scholarly journals Violence, Sovereignty, and the Uganda Police Force

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-97
Author(s):  
Rebecca Tapscott
Keyword(s):  
State Intervention ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Result State ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Institutional Fragmentation ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

How does the Ugandan state produce and sustain the perception among citizens that it commands overwhelming violence? Through a study of the Uganda Police Force, this chapter examines four elements that blur the distinction between lawful and exceptional violence: first, institutional fragmentation obscures the source of violence and undermines accountability; second, the militarization of state and society confuses who can legally purvey violence on behalf of the state; third, the regime engineers law to mask exceptional acts of state violence as lawful; and finally, spectacular and public acts of violence, such as elite assassinations, create widespread speculation about and fear of exceptional state violence. As a result, state violence is unpredictable both in its intensity and its accountability. The manipulation of the relationship between lawful and exceptional violence produces and sustains both fear and hope, making it difficult for ordinary citizens to manage or ignore the possibility of state intervention.

Cultural Policies and the Islamic Republic: Cinema and Book Publication

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sussan Siavoshi
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
The Government ◽  
Iranian State ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Book Publication

The evolution of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the dynamics of the relationship between the Iranian state and society can be explored by examining the postrevolutionary regime's policies toward intellectuals, particularly as expressed in its regulation of cinema and book publication. This relationship—at least in the period from the early 1980s to the early 1990s—was complex and nuanced. Factionalism within the regime provided an opportunity for intellectuals to engage the state in a process of negotiation and protest, cooperation and defiance, in pushing the boundaries of permitted self-expression. The degree of their success depended in part on which faction controlled the government and its regulatory agencies during particular phases in the evolution of the postrevolutionary regime.

Starpkulturālās komunikācijas nozīme visaptverošas valsts aizsardzības sistēmas veidošanā

2021 ◽  
pp. 238-245
Author(s):  
Uldis Zupa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
The State ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Defense System ◽  
State And Society ◽  
State Defense ◽  
The Relationship

The implementation of the comprehensive national defense system in Latvia marks a new turning point in the relationship between the state and society – instead of being consumers of the security and defense provided by the state, every inhabitant of Latvia must become an active contributor to the natio-nal defense system. Thus, the society’s willingness to defend the state becomes an essential element in the successful implementation of the comprehensive state defense system. This article analyzes the different views of Latvian and Russian-speaking population on issues that affect the willingness to defend the state, as well as evaluates the role of intercultural communication for informing public and increasing the involvement in the comprehensive national defense system.

scholarly journals Evolution of the Concept of Citizenship in the Islamic Thought: An Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Osama Sami AL-Nsour
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship

The concept of citizenship is one of the pillars upon which the modern civil state was built. The concept of citizenship can be considered as the basic guarantee for both the government and individuals to clarify the relationship between them, since under this right individuals can acquire and apply their rights freely and also based on this right the state can regulate how society members perform the duties imposed on them, which will contributes to the development of the state and society .The term citizenship has been used in a wider perspective, itimplies the nationality of the State where the citizen obtains his civil, political, economic, social, cultural and religious rights and is free to exercise these rights in accordance with the Constitution of the State and the laws governing thereof and without prejudice to the interest. In return, he has an obligation to perform duties vis-à-vis the state so that the state can give him his rights that have been agreed and contracted.This paper seeks to explore firstly, the modern connotation of citizenship where it is based on the idea of rights and duties. Thus the modern ideal of citizenship is based on the relationship between the individual and the state. The Islamic civilization was spanned over fourteen centuries and there were certain laws and regulations governing the relationship between the citizens and the state, this research will try to discover the main differences between the classical concept of citizenship and the modern one, also this research will show us the results of this change in this concept . The research concludes that the new concept of citizenship is correct one and the one that can fit to our contemporary life and the past concept was appropriate for their time but the changes in the world force us to apply and to rethink again about this concept.

Effective abandonment: The neoliberal economy of violence in Israel and the Occupied Territories

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 449-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
François-Xavier Plasse-Couture
Keyword(s):  
Body Politic ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The Body ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Mode Of Operation ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
Legitimate State ◽  
Israel Defense Forces ◽  
The Relationship

Towards the end of 2012, a group of Israeli settlers and right-wing activists attacked an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) base on the West Bank. IDF soldiers and members of the Israeli Knesset had provided information to the attackers, who adopted a ‘bring it on’ tone that commentators described as echoing ‘civil war’. As the occupation blurs the categories of inside/outside, what we are witnessing is a challenge to the traditional distinction between politics and war. Accordingly, we are moved to think in terms of the distribution and variable intensities of violence, rather than to accept simple debates about either the absence or presence of war or the monopoly of violence. This article seeks to examine the evolving relationship between the state and society in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring through an investigation of the relationship between neoliberalism and sovereign violence. It argues that ‘price tag’ actions perpetrated in the Occupied Territories and Israel are the effect of a neoliberal organization of power characterized by a form of governing by non-intervention, where the abandonment of certain parts of society produces the desired containment of elements considered undesirable to the body politic. This article challenges Weber’s theory of state sovereignty as the monopoly of legitimate state violence, arguing instead that state apparatuses may in fact ‘outsource’ violence. We can understand this shift in the mode of operation of sovereignty by theorizing ‘society’ as the effect of warlike relations whereby particular tactics and strategies are employed as a way of organizing and policing forms of life necessary for the continuation of a particular body politic.

scholarly journals Models Of State Sports Policy (Content Analysis)

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (11) ◽  
pp. 389-394
Author(s):  
Olim Neymatovich Akhmedov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mixed Models ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The State ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Sports Policy ◽  
Policy Content ◽  
The Relationship

In order to determine the limits of state intervention in the field of physical culture and sports, it is necessary to study the model of the relationship between the state and sports. This article also examines interventionist, non-interventionist, and mixed models in the implementation of public sports policy. It also analyzes the problems of state and non-state sports, the fact that despite the parallel existence of state and non-state sports, regardless of the sources and nature of funding, they are the object of public policy.

Система взаимодействия государства и гражданина в Узбекистане: обновление и пути развития

2021 ◽  
pp. 247-273
Author(s):  
Ильяс Тавасович Тультеев ◽  
Омон Закирович Мухамеджанов
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
The State ◽  
Democratic Management ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Administrative Procedures ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Further Development

The article is devoted to the analysis of some theoretical and practical aspects of such a phenomenon as the system of interaction between the state and the citizen in the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as the consideration of the place of legal values in this system, the grounds and conditions for the establishment of e-democracy, the importance of administrative procedures and public services. The characteristic of the basic legal values of the system of interaction between the state and citizens is given, the position is argued according to which constitutional values determine the essence of the relationship between them. E-democracy is considered in the context of the process of increasing the participation of citizens in the democratic management of state affairs, ensuring the transparency of the activities of state bodies, as well as their interaction with the population. The authors notes that the elements of e-democracy are most visibly manifested in the practice of interaction between the state and society. Given the assessment of the state of development of e-democracy in the country, the authors made an attempt to consider the prospects for its further development in Uzbekistan. Administrative procedures and public services are considered as instruments of interaction between the state and the population, in the context of dialogue between the state and the citizen.

Property Rights on Credit and State Control of Money: The Irrelevance of the Origin of Money

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerasimos T. Soldatos
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The State ◽  
State Control ◽  
Historical Times ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Matter

Abstract Looking briefly at the anthropological and sociological findings regarding the emergence of money in primordial times, and at the relationship between money and the state in historical times after the emergence of money, this article makes the point that credit money is associated with externalities justifying state intervention even if money did not emerge as debt money. The extent of state intervention is eventually a political matter given that money is needed in addition to finance public goods.

OTTOMAN URBAN PRIVACY IN LIGHT OF DISASTER RECOVERY

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaron Ayalon
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Provincial Capital ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article examines the relationship between state and society in the Ottoman Empire during the 17th and 18th centuries by examining concepts and practices of privacy. Fatwas of Ottoman jurists reveal certain principles ordering the division of urban areas into public and private spaces. The article explores their application during the rebuilding of Damascus after its devastation by an earthquake in 1759. Archival sources disclose the priorities that guided the state in reconstructing a ruined provincial capital: religious values; a concern for the inhabitants’ well-being; and, rather prominently, an intent to maintain a dichotomy between public and private. In this the Ottomans were different from their contemporary European counterparts, who often took advantage of major disasters to reshape relations between rulers and subjects. This divergence is demonstrated in this article by comparing post-1759 Damascus with London after the Great Fire of 1666 and Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake.

Repositioning sovereignty? Sovereign encounters with organized crime and money laundering in the realm of accountants

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Hörnqvist
Keyword(s):  
Money Laundering ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Administrative Domains

This article repositions sovereignty on the basis of a study of recent regulatory approaches to organized crime and money laundering. The spread of techniques across administrative domains is traced through organizational documents and interviews with practitioners, and related to an observed trend toward integration between policing research and regulation research. The same trend, however, assigns sovereignty to the periphery. A richer notion of sovereignty is recovered through a reading of the classical theorists, and used to tease out the articulation of sovereignty in current state strategies. Theorizing ‘sovereignty at the center’ as opposed to ‘sovereignty at the periphery’ challenges basic assumptions about the relationship between the state and economic activity, and in particular about the utility-oriented character of state violence.

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