scholarly journals Reciprocal Cosmopolitanism

Problemos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 8-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Drałus
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Human Diversity ◽  
Main Obstacle ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Cosmopolitan Democracy ◽  
To Come ◽  
Theoretical Minimum

In the paper I analyse Daniele Archibugi’s conception of the new cosmopolitanism, aimed at formulation of a theory of cosmopolitan democracy capable of facing contemporary global problems that go beyond the competences of nation-states. My claim is that the advocates of the new cosmopolitanism have yet to come up with a theoretical minimum to which all parties of the cosmopolitan debate would subscribe. I argue that the main obstacle in formulation of a viable cosmopolitanism are attempts at imposition of the universalist uniformity inscribed in the traditional cosmopolitanism or, at best, a straightforward acceptance of cultural differences. In opposition to this, I outline the idea of reciprocal cosmopolitanism which, I believe, should proceed from the acknowledgement of human diversity, thus becoming a more inclusive project than its existing alternatives.

Impact of EU Data Protection Laws on Cloud Computing

2015 ◽  
pp. 56-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan Eldred ◽  
Carl Adams ◽  
Alice Good
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Tectonic Plates ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
Eu Directives ◽  
Fault Lines

The global nature of cloud computing has resulted in emerging challenges, such as clashes between legal systems, cultural differences, and business practice norms: cloud-computing is at the forefront of recognising, and “smoothing over,” emergent differences between nation states as we move towards a more globally connected world. This chapter uses the emergent differences over regulation governing data protection; as the world becomes more interconnected, we are likely to see more examples of technology practices and models sweeping around the globe, and raising further areas for clashes between nations and regions, much like the fault lines between tectonic plates. This chapter provides contribution by capturing some emergent “fault lines” in an in-depth case study comparing the evolving EU directives covering data protection and how they relate to non-EU data protection legal systems. This provides the foundations to consider cloud-computing challenges, inform policymakers in measures to resolve “clashes,” and in informing researchers investigating other global technology phenomena.

Impact of EU Data Protection Laws on Cloud Computing

Web Services ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1883-1906
Author(s):  
Morgan Eldred ◽  
Carl Adams ◽  
Alice Good
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Tectonic Plates ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
Eu Directives ◽  
Fault Lines

The global nature of cloud computing has resulted in emerging challenges, such as clashes between legal systems, cultural differences, and business practice norms: cloud-computing is at the forefront of recognising, and “smoothing over,” emergent differences between nation states as we move towards a more globally connected world. This chapter uses the emergent differences over regulation governing data protection; as the world becomes more interconnected, we are likely to see more examples of technology practices and models sweeping around the globe, and raising further areas for clashes between nations and regions, much like the fault lines between tectonic plates. This chapter provides contribution by capturing some emergent “fault lines” in an in-depth case study comparing the evolving EU directives covering data protection and how they relate to non-EU data protection legal systems. This provides the foundations to consider cloud-computing challenges, inform policymakers in measures to resolve “clashes,” and in informing researchers investigating other global technology phenomena.

Trade and Financial Relations between India and Pakistan

2020 ◽  
pp. 161-182
Author(s):  
Pallavi Raghavan
Keyword(s):  
Terms Of Trade ◽  
The Other ◽  
Boundary Line ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Face ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

In this chapter, I chart out how partition shifted the terms of trade between two points now divided by the boundary line. While, on the one hand, both governments made lofty declarations of carrying out trade with one another as independent nation states—taxable, and liable to regulations by both states—on the other, they were also forced to come to a series of arrangements to accommodate commercial transactions to continue in the way that they had always existed before the making of the boundary. In many instances, in fact, it was actually impossible to physically stop the process of commercial transactions between both sides of the border, and the boundary line. Therefore, the question this chapter is concerned with is the extent to which both governments’ positions were amenable to the necessities of contingency, demand, and genuine emergency, in the face of a great deal of rhetoric about how the Indian and Pakistani economies had to be bolstered on their own merits.

A Comparison of Models of Economic Democracy: Towards the World of Shared Sovereignty

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 143-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Hrubec
Keyword(s):  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Economic Democracy ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Participative Democracy

The article focuses on a comparison of three models of economic democracy: participative democracy, enterprise (co-operative) economic democracy, and autonomous economic democracy. It analyzes the main characteristics of the models, and their advantages and disadvantages. It also stresses that, at the age of global interactions, we cannot develop economic democracy in a meaningful way only within a framework of nation states because they are too small to manage big macro-regional and global problems. That is why we have to face an issue of recognition of state sovereignty, specifically absolute and shared (divided) kinds of sovereignty.

Burning Waters: The Hydropolitics of the Euphrates and Tigris

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gün Kut
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Freshwater Resources ◽  
The Core ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Human Use ◽  
Different Levels

The world's natural freshwater resources available for human use are more scarce than is generally assumed. This statement has already become a cliche, yet the truth it reveals is getting more apparent every day, just as is the case with other global problems which require solutions above and beyond the parochial and short term interests of individual nation states. Water scarcity has two important aspects, both with political connotations at different levels, with worldwide maldistribution of economic and natural resources being at the core of the problem.

The Great War, Independence, and Latvian Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (4 (463)) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Benedikts Kalnačs
Keyword(s):  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
First Century ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Nation States ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Written Sources

The article focuses on the representation of the year 1918 in Latvian literature. On November 18, the independent Republic of Latvia was proclaimed, and in the years to come international recognition of the state’s sovereignty followed. In retrospect, this event stimulated a number of salutary descriptions and interpretations and certainly provides a milestone in the history of the Latvian nation. It is, however, also important to discuss the proclamation of independence in the context of the Great War that brought a lot of suffering to the inhabitants of Latvia. Therefore, a critical evaluation of the events preceding the year 1918 is certainly worthy of discussion. The article first sketches the historical and geopolitical contexts of the period immediately before and during the Great War as well as the changed situation in its aftermath. This introduction is followed by a discussion of the novel 18 (2014) by the contemporary Latvian author Pauls Bankovskis (b. 1973) that provides a critical retrospective of the events leading to the proclamation of the nation state from a twenty-first century perspective. Bankovskis employs an intertextual approach, engaging with a number of earlier publications dealing with the same topic. Among the authors included are Anna Brigadere, Aleksandrs Grīns, Sergejs Staprāns, Mariss Vētra, and others. The paper contextualizes the contribution of these writers within the larger historical picture of the Great War and the formation of the nation states and speculates on the contemporary relevance of the representation of direct experience, and the use of written sources related to these events.

scholarly journals Ist Außenpolitik noch Außenpolitik … und was ist eigentlich Innenpolitik?

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (118) ◽  
pp. 123-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Messner
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Coordinate System ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Core Elements

Globalization processes are emphatically changing the coordinate system of politics. The „epoch of the nation state“ is drawing to its end. Dirk Messner discusses four core elements involved in the change of the architecture of politics in the „era of globalism“: (1) the rapidly growing differentiation of the foreign relations of nation states as an indicator of the erosion of the classical bounds of domestic and foreign policy; (2) the trend toward the formation of a world society; (3) the growing density of transboundary networks and global problems that lead not only to an increase of international relations based on interdependency (a phenomenon long familiar to us) but to an erosion of the „internal sovereignty“ of nation states, which is turning the rules of international and global politics upside down; (4) the change of the form of political power under the conditions of globalization.

Known Knowns and Known Unknowns: Epiphanius of Salamis and the Limits of Heresiology

2016 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-101
Author(s):  
Todd S. Berzon
Keyword(s):  
Ancient World ◽  
Human Diversity ◽  
Universal History ◽  
Ethnographic Writing ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Known Unknowns ◽  
History And Myth ◽  
Situated Perspective

In this essay, I explore the conceptual and discursive ruminations of Epiphanius of Salamis as he struggles in hisPanarionto survey and manage the ever-expanding heretical world. Instead of reading this heresiological treatise as an attestation of theological, ecclesiastical, and intellectual authority established through totalizing discourse, I approach it as an expression of ancient ethnographic writing and the ethnographic disposition, an authorial orientation toward the world that describes, regulates, and classifies peoples with both macroscopic and microscopic knowledge. Ethnography in the ancient world was a process of writing the world's people into texts, describing and classifying specific cultures and customs through the lens of the ethnographer's own culturally situated perspective. Frequently, the ethnographer used his text to elaborate his assumptions about the origins of human diversity. Customs and habits were explained as the products of larger macroscopic forces such as astrology, genealogy, climatology, universal history, and myth. In the process of translating the world into texts, ethnographic inquiry forced authors to confront their capacity to comprehend the world around them and ultimately to come to terms with the full scope of human diversity. I argue that reading thePanarionas a manifestation of Christian ethnography usefully foregrounds an intractable tension between knowledge (known knowns) and self-conscious ignorance (known unknowns) about the depths of human heterogeneity: ethnography is as much an illustration of incomprehension as it is a repository of erudition, mastery, and discovery.

scholarly journals Introduction: Rethinking Safety of Journalists

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Skare Orgeret ◽  
William Tayeebwa
Keyword(s):  
International Community ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Global Concern ◽  
To Come

The introductory chapter to the thematic issue, entitled “Rethinking Safety of Journalists,” shows how promoting the safety of journalists is closely related to press freedom. It presents the articles of the thematic issue and highlights how the safety of journalists is no longer a concern of individuals or individual nation states only, but is now also a global concern, whereby the international community is obliged to come to the defense of journalists’ safety.

scholarly journals Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in the European Union

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 118-129
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Centrifugal Forces ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
To Come ◽  
Centripetal Forces ◽  
The Eu

The economic crises of the 21st century have challenged the unity of the European Union. The initially strong centripetal forces started to be weakened by new, unexpected centrifugal forces. What does the future hold for the European Union, and how can it face the unforeseen challenges? Currently the most important divisive, centrifugal forces within the EU include the management of mass migration, the debates surrounding the EU budget, the lack of a common foreign policy and the issue of sovereignty versus federalism. The essay addresses these topics one by one, because a strong, influential and unified Europe cannot exist without a solution to the migration crisis which is accepted by all Member States, a more coordinated fiscal and foreign policy and an explicit, uniformly accepted interpretation of the sovereignty of nation states. These areas are likely to remain divisive, centrifugal forces hampering the progress of European integration for years to come, but they should be discussed to identify the most important things to do.

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