Lectio SocialisPub Date : 2023-01-12DOI: 10.47478/lectio.1207017
Mert Söyler
{"title":"Understanding International Economic Institutions and China through Uneven and Combined Development","authors":"Mert Söyler","doi":"10.47478/lectio.1207017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47478/lectio.1207017","url":null,"abstract":"For many decades, we are witnessing the economic rise of China and the increasing integration of China into existing international economic institutions. However, this paper argues that prevalent international relations theories are insufficient to explain this conjuncture of international political economy. Instead, this paper proposes the theory of uneven and combined development (UCD) to further integrate the international dimension of historical unevenness that is resulting from the historical conditions of global capitalism. The argument of this paper proceeds in two steps: First, the liberal, realist and orthodox Marxist theories’ analytical assumptions are discussed to understand the rise of China and its integration into international economic institutions, mainly the World Trade Organization. Second, the UCD theory is applied to reveal historical unevenness and intersocietal interactions through global capitalism. It is argued that the historical unevenness both determined the integration of China into international economic institutions and has caused instability within global capitalism through the trade war between US and China.","PeriodicalId":32852,"journal":{"name":"Lectio Socialis","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88536380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lectio SocialisPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1484/m.lectio-eb.5.131521
Y. Mazour‐Matusevich
{"title":"Le père du siècle: The Early Modern Reception of Jean Gerson (1363–1429)","authors":"Y. Mazour‐Matusevich","doi":"10.1484/m.lectio-eb.5.131521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/m.lectio-eb.5.131521","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":32852,"journal":{"name":"Lectio Socialis","volume":"121 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84778462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lectio SocialisPub Date : 2022-11-03DOI: 10.47478/lectio.1146768
Atahan Demirkol
{"title":"A Perspective on Critical Security Concept and International Migration Nexus through Copenhagen School: The Quest for Societal Security","authors":"Atahan Demirkol","doi":"10.47478/lectio.1146768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47478/lectio.1146768","url":null,"abstract":"This study dwells on the quest for a critical security perspective on international migration. Therefore, how international migration could be perceived through critical security studies is the main research question of this study. Critical Security Studies (CSS) or Welsh School of security studies emerged after Robert Cox’s debate between problem-solving and critical theories, especially after the 1990s. In this respect, CSS focus on questioning the mainstream theories and their interpretation of security. Instead of accepting the state as the referent object, critical security studies provide other elements that may be threatened, so that related to the security. On the one hand, CSS is, therefore, critical against the traditional approaches to security as realism and liberalism. Securitization, on the other hand, as Copenhagen School provided a speech act to put an issue into the field of security. International migration is one of the accurate examples of securitization. In this study, we employed CSS and securitization perspectives to international migration to understand how international migration could be assessed through critical theories.","PeriodicalId":32852,"journal":{"name":"Lectio Socialis","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76473616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lectio SocialisPub Date : 2022-09-23DOI: 10.47478/lectio.1162633
Ozancan Bozkurt
{"title":"Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjosen and James Steinhoff. Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, 2019. viii 210 pp. ISBN: 9780745338606. £16.99","authors":"Ozancan Bozkurt","doi":"10.47478/lectio.1162633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47478/lectio.1162633","url":null,"abstract":"Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism, written by Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjosen, and James Steinhoff, offers a salient probe to re-examine the multi-layered nature of artificial intelligence. Contrary to the naive approach, which treats AI as a neutral and independent technological/scientific development, the study considers it as a phenomenon that penetrates various economic, social, and cultural structures and has the potential to transform them radically. It cultivates a comprehensive and deep approach to grasping the overlooked aspects of the knotty and vibrant relationship between AI and social processes by drawing and reinterpreting critical concepts of Marxist theory such as surplus value, labour power, relations of production and surplus-population. Furthermore, as its title underscores, aside from the implications of the current and limited AIs, the book also makes room for the authors' staid and rigorous assumptions about what shape it will take in the future and how it will relate to the metabolism of the capitalism.","PeriodicalId":32852,"journal":{"name":"Lectio Socialis","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83736130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lectio SocialisPub Date : 2022-07-20DOI: 10.47478/lectio.1130471
Melis Konakçi
{"title":"The Role of Economy in Right-wing Populism: Two Differing Approaches","authors":"Melis Konakçi","doi":"10.47478/lectio.1130471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47478/lectio.1130471","url":null,"abstract":"Populism has been one of the concepts that attract conflicting opinions from scholars. These debates revolve around many different aspects such as who votes for populist parties, what constitutes a populist leader, which institutional factors help populist parties come to power, and even on how populism should be defined. This conflicting opinion then matters for social scientists since differing opinions about the question of what populism is would then lead to different research and different results. This article analyzes the two different populism definitions: Populism as an ideology, and populism as a discursive style and shows how two definitions yield different results in explaining the economic nexus that drives populist parties. This article shows two seminal works on populism literature; Cas Mudde, and Norris and Inglehart have differing opinions on the economic reasoning behind populist parties solely because of the definitions they attribute to populism.","PeriodicalId":32852,"journal":{"name":"Lectio Socialis","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79575882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lectio SocialisPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.47478/lectio.1119365
Tamer Gargoum
{"title":"Post-international Intervention Libya: The Challenges Against State-Building","authors":"Tamer Gargoum","doi":"10.47478/lectio.1119365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47478/lectio.1119365","url":null,"abstract":"The most critical and dangerous prospect for the Libyan revolution is that Libyans not only overthrow the Gaddafi regime but also destroy any representation of contemporary power and its centre that lacks firm roots in Libyan soil and culture. The revolution and war caused widespread devastation, necessitating a start from scratch. Indeed, starting from scratch can be beneficial. However, due to the Libyan context and situation, this beginning is hampered by numerous impediments related to historical, natural, and geographical contexts, tribal data, and external interference. This has resulted in the emergence of tribal, local, and regional movements that are sometimes contradictory but persistent, making the process of disarming and integrating militants into state institutions a dangerous endeavour that threatens and impedes the establishment of state institutions necessary for the democratic transition process to succeed, and significantly impedes the establishment of the new political system. The aim of this article is to study the future of international humanitarian intervention in Libya through the democratic transition and state building challenges, and weak institutional structures and modernization requirements.","PeriodicalId":32852,"journal":{"name":"Lectio Socialis","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85302995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lectio SocialisPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.47478/lectio.1125921
Ömer Senan Arslaner
{"title":"Reviewing the Theories of Nationalism: Historicizing, Classifying and Inquiring the Conceptualization","authors":"Ömer Senan Arslaner","doi":"10.47478/lectio.1125921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47478/lectio.1125921","url":null,"abstract":"As neoliberalism put an end to class-based politics, which was a strategic priority for capital, the relations with the economic system have no longer determined the political preferences. Instead, identities have become one of the main axes of political competition in identity politics. Relatedly, nationalism has come to the fore, especially after the 1990s. One of the factors affecting this was globalization, which puts nation-state sovereignty on the target board to remove all obstacles in front of financial capital. As a reaction to this, initiatives to strengthen state sovereignty have searched the ground for implementation, reminding the economic nationalism discourse of the 1960s and 1970s. Secondly, while the newly independent nation-states that emerged with the collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia consolidated their authority, the ethnic conflicts they encountered inflamed nationalism. Third, the rise of international migration has \"otherized\" some groups, especially Muslims, for Western political orders -contrary to the appeal of cultural pluralism- and increased nationalist reflexes. In this context, it has become vital to examine how the concept of nationalism has been approached theoretically. In this review article, the debate on nationalism dwelled on the framework of the developments that led to the emergence of nationalism. This framework also included the definitions of nation and nationalism.","PeriodicalId":32852,"journal":{"name":"Lectio Socialis","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78585530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lectio SocialisPub Date : 2022-05-20DOI: 10.47478/lectio.1079624
Nurten Dayioğlu
{"title":"Assessing the Healthconomic Crisis: A Case from Turkey","authors":"Nurten Dayioğlu","doi":"10.47478/lectio.1079624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47478/lectio.1079624","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":32852,"journal":{"name":"Lectio Socialis","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75156080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lectio SocialisPub Date : 2022-01-25DOI: 10.47478/lectio.1049329
Onurcan Yilmaz
{"title":"Why did United States need Turkey aftermath of the WWII?","authors":"Onurcan Yilmaz","doi":"10.47478/lectio.1049329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47478/lectio.1049329","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":32852,"journal":{"name":"Lectio Socialis","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87895731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lectio SocialisPub Date : 2022-01-07DOI: 10.47478/lectio.1037206
Allan Cooper Dell
{"title":"Counter-Hegemony with No Outlet: A Neo-Gramscian Perspective on the Brexit Vote","authors":"Allan Cooper Dell","doi":"10.47478/lectio.1037206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47478/lectio.1037206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":32852,"journal":{"name":"Lectio Socialis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90587525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}