This document discusses Moises Naim's book "The End of Power" and the decay of power on a global scale due to increased influence of media and social media. It examines whether this means more checks and balances for democracy or a symptom of decline. Examples are given of how weakened power often precedes revolutions, like the Roman emperor Constantius II needing army approval. The document questions if we are seeing the end of power or the end of consent to power, and proposes a new paradigm is needed that fixes identity with relationship rather than prioritizing the individual or group.
Augusto Lopez-Claros offered at ebbf's annual conference a detailed history of the evolution of global governance over the centuries highlighting the key risks governance is facing today and the key steps to address them
Augusto Lopez-Claros offered at ebbf's annual conference a detailed history of the evolution of global governance over the centuries highlighting the key risks governance is facing today and the key steps to address them
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The issue of world order is central to an understanding of international politics. The shape of world order affects both the level of stability within the global system and the balance within it between conflict and cooperation. However, since the end of the Cold War, the nature of world order has been the subject of significant debate and disagreement. Early proclamations of the establishment of a 'new world order', characterized by peace and international cooperation, were soon replaced by talk of unipolar world order, with the USA taking centre stage as the world's sole superpower. This 'unipolar moment' may nevertheless have been brief. Not only did the USA's involvement in difficult and protracted counter-insurgency wars following September 11 strengthen the impression of US decline, but emerging powers, notably China, started to exert greater influence on the world stage. The notion that unipolarity is giving way to multipolarity has, moreover, been supported by evidence of the increasing importance of international organizations, a trend that is sometimes interpreted as emerging 'global governance'. Of particular importance in this respect have been the major institutions of global economic governance – the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization – and the centrepiece of the global governance system, the United Nations. Although some argue that the trend in favour of global governance reflects the fact that, in an interdependent world, states must act together to address the challenges that confront them, others dismiss global governance as a myth and raise serious questions about the effectiveness of international organizations.
Tshepo Madlingozi: 20 Years of TRC - TAKING STOCK OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN TRUTH ...Khulumani Support Group
by Tshepo Madlingozi, Chairperson of Khulumani Support Group at the 3rd INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM OF THE INSTTUTO HUMANITAS at UNISINOS, Brazil 16 September 2015
The issue of world order is central to an understanding of international politics. The shape of world order affects both the level of stability within the global system and the balance within it between conflict and cooperation. However, since the end of the Cold War, the nature of world order has been the subject of significant debate and disagreement. Early proclamations of the establishment of a 'new world order', characterized by peace and international cooperation, were soon replaced by talk of unipolar world order, with the USA taking centre stage as the world's sole superpower. This 'unipolar moment' may nevertheless have been brief. Not only did the USA's involvement in difficult and protracted counter-insurgency wars following September 11 strengthen the impression of US decline, but emerging powers, notably China, started to exert greater influence on the world stage. The notion that unipolarity is giving way to multipolarity has, moreover, been supported by evidence of the increasing importance of international organizations, a trend that is sometimes interpreted as emerging 'global governance'. Of particular importance in this respect have been the major institutions of global economic governance – the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization – and the centrepiece of the global governance system, the United Nations. Although some argue that the trend in favour of global governance reflects the fact that, in an interdependent world, states must act together to address the challenges that confront them, others dismiss global governance as a myth and raise serious questions about the effectiveness of international organizations.
Why are startups so interesting at this moment for investment. What are the differences with the past dot.com bubble and why the startup movement is here to stay.
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Summary Chapter 10
Different governments treat the concept of citizenship in different ways. All states demand adherence to the rules (laws), of course, and most treat birth in, or naturalization into, the political order as a requirement of citizenship. In democratic states, the concept of citizenship is also tied to the ideas of equality and liberty, as well as to meaningful participation in politics, such as voting in periodic elections. This ideal of democratic citizenship dates back to the ancient Greek city-states, which were small enough to permit direct democracy (self-representation of enfranchised adults through public assemblies and plebiscites).
Political socialization is the process whereby citizens develop the values, attitudes, beliefs, and opinions that enable them to relate to and function within the political system. Specific influences on the developing citizen include the family, religion, public education, the mass media, the law, peer groups, and key political values. Political socialization is of paramount importance; if a nation fails to socialize its citizenry on a large-scale basis, its political stability can be endangered.
Summary of chapter 6
Totalitarian states attempt to realize a utopian vision and create a new political order. Like authoritarian states, totalitarian states are nondemocratic. Yet these two regime types differ in several important respects. In particular, totalitarian regimes seek total control over all aspects of their citizens’ lives and demand active participation, rather than passive acquiescence, on the part of the citizenry.
The three major totalitarian states of the past century—Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, and Maoist China—appear to have gone through several distinct stages of development. The first stage coincides with a period of violent revolution. The five major elements necessary for a successful revolution are charismatic leadership, ideology, organization, propaganda, and violence. During the second stage, power in the hands of the totalitarian ruler is consolidated, opposition parties are eliminated, the party faithful are put in charge, and real or imagined rivals within the party are killed.
The third stage attempts to bring about the total transformation of society. In the Soviet Union, Stalin launched this effort in 1928 with the first Five-Year Plan. In Nazi Germany, Hitler’s goal of “racial purification” provided the rationale for a totalitarian drive that culminated in World War II and the Holocaust. In Maoist China, the first attempt to transform Chinese society, the Great Leap Forward, failed miserably in the late 1950s and was followed by the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.
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Anarchism: Its Aims and Purposes
Anarchism versus economic monopoly and state power; Forerunners of modern Anarchism; William Godwin and
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work, The Ego and Its Own; M. Bakunin the Collectivist and founder of the Anarchist movement; P. Kropotkin the
exponent of Anarchist Communism and the philosophy of Mutual Aid; Anarchism and revolution; Anarchism a
synthesis of Socialism and Liberalism; Anarchism versus economic materialism and Dictatorship; Anarchism and
the state; Anarchism a tendency of history; Freedom and culture.
Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of
economic monopolies and of all political and social coercive institutions within society. In place of the present
capitalistic economic order Anarchists would have a free association of all productive forces based upon co-
operative labour, which would have as its sole purpose the satisfying of the necessary requirements of every
member of society, and would no longer have in view the special interest of privileged minorities within the social
union. In place of the present state organisation with their lifeless machinery of political and bureaucratic
institutions Anarchists desire a federation of free communities which shall be bound to one another by their
common economic and social interest and shall arrange their affairs by mutual agreement and free contract.
Anyone who studies at all profoundly the economic and social development of the present social system will easily
recognise that these objectives do not spring from the Utopian ideas of a few imaginative innovators, but that they
are the logical outcome of a thorough examination of the present-day social maladjustments, which with every new
phase of the existing social conditions manifest themselves more plainly and more unwholesomely. Modern
onopoly, capitalism and the totalitarian state are merely the last terms in a development which could culminate in
no other results.
The portentous development of our present economic system, leading to a mighty accumulation of social wealth in
the hands of privileged minorities and to a continuous impoverishment of the great masses of the people, prepared
the way for the present political and social reaction. and befriended it in every way. It sacrificed the general interest
of human society to the private interest of individuals, and thus systematically undermined the relationship between
man and man. People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should only be a means to ensure to man his
material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is
everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less
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The End of Power November 4th 2013 United Nations New York
1. The End of Power
Dr. Riccardo Colasanti
Director, Rielo Institute for Integral Development
(RIID)
November 4, 2013
2. Introduction
In his last book The End of Power (2013), Moises Naim
shows us that power, from a global point of view, is
decaying. Naim argues that we are living in a world
where the economic, political and religious historical
powers are less free to operate and are conditioned by
mass-media and social media as never before.
3. There is a central question if we
focus on western democracies:
Does less power mean
a positive evolution of
liberal democracy,
or is this a symptom of a
terminal decay?
4. Positive Effects:
1. The End of Power
may mean more
“checks and
balances”
fundamental to
democracy
2. Less
representation,
5. Beppe Grillo (right),
leader of the
MoViemento Cinque
Stelle (M5S)
An example: M5S
In the 2013 elections (Chamber of
Deputies), M5S (Five Star Movement)
reached 25.55% of the vote in Italy and
9.67% of overseas voters, for a total of
7. … and fosters Direct
Democracy:
Nobody speaks for others
One is worth One
Direct Democracy = E-Democracy
8.
9. Negative Effects:
But what about the second possibility?
What if this decay of power is the expression of
a
sickness of liberal societies?
The moment of a transition to a new,
different social structure?
The first sign of the fall of a
civilization?
10. Power becomes fragile in
pre-revolution times …
revolutions start up, a
new strong power is created, and a new
order
Thereafter,
substitutes the previous one.
12. The Roman Emperor
Constantius II is the typical
example of a big power, with
no limits:
Nevertheless, the 4th century Roman historian, Ammianus
tells us that before Constantius, the emperor and supreme
leader, could propose an advantageous peace agreement
to the Alamanni (354 a.d.), he had to beg permission from
all of his army, using the rhetoric of humility and flattery and
not the usual words that we should expect from an
emperor.
13. Emperor Constantius II
remarks to his troops:
“and I believe that there are many reason
why,
if I have your approval,
it [peace treaty] should be granted.”
15. France, 1787 …
King Louis XVI, still the expression of the absolute power
of the monarchy in France, summoned a representation
of notables to assure support for the new tax reform.
16. The assembly that was created to
support a reform, where the members
were selected by Calonne (his Finance
Minister), floundered.
Calonne was dismissed and
exiled.
The absolute king’s power was only
formal.
Even the elite close to him, denied the
17. Five years later the King’s head felt down
into the basket and was shown to thousands
of people gathered to see the execution at
Place de la Concorde.
19. Revolutions are not
anticipated
Twenty five years ago …
Tmur Kuran, at the University of Southern
California,
published a paper showing that:
“A feature shared by certain major
revolutions is that they were not
anticipated”
not only to the political power but even to the
leaders of revolutions
20. 1917 Russian
Revolution
Indeed, in the early days of 1917, Lenin
told an audience in Switzerland that older
men like himself would not live to see
Russia's great explosion.
22. Just three days before the Romanov
dynasty was over- thrown …
the British Ambassador cabled his
Foreign Minister:
“Some disorders occurred today, but
nothing serious.”
26. Power needs consent
Power does not exist without
consent and trust.
Consent is coessential with power.
27. Even the Mafia’s Godfather,
without the trust of his fellow,
is just a puppet.
28. Decay of
Power?
Nobody can deny that
the trust of the electors
is vanishing everywhere:
fewer people
vote,
in
fewer people trust
their government.
Decay of power or
decay of consent to
actual power?
30. Sickness of
Democracy
Is the acute crisis of
Democracy the outcome of
some bad events: (financial,
political, hegemonical)?
or
Is it a genetic disease of
our civilization?
31. Two “genetic” problems
in Democracy:
1. People think that freedom
and equality will solve every
social problem.
2. We have limited civil human
relations to the realm of the
free market.
32. Will freedom and equality
solve every social problem?
While freedom and equality are
necessary conditions for a wonderful
society, at the same time, they are not
sufficient to achieve the goal of a
society rich in meaning and worthy to
be lived;
in order to “pursue happiness”…
something is missing.
33. Limiting civil human relations
to the realm of the free market:
While the society of freedom puts
forth a strong definition of the
“individual human being”… at the same
time, the concept of relationship is
blurry: civil relationships among
humans …
cannot be limited to swap
34. Indeed, in many cases, the model
of society as a “Free Market”
is a herd of Selfish Egoist Beings,
with:
no present,
no past,
no future.
35. yet, at the same time:
in the “Society of
Equality”,
like Marxist societies,
the group is more important
than the individual:
equality constrains
liberty.
36. Grounding the best society on the
closedness
of the individual (free society)
or of the group (equal society)
does not work: it is a nightmare.
Everywhere prevails fears and rage
38. Not of Violence, Guns or Sticks
To prevent a revolution, or the fall of the empire,
we have to fix the contradictions deeply rooted in
our modern civilization.
40. Maybe the “End of Power” is
the twilight of the old empire,
or
maybe it is a forewarning
of
the dawn of a new society:
not
the
or the
the
where the central dogma is
the radical
exaltation of
individual human being
totalitarian exaltation of
group.
Editor's Notes
The fragility of Emperor Constantius’s power had forewarned of the free fall of a great civilization to its last destiny of overwhelming decay.
If we define Aristotle as thefounding father of our civilization, we should remember that his philosophy is focused on the strong concept of a closed individual human being (substantia prima); for him relationship is a mere accidental category.