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Una nueva forma de hacer política: dar la voz a la militancia ¿realidad o mera apariencia?
2020
Political parties have been accused of being controlled by an elite or caste that has looked more for their own interests than for general interests. A new way of doing politics and new parties has appeared whose stated objective has been to return the voice to the militancy, assuming that it had been kidnapped by the inbreeding elites of the parties. This paper analyses whether the parties, whose power has traditionally been built from top to bottom, have assumed this change that would mean that power flows from the bottom up or has simply taken a cosmetic operation that apparently responds to this new way of doing policy, although the power is still in the hands of a minority. Summary:1. …
Peter Olivi on Political Power, Will, and Human Agency
2016
This essay discusses the views of Peter Olivi (ca. 1248-98) on the foundations of political power and agency. The central argument is that there is a strong connection between Olivi’s voluntarist psychology and his views concerning political power. According to Olivi, political power is ultimately based on the will of God, but in such a way that both the rulers and their subjects have, through their individual freedom, the liberty to use their share of power as they will. In fact, Olivi conceptualises political power as an extension of the dominion that human beings have over their wills, which is essential for being a political agent in the full sense. By providing a philosophical analysis…
Exploring the Political Ontology of European Integration
2018
In this chapter, the author politicizes the ontological dimension of EU studies. He discusses ontology’s power to determine the real by analyzing some of its unformulated presuppositions and the links with knowledge and action. He argues that key European institutions like the European Commission do not change only because of institutional dynamics but also in relation to transnational interplays of differentiated agents operating simultaneously in multiple social spheres. Institutions and particularly institutional change have to be explained in the light of both new policy challenges and the preferences and habits of the agents making up these institutions and their surroundings. Such an …
Afghanistan: Why Has Violence Replaced Political Power?
2012
The hypothesis from which Chap. 4 stems, and which I will try to confirm through this article, is that in Afghanistan it has been the international factors (albeit interacting with internal dynamics) which have had a particular hand in intensifying the conflicts and the process of State decomposition. On top of the underlying and undeniable structural weakness and external vulnerability of the Afghan State (a matter addressed in sects 4.1 and 4.2), the international interventions from the Afghan-Soviet war to the 2001 invasion, the lack of interest shown by the international community in consolidating peace in Afghanistan during the 1990s, and especially the numerous errors made by the inte…
¿Estados Unidos de Europa? Mapeo y diseño de constituciones para Europa
2020
En los últimos tiempos, académicos, intelectuales públicos, movimientos políticos y sociales y destacados líderes políticos europeos de diferentes orientaciones ideológicas han hecho un llamamiento a la creación de unos Estados Unidos de Europa. Desde su punto de vista, enfrentar la crisis de legitimidad de la UE requiere una renovación democrática a través de un proceso constituyente. Sin embargo, estas declaraciones no han sido acompañadas por un diseño específico sobre cómo instituir esta nueva Constitución Europea. Con el objeto de discutir las posibles vías de poner en práctica esta idea, este artículo presenta las principales formulaciones del poder constituyente europeo y su traducci…
Navigating Stormy Waters: The Triangular Relationship between the United States, Vietnam and China and the South China Sea Disputes
2016
The growing triangular relationship between the U.S., Vietnam and China represents an interesting case study as to how the smaller powers around the South China Sea try to balance China’s increasing assertiveness in the region by engaging the United States. Analyzing the respective sets of bilateral relationships (U.S.-Vietnam and China-Vietnam) hence seems to be promising in order to understand the conflict dynamics in the South China Sea against the background of an often assumed, to a lesser degree examined regional (and eventually global) power transition dynamic. Vietnam has a checkered history with both the U.S. and China, all the while these countries are its most important economic …
Power, Institutions, and Periphery: What Can a Small University College Do?
2018
Higher education institutions (HEIs) are seen as key sources for innovation, global competitiveness, and regional development despite their location. The chapter discusses the institutionalised practice of an HEI located in a peripheral region with many regional development challenges. The main finding is that the HEI acted as a powerful political actor in the region but within the educational path. It was taken for granted that the HEI should not engage in regional development efforts by the HEI and regional actors in the region. This behaviour is explained as a result of an institutional control mechanism that governs how HEI should practise their role.
Muuttoliikettä, politiikkaa ja joululauluja
2011
[Ensimmäinen kappale] American Social Science History Association järjesti syksyllä 2010 vuotuisen konferenssinsa teemalla Power and Politics – valtaa ja poliittisuutta. Tapahtuma järjestettiin nyt 35:ttä kertaa. Kansainvälinen ja useita tieteenaloja kattava konferenssi koostui järjestäjien mukaan yli 230 paneelista, jotka kaikki keskittyivät Chicagon keskustassa sijaitsevan Palmer House Hilton -hotellin hulppeisiin tiloihin. Suurin osanotto oli epäilemättä Yhdysvalloista ja Euroopasta, mutta myös Aasia ja Afrikka olivat hyvin edustettuina. Lyhyt matka joululauluja raikuviin ostoskeskuksiin ja museoihin oli keskustasijainnin suuri etu. Ilmapiiri tapahtumassa oli lämmin, sen sijaan konferens…
Filozofia polityczna Tomasza Hobbesa i jej wpływ na ukształtowanie się moderności
2017
Considered one of the greatest and most original English philosophers, Thomas Hobbes was the founder of modern political philosophy. His modernity manifests itself in a revolutionary position – in emphasizing novelty and in completely breaking with the past. We are still influenced by his ideas. He has introduced the model of the human being, who is driven by his desires and is involved in the ongoing activity of multiplying his wealth and of acquiring more and more power, and of the state as the organization of coercion. The knowledge of Hobbes’s political thought is essential to understand the ideological foundations of the modern world, as well as to creatively overcome them.
Séneca como personaje literario en una Europa en transformación. Consideraciones metodológicas sobre su recepción
2019
A partir del estudio de la Historia de la vida de Lucio Anneo Sé-neca español (Madrid, 1625) de Juan Pablo Mártir Rizo y del Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron et sur les m urs et les écrits de Sénèque pour servir d'introduction à la lecture de ce philosophe (1782) de Denis Diderot, este artículo tiene como objetivo estudiar la relación entre las diferentes in-terpretaciones de los aspectos cruciales de la vida del personaje y el contexto político y filosófico en el que se conciben ambas obras. El análisis permite comprobar que, si bien Mártir Rizo desarrolla una reflexión sobre la natura-leza del poder en el marco del tacitismo, Diderot se centra en la libertad y la responsabilidad…