{"title":"State, Political Power and Criminality in Civil War: An Editorial Revisiting Old debates From Different angles","authors":"Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín, J. A. Gutiérrez","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2022.2036050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2036050","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This special issue revisits and reframes the old, but active, debate on the relationship between criminality and civil war. It argues that the terms in which the debate is generally posed are still inadequate to address the complexities of this relationship, showing how criminalisation and de-criminalisation are deeply political and hotly contested processes. The shifting movements towards the separation -or convergence- between criminality and politics are part of the processes of constitution of both political power and state. The articles in the issue flesh out the mechanisms and social dynamics through which this takes place.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"15 1","pages":"1 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41542634","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}
{"title":"Organized crime in Serbian politics during the Yugoslav wars","authors":"K. Nikolić, V. Petrović","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2022.2031116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2031116","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Looking behind the chaotic facade of the atrocious Yugoslav conflict, this article examines the nexus between the organized crime in Serbia and its security apparatus. Path dependency in the mismanagement of violence, ethnopolitical mobilization and abrupt socioeconomic transformation during international isolation contributed to blurring the distinction between the state institutions and the criminal elements in Serbia during the reign of Slobodan Milošević. By showcasing the rise and the fall of a paradigmatic representative, Željko Ražnatović Arkan, the article examines the roots, dynamics and effects of this failed attempt toward sponsoring state mafia.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"15 1","pages":"101 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44677806","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}
{"title":"Violence diffusion, illegal accumulation and norms of criminal authority: alternative configurations of politics and power in the 21st century?","authors":"J. Pearce","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2022.2033096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2033096","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This Commentary explores whether the essays in this volume and other evidence, require us to rethink our social science tools in order to grasp the significance of criminal penetration of politics and crimes of the State for our understanding of politics and power. Using the classic Weberian lens, it problematises the extent to which Weber’s key concepts of ‘violence monopolisation’, ‘legality’, ‘legitimacy’ and ‘territory’ enable us to comprehend political and state trajectories in those countries where crime and violence are ever more diffused (and organised) outside the State, in war, non-war and post war contexts.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"15 1","pages":"149 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60150871","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}
M. Haugaard, C. Hayward, Jonathan G. Heaney, I. Reed
{"title":"Power in modernity: a discussion among Mark Haugaard, Clarissa Hayward, and Jonathan G. Heaney of Power in Modernity: agency relations and the creative destruction of the King’s two bodies, by Isaac Ariail Reed, with a reply by Isaac Reed","authors":"M. Haugaard, C. Hayward, Jonathan G. Heaney, I. Reed","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1991697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1991697","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, Haugaard, Hayward and Heaney discuss Reed’s Power in Modernity, and the author replies. The exchanges centres on the question of whether power relations should be theorized via Reed’s concepts of rector, actor, other, and project, and on the roles of performance agency in power’s exercise. The contributors discuss several examples of political crises in modernity, including the storming of the U.S. Capitol on 6 January 2021.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"520 - 545"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46565130","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}
{"title":"All human beings are natal: reconsidering human existence through birth","authors":"Olena Kushyna","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1969070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1969070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"551 - 556"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46514698","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}
{"title":"Debating the dimensions: Amy Allen, Rainer Forst and Isaac Ariail Reed in dialogue-review of The Four Dimensions of Power by Mark Haugaard","authors":"A. Allen, Rainer Forst, M. Haugaard, I. Reed","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1972745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1972745","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article Amy Allen, Rainer Forst and Isaac Reed debate the four dimensions of power, as framed by Mark Haugaard, in The Four Dimensions of Power, and Haugaard responds. This discussion involves the following: the relationship between agency and authority; ideology and acquiescence; power-over, power-to and power-with; structural constraint; bias and exclusion; the distinction between deep and shallow conflicts; the concept of reification; foundational Truth claims and modest truths; how social ontology or being-in-the-world relates to power; a pragmatist account of democracy as nonzero-sum power and its normative grounds; and a discussion of the relative value of theories.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"493 - 519"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42534877","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}
{"title":"Thumb time","authors":"P. Laviolette","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1969069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1969069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"557 - 561"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46043511","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}
{"title":"Neoliberal taxation regimes and the articulation of sovereign state power","authors":"P. Triantafillou","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1969071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1969071","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After decades of consistent refusal to curb international tax evasion, the US Biden administration has recently proposed an international scheme for taxing the world’s largest transnational companies. This article seeks to better understand why it is so difficult to develop an international scheme controlling tax evasion by examining the role played by neoliberal governmentalities and their link to sovereign power. It is argued that neoliberal governmentalities have been crucial in propagating a design of sovereign power that is conducive to tax competition and, ultimately, to tax evasion. Yet, these divergences also seem to provide a space for reforming current taxation regimes.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"409 - 424"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46096689","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}
{"title":"Memory wounds: hurting and healing","authors":"Daniel Levy","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1969068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1969068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"546 - 550"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42504980","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}
{"title":"Power obsessed","authors":"William Bosworth,","doi":"10.1080/2158379X.2021.1900517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1900517","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Governance is best analysed using rational choice theory to identify the extent to which different groups can systematically punish and reward others. This is roughly in line with Dowding’s important book Rational Choice and Political Power. It is different though in the sense that it does not focus on the measurement of social power, but rather a subset of it. Focusing on the latter avoids difficulties relating to systematic luck, such as distinguishing it from legitimacy and the possession of information, and also clarifies the importance of coordination problems for the analysis.","PeriodicalId":45560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Political Power","volume":"14 1","pages":"288 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1900517","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46907433","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}