Rethinking the relationship between the state and society in the age of globalization

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sussan Siavoshi

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.


Author(s):  
Uldis Zupa ◽  

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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Osama Sami AL-Nsour

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.


Author(s):  
Ильяс Тавасович Тультеев ◽  
Омон Закирович Мухамеджанов

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.


2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaron Ayalon

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.


2022 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 181-206
Author(s):  
Lukáš Fasora

This text summarises the results of extensive research into the relationship between the state and universities in 1849–1939, i.e. between the so-called ‘Thun reform’ and the closure of Czech universities by the Nazis. The focus is on the state’s respect for the privileged position of universities and the monitoring of tensions arising from the clash between legislation and the universities’ day-to-day operations, resulting mainly from satisfying the economic needs of universities on the one hand, and the interpretation of the responsibility and discipline of their academic staff towards the state and society on the other. The research shows the advancing erosion of the so-called Prussian (Humboldt’s) concept of an autonomous national-oriented university and the difficult search for a democratic alternative in interwar Central Europe’s unstable political and economic conditions.


2021 ◽  
pp. 54-63
Author(s):  
Artak Harutyunyan

This article deals with the military security potential of the state, its components, which, as you know, are not of constant value. They are changed depending on the stage of the development of a society, its potential, the nature of the existing regime, the maturity of the ruling political elite, and many other conditions. The aim of this study is to carry out a philosophical-political analysis of the military security of the state and its systems. In accordance with the aim of the study the following objectives are set: - to define the essence of the concept of «military security of the state» as one of the specific types of national security; - to consider the essence and content military security potential of the state; - to characterize the relationship between the essence of the terms «national» and «military» potential. Military security presents an integral interconnection of economic, social, political, scientific-technical, spiritual and just military capabilities, which differ from each other in their quality and internal structure. The allocation of these potentials forming in interaction an integral potential of military security allows directing the process of its development to turn the potential abilities of the state and society into an active factor that meets the requirements for the military security.


2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Monica Piccolo Almeida

Este artigo propõe-se a analisar em uma perspectiva crítica as principais concepções que predominam na literatura especializada acerca do Estado Brasileiro no limiar dos anos 1990. Toma como objeto de investigação as diversas interpretações construídas sobre algumas temáticas que marcaram a meteórica trajetória de Fernando Collor de Mello rumo a presidência da República. Serão assim analisadas algumas das mais importantes obras que têm como tema o Governo Collor na tentativa de mapear a concepção de Estado que predomina em cada obra. Parte-se da hipótese de que é hegemônica entre os analistas a concepção do Estado brasileiro nos primeiros anos de 1990 como Estado-Sujeito que paira acima de uma Sociedade Civil amorfa, passiva. A vertente explicativa aqui defendida, em uma perspectiva diferenciada e sustentada no arcabouço teórico gramsciniano, sustenta que as relações entre Estado e Sociedade devem ser problematizadas e desnaturalizadas. O modelo de Estado que se forjou, então, não é fruto, unicamente, dos interesses de uma única classe. Ele é visto enquanto relação social e fruto de conflitos entre sujeitos coletivos organizados a partir da sociedade civil e profundamente marcado pelos esforços de transformação do discurso e das práticas neoliberais em hegemônicosPalavras-chave: Estado. Neoliberalismo. Governo Collor. BRAZILIAN STATE ON THE BEGINNING OF THE YEARS 1990: Object-State or Subject-State ?Abstract: This paper aims to examine in a critical perspective the main conceptions that predominate in the specialized literature on the State on the threshold of the years 1990. The object of research are the various interpretations built on some thematic that marked the meteoric career of Fernando Collor de Mello into the Presidency of the Republic Some of the most important works that have as theme Collor's Government are analyzed in an attempt to map the conception that predominates in each work. Considering the hypothesis that it is hegemonic, among analysts, the conception of Brazilian State in the early years of 1990 as asubject State that hangs above an amorphous, Civil society. The explanatory section here defended, in a different perspective and sustained in the Gramscian theory, maintains that the relationship between the State and society must be raised and not naturalized. The State model that was forged, so it is not the result only of the interests of a single class. It is seen as a social relation and the result of conflicts among organized collective subjects from civil society and deeply marked by the speech transformation efforts and neoliberal hegemonic practices.Keywords: State. Neoliberalism. Collor's Government.ESTADO BRASILEÑO EN EL UMBRAL DE LOS AÑOS 1990: ¿Estado Cosa o Estado Sujeto?Resumen: Este trabajo se propone examinar en una perspectiva crítica los conceptos principales que predominan en la literatura especializada sobre el estado en el umbral de los años 1990. Tiene por objeto de investigación las diversas interpretaciones construidas sobre algunas temáticas que marcaron la carrera meteórica de Fernando Collor de Mello en la Presidencia de la República. Por lo tanto serán analizadas algunas de las obras más importantes que tienen como tema el gobierno de Collor, en un intento de mapear la concepción que predomina en cada obra. Se basa en la hipótesis que es hegemónica entre los analistas es el diseño del estado brasileño en los primeros años de 1990 como un estado de sujeto suspendido encima de una Sociedad Civil, amorfa. La sección explicativa aquí defendida, en una perspectiva diferente y sostenido en el teórico gramsciano, mantiene que la relación entre el estado y la sociedad debe plantearse como problematizadas y desnaturalizadas. El modelo de estado que forjó, así por lo tanto, no es el resultado sólo de los intereses de una sola clase. Él es visto como una relación social y el resultado de conflictos entre tema organizado colectivos de la sociedad civil y profundamente marcada por las actividades de procesamiento de voz y neoliberal hegemónico en prácticas.Palabras clave: Estado. Neoliberalismo. Collor gobierno.


Harmoni ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 408-423
Author(s):  
Mahbib Khoiron

Abstrak  Penelitian ini menyoroti hubungan negara dan Jemaat Ahmadiyah Indonesia (JAI) yang sering diasumsikan sebagai dua entitas terpisah yang statis atau bahkan konflik. Melalui studi etnografi pada relasi salah satu cabang JAI dan negara di tingkat lokal, yang menekankan pada analisis para aktor, penelitian kualitatif ini mengungkap bahwa relasi keduanya lebih kompleks dari sekadar dikotomi negara-masyarakat. Kompleksitas tersebut mengacu pada hadirnya identitas yang majemuk dalam diri masing-masing aktor yang membuat batas-batas di antara mereka pun samar dalam interaksi sosial sehari-hari, bahkan cenderung integratif. Kata kunci: Ahmadiyah, interaksi sosial, kegagalan represi, masyarakat, negara, state in society.     Abstract   This study highlights the relationship between the state and Indonesian Ahmadiyya Community (JAI), which is often assumed as two separate entities that are static or even conflict. Through the ethnographic study on relationship between a branch of JAI and state at the local level, in which emphasizes the actors analysis, it reveals that the relations are more complex than dichotomy of the state and society. This complexity refers to the presence of multiple identities in each actor which causes the boundaries between the two social categories blurred in everyday social interactions, even tend to be integrative. Keywords: Ahmadiyya, social interaction, failed repression, society, state, state in society.  


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