Sacred Surveillance: Indian Muslims, Waqf, and the Evolution of State Power in French Mandate Syria

This chapter traces the development of the radical secular press in Egypt from its first brief emergence in the 1870s until the outbreak of World War I. First active in the 1860s, the anarchist movement gradually expanded its membership and influence over subsequent decades to articulate a general social emancipation and syndicalism for all workers in the country. In the decade and a half before 1914, its press collectively propagated a critique of state power and capitalism, called for social justice and the organisation of labour, and promoted the values of science and public education in both a local context and as part of an international movement. In seeking to promote a programme at odds with both nationalism and colonial rule, it incurred the hostility of the authorities in addition to facing the practical problems of managing and financing an oppositional newspaper.

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Reforms and transformation paths in comparative perspective: challenging comparative views on East European and Chinese reforms

Acta Oeconomica ◽

10.1556/aoecon.55.2005.2.3 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 55 (2) ◽

pp. 171-199 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mária Csanádi

Keyword(s):

Power Distribution ◽

State Power ◽

State Model ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

Dynamic Background ◽

East European ◽

Structural Context ◽

Political Conditions ◽

Party State ◽

Chinese Reforms

Reforms, in view of a comparative party-state model, become the instruments of self-reproduction and self-destruction of party-state power. The specific patterns of power distribution imply different development and transformation paths through different instruments of self-reproduction. This approach also points to the structural and dynamic background of the differences in the location, sequence, speed and political conditions of reforms during the operation and transformation of party-states. In view of the model the paper points to the inconsistencies that emerge in the comparative reform literature concerning the evaluation and strategies of reforms disconnected from their systemic-structural context.

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Analyzing the On-State Power Dissipation in Stepped-Output Diode-Clamped Multi-Level Inverter

IEICE Transactions on Electronics ◽

10.1587/transele.e93.c.1670 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol E93-C (12) ◽

pp. 1670-1678 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ehsan ESFANDIARI ◽

Norman Bin MARIUN ◽

Mohammad Hamiruce MARHABAN ◽

Azmi ZAKARIA

Keyword(s):

Power Dissipation ◽

State Power ◽

Multi Level

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Governance of Indian State Power Utilities: An Ongoing Journey

10.1596/978-1-4648-0303-1 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Sheoli Pargal ◽

Kristy Mayer

Keyword(s):

State Power ◽

Indian State ◽

Power Utilities

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Development of a solid state power switch for the Cassini spacecraft

10.2514/6.1994-3961 ◽

1994 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jerry Dalton ◽

Karla Clark ◽

Dan Karmon

Keyword(s):

Solid State ◽

State Power ◽

Power Switch ◽

Cassini Spacecraft

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From Crusades to Colonization: Violence in Secular and Religious Political Theory

Journal of the Council for Research on Religion ◽

10.26443/jcreor.v1i0.2 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Xavier Scott

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Modern Philosophy ◽

Early Modern ◽

International Law ◽

Political Theory ◽

John Rawls ◽

State Power ◽

Charles Taylor ◽

Medieval Period ◽

Beliefs And Values

This paper examines the transition in political philosophy between the medieval and early-modern periods by focusing on the emergence of sovereignty doctrine. Scholars such as Charles Taylor and John Rawls have focused on the ability of modern-states to overcome conflicts between different religious confessionals. In contrast, this paper seeks to examine some of the peace-promoting features of Latin-Christendom and some of the conflict-promoting features of modern-secular states. The Christian universalism of the medieval period is contrasted with the colonial ventures promoted by the Peace of Westphalia. This paper’s goal is not to argue that secularism is in fact more violent than religion. Rather, it seeks to demonstrate the major role that religion played in early modern philosophy and the development of sovereignty doctrine. It argues against the view that the modern, secular state is capable of neutrality vis-à-vis religion, and also combats the view that the secular nature of modern international law means that it is neutral to the different beliefs and values of the world’s peoples. These observations emphasize the ways in which state power and legitimacy are at the heart of the secular turn in political philosophy.

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