims of globali-ation against the Transnational .lite, which began with the 0re1it referendum in 2016 and continued with the BS and the French presidential elections, shows presently signs of decline, following the frontal attac) of the elites against it. There are strong indications that the 0re1it revolution in BD may be being derailed, whereas the corresponding revolution in BSA is being betrayed and in France the coronation of a faithful member of the same elites, as the new President of the Republic, loo)s almost certain. It is argued that only the self organi-ation of the victims of globali-ation in the form of Popular Fronts for National and Social 4iberation could create the conditions to overcome the new, and worse ever, Ciddle Ages that the present NWO of neoliberal globali-ation has heralded. There is no doubt anymore that a frontal attac) has been launched by the entire Transnational .lite 1 against the è0re1it revolutionê, i.e. the phenomenal insurrection of the victims of neoliberal globali-ation against the elites, which began in 0ritain last year and quic)ly spread all over the world, first to BSA and then to France and beyond. Aowever, it is now clear that the systematic attempt to derail the 0re1it revolution in BD, as well as Trump2s reversal of almost all his pre election promises to the American victims of globali-ation within the first 100 days in office, and, finally, the present looming disaster in the French Presidential elections with the almost inevitable coronation of the candidate of the Transnational .lite, the e1 Rothschild ban)er Cacron, are all parts of the same pu--le. -
Noam Chomsky: Turning the Tide
NOAM CHOMSKY TURNING THE TIDE US Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace ESSENTIAL CLASSICS IN POLITICS: NOAM CHOMSKY EB 0007 ISBN 0 7453 1345 0 London 1999 The Electric Book Company Ltd Pluto Press Ltd 20 Cambridge Drive 345 Archway Rd London SE12 8AJ, UK London N6 5AA, UK www.elecbook.com www.plutobooks.com © Noam Chomsky 1999 Limited printing and text selection allowed for individual use only. All other reproduction, whether by printing or electronically or by any other means, is expressly forbidden without the prior permission of the publishers. This file may only be used as part of the CD on which it was first issued. TURNING THE TIDE US Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace Noam Chomsky 4 Copyright 1985 by Noam Chomsky Manufactured in the USA Production at South End Press, Boston Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Chomsky, Noam Turning the tide. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Central America—Politics and government—1979- . 2. Violence—Central America—History—20th century. 3. Civil rights—Central America—History—20th century. 4. Central America—Foreign relations—United States. 5. United States— Foreign relations—Central America. I. Title F1 436. 8. U6 1985 327. 728073 ISBN: 0-7453-0184-3 Digital processing by The Electric Book Company 20 Cambridge Drive, London SE12 8AJ, UK www.elecbook.com Classics in Politics: Turning the Tide Noam Chomsky 5 Contents Click on number to go to page Introduction................................................................................. 8 1. Free World Vignettes .............................................................. 11 1. The Miseries of Traditional Life.............................................. 15 2. Challenge and Response: Nicaragua...................................... -
Still on the Clock
Still On The Clock A democratic peace theory review on the US and Venezuela conflicts between 2001-2007 Christopher James William Gharib Latin American Studies Bachelor course Stockholm University - Autumn 2017 Supervisor: Edgar Zavala Pelayo Still On The Clock A democratic peace theory review on the US and Venezuela conflicts between 2001-2007 Christopher James William Gharib Abstract This dissertation, by using the case of tensions between the United States and Venezuela between 2001-2007, examines Rummel’s hypothesis that democratic countries are inherently peaceful, and investigates whether the tensions in US-Venezuela relations under president George W Bush and president Hugo Chavez confirms or rejects Rummel’s hypothesis. A review of relevant documents, reports by non-governmental organizations and previous research in the field of international relations lead us to the conclusion that while the strained relationship between the US and Venezuela did reach a stage of coercive diplomacy, as defined by Jakobsen, the threats between the two countries did not escalate towards military aggression, and therefore Rummel’s hypothesis is confirmed. Keywords Democratic peace theory, Rummel, Jakobsen, Coercive diplomacy, US, Venezuela, Bush, Chavez, Psychological war. 2 Table of Contents 1: Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 4 2: Aim ............................................................................................................................................ -
Exploraciones/Explorations
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 83, October 2007 | 105-119 Exploraciones/Explorations Bolivia and the Political Dynamics of Change Henry Veltmeyer and James Petras It is commonplace today to argue that the politics of class and a left-right ideologi- cal positioning on the political spectrum do not matter as much as they once did – that the ‘new world order’ of neoliberal globalization has totally changed the po- litical landscape. All regimes and parties in power seem to be constrained in a similar way to implement close variations on a few policy themes. Thus, left-right distinctions in the shaping of political space and the unfolding of diverse political dynamics in diverse contexts are no longer relevant. What matters is that under current conditions, politicians of whatever stripe, no matter what the professed ideological orientation, in power end up with the same policies. A different way of putting this is that the forces of globalization (the dynamics of neoliberal globaliza- tion and capitalist development) work by constraining the policy options available. Class factors, including ideology, play a reduced role – or so goes the prevailing theory. This article explores several dimensions of this issue in the context of Bolivia, with reference to political developments associated with the ascent and assumption of state power by Evo Morales, an indigenous leader of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), after a year and a half in power. Compared to Ignacio [Lula] da Silva, leader of the Worker’s Party (PT) and now president of Brazil, in regard to whom a similar analysis could be (and has been) made, and other ‘leftists’ (or populists) who in recent years have assumed state power in Latin America, Morales is rela- tively close to the social base of the popular movement and ‘the people’ that he purportedly represents. -
The New Left. 1968 and Post Scriptum La Nueva Izquierda
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales⎥ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Nueva Época, Año LXIII, núm. 234 ⎥ septiembr-ediciembre de 2018 ⎥ pp. 85-98⎥ ISSN-2448-492X DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.2448492xe.2018.234.65558 The New Left. 1968 and Post Scriptum La Nueva Izquierda. 1968 y post scriptum Michael Walzer∗ Recibido el 29 de junio de 2018 Aceptado el 15 de julio de 2018 INTRODUCTORY NOTE NOTA INTRODUCTORIA The author, a well know theorist and activist of El autor, teórico y activista del movimiento de the civil rights movement and the movement los derechos civiles y de los movimientos contra against the Vietnam War, published the first la guerra en Vietnam, publicó la primera parte part of this article in 1968. There, he analyses de este artículo en 1968. En él, analiza la emer- the emergence of the New Left in the United gencia de la Nueva Izquierda en Estados Unidos States –and its global connection– through the –y su conexión global– a partir de la estructura social structure, the actors’ class background social, la pertenencia de clase de los propios ac- and their cultural configuration to account for tores y su configuración cultural para dar cuenta the aspirations and limits that accompanied the de las aspiraciones y limitantes que acompaña- middle class youth that lead this movement. The ron a la juventud de clase media que encabezó dilemmas that emerged between the racial, eth- este movimiento. Los dilemas que emergieron nic, social and economic axes that defined the entre la configuración étnico-racial, social y actors framed the diverse social movements and económica de los actores enmarcados en el mo- throw light on the promises, scope and weak- vimiento por los derechos humanos arrojan luz nesses that characterized them. -
An Appraisal of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Nationalism
B.J.Pol.S. 27, 191–222 Copyright 1997 Cambridge University Press Printed in Great Britain On the Nature of Nationalism: An Appraisal of Ernest Gellner’s Writings on Nationalism BRENDAN O’LEARY* Ernest Gellner’s is the best-known modernist explanatory theory of nationalism. This article summarizes its expression and development before considering its strengths and weaknesses. Discussion centres on Gellner’s functionalist mode of explanation, the place of nationalism in his philosophy of history, the predictive and retrodictive nature of his theory, and the merits of his typology of nationalism. The apolitical character of his writings is emphasized: in particular, though Gellner established the connections between nationalism and egalitarianism in modern societies, he did not emphasize the mutually reinforcing relationships between nationalism, egalitarianism and democratization; moreover, his contempt for nationalist doctrines is not something liberals, socialists and conservatives need share. The theoretical problem is to separate the quite spurious ‘national’ and ‘natural’ justifications and explanations of nationalism, from the genuine, time- and context-bound roots of it. Ernest Gellner, Thought and Change, 1964, p. 151. Nationalism, the most potent principle of political legitimacy in the modem world, holds that the nation should be collectively and freely institutionally expressed, and ruled by its co-nationals. Recent events demonstrate nationalist movements retain the capacity to shake states and empires, as well as the pieties -
Populism and Democratic Theory
LS15CH04_Mansbridge ARjats.cls October 1, 2019 12:31 Annual Review of Law and Social Science Populism and Democratic Theory Jane Mansbridge1 and Stephen Macedo2 1Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 2Department of Politics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA Annu. Rev. Law Soc. Sci. 2019. 15:59–77 Keywords The Annual Review of Law and Social Science is online populism, core-plus, antipluralism, leader, democratic theory, liberal at lawsocsci.annualreviews.org democracy https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-101518- 042843 Abstract Copyright © 2019 by Annual Reviews. Commentators routinely describe “populism” as vague. Some argue that the All rights reserved early US populists, who coined the modern usage, were not populists. We Annu. Rev. Law. Soc. Sci. 2019.15:59-77. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org Access provided by Princeton University Library on 02/25/20. For personal use only. This article is part of a special symposium on disagree and identify this common conceptual core: the “people” in a moral Populism and Law. For a list of other articles in this symposium, see https://www.annualreviews.org/ battle against “elites.” The core definition fits all cases of populism: those toc/lawsocsci/15/1 on the left and right, those in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. In addition to this minimal common core, we identify strongly suggested and frequently correlated non-core characteristics. These include the people’s homogeneity and exclusivity, direct rule, and nationalism, as well as a single leader, vilification of vulnerable out-groups, and impatience with deliberation. The US Populist Party and Spain’s Podemos Party fit the core definition but have few of the other characteristics.