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A ‘Military Rule’ as a specific (occidental) type of despotism in Montesquieu’s Theory

open access: yesPolitičke Perspektive, 2015
Montesquieu writes about “military rule” in all of his three main works: in the Persian Letters, in Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans, as well as his magnum opus On the Spirit of the Laws.
Aleksandar Molnar
doaj  

Islamic Public Administration in Practice: The Taliban's “Gender Apartheid” Governance in Afghanistan

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the reasons of Achaemenian Empire Collapse [PDF]

open access: yesFaṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2006
Today’s world situation is the result of various historical incidents. During these accidents and changes, some civilizations manifest, grow and collapse.
Aِli Asghar Pourezzat   +1 more
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Landless peasants, soilless cultivation: British agricultural experimentation and intervention in post‐independence Iraq (1932–1958)

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
‘Greening’ is often depicted as an inherently benevolent practice, turning arid stretches of land into arable and fertile plots. However, by considering a longer history of place and taking archival records into account, such transformations are rendered more complex and, often, more fraught.
Zsuzsanna Ihar
wiley   +1 more source

Democracy in Islamic political thought [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper surveys the growth and various phases of and influences on the concept of democracy in the Islamic political thought of the last two centuries. Among the thinkers covered in the survey are Rifa'a Tahtawi (1801-73), Khairuddin at-Tunis (1810-99)
Tamimi, Azzam S.
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Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Social media platforms are imbued with politics and values through an interplay of coded architectures, platform policies, economic models, and algorithmic curation, together shaping and shaped by the activities of users. This dynamic set of relations is most evident during moments of disruption, in which platform politics and values come under debate.
Sean Ward   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uus-babüloonia kroonika ja vana-pärsiakeelne raidkiri Artaxerxes III Ochose valitsemisajast [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2011
The main aim of the current short article is not only to give an overview of some facts regarding the biography of the last important Old Persian king Artaxerxes III Ochos (359–338 BC), who re-established a weakened Achaemenid Empire, but also to give an
Vladimir Sazonov
doaj  

Despot Lazar Brankovic

open access: yesZbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta, 2013
Despot Lazar Brankovic was a son of despot Djuradj Brankovic and despoina Jerina (Irina), born Cantacuzenus. He was in exile with his parents in 1439-1444, in Hungary, Italy, Ragusa, Zeta. He married Helen, the daughter of Thomas Paleologus, despot of Morea in 1446.
openaire   +3 more sources

Absolute monarchy in France [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
An original scholarly interpretation of the nature of the French monarchy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues that rather than seeing this monarchy as centralised and administrative, we should see it as a state formation replete with ...
Campbell, Peter R
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Kantian Dignity and Marxian Socialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper offers an account of human dignity based on a discussion of Kant's moral and political philosophy and then shows its relevance for articulating and developing in a fresh way some normative dimensions of Marx’s critique of capitalism as ...
Gilabert, Pablo
core   +1 more source

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