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This article explores the role of remittances in Eritrea’s transnational authoritarian system. The government exercises a policy of active control over Eritrean citizens living abroad, and the country’s economy relies heavily on private... more
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      African Diaspora StudiesEritreaDiaspora and transnationalismRemittances
Le GENA s’est constitué à la fin de l’année 2018 pour répondre à une urgence politique et théorique. La situation mondiale est marquée par une crise majeure des formes de la démocratie libérale. Cette crise a été d’abord mise en évidence... more
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      Neoliberalization of the stateNeoliberalismNeoliberalisms and the Transformation of the Cultural SphereAuthoritarianism
Dissertation Abstract
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      Social MovementsPolitical EconomyDevelopment StudiesInternational Development
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      Legitimacy and AuthorityPolitical PartiesMiddle East StudiesMiddle East & North Africa
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      Korean StudiesPost-Soviet PoliticsAuthoritarian PersonalityCommunism
This is the Draft Table of Contents for my forthcoming book (Lexington--hopefully December 2016): Eco-Nihilism: The Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse. I post it here to give my readers--for whom I'm tremendously... more
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      Critical TheoryFuture StudiesPolitical Geography and GeopoliticsGender Studies
Caspian Energy Politics analyses the role of oil and gas in the development of the three main petroleum exporters in the Caspian region – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan – and how energy resources influence interactions with... more
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      Foreign Policy AnalysisDemocratizationPost-Soviet RegimesCentral Asian Studies
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      Discourse AnalysisSoutheast Asian StudiesMarxismHuman Rights
This essay identifies influential and prominent twenty-first century Brazilian graphic novels and associated sociocultural affects, such as racial inequality, gender disparities, and social dysfunctionality, as this Post-Boom literary... more
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      Portuguese and Brazilian LiteratureBrazilian StudiesBrazilian HistoryNationalism
This book presents three foresight scenarios for the development of the Caspian Sea region until 2025. The scenarios are titled "Caspia Inc.", "National Giants" and "Trade and Transit". The focus is on Central Asia as an energy-producing... more
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      GeopoliticsPost-Soviet RegimesCentral Asian StudiesPost-Soviet Politics
This paper aims to explain the key dynamics underlying the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) recent authoritarian consolidation efforts in Turkey from a critical political economy perspective consisting of the Regulation School’s... more
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      MarxismNeoliberalismModern TurkeyAuthoritarianism
Responding to David Harvey’s critique of my paper ‘Why a radical geography must be anarchist’, I once again reiterate the importance of anarchist perspectives in contemporary politics and geographical praxis. In challenging Harvey on the... more
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      Critical TheoryManagementHistoryEconomic History
Authoritarianism has emerged as a prominent theme in popular and academic discussions of politics since the 2016 US presidential election and the coinciding expansion of authoritarian rhetoric and ideals across Europe, Asia, and beyond.... more
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      Human GeographyPolitical Geography and GeopoliticsLegitimacy and AuthorityTotalitarianism
Neoliberal economics have emerged in the post-Cold War era as the predominant ideological tenet applied to the development of countries in the global south. For much of the global south, however, the promise that markets will bring... more
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      Critical TheorySociologyPolitical SociologySocial Movements
The regime of authoritarian neoliberalism is underway. In contemporary political economy of governance, this regime has been construed as a crisis response of the capitalist class to manage the conflict-ridden consequences of economic... more
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      Development EconomicsPublic AdministrationPolitical EconomyPolitical Philosophy
La crisis alimentaria mundial más reciente ha puesto de manifiesto la incapacidad del derecho a la alimentación para atender y prevenir este tipo de situaciones. Ahora es el momento hacer más fuerte y eficaz este derecho, pasando de... more
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      Business EthicsDiscourse AnalysisPolitical EconomySoutheast Asian Studies
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      Discourse AnalysisSoutheast Asian StudiesMarxismHuman Rights
Our body compulsory demands food, water and air to keep its vital functions and yet their economic nature is rather diverse with food mostly considered a private good, water suffering an accelerated privatization process and air so far... more
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      Discourse AnalysisPolitical EconomySocial AnthropologySoutheast Asian Studies
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      Critical TheoryDiscourse AnalysisSociologyPolitical Sociology
The following is a response to the unvarnished bigotry and swiftly descending police state that's coming to characterize the policy, actions, and ideology of the Donald Trump administration in the United States. It is written for a... more
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      Political EconomyPresidency (American Politics)GlobalizationClimate Change
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      Discourse AnalysisPolitical EconomySocial AnthropologySoutheast Asian Studies
"Developmentalism is still the dominant perspective in managing natural resources. Nature is strategic economic assets that sparked the exploration and exploitation of natural wealth. The implication is massive environmental damage in... more
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      Discourse AnalysisSoutheast Asian StudiesMarxismCritical Geopolitics
In March 1974, trade union leader and Chairman of the Socialist Party of India, George Fernandes, formed a new independent trade union of railway workers and then led a massive nation-wide strike lasting about a month. Two years later—... more
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      Social MovementsSociology of ViolenceViolenceSouth Asian Studies
Multiple theories of authoritarian persistence have attempted to explain the durability of President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s regime in Kazakhstan. Some attribute this success to economic growth and relatively large revenues from mineral... more
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      Comparative Politics, Democratization, Authoritarian Regimes, Regime Change, Concept Analysis, MeasurementPolitical Economy of Authoritarianism
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      Critical TheoryDiscourse AnalysisSoutheast Asian StudiesGlobalization
This article examines the historical evolution of Tunisia’s Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) from its beginnings in 1987, when President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali took power, until his ousting in 2011 when the party was outlawed. I... more
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      Legitimacy and AuthorityMiddle East StudiesMiddle East & North AfricaNorth Africa Studies
Abstract AFZALI, Mohammad Shaker: EU Economic and Development Aid in Afghanistan. [Master Thesis] – Comenius University in Bratislava. Faculty of Management; Department of Information system. – Supervisor: prof. Ing. Dušan... more
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      Afghanistan Society and PoliticsPolitical Economy of AuthoritarianismAfghanistan's Economics
Recent scholarly interest in the politics of migration and diaspora across the Global South has yet to address how authoritarian states attempt to reach out to populations abroad. In an effort to shift the discussion on state-diaspora... more
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      Middle East StudiesMigrationTurkeyEgypt
This paper puts forward four main arguments regarding the persistence of significant rural support of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) in Turkey since late 2002. Firstly, since the previous coalition... more
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      Rural SociologyPopulismTurkeyAuthoritarianism
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      Russian StudiesRussian PoliticsNeoliberalization of the stateState Theory
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      Syrian StudiesPolitical Economy of AuthoritarianismInternational SanctionsAuthoritarian Resilience
Contemporarily, the world is experiencing a severe contestation of political ideas as nation-states are increasingly drawn toward finding their relevance in conservative nationalism. With the cold death of Fukuyama's End of History,... more
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      PopulismIndian PoliticsCarl SchmittAuthoritarianism
The literature on constitutional courts under authoritarian or hybrid regimes typically suggests that judges that decide to challenge a regime in high-stakes cases might face political backlashes. For that reason, some comparative... more
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      Law and EconomicsComparative Constitutional LawConstitutional TheoryAuthoritarian regimes
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    • Political Economy of Authoritarianism
Se hace un recuento de los alimentos que se desperdicia en diversos paises de America Latina y Europa, y se propone soluciones para reducir ese desperdicio. Recientes estudios de FAO indican que a nivel mundial este desperdicio llegaa un... more
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      Discourse AnalysisSoutheast Asian StudiesFood ScienceMarxism
Why do dictators sometimes allow and sometimes forbid opposition media? I propose a theory that dictators allow opposition media when their regimes are most likely to survive an uprising, in order to signal their strength to citizens and... more
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      Media StudiesAuthoritarianismPolitical Economy of AuthoritarianismPolitical Oppositions
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      Discourse AnalysisSoutheast Asian StudiesMarxismHuman Rights
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      Rural SociologyBelarusian StudiesPolitics of BelarusPolitical Ethnography
(abstract of the chapter) The hybridization of post-political ideological authoritarianism and neoliberal economy is what conditions the political choice in advance and creates the uneven terrain for the political opposition. Thus, both... more
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      PopulismRule of LawAuthoritarianismAuthoritarian regimes
"Abstract [Excerpted From Editor's Introduction] Matthew Crippen takes this up in a Marcusian critique of Wittgenstein that attends, among other things, to the place of silence in that discourse. Referring to Horkheimer’s citation of... more
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      Critical TheoryPhilosophy Of LanguageAnalytic PhilosophyHerbert Marcuse
This chapter argues that one key legacy of the US effort to bring democracy to Iraq has been that many elements within Iraq’s Shia Arab political elite have viewed democracy through the lens of a cynical majoritarianism and manipulated it... more
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      ReligionPolitical SociologyPolitical Geography and GeopoliticsEthnic Studies
Il presente file, titolo: Republicanismvs Geopoliticvs Fontes Origenes et Via, contiene testi e link di Massimo Morigi sull’estetizzazione della politica e sul ‘Repubblicanesimo geopolitico’. Il ‘Repubblicanesimo Geopolitico’ è una... more
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      Political Geography and GeopoliticsLegitimacy and AuthorityMarxismRepublicanism
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      Business EthicsDiscourse AnalysisPolitical EconomySocial Anthropology
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      TurkeyNeoliberalismTurkısh PoliticsModern Turkey
Enclosed is my response to an excellent piece by Shane Burley at Truthout concerning Turning Point USA's attack against Tariq Kahn. In it I briefly compare his situation and my own. My aim is to bring greater awareness and solidarity to... more
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      Political SociologyBlack Studies Or African American StudiesEconomicsPolitical Economy
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      MonarchyAuthoritarianismU.S. Foreign PolicyCivil Society
ENG - The present paper intends to contribute to the development of Marx’s concept of deaf coercion of economic relations. As used The Capital, it allows him to explain how the capacity of control of the capitalist systems over the... more
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      Discourse AnalysisMarxismPolitical EcologyPolitical Science
According to the UN, over 280.6 million people now live outside the country they were born in. 1. If this were a country, it would be the fourth largest country in the world. However, the potential of overseas resources, the so-called... more
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      Political ScienceRule of LawDiaspora and transnationalismAuthoritarianism
Employing a Gramscian framework this analysis argues that economic liberalization in Tunisia under Zine El Abidine Ben Ali allowed for a deeper penetration of state power into society, introducing novel modes of control during a climate... more
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      Middle East StudiesMiddle East & North AfricaMiddle East HistoryMichel Foucault