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The generalized perception that the international system is changing due to the emergence of new great powers has been motivating analysts & policy makers to advance new proposals for institutional cooperation among democracies. This article studies two of those proposals -- John McCain's "League of Democracies" & the one of a study group of Princeton University -- and argues that they have very different origins & possible outcomes. Their differences are grounded in two competing conceptions of the United States role as global liberal actor. Adapted from the source document.

The direct or indirect use of the democratic peace thesis with power transition theory and the preeminent rise of China among emergent powers led to a systematic disregard of the role of rising democracies in the upcoming international order. This article studies India's case and concludes that rising democracies also challenge the current normative basis of states' relations, in a different way than autocracies. New Delhi's foreign policy in recent years suggests that the theoretical tools are not fully adequate to address these cases. Adapted from the source document.

The text is part of a doctoral research process in education, and dialogues, in an essayistic manner, with themes such as the city, images, body and everyday affective crossings. These dialogues tension with education, history, daily life and other ways of thinking about the urban tangle, anchored in the cartographic method. Through formative processes experienced by the author, seek to evidence issues, concerns and discomforts that are still unstable, rehearsed in everyday life and outlined in thought and inventions. It argues that the power of creation and wandering in the city are insurgent ways of ruptures in the face of current conservative advances, paying attention to the exercise of otherness, inventiveness and experimentation, having as main references authors such as Michel Foucault, Suely Rolnik, Félix Guattari , Peter Pelbart, among others.

The monadic version of the democratic peace theory holds that democracies tend to be more peaceful than non-democracies. Drawn from Kant's original proposal in Perpetual Peace, the great majority of studies published so far tend to focus on concepts of negative peace (absence of war) & on strictly formal models of democracy (in many cases already consolidated). Approaching the young Russian democracy, this article seeks o apply the monadic version of the democratic peace theory to democratization processes & civil society development, suggesting an operational proximity of peace to Galtung & democracy to Gellner. References. Adapted from the source document.

Montaigne and Diderot were philosophers, humanists, and defenders of critical skepticism. His writings are characterized by a fluid, private, and comic writing style. In Diderot we see a philosopher playwright, author and critical theatrical. In Montaigne a non-academic philosopher, a magistrate averse to the perfectionism of scholastic philosophy, which instituted a new style of writing. There is a common trait in how they both understand philosophy. For Montaigne and Diderot, ethics and aesthetics are two domains of philosophy that have a close relationship. The work of art is an essential element that has the power to awaken the human spirit and lead it to the experience of true virtue.

Este artigo propõe-se a apresentar dois ambientes virtuais, o AMADIS e o Orkut, a fim de estabelecer relações entre eles, tendo como apoio teórico os conceitos de estética e socialidade. O primeiro é um ambiente virtual de aprendizagem desenvolvido para fins pedagógicos; o segundo é um ambiente virtual que tem alcance mundial e agrega indivíduos por suas redes de interesses e amizades. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar o entrelaçamento entre teoria e algumas das características dos ambientes, suas semelhanças e distinções, a partir do estudo da formação de redes digitais suscitadas por influências estéticas. Foi realizado um estudo qualitativo comparativo estrutural entre os ambientes, colocando-os em paralelo, traçando analogias entre suas áreas, funcionalidades e possibilidades de ações dos usuários. Ao final do estudo e da argumentação, conclui-se que as redes de relações entre os conceitos-chave do estudo da correlação estética-socialidade (neotribalismo, corpo coletivo, ator-persona, espacialidade e pertença, de acordo com Maffesoli), estruturadas a partir do confronto entre as subdivisões dos ambientes, são rearranjáveis e recriáveis.

The contemporary debate in the theory of international relations is marked by two perspectives: on the one hand the perspective of political realism that conceives of peace as an inaccessible ideal and war as a necessary means for the acquisition and maintenance of power; and on the other hand the perspective of normativism or idealism that thinks the end (telos) of international relations beyond the conflicts of interest and the struggle for power. The first perspective deals with international relations at the level of being (of what is), the second at the level of ought (normative level). In view of this scenario, our idea in this article is to approach the problem of war and peace from an interdisciplinary study through contributions from Kant's Public International Law and Philosophy. In a first moment we will analyze the paradox of the war, then the role of the Public International Law for the problematic of the peace, and finally the contributions of Kant for the normative redefinition of the international right from his republican project of the league of peace (foedus pacificum).