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(Originally published in the International Social Science Bulletin, 1951, 3, 2.) Discusses the contributions of sociology & political science to the study of international relations, suggesting that, in the context of a rapidly changing global political evolution, the world especially requires the wisdom of the disciplines. Of particular importance in this regard is the growing evolution of national political problems into international problems. Through comparative work across contexts, eg, in the field of electoral systems, sociologists & political scientists promise to shed much light on these kinds of problems. In appealing to these disciplines for assistance, UNESCO does not intend for them to sacrifice their objectivity, but rather to forge a global view in consultation with the world's intellectual leaders. In this way, they may contribute not only to the world's store of knowledge, but also to human wisdom about itself, & thus to human freedom. D. Ryfe

Preface : the critique of the critique / David Hirsh -- Introduction to Mapping The New Left Antisemitism : The Fathom Essays / Alan Johnson -- A new form of the oldest hatred : mapping antisemitism today / Lesley Klaff -- The Jewish experience of antisemitism / Dave Rich -- The left and the Jews : time for a rethink / Alan Johnson -- What is left antisemitism? / Sean Matgamna -- Anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism / Michael Walzer -- Alibi antisemitism / Norman Geras -- Like a cloud contains a storm : Jean Améry's critique of anti-Zionism / Marlene Gallner -- What Corbyn's favourite sociologists Greg Philo and Mike Berry get wrong about contemporary antisemitism / Matthew Bolton -- Antisemitism and the left : a memoir / Kathleen Hayes -- Denial : Norman Finkelstein and the new antisemitism / Alan Johnson -- 'Toxic gifts' : Israel and the anti-Zionist Left. An interview with Susie Linfield / Susie Linfield -- Soviet anti-Zionism and contemporary left antisemitism / Izabella Tabarovsky -- Communists against Jews : the anti-Zionist campaign in Poland in 1968 / Simon Gansinger -- The German left's undeclared wars on Israel : an interview with Jeffrey Herf / Jeffrey Herf -- Holocaust inversion and contemporary antisemitism / Lesley Klaff -- Hitler and the Nazis' anti-Zionism / Jeffrey Herf -- Holocaust falsifiers : blaming 'Zionists' for the crimes of the Nazis / Paul Bogdanor -- Reflections on contemporary antisemitism in Europe / Kenneth Waltzer -- The unwelcome arrival of the quenelle / Dave Rich -- A modern Orthodox-Christian ritual murder libel : St. Philoumenos of Jacob's Well / David Gurevich -- We shall be as a city on a hill : Trump, 'progressive' antisemitism, and the loss of American Jewish exceptionalism / Shalom Lappin -- The meaning of David Miller / David Hirsh -- From scholarship to polemic? : a case study of the emerging crisis in academic publishing on Israel / Cary Nelson -- Pathologising 'Jewish being and thinking' : Oren Ben-Dor and academic antisemitism / Sarah Annes Brown -- On misrepresentations of the IHRA definition of antisemitism/ Dave Rich -- Political antisemitism : a defence of the IHRA definition / Bernard Harrison and Lesley Klaff -- Misreading Hannah Arendt : Judith Butler's anti-Zionism and the Eichmann Trial / Russell A. Berman -- The pleasures of antisemitism / Eve Garrard -- Intersectionality and antisemitism : a new approach / Karin Stögner -- Left alternatives to left antisemitism : a conversation between Alan Johnson and Philip Spencer / Alan Johnson and Philip Spencer.

Friends, Citizens, Strangers: Essays on Where We Belong,
Richard Vernon, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, pp. vii,
325."Should we put locality before citizenship, citizenship before
human obligations?" This is the central question animating Richard
Vernon's new book. He defines the three sorts of relationship it
invokes as follows. Ties of friendship are those partial relationships
which "arise from the particular and local character of our lives,
lived as, clearly they must be, in particular local contexts"; ties
of citizenship are those that "arise from sharing political space,
from common subjection to law, and from participation in institutions and
processes through which consent to political authority is
generated"; and ties among strangers "arise among those who
are 'only humans,' [who are] categorically but not
concretely related to us" (3–4). Vernon recognizes that all
three are important, and that is why he believes we need to face
"the question of priority of attachment." He himself does so
through an investigation of citizenship, which he pursues in two ways.
First, with a number of fascinating chapters—all of them models of
scholarship in the history of political ideas—that examine how the
question of priority of attachment was dealt with by eight writers, four
English (Locke, Wollstonecraft, George Eliot and Mill) and four French
(Rousseau, Comte, Proudhon and Bergson). Vernon claims that his question
has, for historical reasons, been particularly pronounced in these two
countries, although I must say that I cannot think of one country in which
it has not. Regardless, he then deals with it more directly, in chapters
about the notion of a crime against humanity and about the very nature of
special ties and what they imply we owe each other. Finally, in the
book's concluding chapter, Vernon offers us an outline of his own
solution to the question.

This dissertation investigates the history of Science Studies (or Science and Technology Studies, STS) as it became a distinct area of expertise and academic inquiry during the Cold War. The dissertation pursues five distinct histories, each focused on a confined mode of analysis of science that articulated, evaluated, and rationalized Cold War sensibilities and concerns. The case studies in question are : (1) UNESCO and the framework of "scientific humanism" promoted by its two visionary founders, Julian Huxley and Joseph Needham, and implemented in UNESCO's major history of science project, History of Mankind, in the 1950s and 1960s; (2) the Congress for Cultural Freedom and its quest, in the 1960s and 1970s, to promote "science studies" as part of its broader agenda to offer a renewed, "post-Marxist," framework for liberalism, (3) the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, which in the first ten years of its existence, 1962-1972, undertook the bold initiative of launching a sustained inquiry into social studies of modern biology; (4) the short-lived "philosophical phase" in medical ethics, marked by medical ethicists' interest in and appropriations from post-positivist philosophy of science, which I explore by analyzing the series of workshops organized under the auspices of the Hastings Center in the late 1970s and early 1980s; and (5) a particular mode of reflection on science and its intellectual foundations developed by Soviet philosophers in the 1960s - 1970s under the name of "naukovedenie." All these modes of analyses of science represent roads not taken. The "vision" of science studies all these groups were promoting is different from science studies as we know it today. Yet these alternative visions, in which the issues of science politics were inseparable from those of science policy, science organization, and science governance, constitute an important "pre-history" of Science Studies. I argue that the promotion of the studies of science as a politically relevant area of expertise, undertaken within existing powerful institutional structures outside academia, helped to legitimize the disciplinary identity of science studies in the age of the Cold War

The public debate on change within the public sector is actually structured along a demarcation line opposing upholders of performance and efficiency who lean toward privatization of public services, and, by another side, those who linken the defense of public services and state intervention to the rejection of any kind of evolution and the rejection of any objective of performance improvement. The research program must be enriched to be able to get out of such false alternatives and to link the political question of the role of the sate and the technical one of administrative reform. We structure the debate around the theory of knowledge, showing that theses postures both relate to logical positivism and leave aside what is really at stake with change in the public sector. In the tradition of Friedrich V. Hayek, we propose another demarcation line, between evolutionism and positivism. Drawing on the Northian distinction between organizations and institutions, we analyze their respective dynamics and the link to be established between organizational and institutional innovation within the public sector. This new focus implies a return of the political philosophy as a bearing point for public management. Secondly, we define enrichment proposal for the research program in public management such as to link political philosophy issues and practical effectiveness and efficiency. Change in a uncertain environment asks for a revision of institutions underlying beliefs and call for a trial and errors learning process. According to the prevailing demarcation line, politics is an overhead. In our perspective it regains its full role in the classical sense of classical republicanism. In this way, public management may be included in the domain of moral sciences. ; Le débat public sur le changement dans le secteur public s'organise actuellement selon une ligne de démarcation qui oppose les tenants de la performance et de l'efficience qui penchent vers la privatisation des services publics, et de l'autre les tenants de l'assimilation de la « défense du service public » et de l'intervention de l'Etat au rejet de toute notion d'évolution et de performance. Le programme de recherche du management public doit s'enrichir pour contribuer à sortir de ces fausses alternatives et lier la question politique de l'évolution de l'Etat et celle, technique, de la réforme administrative. Nous posons le débat du point de vue de la théorie de la connaissance, en montrant que ces deux postures se rattachant toutes deux au positivisme logique et qu'elles passent à côté des grands enjeux du changement du secteur public. Dans la lignée des travaux de Hayek nous proposons une ligne de démarcation entre positivisme et évolutionnisme. En partant de la distinction faite par North entre institutions et organisations, nous analysons leur dynamique différente et le lien qui peut être établi entre innovation institutionnelle et organisationnelle dans le secteur public. Cette nouvelle perspective implique un retour au politique comme source de la décision publique et donc à la philosophie politique comme point d'où penser le management public. Dans un deuxième temps, nous définissons des axes d'enrichissement du programme de recherche en management public pour lier philosophie politique et efficacité pratique. Le changement dans un environnement incertain demande de réviser le système de croyances sous-jacent aux institutions et repose sur l'apprentissage collectif et la progression par essais et erreurs. Le politique, réduit selon l'actuelle ligne de démarcation à une fonction support de la gestion publique, retrouve toute sa place, au sens de la philosophie politique classique et de l'humanisme civique républicain. Support du questionnement éthique à la base de toute politique, et outil de résolution de problèmes, le management public peut s'inscrire dans le domaine des sciences morales. Nous concluons sur le développement de nouveaux arts pratiques de l'action publique pour conduire le changement.

"This book celebrates Andreas (Andrew) von Hirsch's pioneering contributions to liberal criminal theory. He is particularly noted for reinvigorating desert-based theories of punishment, for his development of principled normative constraints on the enactment of criminal laws, and for helping to bridge the gap between Anglo-American and German criminal law scholarship. Underpinning his work is a deep commitment to a liberal vision of the state. This collection brings together a distinguished group of international authors, who pay tribute to von Hirsch by engaging with topics on which he himself has focused. The essays range across sentencing theory, questions of criminalisation, and the relation between criminal law and the authority of the state. Together, they articulate and defend the ideal of a liberal criminal justice system, and present a fitting accolade to Andreas von Hirsch's scholarly life."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Examines the emerging legitimacy of a Marxian view of science. Quantum physics, the science of chaos, & neo-Darwinism have challenged the hegemony of Cartesian-Newtonian positivism on many fronts: the idea of predictability, the presence of noise in data collection, nonlinear dynamic systems, observer-created reality, & indefiniteness. The linkages that the new sciences of the twentieth century have with Marxian ideas of science suggest that a Marxian natural science perspective may soon stand beside positivism as a legitimate scientific endeavor. 71 References. D. Generoli

How capitalism has shaped our perceptions of the natural world, as well as the products of science; some comparison with the Marxist view; special double issue. Partial contents: Science and progress: seven developmental myths in agriculture, by Richard Levins; Biology and social responsibility, by Eric Holtzman; The technological mystique and Third World options, by Maurice Bazin; The radical science movement in the United States, by Jon Beckwith.

At a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, it was reported that a ghost was haunting the deliberations of the assembled global elite - that of the renowned social scientist and economic historian, Karl Polanyi. In his classic work, The Great Transformation, Polanyi documented the impact of the rise of market society on western civilization and captured better than anyone else the destructive effects of the economic, political and social crisis of the 1930s. Today, in the throes of another Great Recession, Polanyi's work has gained a new significance. To understand the profound c

The article is devoted to the consideration of the Islamic intellectual tradition from the point of view of the possibility of correlating it with the social and hu­manitarian aspects of science, formed in the traditions of European culture. The reason for this study was postmodernist interpretations of the processes of the Islamization of knowledge as ways to overcome the dichotomy of science and religion. These interpretations are based on the social, in fact, idea of the civilizational identity of Muslims living and working today in European countries (including those working in the field of science) and Muslims of the traditional Islamic East. The authors, however, associate the prospects of a re­newed interpretation of the Islamic scientific tradition with the possibility of its rethinking in the context of the post-nonclassical concept of scientific rationality. This concept makes it possible to overcome the interpretation of "western" and "eastern" knowledge, which reaches the point of opposition. Such a rethinking is unfolding today, in particular, in the course of the reinterpretation of historically established Islamized intellectual trends. The authors come to the conclusion: the Islamization of education in the East, begun by 9th century intellectuals (primar­ily from among the Muslim Ummah) on the didactic foundations laid down in the Qur'an and Sunnah, implied a rethinking of the cultural status of various fields of knowledge from the standpoint of the corresponding value orientations, which, in principle does not contradict the modern understanding of science as an axiologically oriented system. The very possibility of this kind of correlation of the value aspects of knowledge opposes the "scientific marginalization" of Is­lam and presupposes the delineation of the semantic content of Islam as a cul­tural regulator that also orientates science and Islam as a system of rigid reli­gious ideas.

Our main argument in this paper is that South African science is currently experiencing the third major transitional period in its long and interesting history. With the advent of a free and democratic South Africa in 1994, a new era dawned for science as well. We argue, in the main body of the paper, that it is appropriate to refer to this as the third transitional phase in the history of South African science. Two parallel challenges face the new government: first, to democratise the science system; second, to ensure that the national system of innovation is indeed sufficiently competitive to take its rightful place within a globalising science system. The paper discusses in some detail how South African science has attempted to address these two challenges over the past eight years. It concludes with an assessment of the current tensions and challenges in the national system of innovation.