Thu, 23 May 2013
Experts  |  About SO  |  Executive Board  |  Advisory Board  |  Collaborating Bodies  |  Contact Us
 

ENERGY SECURITY DIMENSION IN FOREIGN POLICY(06.01.2013)

Energy Security Dimension in Foreign Policy

By Ilgar GurbanovIntroductionToday impact of the energy resources and energy security on international relations and foreign policy performance obviously demonstrate itself both politically and economically. Role of the energy resources in 21th century is not same as it is in 19th or 20th century. Notwithstanding, energy resources were utilized only for domestic (lightening) or technical (for cars and military equipments) purposes, the reality of 21th century requires more logical approach to energy resources. After the Cold War and the collapse of Soviet Union, energy security turned out to foreign policy priority of energy-rich, including energy-poor countries. However,...


PATIENT WAITS FOR DOCTOR, PRESCRIPTION FOR PHARMACIST, POLITICAL CRISIS FOR ITS LEADER(17.11.2012)

Patient waits for doctor, prescription for pharmacist, political crisis for its leader

There is a famous saying as “There is surely crime where human is.”. Emulating this saying, I will say there is surely crisis anywhere human is.Crisis is peculiar to human: with its anatomy, physiology, psychology.It divides people. Crisis breaks people into pieces, separates them.It is like the phoenix.We all know the story of the phoenix.According to legend, the bird, that feels death approaching, throws itself into a fire created with fragrant branches. After burning there, it takes on a new lease of life from its own ashes in a new life, at the age of youth.Crisis was born like this in the magic hands of Hippocrates like the phoenix.Hippocrates gave it...


HOW CAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM EFFECT THE FORMATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN A COUNTRY?(16.07.2012)

How Can Electoral System Effect the Formation of Civil Society in a Country?

More specifically, how would civil society is shaped by a majority system versus a proportional representation system?The formation of civil society in a country should be handling with the term of political liberalism. Different types of civil society formation have been shaped in political history. Most of them are related with the old political manners used to explain the community within the concept of authoritarian way of sovereignty. As Carl Schmitt declared; Sovereignty, “who makes the decision of what is extraordinary?”[1]The evolution in the political history from authoritarian way of sovereignty to democratic ways not just started with the economic liberalism paradigm which...


THE CONTEMPORARY NECESSITY : FRANKFURT SCHOOL(14.07.2012)

The Contemporary Necessity : Frankfurt School

Frankfurt school had been established to create a new resist about old traditional sociological theories and its main minds base on Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse and Habermas. We define foundation of Frankfurt school in near historical perspective. At this time European destruction on World War I., different dimensions of Russian revaluation, fascist movements of Hitler and Mussolini in socialist regions of Europe influenced ideas of this school. In general founders had been affected by ideas of Marx. So we say that this school created a general table as Marxist methods to criticism. The project of the Frankfurt School was to develop a critical theory of contemporary society th...



  • Find us on Facebook


 
All Rights Reserved - 2012 © Strategic Outlook | Editored By alioztarsu