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Few political commentators in Quebec have done work on political networks. Only in the course of the seventies has the term «network» begun to be used to designate those forms of organization that allow all the players to be interconnected, whether directly or indirectly. The notion of the network has become more widespread in political science since the eighties with the study of policy networks. Even if it remains a minority in political analysis, the study of networks belongs to a broad cultural trend which will doubtless continue to develop in the future.
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Critique de la domination, pensée de l'émancipation. Sur la philosophie politique de Miguel Abensour
More informationAbstractThe renewal of political philosophy in France often entails forgetting the discrete yet pioneering work of the thinkers at its origin. The present article seeks to analyze the contribution of one such philosopher, Miguel Abensour. Our hypothesis is that his contribution to French political philosophy can be found in a willingness to think at once a critique of domination and the articulation of a philosophy of emancipation. By analyzing his interpretation of totalitarianism, we shall examine how M. Abensour's philosophy of emancipation consists most notably of three elements : a Counter Hobbes, a relationship with utopia, and a reading of “untamed” democracy.
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The formulation of a policy that will satisfy several values and interests more or less compatible is a classic problem of political decision making. This phenomenon by which there can be, in a foreign policy issue for example, several divergent values and interests was named value-complexity by Alexander George. When facing a value complexity problem, a decision maker must choose some values and some interests over others. The choice he makes will not necessarily be the one made by other decision makers. This can result in a serious impediment to the decision making process. The American foreign policy towards the Middle East faced, for the major part of the Cold War era, a value-complexity problem because it looked to reconcile four hard-to reconcile values and interests. The Reagan government was confronted rather acutely with this problem in the making of its Iranian policies. The administration was split in at least two factions over Iran : one who thought primarily of containing the Soviet Union in the Middle East region and the other for whom the political stability of moderate regimes threatened by revolutionnary Iran should be the most important priority. The existence of these factions, consequence of value-complexity, produced the making and the implementation of two distinct Iranian policies.
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