scholarly journals Liberal Democracy and Defensive State Formation: Reconsidering the Early State-Building of Republic of Korea, 1945-1950

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-42
Author(s):  
Yong-Jick Kim
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
State Building ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Early State

Neo-Hobbesianism in the DPRK: A Provisional Theory of Authoritarianism

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-262
Author(s):  
Alzo David-West
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
Hybrid State ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Cognitive Framework ◽  
Academic Discussion ◽  
Sociopolitical History

Abstract This article presents an original historical-philosophical conception that attempts to discern the matter, form, and power of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (dprk). A panoramic and problematizing cognitive framework, the theory configurates 629 years of sociopolitical history from 1392 to 2021 and then comparatively discusses the dprk system in relation to ancient democracy and liberal democracy from Pericles to Samuel P. Huntington. The article is divided into three parts, which outline the theory and its principles, map historical foundations and political phases, and address social relations, state will, and political reality. Description and analysis convey the thesis that the dprk polity is home to a Neo-Hobbesian formation: a hybrid state entity that is historically modern, politically absolutist, and illiberally democratic, with a transforming cross-civilizational physiognomy. By design, the “soft” theory is conceived to stimulate academic discussion and debate, not declare a final solution.

State-Building Amidst Conflict

2019 ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Najum Mushtaq
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
State Formation ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
State Building ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Member States ◽  
South Central ◽  
The New Deal

This chapter discusses the correlation between bottom-up local reconciliation and state-building in Somalia. It identifies key conflict actors in three regional states, and postulates general trends in local conflicts and how to address them. Rather than promoting grassroots reconciliation between various sets of clans engaged in localized conflicts throughout south-central Somalia, the process of forming Federal Member States has intensified and, in some cases, revived conflicts over regional boundaries, land use, and political representation. The urgency to meet the New Deal benchmarks has led to what independent observers consider to be contentious and hasty state-formation. The 2013–17 period was marred by a surge in clan-based violence as discontent grew among those clans that felt they received an unfair deal.

Israelite, Moabite and Sabaean War-ḥērem Traditions and the Forging of National Identity: Reconsidering the Sabaean Text RES 3945 in Light of Biblical and Moabite Evidence

2007 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren A.S. Monroe
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
The South ◽  
Equal Footing ◽  
Early State ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
Cultural Connections ◽  
Tripartite Relationship

AbstractIn the biblical conquest accounts,hērem signifies ritual destruction and consecration to the deity of entire enemy populations and towns. The root hrm also appears in two extrabiblical conquest accounts: the Mesha Inscription and the Sabaean text, RES 3945. This article revisits the interpretation of the Sabaean text in light of recent scholarship in South Arabian Studies, and argues that RES 3945 should be placed on equal footing with the Mesha Inscription for its relevance for understanding the biblical hērem. Taken together, these sources situate the war-hērem in the context of early state formation, and suggest that the tripartite relationship between people, land and god, expressed in terms of b&ebrever&icaront, or &#147covenant,&#148 in ancient Israel, may in fact have found expression more widely, in a tribal, inland Palestinian setting with cultural connections extending into the South Arabian Peninsula.

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