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“Another Munich We Just Cannot Afford”: Historical Metonymy In Politics

2016

The appeasement of Hitler and the Munich Agreement is a rhetorical comparison used commonly in international relations to defend politico-military action. On the basis of conceptual history and rhetorics, we examine cases of political speech in this paradigm. Firstly, we discuss time and conceptualize experience into first and second order experiences. Secondly, the roles of metaphor, metonymy and analogy in relation to thought and action are examined. We then contextualise Munich 1938, and present three cases demonstrating the political usage of this metonymy since WWII. These range from the Suez Crises to the Gulf War and on-going War on Terror. These cases show that “Munich” can be used …

A Lost Momentum of Parliamentary Democracy?

2010

La mer et Saint-Malo à la fin du Moyen-Age. L’appareillage de la pérennité

2018

Saint-Malo est baptisé le “Nid des Corsaires”. C’est le port le plus étincelant du royaume de France sous le règne de Louis XIV (Lespagnol, 1995). Comment ne pas retenir les grands noms dont accouche Saint-Malo, avec un navigateur tel que Jacques Cartier ou des corsaires comme René Duguay-Trouin et Robert Surcouf? La prospérité de Saint Malo à l’époque Moderne et la postérité de ses grands noms, ne peuvent se lire qu’en perspective de ferments accomplis par d’autres malouins, dont la petite histoire a été refoulée dans l’ombre d’une plus grande. Comprendre Saint Malo au XIVe siècle nécessite une lecture dichotomique. D’une part, la ville s’inscrit dans la continuité vis-à-vis de son passé, …

Terminological Games: The Finnish Security Police Monitoring the Far-Right Movements in Finland During the Cold War

2020

This article focuses on the use of terms and concepts related to the nationalist movements by the Finnish security police during the Cold War. The key objective of the security police was to protect the legal order of the state and monitor the groups and phenomena potentially harmful to that cause. The previous experience regarding the rise of the radical nationalism and fascism in Finland in the 1930s and the 1947 Paris peace treaties were the historical and legal contexts within which the interpretations were made. As the article shows, interpretation made by the security police, however, relied occasionally on a limited understanding about the evolving far-right scene, thus producing ter…

Observations on Arendt, Kant and the Autonomy of Political Judgement

1998

The Politics of Good and Evil

2005

Conceptual History as Political Theory

2000

Reading Weber and the Claims of the Weberians

2016

The Politification and Politicisation of the EU

2016

Publication date: March 1, 2016 In this article, we suggest a novel conceptual framework for understanding and analysing EU politicisation. Recent studies on EU politicisation argue that the post-Maastricht era led to the politicisation of EU integration via an increasing citizens' dissatisfaction. Contrary to this account, we argue that European integration has been from the beginning linked to politicisation, but in an unusual way. To capture its uniqueness we introduce the concepts of politisation as a precondition of politicisation and of politification as a depoliticised modality of politicisation. Politicisation is then not something new to EU integration but rather it is constitutive…

Las pullas de Isabel(a) entre Lope y Góngora : modelos, versos y paratextos de 'Virtud, pobreza y mujer'

2021

Este artículo se ha beneficiado de mi participación en los proyectos de investigación PGC2018-094395-BI00, financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, PID2019-104045GB-C54 y PID2019-104045GB-C51, financiados por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación y por fondos FEDER. El presente artículo aborda la relación entre dos comedias: Las firmezas de Isabela, de Luis de Góngora, y Virtud, pobreza y mujer, de Lope de Vega. Tras fijar la fecha de escritura de la segunda, se estipula que fue Lope quien pudo inspirarse en Góngora y no al revés (cuestión discutida), y se aclaran, amplían, matizan o desmienten las huellas de la comedia gongorina atisbadas hasta ahora por la crít…