THE POLITICAL WINTER 2019 SCIENCE POST Newsletter of the BYU Political Science Department GOVERNANCE, another rebellion erupted on July 1794, was a period of far-reaching 14, 1789 when a mob stormed a social and political upheaval the REASON AND Paris prison called the Bastille, a impact of which still reverberates GLOBAL DEMOCRACY: symbol of royal power. around the world today. THE LEGACY OF THE The culmination of the radical FRENCH REVOLUTION The French Revolution would last phase was a revolutionary idea of much longer than the American “human rights” as written in the During the spring and summer Revolution, in part because it was “Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1789, the world learned of not an uprising of a few million and Citizen,” drafted by General the successful culmination of colonials on the periphery of Marqus de Lafayette, on casual the American Revolution—the civilization, but a cataclysm at the talk with Thomas Jefferson, Abbé implementation of the American heart of civilization, and some Sieyes and Honore Mirabeau, and Constitution when George say it ended only with the Third adopted by the French Assembly Washington was inaugurated as the French Republic in 1870, 81 years on August 26, 1789. The political Republic’s first president on April after the storming of the Bastille. principals espoused by the 30, 1789, in New York City. Half a The principal radical phase of the Declaration include basic human world away, in the heart of Europe, French Revolution, from 1789 until [CONTINUED ON PAGE 14] THE POLITICAL SCIENCE POST | WINTER 2019 | 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS The BYU Department of Political 3 EVENTS & Science, consistent with the aims of PROGRAMS a BYU education, intends to foster Read about the recent events on and “Lifelong Learning and Service.” off BYU campus We hope to provide our alumni 9 PEOPLE with intelligent, thoughtful and Spotlights on students, professors, sophisticated analysis of important and alumni alike. Hear more about issues, and to act as a catalyst professor publications for service in our communities, neighborhoods, nations and the world. 14 POLITICS Read more on the legacy of the French revolution Connect with us on social media 15 ENGAGED @BYUPAS LIVING BYU POLITICAL AFFAIRS SOCIETY Learn how to become more involved with the aims and mission behind @BYUPAS @BYUPOLITICALSCI BYU Political Science BYUPOLITICALSCIENCEBLOG.COM BYU POLI SCI STORIES THE POLITICAL SCIENCE POST | WINTER 2019 | 2 EVENTS & PROGRAMS LECTURE SERIES ON NOVEMBER 8, 2018 Elizabeth Fitzsimmons, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State at the US State Department Bureau of African Affairs, spoke to students by Zoom from her home in the DC area, about her career in Foreign Service. Thank you, Elizabeth for an amazing presentation! LECTURE BY SENATOR DEIDRE HENDERSON ON OCTOBER 24, 2018 On October 24, 2018, Utah State Senator Deidre Henderson presented a brief lecture in the JFSB B106, at 6:30 PM. The BYU College Republicans presented the lecture and Q&A. Politics, Root Beer Floats and great discussions, all in one place. VARSITY THEATER ON OCTOBER 25, 2018 Evan McMullin, David Jolly and Patrick Murphy spoke in the Varsity Theater on October 25, 2018, about “Why Gridlock Rules Washington: An Unexpected Pre-Election Conversation.” WELCH’S AND CHEESE EVENT WITH DR. DAVID MAGLEBY The Welch’s and Cheese event with Dr. David Magleby was at his house in Provo, on the evening of Tuesday, October 2, 2018, at 7 PM. The topic was the dynamics of the 2018 midterm election. He displayed and discussed 4 different tables and charts relating to mid-term elections, gender, and party control. Thank you for a fascinating discussion in a comfortable home environment, Dr. Magleby! OKTOBERFEST On the evening of Thursday, October 25, 2019, students and faculty from Political Science gathered at the BYU Timp Lodge at Sundance Mountain Resort for an evening of food and comradery. Of particular interest to all, the Faculty Band performed a version of the classic song: “Johnny B. Goode” THE POLITICAL SCIENCE POST | WINTER 2019 | 3 BYU PAS FIRESIDE WITH DR. GEORGE HANDLEY Sunday, September 23, 2018. Salt Lake City BYU PAS Chapter. Dr. George Handley, former associate whole chain of being. This is important dean of the College of Humanities, Mormon doctrine suggesting the ethical and new associate director of the BYU treatment of animals and land. Fifth, Faculty Center, and professor of Classics Dr. Handley mentioned the Law of and Comparative Literature of the Consecration, in D&C 49, 59 and 104, BYU College of Humanities, spoke to that it is a sin to waste flesh, and that a large crowd at a beautiful home in we should not use more than we need, Salt Lake City about Latter-day Saint and that all people should be treated Environmentalism and “Reflections on equally. After casually mentioning these our Stewardship” of the planet earth. beliefs to his non-Mormon colleague He began by telling that when he was in Arizona she was surprised and a professor in Arizona, shortly after his delighted by our doctrine and found it doctoral program at Berkeley in the quite revolutionary and visionary. She early 90’s, he was asked by one of his applauded the church for its beliefs and University colleagues, what Mormons wondered if all members of the Church believe about the environment. know the implications of these beliefs. He responded by relaying several basic tenets of our faith: First, we believe Dr. Handley concluded that the LDS that the world was created spiritually tradition on the environment has some before physically; Second, that plants of the most exceptional and valuable and animals are living souls and that doctrines in the Judeo-Christian there is a substrata of commonality tradition, and that we should be among all creatures and humans. All energized by our values; and that our life has spiritual intelligence. Third, religious values tell us to get involved that the earth is the site of the celestial in our communities and apply our kingdom, and that we should live in a religious beliefs to nature conservancy. way to deserve the right to stay here. Dr. Dr. Handley also referenced the speech Handley suggested that some traditional by Elder Marcus B. Nash on “Religious Christian denominations believe in the Dominion and Compassion for the denial of the importance of the earth in Earth,” delivered at the 18th Annual favor of heaven, and denying the body Stegner Center Symposium on Friday, in favor of the spirit. Mormonism never April 12, 2013. Handley also referenced believed this, but that both the earth and the “Encyclical Letter” of Pope Francis the body are spiritual and intricately “On Care for Our Common Home.” connected. Fourth, Mormons believe His presentation offered powerful in the word of wisdom, that we should lessons about how the earth is in eat meat sparingly, and eat mostly the need of our active participation in its fruits and vegetables. D&C 89 mentions preservation. the whole web of life, feeding the Thank you, Dr. Handley. THE POLITICAL SCIENCE POST | WINTER 2019 | 4 ACUNS 2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Rome, Italy July 12-14th 2018 From July 12 to July 14th, 2018, the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), convened its annual meeting, this year in Rome, Italy, wherein Professor Kendall Stiles, from BYU Political Science, presented an academic paper entitled “Reimagining World Affairs: Homesteads on the Prairie,” and acted in his capacity of Co-Editor-In-Chief of the ACUNS-sponsored academic Journal entitled Global Governance. The Global Governance Journal is published quarterly by Brill, out of the Netherlands, in association with ACUNS, and receives manuscripts from all over the world, mostly from academics, professionals and doctors of Political Science. The Journal is currently hosted by Brigham Young University for a five-year term (2018-2023). Matthew Clarke, also from BYU Political Science, attended the annual meeting in his capacity as Managing Editor of the Journal. The Journal Global Governance is an interdisciplinary journal with a global focus. The ACUNS council, and therefore its academic journal Global Governance, has a Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council, and affiliate status with the UN Department of Public Information. It is possible for ACUNS council members to attend meetings organized by UN specialized agencies, the UN Secretariat and other UN bodies. The intent of the Journal is to raise important questions, promulgate current research, and influence global public policy. Please find Global Governance online, and subscribe to it on Twitter and Facebook. THE POLITICAL SCIENCE POST | WINTER 2019 | 5 SPEAKERS Tocqueville Society Lecture: Dr. Stephen Sawyer Stephen Sawyer Spoke at the Political vibrant moment of public engagement that Science Department on Monday, November stretched from the 1820s to the military 19, 2018. He spoke about his recent book: reaction that swept across Europe in the “Democracy Past and Future: Looking to the Past early 1850s. In it, he explores how these to Understand the Future of our Democracies” revolutions may be better understood as one Stephen Sawyer will be spending his dilated revolutionary moment in which a fellowship year working on the second modern definition of democracy began to volume of his history of democracy and take form. the state in the nineteenth century. The first Sawyer is a professor of history at the volume, entitled Demos Assembled: Democracy American University of Paris. His work and the International Origins of the Modern dialogues with the fields of legal history, State, 1840-1880 (University of Chicago political theory, political sociology and Press, 2018) argued that a sustained interest political science. He earned his PhD in in the democratic following the 1848 history from the University of Chicago.