Sublime

The UN Security Council currently has fifteen members, the P5 plus ten rotating seats with two-year terms and no veto power. The rotating members are elected by five regional groupings: Asia (two seats), Latin America (two seats), Africa (three seats), Western Europe and Others Group (WEOG) (two seats), and Eastern Europe (one seat). Thus,

The claim establishes one of the central debates of our time: the power relationship between sovereignty and networks.

Or ce principe cardinal s’applique parfaitement à la compréhension du XXe siècle, dont le cours tragique s’organisa autour de l’affrontement entre les nations et les empires, entre la démocratie et le totalitarisme. La dénonciation des thèses raciales de Gobineau, comme la critique du socialisme, qui sacrifie la liberté à l’égalité, souligne par

What we need is a synthetic theory that encompasses both demographic mechanisms (with the associated economic consequences) and power relations (surplusextraction mechanisms).

One rupture involves initiatives among territorial governments that introduce forms of citizen voice, often with new media in hand. These range from the advent of participatory budgeting processes in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1989 to the digital deliberation platforms adopted more recently in places like the city of Barcelona and the national

By opening the country’s media and its markets and giving his citizens greater democratic authority, Gorbachev had provided his people with the mechanism to catalyze a regime change. And because of the dilapidated state of the country’s economy, they were happy to take him up on his offer.

their design is typically haphazard and rigid, based on historical lines of potential oppression that may no longer track the relevant social issues or can entrench existing divides by formally recognizing them;

believe that these changes require us to revisit the paradigm of historical sociology deriving from the nineteenth century which essentially seeks to explain the rise of the West.