The New Nationalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Yael Tamir
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
The State ◽  
The World ◽  
National Ideology ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Developed World

This chapter investigates the return of nationalism. It examines what provoked national feelings and national ideology and made them more relevant than ever. It also questions if nationalism is a dormant evil force waiting to pop out whenever there is a crisis, a force that must be repressed at all costs, or is it a constructive power, a worthwhile ideology that could and should be harnessed to make the world a better place. The chapter presents a case for nationalism, highlighting the ways it shaped public policy and made the years between the end of the world wars and the eruption of neoliberal globalism the best years for the least well-off members of the developed world. Some may say that these years were good ones because nationalism was repressed, allowing liberal democracy to flourish. The chapter argues, however, that many of the achievements of that period were dependent on an alliance between the nation and the state.

The Sleeping Night‐Watchman and Some Alternatives: Citizenship, Participation and Bases of Democratic Legitimacy in Britain

1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-360
Author(s):  
Robert Pinkney
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
The State ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Islamic Fundamentalism ◽  
Democratic Transitions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
The World

WE TAKE IT FOR GRANTED THAT THE SURVIVAL OF THE STATE DEPENDS on democratic consent. With the demise of Marxism and fascism, Diamond suggests that, apart from Islamic fundamentalism, democracy is the only model with ideological legitimacy. And Fukuyama asserts that ‘the democratic transitions of the past generation could not have occurred had not populations around the world finally become conscious of the fact that liberal democracy alone provides the possibility of fully rational recognition of human dignity’.

Stowaway stories and mythological realism in Yuri Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 331-346
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
True Story ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Absent Presence

This article examines how contemporary authors writing about migration turn to fantastic, spectral and mythical elements when writing about passages of transit. I turn to narratives written by Yuri Herrera and Mohsin Hamid and explore how these authors use mythology and magic to resist telling a ‘true’ story, creating what I call a stowaway aesthetic that hides away other stories in its narrative. By stowing away information and misrepresentation through magic, these authors create impossible stories that attend to archival silences. They enact a resistance against the ways in which the state extracts and polices narrative in the process of asylum-seeking. I argue that in the moments in which authors eschew realism, they direct the reader’s attention to the unknowable aspects of migrant lives that constitute an absent presence in the process of migration.

scholarly journals Liberalism, Democracy, and the State: Reclaiming the Unity of Liberal Politics

2001 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 755-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gus diZerega
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Liberal Society ◽  
The West ◽  
Liberal Politics ◽  
Political Status ◽  
The World ◽  
Liberal Vision ◽  
Liberal Thought

Liberal political thought has fractured into “classical” and “modern” camps. This division is rooted in differing reactions to the rise of capitalism and democracy, which are institutional outgrowths of liberal principles, unanticipated by its seminal thinkers. Both “classical” and “modern” liberalism are led astray by classifying liberal democracy as a kind of state. But democracies are not states; they are selforganizing systems. When the nature of this error is grasped, a more coherent liberal vision emerges, where the key tension in liberal society is between selforganizing systems and instrumental organizations. Possibilities in public policy take on new dimensions as well.The world we know is largely the institutional outcome of liberalism's political triumph, first in the West and increasingly worldwide. Yet today liberal thought is deeply divided against itself and, in this division, often unable to comprehend a world in many ways its product. This division grows primarily from tensions between two liberal institutions: liberal, or representative, democracy and the market, and also from the near universal failure of liberals to grasp democratic government's unusual systemic character. Tensions between liberal democracy and the market are central issues, whereas the character of democratic government receives far less attention. Yet how the first issue is evaluated depends in part on understanding the last. Liberalism has strengthened the intellectual, legal, economic and political status of individuals within society, emphasizing equality of status for all people.

scholarly journals Work in Progress: Twenty-five Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.” The General Measures of Implementation Across the Globe

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Collins ◽  
Lisa Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Important Measure ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Policies And Programs

Since its adoption twenty-five years ago, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has guided many actors and institutions around the world in relation to children. Yet, what influence has it had upon legislation, policies and programs, and what progress has occurred for children? An important measure of its impact is the status of the General Measures of the Implementation of the CRC, which the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has identified as a foundational requirement of the framework of action. Focusing on law reform, budgeting, monitoring, and independent human rights institutions, this paper describes the state ofthese general measures with examples in different countries around the world to confirm the CRC's significance in governance and public policy. It is submitted that the CRC has been influential in public policy and that there is much more room for progress guided by the CRC. The paper concludes with recommendations for CRC states parties.

scholarly journals A cosmopolis of all beings: Cosmopolitanism, Indigeneity and the more-than-human

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Chris Beeman
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Human Action ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Human History ◽  
Moral Sensibility ◽  
The World ◽  
Human World ◽  
Human Orientation

Cosmopolitanism - either an idea that goes far back in recorded human history, or an approach whose form came before a definition - places high value on individual moral responsibility to other moral beings beyond the intermediation of the nation-state. Nussbaum's version, critiqued by Naseem and Margison, links cosmopolitanism to rational liberal democracy, beyond, but not to the exclusion of, individual responisiblity and loyalty to the state. Appiah's more nuanced version still holds the possibility of a universalist ethic while respecting difference. Magsino sees cosmopolitanism as a possible countervailing force to globalization. All of these recent theorists place cosmopoiltanism in the realm of human action and responsibility. This paper explores Spinoza's cosmology as a way of not only broadening the sphere of cosmopolitanism to the more-than-human world, but in doing so, shifting the basis of membership therein from responsibilty to other moral beings, to acting morally to the extent of the capacity one has to formulate moral sensibility. This stretches the hitherto human orientation of cosmopolitanism. But Toulmin's etymology, linking human ordered-ness to ordered-ness in the world, suggests otherwise. Spinoza's cosmology is shown to have relevance to some Indigenous ontologies.

scholarly journals Democratic Trends in Foreign and Domestic Policy of Post-Reformation Indonesia: Historical Aspect

2021 ◽  
pp. 333-354
Author(s):  
Nikita S. Kuklin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Domestic Policy ◽  
Western World ◽  
Historical Aspect ◽  
The World ◽  
National Ideology ◽  
Definition Of

Liberal democracy, the theory of a democratic world and a number of other liberal theories today are strongly associated with the Western world and the globalization model of development. Critics of this trend draw attention to the need to take into account objective differences in approaches to the perception of democracy in different countries and sociocultural communities. Indonesia is one of the most striking examples of the distinctive perception of democracy at different socio-political levels, which manifests itself both in national ideology and in the people's consciousness. This article is supposed to consider the Indonesian approaches to the definition of democracy and their impact on the implementation of Indonesia's foreign policy in the world arena based on these basic foundations.

The Best Interests of the Child in Assisted Human Reproduction: The Interplay Between the State, Professionals, and Parents

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken R. Daniels ◽  
Eric Blyth ◽  
Darrel Hall ◽  
Kathy M. Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Human Reproduction ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Assisted Human Reproduction ◽  
The World ◽  
Considerable Debate

Developments in assisted human reproduction (AHR) have aroused considerable debate and interest around the world, with most governments accepting that they are matters of public policy. This politicization of AHR is explored in the context of a consideration of the oft-used term “the best interests of the child.” This “rallying call” is frequently cited as the primary concern in the determination of policy. This article is based on the contention that it is important to examine the interplay between the three main groups directly influencing “best interest” outcomes for AHR offspring. These groups are the professionals, the parents, and the state. It seeks to examine how this high-sounding and well-meaning commitment is addressed, advanced, or ignored in the interplay of these groups.

scholarly journals Mazdeans and Christians Facing the End of the World: Circulations and Exchanges of Concepts

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Panaino
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Comparative Framework ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Original Presentation ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Eternal Punishment

This contribution offers a conspectus of the parallel treatment of some escha­tological subjects in the comparative framework of Mazdean and Christian sources. Although some impact of the Judeo-Chris­tian tradition on Iranian apocalypticism has been fittingly detected in previous studies, the author in­sists on evidence showing a sort of circular exchange between Chris­tians and Mazdeans, where, for in­stan­ce, chiliasm presents some Iranian (and not only Ba­by­lonian) resonances, while the well-known Zo­ro­as­trian doctrine of universal mercy and of the *apokatastasis* shows impressive correspondences with the Ori­genian doctrines. What distinguishes the Iranian framework is the fact that millenarianism, apocalypse and *apokatastasis* did not directly contrast, as it happened in the Christian milieu. These Christian doc­trines played a certain influence in Sasanian Iran, although their diffusion and acceptance was pro­bably slow and progressive, and became dominant among Zoroastrians only after the fall of the Sasanian period, when the Mazdean Church was no longer the pillar of the state and the social and legal order. The diffusion of the doctrine of universal mercy was a later acquisition, as shown from the evidence that earlier Mazdean doctrines did not assume a complete salvation for the wicked but prescribed a harsh and eternal punishment for them. Fur­ther­more, the author focuses on his own research on these sub­jects and summarises some results concerning a new and original presentation of the Mazdean concept of evil as a manifestation of suffering, comparable to a state of mental 'sickness.'

scholarly journals Apocalypses and the Sage. Different Endings of the World in SenecaApocalypses and the Sage. Different Endings of the World in Seneca

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-95
Author(s):  
Francesca Romana Berno
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Narrative ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Human Side

This paper deals with apocalypse, intended as a revelation or prediction related to the end of the world, in Seneca’s prose work. The descriptions and readings of this event appear to be quite different from each other. My analysis will follow two main directions. Firstly, I will show the human side of the question, focussing on the condition of the sage facing the universal ruin in the context of the macroscopic narrative structure of most passages, and on the differences between the Epicurean and the Stoic view on this point. Secondly, I will turn to the descriptions of the end of the world which we can find in the Naturales Quaestiones. I will argue that Seneca’s choice of flood or conflagration as representations for the apocalypse are not haphazard, but may be motivated by a subtle political narrative, and thus linked to the Stoic struggle for taking part in the governing of the state. In particular, the end of book three represents a flood which probably alludes to Tiber’s floods.

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