In this context the idea of a political culture, that one could acquire or not, is inconceivable. For it implies the ...

Making’ handed out at Pierrot also recommends: ‘Consider keeping standards as high as possible’. Today, so many residually ...

On the protests in Iran.

Above all, the failed attempt to impeach Bonaparte stands at the centre of Marx’s pioneering reflections on what we have come to call ‘populism’, the contradictory political form at the heart of ...

Alexandre Kojève was born in Russia into a well-to-do family; he was the nephew of the painter Kandinsky.footnote 1 In 1920, at the age of eighteen, he left Moscow in order to study in Germany, first ...

It would be an overstatement to speak of a Potemkin republic. But behind the fair appearances, many—perhaps most—realities are darker. Of all East European countries, Romania is endowed with the ...

The decision to bestow the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature on the Chinese novelist Mo Yan raises once again the ticklish question of the patterns of distribution for these laurels at the global level.

In the face of a string of leftist successes in the Andes, with radical-populists elected in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, the Right can boast one spectacular triumph. Medellín, the most ...

Dr. Hobsbawm’s bookfootnote ＊ is addressed, its preface tells us, to “the intelligent and educated citizen, who is not merely curious about the past, but wishes to understand how and why the world has ...

Since the 18th century, British imperialism has maintained control over the principalities of the eastern and southern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula; but this imperialist hegemony is now dissolving.