IN UKRAINE, RUSSIA WANTS POLITICAL CONTROL, NOT TERRITORY

2017 ◽  
Vol 69 (035) ◽  
pp. 8-9
Author(s):  
Vladimir Frolov
Keyword(s):  
Political Control

The national question, identity and the crisis in South Sudan

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dylan Yanano Mangani ◽  
Richard Rachidi Molapo
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Nation States ◽  
National Question ◽  
The Government

The crisis in South Sudan that broke out on the 15th of December 2013 has been the gravest political debacle in the five years of the country’s independence. This crisis typifies the general political and social patterns of post-independence politics of nation-states that are borne out of armed struggles in Africa. Not only does the crisis expose a reluctance by the nationalist leaders to continue with nation-building initiatives, the situation suggests the struggle for political control at the echelons of power within the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement.  This struggle has been marred by the manufacturing of political identity and political demonization that seem to illuminate the current political landscape in South Sudan. Be that as it may, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) hurriedly intervened to find a lasting solution however supportive of the government of President Salva Kirr and this has suggested interest based motives on the part of the regional body and has since exacerbated an already fragile situation. As such, this article uses the Fanonian discourse of post-independence politics in Africa to expose the fact that the SPLM has degenerated into lethargy and this is at the heart of the crisis.

The Political Control of Czechoslovakia.Ivan Gadourek

1955 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 600-601
Author(s):  
Jiri Nehnevajsa
Keyword(s):  
Political Control ◽  
The Political

scholarly journals Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
CHRISTINA M. KINANE
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Presidential Appointments ◽  
Capacity To Act ◽  
First Mover Advantage ◽  
First Mover ◽  
Legislative Approval

Scholarship on separation of powers assumes executives are constrained by legislative approval when placing agents in top policy-making positions. But presidents frequently fill vacancies in agency leadership with unconfirmed, temporary officials or leave them empty entirely. I develop a novel dataset of vacancies across 15 executive departments from 1977 to 2016 and reevaluate the conventional perspective that appointment power operates only through formal channels. I argue that presidents’ nomination strategies include leaving positions empty and making interim appointments, and this choice reflects presidents’ priorities and the character of vacant positions. The evidence indicates that interim appointees are more likely when positions have a substantial capacity to act on presidential expansion priorities and suggest that presidents can capitalize on their first-mover advantage to evade Senate confirmation. The results further suggest that separation of powers models may need to consider how deliberate inaction and sidestepping of formal powers influence political control and policy-making strategies.

Newgrange — Science or Symbolizm

1994 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew B. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Geometric Shape ◽  
Mortuary Practices ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Spatial Relationships ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Unit Of Length ◽  
Simple Geometric Shape

The Newgrange passage tomb is examined for evidence of ‘Neolithic science’. Claims that it incorporated an astronomical alignment, and was constructed using Pythagorean geometry and the megalithic yard are reviewed as are scientific interpretations of its art. A new analysis of the tomb's structure reveals that it was based on a simple geometric shape measurable by a 13.1 m unit of length. The locations of particular motifs and decorated surfaces are shown to conform to the spatial relationships evident in the tomb's form. These are defined in terms of oppositions between left and right, front and back, inside and outside, visible and hidden, as well as making reference to symbols found in the art of the neighbouring passage tomb at Knowth.These features are interpreted, not as evidence of a specificically scientific discourse in the Irish Neolithic, but as the elaboration of elements common to the passage tomb ritual discourse. Competition for political control, in the context of mortuary practices, resulted in the increasing formalization and rigid interpretation of passage tomb symbolizm, and the ritualization of new areas of knowledge.

scholarly journals The Politics of Fear: How Russia’s Rulers Counter their Rivals

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Gel’man
Keyword(s):  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Politics Of Fear ◽  
Regime Survival

This article attempts to analyze the mechanisms of political control used by the Kremlin vis-à-vis its rivals. Russian authorities had opted the politics of fear, which include overt intimidation and public discrediting of the regime’s critics, and selective persecution and open harassment of opposition activists and/or supporters. This approach to political control to some degree reproduced similar mechanisms that had enabled regime survival in the late Soviet period, and fit general trends of repressive policies in a number of contemporary authoritarian regimes. The article discusses causes and mechanisms of the politics of fear in contemporary Russia, its roots in comparative and historical contexts, and strengths and weaknesses of repressive policy in Russia from the viewpoints of the regime, the opposition, and Russian society.

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