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Explore the Middle East's 'quantum politics' with Mohammed Baharoon on Thinking Global, focusing on the changing Middle East politics and its impact on global politics. #MiddleEastPolitics #QuantumPolitics https://lnkd.in/e84Gda5C

The Belt and Road Initiative and Middle Eastern Politics: Challenges Ahead https://lnkd.in/gAhKKE4X

27.7.2023 Quote of the day   “In many nations, including the United States, the political community includes diverse cultural communities, and policy politics entails a profound dilemma: how to integrate several cultural communities into a single political community without destroying or sacrificing their identity and integrity.” (pp. 19–20).   Stone, D. (2012). Policy paradox: The art of political decision making.

🚨[WATCH] Intro: Democratic self government is inseparable from a specifically modern self-understanding of power as we come to exercise it. By understanding power as being based on the consent of the governed liberal democracies tend to exclude violence from the domain of rational action. In fact liberal democracy can be described as the successful attempt to establish peaceful competition for power on one hand and institutional arrangements to protect the governed from the arbitrary violence of those in power on the other. Yet such a self understanding doesn’t limit itself to the internal constitution of the state and the conditions of internal peace tend to appear as conditions for the establishment of peaceful relations between states. Such an approach of violence doesn’t so much lead to its concrete extinction, as recent history shows, as to a certain incapacity to confront it. Conversely, the moral and political dispositions cultivated by virtue of that rejection of violence tend to affect the perception hostile powers may have of democratic governments and the scope of actions that may be used to exploit what is seen as an essential weakness of these regimes. Concerned with that problem Raymond Aron and Leo Strauss attempted to reassess our conception of practical rationality understanding their effort as being part of an intellectual rearmament of democratic states in their struggles against authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. https://lnkd.in/e3GyGZ_X

Confident in your politics? New study uncovers a dark side of political efficacy https://bit.ly/3QERxST

The concept of sovereignty shows the difference between two crucial concepts to understand politics: authority and power.

Really fascinating discussion. Such insightful interviews from this podcast. Check it out.

Will the American Experiment in Democracy Survive? I encourage everyone concerned about the future of our American democracy to watch this insightful April 29, 2022 interview of Robert Costa, chief election and campaign correspondent for CBS News. This interview provides an excellent overview and insight with a chronological timeline of the events surrounding January 6, 2021.. https://lnkd.in/gshkUjRD Excerpt from 1:10:02 - 1:13:07 “American democracy is perhaps more fragile than ever. How healthy can a democracy be if a lie is now at the center of a major political party? How healthy can a democracy be if many Republicans, millions of them across the country, won’t accept Joe Biden as the rightful president? This is not about red and blue anymore.  Those were simpler times, easier times. This is now about democracy, whether people believe in the system that exists or want to overturn it. That’s where we are as a nation. I see it as a reporter in all my travels that this country is now just divided.  That’s an easy way of framing it. It’s not a divided country; it’s a chaotic country without a rulebook. If people aren’t following the rules of democracy, also called the Constitution, if that’s not the rulebook for the whole playing field anymore, then what happens? What happens in a soccer match or on a baseball field, if everybody decides to stop following the rules?  Chaos.  American democracy is at a moment of chaos. This is a reckoning for democracy, when a former president refuses to concede and had pressured his own vice president to disrupt the certification of an election, an effort that many have seen as a possible coup in the United States.  To even have the word “coup” thrown around in the United States of America, a country that began in Philadelphia, forged over shared values and philosophies about a stable system. This was a country that was forged on values, constitutional values, by leaders who wanted a functioning democracy, a country that would have a peaceful transition to power, a country that wouldn’t have a military general somehow become a king, but a country where a general could return to Mount Vernon after being president, and someone else would just quietly take his place. Jan. 6 gets at the core of the founding of America, which is the peaceful transition of power, a presidential system where the next person in line, even if you don’t like them, is accepted. We now have a country and a Republican Party that doesn’t accept that the transition of power that took place in 2021 was legitimate. It’s not just a crisis for American democracy; it’s a tragedy.” Think about it?

🌟💬 What is the right balance between individual and collective responsibility in politics? Read this fascinating article on the Democratic Republic of Congo and share your point of view! 🤔🌍 #PoliticalResponsibility #DemocraticJustice #ConstructiveDialogue

Check out this interview I did on American politics and beyond. The program is called the global gambit. https://lnkd.in/erPa8zC9