Ideological Concepts in ‘Formalism, Decisionism and Conservatism in Russian Law’ (2021) by Mikhail Antonov

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 447-464
Author(s):  
Sergei Akopov
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Legal Philosophy ◽  
International Theory ◽  
Russian Law ◽  
Political Philosopher ◽  
Conceptual Foundations ◽  
Imaginary Dialogue

Abstract The present review analyses key ideas of professor Mikhail Antonov’s 2021 book on formalism, decisionism and conservatism in Russian Law. This review essay is written in the form of an imaginary dialogue between the reviewer (a political philosopher) and the author (legal philosopher). Its main aim is to explore legal dimensions of Russia’s new ideology of conservatism. Divided into five sections, it covers five conceptual foundations of the book – sovereigntism, statism, collectivism, civilizationism and exceptionalism. This review essay also examines the links between the respective ideas of legal philosophy of Mikhail Antonov and an overview of arguments from the contemporary political and critical international theory, aiming to engage in a critical discussion with the author about Russia’s insecure collective identity.

scholarly journals Modernization of Conceptual Foundations of Russian Law: Axiology, Logic, Pragmatics

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
V. I. Przhilenskiy
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
The State ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Legal Philosophy ◽  
The West ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Russian Law ◽  
Conceptual Foundations ◽  
Modern Russian

The article explores the current understanding of the conceptual foundations of Russian Law in the context of possibility of overcoming the values-worldview dichotomy according to the determinations of axiology, logic and pragmatics of the foundations under consideration. Also, the author considers John Rawls’ Theory of Justice taken as the most influential political and legal philosophy of the West, as well as its alternative represented by Eurasian philosophical thought. The article analyzes the ability of the Eurasian understanding of the State and Law to compete with liberalism and John Rawls’ neoconstructivism. Narrowness of both the first and the second alternative is shown and the necessity of taking into account each of the vectors of development of conceptual foundations of modern Russian Law is substantiated.

Whose Game? FIFA, Corruption and the Challenge of Global Governance

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 1041-1066
Author(s):  
Sahiba Gill ◽  
Edouard Adelus ◽  
Francisco de Abreu Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
General Public ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Present Review ◽  
General Audience ◽  
Coordination Problems ◽  
The Public

Abstract The present review essay provides an analysis of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) from the point of view of global governance. Through a review of five books on corruption in FIFA, written for a general audience, the essay describes FIFA as an institution of global governance in which several forms of corruption are widespread among its member organizations and confederations and within the FIFA leadership. This review essay uses the accounts of corruption in FIFA that these books provide to argue that corruption helps solve coordination problems in FIFA by coordinating divergent interests, allocating or distributing funds and allowing for a network of diverse and diffuse actors to fundamentally shape global football. The systemic use of bribing and the exchange of political favours and other means of informal allocation of power are more than mere spontaneous illegalities; they represent an informal, but systematic, means of governance in FIFA. We argue that the February 2016 FIFA reforms fell short of addressing this activity. The reviewed books all call for governing FIFA in the public interest, and the essay presents some pathways to reform and potential replacements for the use of corruption with the aim of returning the game to the general public.

scholarly journals Review EssayExemplarist Moral Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 755-768
Author(s):  
Lani Watson ◽  
Alan T. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Practical Guide ◽  
The Way

This review essay provides a critical discussion of Linda Zagzebski’s (2017) Exemplarist Moral Theory (emt). We agree that emt is a book of impressive scope that will be of interest to ethical theorists, as well as epistemologists, philosophers of language, and philosophers of religion. Throughout the critical discussion we argue that exemplarism faces a number of important challenges, firstly, in dealing with the fallibility of admiration, which plays a central role in the theoretical framework, and secondly, in serving as a practical guide for moral development. Despite this, we maintain that emt points the way for significant future theoretical and empirical research into some of the most well-established questions in ethical theory.

Review EssayLaw and Economics, Judicial Pragmatism and Their Limits on Both Sides of the Atlantic

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Antonov
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Judicial Process ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Methodology

The present review analyzes the key ideas of Justice Gadzhiev and Judge Posner on legal methodology and tasks in legal education. These ideas are considered in the context of two recent books by these authors. Both books appeared in 2016 and both question certain principal dimensions of pragmatism in the law, to which both Gadzhiev and Posner are subscribed. This review essay examines the links between the respective ideas of these two authors on methods of legal research, on judicial process and on teaching law, in addition to providing an overview of the intellectual culture of the us and Russian legal orders.

scholarly journals Play in(g) international theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 891-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aggie Hirst
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
International Theory ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Global Arena ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

AbstractWhile the study of games and gaming has increased in International Relations in recent years, a corresponding exploration of play has yet to be developed in the field. While play features in several key areas – including game theory, videogames and popular culture, and pedagogical role-plays and simulations – little work has been done to analyse its presence in, and potentials for, the discipline. The aim of this article is to introduce the study of play to IR. It does this by demonstrating that play is political, and that it is at work across the global arena. Drawing on the deconstructive tradition associated with Jacques Derrida, its core contribution is a theorisation of play. The central argument developed is that play is (auto)deconstructive. By this I mean (1) that play precipitates an unravelling of any attempt at its conceptualisation, and (2) that this illustrates the value of a deconstructive approach to international theory. This claim is substantiated through an analysis of four key binary oppositions derived from Johan Huizinga'sHomo Ludens. Having shown how play powerfully deconstructs its own conceptual foundations, I argue that a playful approach offers a robust challenge to entrenched assumptions in international theory.

Flirtation with the other: an examination of the processes of othering in the PaliVinaya

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Maes
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Direct Relation

AbstractThis article identifies and examines processes of othering in an early Indian Buddhist ascetic text, the PaliVinayaof the Theravādins. By means of: (1) a critical discussion of the fact that the PaliVinayaholds several terms for the early Buddhists' ascetic others; and (2) a close reading and analysis of a small group of – easily overlooked – PaliVinayapassages with explicit references to supposed practices of the early Buddhists' ascetic others, I make explicit two aspects of the processes of othering of the early Buddhist ascetic community. I show how through processes of othering Buddhistbhikkhus,or at the very least the monk-editors of the PaliVinaya,both negotiated a collective identity notion, and reflected on the significance of their own practices and values in direct relation to those of their ascetic others, whether real or imagined.

Conceptualising the opening phase of regional development as the enactment of a ‘collective identity’

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hjorth ◽  
Bengt Johannison
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Constructionist Approach ◽  
Opening Phase

This paper argues that processes of regional development have to be conceptualised in a novel way. The dominant approach displays a bias towards a macro-perspective, often reproduces a centre — periphery model, and favours an economism that aims at the production of instruments for policy makers and academics alike, both enjoying the convenience of (bureaucratic and analytical) distance. Instead we propose a constructionist approach. This is developed through a critical discussion of the received view, and builds upon the central concepts of ‘enacted collective identity’, ‘articulation/translation’, and an upgrading of the importance of time in the sense of timing. We limit this study, which includes two empirical cases, to the ‘opening phase’ of a regional development process. We identify a new role for the researcher in articulating the need for and opportunities of a regional development, and we stress a more decentralised form of public support.

The luxury of abundance

1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
David Fontijn ◽  
David Van Reybrouck
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Similar Attitude ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Irish Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Institutional Expansion ◽  
Foreign Ideas

AbstractThe last decade has witnessed a significant increase in the number of comprehensive syntheses on Irish prehistory, both in terms of academic textbooks and popular accounts. The present review essay finds that these syntheses are highly convergent in terms of theme, scope, and theoretical underpinnings. Although large-scale migrations are rejected as explanations for culture change, Ireland is still perceived as the receptacle for foreign ideas and overseas inventions, whereby imports are not just introduced but also perfected in Ireland. We argue that a similar attitude can be noted in the perception of the history of Irish prehistory. This convergence and absence of overt polemics are explained by referring to the small size of the Irish archaeological community. The increase in syntheses is accounted for by a number of empirical preconditions, the theoretical climate of opinion, the institutional expansion of the discipline, the public impact of a rapidly changing natural and political landscape and the notion of an Irish identity.

Constitutionalism Justified

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
Legal Philosophy ◽  
Constitutional Theory ◽  
Constitutional Democracy ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Legal Discourses ◽  
Political Philosopher ◽  
The Right

Rainer Forst is a leading German political philosopher and was named ‘the most important political philosopher of his generation’ upon his 2012 receipt of the Leibniz Prize. This book brings together discussion from political philosophy, constitutional theory, and legal philosophy to examine Forst’s theory of justice, paying special attention to the application of his moral theory to legal fields. Forst then responds to his interlocutors in a concluding chapter. The book is structured from the general to the specific, and begins by examining the philosophical fundaments of Forst’s ‘right to justification’ as the basis for justice. This right is in the second section transferred to the realm of constitutional theory, exploring the implications the right to justification has for conceptualizing legal discourses in a constitutional democracy. The concluding section sees Forst respond to the foregoing chapters.

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