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This work aims at analyzing the mechanisms that are involved in political assassination in Northern countries during the period between the two world wars, after the independence and the beginning of the years of national sovereign national conferences. A question remains, that of knowing the motivations behind these political assassinations in the sphere of the State, the impacts, the end between the power and the people. To analyze this work, the fundamental preoccupation is assassination, power and politics, which constitute the theoretical and methodological approach of the study of our corpus. It consists of two French works of the 20th century and two African post colonial novels. The analysis reveals that the two spaces are connected to power and do not accept any opposition. Moreover, assassination and power go together, through the critic of the texts of this study. The aesthetics of these authors is, indeed, relevant and arouses the consideration of linguistic and rhetorical analysis. Thus, Jean Paul Sartre’s The Reprieve and André Malraux’s Man’s Hope remain in the wake of post modernism. However, Alioum Fantouré’s Tropical Circle and Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah is not Obliged present Africa in perpetual disenchantment, for dictatorship is legitimated by former masters and the militants from the ruling party. We base our reasoning on the notion of the world division by Lucien Golmann to show that wars and political assassinations are social facts used in literature as reflexion materials. by Georges Djolsabe | Guideng Kertemar Aubin "The Madness of Power and Political Assassination in Jean Paul Sartre's the Reprieve, Alioum Fantouré's Tropica Circle, André Malraux's Man’s Hope and Ahmadou Kourouma's Allah is not Obliged" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-8 | Issue-1 , February 2024, URL: https://lnkd.in/dpGak_d6 Paper Url: https://lnkd.in/dyFSy8KM

On the eve of the Great American Election, I am reminded of how Athens guessed its way to a system that elevated justice, opportunity and freedom from rule by the few. Ancient Athenian democracy was not arrived at overnight. It took three consecutive generations of reformers to give Athenians their constitution. There existed no manifesto or developed political theory waiting for someone to implement it, as Lenin implemented Marx, though ideas of liberty and equality were clearly being discussed in 6th?century BC Greece, and Pre-Socratic philosophers in the east Aegean were writing codes of physics and ethics. Rather, democracy was incrementally arrived at as a necessity because every other form of government fell short of expectations. Then, as now, democracy divided the financial and intellectual elite. A faction of well-to-do Athenians engineered its downfall with the help of outside powers at the first opportunity, as a faction of well-to-do Americans appears to be plotting to do today. https://lnkd.in/dyYXZKdM

How can the history behind the Thucydides Trap help us understand the multifaceted relationship between relative power, change, and war? Matthew Hamilton and I share some thoughts in a new article, published today in International Affairs https://lnkd.in/e7r3uT_k

Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis - OA PDF: https://lnkd.in/g3-newUs Featuring essays by some of the most prominent names in contemporary political and cultural theory,?Sovereignty in Ruins?presents a form of critique grounded in the conviction that political thought is itself an agent of crisis. Aiming to develop a political vocabulary capable of critiquing and transforming contemporary political frameworks, the contributors advance a politics of crisis that collapses the false dichotomies between sovereignty and governmentality and between critique and crisis. Their essays address a wide range of topics, such as the role history plays in the development of a politics of crisis; Arendt's controversial judgment of Adolf Eichmann; Strauss's and Badiou's readings of Plato's?Laws; the acceptance of the unacceptable; the human and nonhuman; and flesh as a biopolitical category representative of the ongoing crisis of modernity. Altering the terms through which political action may take place, the contributors think through new notions of the political that advance countermodels of biopolitics, radical democracy, and humanity. Contributors. Judith Butler, George Edmondson, Roberto Esposito, Carlo Galli, Klaus Mladek, Alberto Moreiras, Andrew Norris, Eric L. Santner, Adam Sitze, Carsten Strathausen, Rei Terada, Cary Wolfe

New from former postdoc Rob Goodman https://lnkd.in/eYeGQRMf Table of Contents Introduction Giuseppe Ballacci and Rob Goodman PART 1 - ANCIENT AND EARLY MODERN THEMES Chapter 1 Parrhêsia: The Unbridled Tongue in Ancient Democratic Athens Arlene W. Saxonhouse Chapter 2 Democracy's Shadow: The Problem of Populism in Plato's Political Thought Tae-Yeoun Keum Chapter 3 "Naked" Speech in Late Republican Rome Rob Goodman Chapter 4 Rhetoric and Republicanism in the Thought of Brunetto Latini Cary J. Nederman Chapter 5 Republicanism and Populism in Early Modern Italian Political Thought: The Case of Democracy as the Rule of the Poor Alessandro Mulieri Chapter 6 On the Battlefield of Rhetoric: Eloquence, Virtue, and Political Legitimacy in Italian Humanism David Ragazzoni PART 2 - MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY THEMES Chapter 7 Demagoguery, Populism, and Political Culture in Cooper's The American Democrat Daniel Kapust Chapter 8 Anti-Parliamentary Politics: Populist Momentum in Historical Perspective Kari Palonen Chapter 9 Vilfredo Pareto on Rhetoric and Populism Giovanni Damele Chapter 10 Palaces for the People, or: Should Public Buildings Persuade Citizens of Democracy? Jan-Werner Müller Chapter 11 Reconstructing Pluralism and Populism: Not "Opposites" but a More Complex Configuration Mark Wenman Chapter 12 Democracy, Plutocracy, and the Populist Cry of Pain John P. McCormick Chapter 13 Populism, Celebrity Politics, and Politainment Paula Diehl Chapter 14 Rhetorical Resonance: From Everyday Speech to Insurrection Simon Lambek Conclusion Giuseppe Ballacci and Rob Goodman

I found Astra Taylor's documentary exploring the complexities of democracy and examining its roots in ancient Greece with the implications it has in today is very enlightening. As an engineering major I found that There were many aspects underscored in the film that contribute to the importance of shaping democratic societies. Engineering and science have an influence in promoting as well as undermining democratic values. For example, the ethical responsibilities of developers and engineers in creating technologies that protect privacy and enhance accessibility are directly tied to democratic principles. The film also highlights the role that science broadly has in informing public policy, emphasizing the need for informed and responsible decision-making in the democratic process. In the NY times article, https://lnkd.in/erAj99hW, “Many of the film’s most stinging moments deal with the degree to which true democracy has rarely if ever existed for African-Americans.” In my field of study, I have learned that even technological systems can inherit certain biases that that may not be intentional but actively continue to hut or disenfranchise different groups and that it is important to address those elements that exist in our technological framework. I think "What is Democracy?" is a compelling piece with deep analysis that engages in reflection on the challenges of democracy in the modern world. It is very informative for those who are interested in understanding the broad societal impact of their work, including those, where innovation can drive societal change.? #CivicEngagement #CivicTech

New review by Pavol Jakubec of S?awomir ?ukasiewicz's “A Shadow Party System: The Political Activities of Cold War Polish Exiles.” _Journal of Cold War Studies_ 25:1 (Winter 2023): 46-74. https://lnkd.in/edqB-wPK "A politico-legal institution and social condition, exile has roots in the two traditions molding Western civilization, the biblical and the classical. Yet, exile of political parties, i.e., of groups with a reasonably coherent political program and institutionalized internal organization, is a twentieth- century phenomenon. One may even dare to observe that it became undeniably palatable only in the Cold War landscape, and mostly in Europe where the division that became a fact by the late 1940s produced a cohort of Central and Eastern European exiles. Among them the Poles were the most populous, and, with their Second World War origins, also the most “senior” group in the temporal sense. S?awomir ?ukasiewicz argues that historians and political scientists have been neglecting parties-in-exile in their studies of the Cold War social and political behavior. He is right, especially as regards scholarship aspiring to international reception. Unlike the portraits of leaders or exile movements in the broader sense, discussions of party politics do not abound on the national level either, even if they are not completely absent. Thus, for example, ?ukasiewicz was able to utilize research coming from other Polish scholars. If there seems to be some recent interest in parties-in-exile, it tends to be channeled towards case studies,[with limited interest in more general, theoretical issues of party politics. There is one notable exception: the work of the Israeli political scientist Yossi Shain.

Historian and author Dr. Gerald Horne is right and deserves to be known and read by naming the things by their names as saying “ ?The crisis goes beyond just the media, Horne argued, saying it is a crisis of “the entire capital system” and is part of “the inevitable demise of capitalism.” In fact, if capitalism survived its periodic and cyclical crisis as depicted by Marx in his seminal work, the Capital, it is because of two determinant factors,(1) imperialism and colonialism in order to control and to steal the huge wealth of mineral resources outside EUROPE and North America, (2) the manipulation and the reap of the masses by political propaganda researched and as very well explained by these two authors, the Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernay in his seminal book published in 1928, “propaganda,” with this very telling subtitle, “how manipulating public opinion in democracy” and Serge Tchakotine, from Russian descent, in his voluminous book “the reap of the crowd by political propaganda”. In this time, the former colonizing peoples and regions all over the world, in particular in Africa, are realizing and are becoming aware that the main cause of their chronic under development is due to the plunder and the theft of their underground riches, the very precious mineral and agricultural wealth and by the way, the new generation in Africa is waking up, determined to accomplish a second struggle for independence as we have seen last year during the second summit Russia Africa at St Petersburg with the very historical speech of the Burkinabe young president Ibrahim Troaré calling the African people to take their destiny in their hands without waiting for former colonizers’s aid. When it comes to the manipulation of the masses by political propaganda, capitalism shouldn’t survive so long without manipulating the human psychology by the mass media of communications(MMC) which always were the monopole of under the control of big capital and financial corporations whose main objective consists of manipulating and influencing the choice of the voters called to vote in spite of themselves for the same ruling class and for its corrupt political establishment. The emergence of internet early XXI century giving place to diversification of sources of information and analysis, the monopole of political propaganda by the ruling class and the political establishment has been undermined, that is why the western governments in Europe and North America were eager since 20 years to restrict the so called free of speech, to control internet and to silence the dissident voices through legislations witnessed by the latest European legislation called Digital Acts Services( ?DAS) promoted by the French commissioner André Breton. ?

Politics (from Ancient Greek πολιτικ? (politiká) 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or in a limited way, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including warfare against adversaries. Politics is exercised on a wide range of social levels, from clans and tribes of traditional societies, through modern local governments, companies and institutions up to sovereign states, to the international level. In modern nation states, people often form political parties to represent their ideas. Members of a party often agree to take the same position on many issues and agree to support the same changes to law and the same leaders. An election is usually a competition between different parties. A political system is a framework which defines acceptable political methods within a society. The history of political thought can be traced back to early antiquity, with seminal works such as Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Politics, Confucius's political manuscripts and Chanakya's Arthashastra.