Beyond the Right and Left. The reconstruction of political events (S.L. Frank, H. Freyer)

2017 ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Daria M. Dorokhina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Events ◽  
The Right

scholarly journals Algunos de los desafíos legales y políticos que debe afrontar el movimiento de independencia de Quebec

2016 ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens
Keyword(s):  
Legal Framework ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Legal Foundation ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The Right ◽  
Democratic Country ◽  
Secessionist Movement

El movimiento secesionista de Quebec, uno de los más antiguos de ese tipo en un país democrático, continúa suscitando interés en otras partes del mundo. Pero este movimiento actualmente se enfrenta importantes desafíos. El objetivo principal de este artículo es de proporcionar a sus lectores una visión general de algunos de los principales obstáculos políticos y legales que afronta en la actualidad el movimiento independentista de Quebec. El primero obstáculo se debe poner en relación con el marco legal aplicable al intento de secesión provincial desde la decisión de 1998, del Tribunal Supremo de Canadá en la Reference re Secession of Quebec. El segundo se encuentra en el impacto potencial del proceso del reciente referéndum en Escocia sobre la estrategia del movimiento secesionista de Quebec. El tercero se creó como consecuencia de la división interna de este movimiento. Por último, se estudia una nueva pretendida base legal para reivindicar la secesión, es decir, el denominado «derecho a decidir», en tanto distinto del derecho a la auto-determinación externa.Quebec’s secessionist movement is one of the oldest of the sort in any democratic country. This paper seeks to provide an overview of some of the main political and legal hurdles currently faced by the Quebec independence movement. First it revisits the domestic legal framework applicable to a provincial secession attempt since the seminal 1998 opinion of the Supreme Court of Canada in Reference re Secession of Quebec, which was a major game changer in the debate over Quebec’s potential secession. Then it examines the potential impact of recent political events, as the Scotland’s recent referendum process, on the strategy of the Quebec secessionist movement. And last it looks at an alleged new legal foundation for secession, i.e. a so-called “right to decide” distinct from the right to external self-determination.

scholarly journals The Activity of Pyramid Schemes in Albania (1992 - 1997) and the Effects of Their Decline

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Adelina Nexhipi ◽  
Erjon Nexhipi
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Banking Market ◽  
National Bank ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
Pyramid Schemes

Political transition in Albania during the last 10 years of the past century brought about the collapse of communist system and opened the way to democratic developments for the country. The transition towards democracy was accompanied with new social, economic and political events which brought with them a lot of issues however. The transition from a centralized economy to free market economy progressed rapidly, but these processes did not comply with the right banking legislation. The National Bank of Albania dominated the banking market;. This was one of the main reasons for the establishment and expansion of pyramid schemes in Albania. They operated largely from 1992 – 1997. This descriptive - analytical study reviews the activity of pyramid schemes in Albania, their expansion dimensions; the survey analyzes the reasons for their expansion, the attitude of the Government toward the event and the causes of their decline. In conducting this study, reports and analyses from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Bank of Albania, several media reports and studies from national and international researchers have been taken into consideration. Through this study we aim to explore the reasons for pyramid schemes’ expansion and the mutual relation between the financial and political crisis in Albania.

scholarly journals Inaugural Address of the Right Hon

1878 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 384-394
Author(s):  
Lord Aberdare
Keyword(s):  
Active Part ◽  
The Political ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Political Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

It is with unaffected diffidence that I find myself occupying a chair once honoured by so illustrious an historian as Grote, and so recently adorned by a man so memorable in the history of this century as the late Earl Russell. Each of these eminent men had special qualifications for the post of President of the Royal Historical Society such as I cannot pretend to possess. Both were historians, and both had taken an active part in the political events of their times. If in Mr. Grote the historian predominated over the politician, he yet largely contributed to shape and propagate the political ideas which have since inspired the measures of the party to which he belonged. If the reputation of Earl Russell as a statesman obscures that which he acquired as the historian of the British Constitution, his life from first to last was devoted to historical studies, his writings and speeches teemed with illustrations drawn from history, and perhaps more than any statesman of his age he kept in view historical precedents i n every measure which he framed, and in every State paper which he wrote; while he fixed his gaze on history as his guiding star throughout his long voyage over the dark and troubled waters of political strife.

scholarly journals From ‘Brexhaustion’ to ‘Covidiots’: the UK United Kingdom and the Populist Future

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Foster ◽  
Matthew Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Conservative Party ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Far Right ◽  
New Politics ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

Boris Johnson’s electoral victory and the 2020 culmination of Brexit are accelerating Britain’s shift towards the right and towards open criticism of technocracy in the UK and EU. Since 2016 the UK’s political atmosphere has polarised into hostile extremes. The continuation of this toxicity beyond Brexit, the dominance of nationalist narratives as Britain’s new ‘politics of everything’ (Valluvan 2019). While the Conservative Party remains traditionally centre-right and the Brexit Party has ceased to be relevant, the UK continues to witness the growth of the far right and what is called here the ‘Radical Right’, which have been accelerating since 2016, rapidly gaining influence (Norris and Inglehart 2019: 443-472), and ‘mainstreaming’ (Miller-Idriss 2017) in the Conservative majority elected in December 2019. The past four years have seen growing British contempt for technocracy in London and Brussels, while the Leave vote has been represented as a “Will of the People” antithetical to a Remain/Revoke/Second Referendum position, often portrayed as an anti-democratic scheme by “the elite” to frustrate the will of “the people”. This ‘us and them’ populist narrative is deepening as the UK’s volatile political environment moves away from the political procedures and economic values by which the UK has operated since 1945. Since early 2020, this narrative has been significantly accelerated by Covid-19 countermeasures, with anti-EU parties and narratives on the left and right becoming anti-lockdown or anti-vaccine parties and narratives. This paper approaches the radical right as emblematic of British politics’ shift from centrism towards polarised factions defined not by party but by support or contempt for technical governance. In this paper we propose a new explanatory basis for studying the populist radical right not as a temporary phenomenon in response to specific political events and conditions, but as a fluid, amorphous, and heterogeneous set of groups, parties, and narratives whose strategies, appeal, and narratives make them extremely adaptable, and significant as a force with substantial influence of politics into the future.

scholarly journals Saint Mark’s Square as Contested Political Space: Protesting Cruise Tourism in Venice

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Araya López
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Political Space ◽  
Normal Functioning ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Cruise Tourism ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Demonstrations ◽  
The City

Saint Mark’s Square is unquestionably the most famous tourist attraction in Venice, a piazza characterised by its complex history, unique aesthetics and many allusions to power (given its proximity to the Doge’s Palace and Saint Mark’s Basilica). This square is the largest open space in the city and while it is routinely crowded with tourists from all over the world, political demonstrations have been prohibited since 1997. This article explores Saint Mark’s Square as a contested political space by focusing on the many local struggles against cruise tourism in Venice and its lagoon. Instead of constituting an ‘apolitical’ space, the preferred uses given to the square by local authorities and tourism stakeholders are manifestly ‘political’, producing a space of leisure and consumption that benefits the economic logic behind the ‘normal’ functioning of the piazza. Other alternative social and political uses of the square are not only discouraged but banned, which brings into discussion the Lefebvrian notion of the right to the city: who has access to the centre as a (political) privileged space? The article examines protest acts undertaken by the collective No Grandi Navi, particularly the political events that took place after the MSC Opera collision with another tourist vessel and the dock in June 2019.

scholarly journals A Look at the Evolution of the Right to Self-determination in International Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-132
Author(s):  
Paweł von Chamier Cieminski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
International Law ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Advisory Opinion ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right

The article takes stock of the historical development of the notion of the right of a people to self-determination in international law. It provides a coherent review of the main international treaties, customary rules, and legal rulings that shaped the evolution of the term over the course of the twentieth century. In doing so, it focuses on the main historical and political events, which had an impact on that process as well as the preconditions that have to be met in order for a people to have the legal capacity to execute the right to self-determination. Three main processes, which it focuses on are: decolonization, the establishment of a number of new countries following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the recent developments following ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo. It also delineates the subject of the legal definition of a “people” as opposed to a “minority”, describes the legal tension between the right to self-determination and the principle of territorial continuity in international law, and discusses potential further development of the term.

scholarly journals A tribute to a commitment to the Pacific region

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Walter Fraser
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Political Journalism ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Right

In more ways than one, the political events in Fiji since that fateful day have had a profound effect on political journalism in the Pacific. Many contemporaries, who worked as journalists in Fiji at the time, paid dearly for defending the Fourth Estate. They were unified in their views and they vehemently defended the right to call things as they saw them - a spade was a spade, black was black and white was white.

scholarly journals Political and Gender issues in Arundhati Roy’s "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness"

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danish Suleman ◽  
Abdul Halim Mohamed ◽  
Md. Firoj Ahmmed
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Reformer ◽  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Right

Arundhati Rao is an acute observer of the very fabric of Indian society. He is an activist and social reformer for the marginal, downtrodden and a revolutionary spark for the 21st century litterateurs. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is the second novel of Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy which is published in 2017 after twenty years of the publication of his debut novel The God of Small Things. The novel recounts some of the egregious events of Contemporary Indian history such as land reform, 2002 Godhra train burning and Kashmir insurgency as well. It illustrates the sufferings, pain and the right of the LGBT community in contemporary India. The novel also incorporates many social and political events occurred in India and other parts of the world against the backdrop of its story. The paper argues upon the political and gender issues with the reference of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Rao.

scholarly journals The Role of Suspended Accounts in Political Discussion on Social Media: Analysis of the 2017 French, UK and German Elections

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512110272
Author(s):  
Silvia Majó-Vázquez ◽  
Mariluz Congosto ◽  
Tom Nicholls ◽  
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Political Discussion ◽  
Social Media Analysis ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Right ◽  
Immigration And Religion

Content moderation on social media is at the center of public and academic debate. In this study, we advance our understanding on which type of election-related content gets suspended by social media platforms. For this, we assess the behavior and content shared by suspended accounts during the most important elections in Europe in 2017 (in France, the United Kingdom, and Germany). We identify significant differences when we compare the behavior and content shared by Twitter suspended accounts with all other active accounts, including a focus on amplifying divisive issues like immigration and religion and systematic activities increasing the visibility of specific political figures (often but not always on the right). Our analysis suggests that suspended accounts were overwhelmingly human operated and no more likely than other accounts to share “fake news.” This study sheds light on the moderation policies of social media platforms, which have increasingly raised contentious debates, and equally importantly on the integrity and dynamics of political discussion on social media during major political events.

What is Privacy Anyway? A Longitudinal Study of Media Frames of Privacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Fornaciari
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Frame Theory ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Right To Know ◽  
Fundamental Value ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
The Right

Technological development often prompts individuals to rethink the boundaries of their privacy. The decision of sharing or withholding information is also prompted by greater narratives that help readers to understand the shape of privacy and its relations to evolving societal landscapes. Informed by frame theory, the current study implements a longitudinal discourse analysis of 140 editorials published in US mainstream media outlets between 1900 and 2016 to explore how media narratives have framed privacy, and how they have rendered its connection with overarching societal contexts, across decades of technological development. Findings suggest that, in media narratives, the shape of privacy has shifted from a fundamental value to a more materialistic one. Also, across the decades, media frames have kept wavering between “the right to know” and “the right to privacy” – suggesting the importance of one over the other, mostly to respond to current political events. 

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