Political Economy of Authoritarianism
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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