Despite a slow start and tussles over the rule of law, a war next door and a newly formed liberal-democratic government are encouraging Polish ambitions of a leadership role in the bloc. Standing alongside Germany’s Olaf Scholz and France’s Emmanuel Macron at a meeting of the Weimar Triangle in mid-March in Berlin, Poland’s new prime minister, Donald Tusk, spoke determinedly about the war in Ukraine, how to ensure continued US support and what to do in the event the US cannot deliver. Yet behind the words the message was clear: Poland is ready to assume a leading role in the EU at this critical juncture in European history.
Current concepts and terminology on multilateralism are confusing and inconsistent. Moreover, multilateralism in practice is in one of its biggest crises in (at least) decades. Conceptually, clarity needs to be created here, among other things with an appeal for comprehensive omnilateralism – in compliance with universal frameworks, as alternatives to such a reinvigorated comprehensive and vivid omnilateralism (and a likewise multilateralism) are rare if we do not want to end up in Thomas Hobbes’ bellum omnium contra omnes again.
During the past decade and a half, extremist non-state actors in Russia have become a central element of the violent transnational right-wing extremist milieu. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and particularly its re-invasion of the country in 2022 have afforded these actors far greater opportunities to operate and increase their influence than before. This blog is the thirteenth in a series in which CEP highlights some of the key actors, and analyzes their extremist ideology, modus operandi, and transnational role.
(thesis to the New Science Program) Exhaustion of modern science
The program of the new science is necessary, because the old science of the New time has exhausted itself, it is simply immoral and completely unfounded delusion, which has no relation at all to the truth and being of the world around us with all its contents. Modern scientific institutions have become purely economic corporations because even a hint of the search for the truth about the world in them is abolished.
With the following methodological requirements, it is usually reduced to the equalment of scientists of the most different profiles to a certain, as authoritative for them as much as authoritative for them, the “conceptual bar” is met by the criterion of the scientific or artifacts of certain artifacts, judgments and more private hypotheses. The formula of this understanding of methodology gave A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947). This prominent English philosopher, speaking of the method, which generates significant knowledge, explained it as a necessity to reliance on the “connective logical and necessary system of general ideas,” in terms of which each element of our experience could be interpreted. And the problematicness of this understanding of methodologicalism is associated with a possible inconsistency of the “connective logical and necessary system of general ideas” real factology, and, therefore, the requirements of scientificity.
Personality and Individual: The distinction of concepts
The concept of a total toiler as a stock figure of the history of the economy can be supplemented by the formula “economic personality.” The economic personality is an all-total (integral) worker. In this case, the focus is on the personality in its anthropological interpretation (primarily at the French school of Durkheim-Moss [1] and F.Boas’s followers in the United States). Here the personne is opposed to the individual (l?individu), since the personality is something social, social, complex and artificially created in contrast to the individual, representing the atomic nature of the individual human being without any additional characteristics. The individual is the product of subtracting the personality from man, the result of the liberation of the human unit from any connections and collective structures. The person consists of the intersection of various forms of collective identity, which can be represented as roles (in sociology) or as finization (in anthropology). Personality exists and makes sense only in relations with society. Personality is a set of functions, as well as the result of a conscious and meaningful creativity of a person’s identity. Personality is never a given; it is a process and a task. The identity is constantly being built, and in the course of this construction it is established, ordered or, on the contrary, the world around the world is destroyed and chaoticized.
ISKP’s retooling from regional operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan to a focus on external attacks and operational plots has resulted in a surge of both foiled plots and successful attacks.
The Islamic State attack on the Crocus City Hall music venue on the outskirts of Moscow, which killed at least 140 people and injured over 500 more, has prompted significant alarm among Western intelligence and security services about similar operations occurring in Europe and North America in the coming months. This concern is well-founded, given the aggressive campaign by the organization, its Afghanistan-Pakistan-based Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), and pro-IS propaganda outlets threatening attacks and urging supporters to carry out acts of violence against the West – with a particular emphasis on sporting events.
Abstract: More than a year and a half after the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, al-Qaida Central has yet to acknowledge the demise of its emir and announce his replacement. After having lost its franchises in Iraq and Syria and after having seen its hegemony on the global jihadi scene hollowed out, the organization now operates without a declared leader, a first in its history. Coupled with the protracted absence of operational success of its own, this track record reinforces the widespread notion that al-Qaida Central has become and will remain irrelevant. However, while the challenges facing the group are real, it should not be written off, as it has proved time and again more resilient than expected and can still count on its longstanding network of affiliates and followers to survive and potentially reverse its fortunes.
Préambule : Cet article confirme ce que nous pensons également. La guerre en Ukraine est loin d’être terminée, ce n’est qu’une phase de réchauffement. Comme d’habitude, la stratégie occidentale a consisté, dans toutes les guerres précédentes, à se diriger vers une grande conflagration par à-coups. Guerre, pas de guerre ? Chaud et froid. Les espoirs de paix seront remplacés par une nouvelle escalade. C’est la phase où la machine de guerre occidentale teste l’ennemi, sonde ses points faibles, épuise sa population, met en place la psychologie de l’inévitabilité de la guerre et, bien sûr, met en place sa propre économie de guerre.
SUDDENLY, “ZIONISM” IS A FIGHTING WORD. The term for the nationalist movement to build a Jewish state in Palestine has not often figured in American political debate over the half century since the U.S.Ambassador to the United Nations, Patrick Moynihan, denounced a 1975 United Nations resolution asserting that “Zionism is a form of racism.” Now Zionism has returned as epithet and issue in the 2024 election.
