Mexico Under the Political–transition Cycle: 2018–2020

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfredo Coutino
Keyword(s):  
Political Transition ◽  
The Political

The Military Post-Mugabe

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-188
Author(s):  
Godfrey Maringira
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Difference ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Political Transition ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Military

This article argues that, through the coup, the military has become more visible in national politics in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe. The current situation under President Mnangagwa marks a qualitative difference with the military under Mugabe’s rule. Currently, in now being more prominent, the military is politics and is the determinant of any political transition that may be forthcoming in Zimbabwe. However, if it deems it necessary, the military accommodates civilian politicians into politics in order to ‘sanitize’ the political landscape in its own interests. Simultaneously, despite their involvement in the coup, ordinary soldiers feel increasingly marginalized under Mnangagwa’s government.

scholarly journals Political Anthropology and Anthropology of Politics: An Overview

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Suresh Dhakal
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Political Transition ◽  
Political Anthropology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Anthropology Of Politics

In this short review, I have tried to sketch an overview of historical development of political anthropology and its recent trends. I was enthused to prepare this review article as there does not exist any of such simplified introduction of one of the prominent sub-fields in cultural anthropology for the Nepalis readers, in particular. I believe this particular sub-field has to offer much to understand and explain the recent trends and current turmoil of the political transition in the country. Political anthropologists than any other could better explain how the politics is socially and culturally embedded and intertwined, therefore, separation of the two – politics from social and cultural processes – is not only impossible but methodologically wrong, too. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/dsaj.v5i0.6365 Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 5, 2011: 217-34

scholarly journals Iglesia y política en la transición : los católicos ante la transición política

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feliciano Montero
Keyword(s):  
Transition Process ◽  
Political Transition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Position ◽  
The Church

El enunciado «Iglesia y política en la transición» es demasiado amplio como para abordarlo en todas sus facetas y dimensiones. Aquí se va a centrar la atención en algunas cuestiones relevantes referidas en concreto a la postura política de los católicos durante la transición. Previamente se recuerda la posición defendida públicamente por la jerarquía eclesiástica antes y durante el proceso. Lo que habitualmente se define como el «taranconismo». La discusión sobre la posición política de los católicos se centra en dos cuestiones principales: las razones del fracaso político-electoral de los demócrata- cristianos; y las vicisitudes y diversas expresiones de un cristianismo de izquierdas, relativamente influyente en el proceso de transición política, y en la propia definición de la Iglesia ante la transición.The title "Church and Politics during ttie "Transition» is too wide for analyzing it at all» In this paper we are going to pay attention to same questions about the political position of the cattiolics during fhe «Transition» First of all, we remember the position supported by the Ecclesiatical Jerarchy before and during this period that we use to cali «taranconismo» The discussion about the political position of the catholics point to two main questions: the reasons for the Crístian-democratic's polítical-electoral fail; and the vicissitudes and expressions of the left Cristian, that influenced in the political transition process, and in the meaning of the Church in front of the «Transición».

The Involvement of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Issues of Minority Protection

1996 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-395
Author(s):  
Aristoteles Constantinides
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Political Transition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Minority Protection ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Internal Affairs ◽  
Political Character ◽  
Positive Results

The close relationship between security and minority protection is more than ever before manifest in today's (eastern) Europe. The adoption of far-reaching substantive commitments in the fields of the OSCE, and its increasing intrusion upon traditionally internal affairs of states, constitutes a positive framework for minority protection. A constructive combination of implementation mechanisms, preventive diplomacy instruments, and dispute-settlement efforts has produced positive results. Primarily concerned with the maintenance of security in Europe, the OSCE involves itself in minority issues, subject to the (dis)advantages of its political character. Despite its inherent weaknesses, the OSCE system has already contributed to the protection of minorities in Eastern Europe in various ways during the political transition in the former communist states, and it is prepared to continue, especially in the absence of other more effective systems.

Between Intellectual Responsibility and Political Commodification of Knowledge: Nigeria's Academic Political Scientists under the Babangida Military Junta, 1985–1993

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-121
Author(s):  
Ade Kunle Amuwo
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Political Transition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Military Government ◽  
Commodification Of Knowledge ◽  
Intellectual Integrity ◽  
The Military ◽  
Major Criticism ◽  
Intellectual Responsibility

Abstract:The academic political scientists—mainly professors—who were hired by the Babangida military government in Nigeria between 1985 and 1993, ostensibly to theorize and articulate a new political culture and morality through the political transition program (PTP), have been objects, both then and ever since, of serious criticism concerning their role and contribution to a program that promised much but delivered little or nothing. The major criticism is that the political scientists, despite an initial commitment to help the military fashion a new political order, lost their “science” by providing an intellectual cover for the general's schemes and enriched the “political,” including the politics of corruption and self-enrichment. We examine this critique and show that these individuals, by choosing to remain in office—if not in power—even after witnessing so many broken promises by the regime, tarnished their intellectual integrity and moral credibility. Appointed to serve as an instrument of legitimization for the regime, they contained, constricted, and shrank the political and intellectual space rather than facilitating intellectual and democratic empowerment.

Economic Transition in Africa

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-349
Author(s):  
Surendra J. Patel
Keyword(s):  
Land Surface ◽  
Economic Transition ◽  
Political Transition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Popular Pressure ◽  
Transition To Independence ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

Africa is a vast continent. It embraces nearly one-fourth of the land surface of the earth. The last decade has witnessed a profound transformation of its political landscape. Thirty-four countries have attained their independence. The rest of the continent will soon be governed by its people. The broad sweep of the surge towards independence has belied those predictions of only a decade ago that the political transition to independence in Africa would take a long time. This has already come about. But the continent yet remains mostly ill-fed, ill-clad, ill-housed, and illiterate. The popular pressure to overcome the age-old afflictions of mankind—poverty, disease, and lack of knowledge—is mounting. The new African governments are beginning their first faltering steps towards the economic transition from poverty to relative affluence.

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