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Tag Archives: western political philosophy
Plenums and Power (Power v. Force III)
The past two weeks have been astounding to witness in Ukraine and Bosnia- Herzegovina. While I haven’t been able to follow quite as intimately what has happened in Ukraine, media reporting from that country has been very good. In Bosnia … Continue reading
Posted in North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Politics and Political Theory, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Arab Spring, Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Communism, current-events, EU, European Union, force, hannah arendt, NATO, nature of politics, politics, repressive regimes, transitional justice, Ukraine, western political philosophy, Yugoslavia
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American Republic, Now Available from Amazon
I’m pleased to announce that my book, American Republic: Essays on the Nature of Politics, is now available in Kindle and paperback from Amazon.com. American Republic includes the original book, plus three essays that first appeared on this site: “The Plastics and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics and Political Theory
Tagged aesthetics and politics, Books, Carl Schmitt, Communism, george orwell, hannah arendt, language, literature, nature of politics, political faith, political language, politics, religion, repressive regimes, totalitarian regimes, western political philosophy
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An Assault on Joseph Nye, Part Three: Keeping It Real
In my previous two posts, I’ve argued how the hard power/soft power Hobson’s Dichotomy of Joseph Nye fails at the level of language and on the level of theory. Here I will contend that Nye’s very popular international relations theory … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics and Political Theory, Public Diplomacy
Tagged Books, foreign affairs, hard power, international relations, international relations theory, Joseph Nye, NATO, political theory, politics, Public Diplomacy, soft power, strategic communications, western political philosophy
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An Assault on Joseph Nye, Part Two: “Power and Violence are Opposites”
In a previous discussion, I attacked Joseph Nye’s “soft power/hard power” theory at the level of language, effectively calling his terms unclear and mealy-mouthed substitutes for clearer, more precise terms we can use like force and coercion, sanctions or diplomacy. Nye … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics and Political Theory, Public Diplomacy
Tagged Arab Spring, Books, civil rights movement, faith groups, force, hannah arendt, hard power, international relations theory, Joseph Nye, nature of politics, politics, Public Diplomacy, roman catholic church, Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, soft power, Solidarity, terrorism, western political philosophy, Yugoslavia
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An Intellectual Assault on Joseph Nye: Part One
Joseph Nye’s theory and advocacy of “soft power,” articulated in the early 1990s and developed during the last 15 years, have been a touchstone for virtually anyone studying or writing about international relations. It’s been impossible, particularly, to write about … Continue reading
The Ecstasy of Politics
It’s hard to imagine in the deflated reality of the federal sequester, and as the winners of 2012 (however they define themselves) watch with undisguised glee as the losers (however they are defined) tear themselves apart at the annual CPAC … Continue reading
“A Theory of Deeds” Threatens the Russian State
Could helping your neighbor deem you an enemy of the state? The Duma, Russia’s legislature, is leaning that way by trying to regulate what de Tocqueville admired in early America: the “innumerable multitude of small undertakings” that constitute community, what … Continue reading
Richard Ben Cramer and “What It Takes”
There was no shortage of praise for Richard Ben Cramer upon his death earlier this month. The author of What It Takes was widely lauded for writing probably the definitive campaign narrative, a hefty but breezy tome following eight candidates in both parties during … Continue reading
The Problem of Propaganda
Last week, the Vietnamese government sentenced two musicians on the charge of “anti-state propaganda,” apparently the first case in recent memory that Hanoi imprisoned artists under the charge. But within the month the government put on trial three writers on the same charge of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics and Political Theory, Public Diplomacy
Tagged aesthetics and politics, Communism, freedom of expression, hannah arendt, Hoang Nhat Thong and Viet Khang, human-rights, nature of politics, Nazi, propaganda, Public Diplomacy, repressive regimes, strategic communications, totalitarian regimes, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Vietnam, western political philosophy
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