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The hazards of studying secular apocalyptic thought -- The paradox of secular apocalyptic thought -- Apocalyptic hope's appeal : Machiavelli and Savonarola -- Tempering apocalyptic ideals : Hobbes and pretenders to God's Kingdom -- Reimagining God's Kingdom : Engels and Müntzer -- Ideal theory as faith -- Limiting the dangers of Utopian hope.

Abstract: Libya is overwhelmingly dependent on a massive pipeline pumping a precious liquid extracted from deep underground wells in the country's desert interior to its Mediterranean coast. That natural resource is not oil. It is water. Libya is home to what has been called the world's largest water pipeline, the world's largest irrigation project, and the world's largest civil engineering project: the Great Man-Made River (GMMR). The water politics of Libya help explain the decision to build the GMMR. At the same time, the country's overwhelming dependence on this structure accounts for new vulnerabilities that it faces in water security today. Libya's harsh, arid climate has catalyzed two key political tendencies: a hyper-localism and an externally oriented state .

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Praktyka Teoretyczna journal, we have invited our long-lasting collaborators and comrades to reflect once again on the concept of the common and it's possible futures by posing following questions: a) what is the most important aspect of the current struggles for the common?; b) what are the biggest challenges for the commonist politics of the future?; and c) where in the ongoing struggles do you see a potential for scaling-up and spreading the organisation based on the common? In his reply, Felipe Ziotti Narita situates his answer in the context of contemporary double capitalist crisis, which renders visible the commons as crucial for satisfying collective needs and purposes.ective needs and purposes.doksem własnej genezy.

The U.S. Supreme Court's intervention into the recess appointments controversy during the Obama administration demonstrates how an overly legalistic conception of the Constitution's separation of powers can undermine constitutional politics. The formalistic line drawing by the Court, without attention to larger constitutional objectives, not only legitimized partisan obstruction of the Senate but also prevented the president from ensuring the proper functioning of the government based on the duly enacted laws of Congress. This article argues that political contestation between the branches—structured by legitimate constitutional claims—could have restarted a stalled deliberative process whereas legal resolution distorted the political dynamics at play, giving the illusion of an imperial presidency while providing legal cover for congressional abdication.

Rousseau's Reveries of a Solitary Walker is enigmatic. It reveals many influences and addresses even more themes. For these reasons and others, political theorists have tended to ignore it in favour of his more overtly political works. Yet to dismiss his last work is to neglect what might be a useful tool in unlocking his political theory. This article argues that the Reveries confirm what many have recently suggested -- that Rousseau is a Platonist in many important respects. Further, it holds that his particular brand of Platonism as espoused in the Reveries provides essential epistemic information necessary to carry out his democratic politics -- indeed, one far more democratic than Plato's, yet consistent with a Platonic metaphysics. Adapted from the source document.

Globalisation and democratisation have contributed to the emergence of multiple and changing governance modes across issue areas within political systems. But standard methodological and concept refinement strategies to analyse these different types of governance encounter difficulties because they test or modify singular "root" conceptions of governance. This article proposes an alternative solution by integrating issue area variations and state-society relations to illuminate the multiple and changing modes of governance within states. Variations in the extent of issue accessibility, political participation, and policy penetration generate different governance modes across issue areas. To illustrate the utility of this approach, this article uses it to systematise some perplexing variation in Thai politics since 1973. (Asian J Pol Sci/DÜI)

A broad tradition of cultural analysis is utilized for understanding the pattern & character of congressional politics under the Articles of Confederation. This approach, centering on the study of political culture & the role of ideas in shaping the performance of institutions, places values & value conflicts at the heart of discussions about political developments & change in the Revolutionary US. Historical arguments & quantitative evidence are used to show that the three political subcultures identified by Daniel J. Elazar(see American Federalism: A View from the States, 2nd edition, New York: Harper & Row, 1972) -- New England moralism, Middle Atlantic individualism, & Southern traditionalism -- provide the basis for explaining the factional divisions of the Congress of the Articles of Confederation. 4 Tables, 1 Figure. Modified HA

The Nigerian political system, to a very large extent, since independence in 1960, has continued to be marked by divisions along ethnic, religious and class lines. The primodial identity symbols appear to have been capitalized on and manipulated by the political class and the elite to gain undue advantage in electoral contests, which have almost become a recovering decimal of the Nigerian politics. The result of this phenomenon has been a lack of patriotic leadership with nationalistic tendencies and equity-induced service delivery in the political affairs of our country. Our attempt at this Conference therefore, is to give a critical analysis of the politics surrounding the concept of restructuring and Nigeria unity vise-vise the role of the leadership.

Laure Humbert explores how humanitarian aid in occupied Germany was influenced by French politics of national recovery and Cold War rivalries. She examines the everyday encounters between French officials, members of new international organizations, relief workers, defeated Germans and Displaced Persons, who remained in the territory of the French zone prior to their repatriation or emigration. By rendering relief workers and Displaced Persons visible, she sheds lights on their role in shaping relief practices and addresses the neglected issue of the gendering of rehabilitation. In doing so, Humbert highlights different cultures of rehabilitation, in part rooted in pre-war ideas about 'overcoming' poverty and war-induced injuries and, crucially, she unearths the active and bottom-up nature of the restoration of France's prestige. Not only were relief workers concerned about the image of France circulating in DP camps, but they also drew DP artists into the orbit of French cultural diplomacy in Germany.

A profound reinterpretation of both the Dust Bowl on the U.S. southern plains and its relevance for today The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the U.S. southern plains. Known as the Dust Bowl, this crisis has become a major referent of the climate change era, and has long served as a warning of the dire consequences of unchecked environmental despoliation. Through innovative research and a fresh theoretical lens, Hannah Holleman reexamines the global socioecological and economic forces of settler colonialism and imperialism precipitating this disaster, explaining critical antecedents to the acceleration of ecological degradation in our time. Holleman draws lessons from this period that point a way forward for environmental politics as we confront the growing global crises of climate change, freshwater scarcity, extreme energy, and soil degradation