This article reviews Schmitt’s analysis of international politics from the period of the Weimar Republic to the early years of the German Federal Republic. It highlights the importance of Schmitt’s opposition to Woodrow Wilson’s policies and ‘liberal’ universalism more generally for his understanding of and engagement with international politics. Confronted with the decline of the state (the En...

One of the most striking features Labour Party politics during years Jeremy Corbyn's leadership was recalcitrant lack cooperation that he received from many MPs, even after his remarkable success in 2017 general election. This article systematically examines a number possible explanations for this behaviour, including genuine divisions within party over issue institutional anti-semitism and Bre...

English as well as French differentiates the term holy from the term sacred – in fact, Levinas' book "Du sacré au saint" is translated as "From the Sacred to the Holy". This is illustrative of the extent to which the meanings of the two words differ. God is called "The Holy One Blessed be He", but we would find it peculiar to refer to Him as "The Sacred One". By contrast, when referring to plac...

stylistics is one of the branches of literary criticism benefiting from linguistics and rhetoric to analyze the text and emphasizes on three essential elements namely text, writer and addressee in literary and critical examination of the work. an’ã¢m (the cattles) surah is a the long surah of koran indicating mainly three columns of islamic ideology and all the vocabulary and artistic images ...

As one of the three most important cereal species, maize is grown in a range of environments, and is a basic food grain in many areas and several cultures. This paper examines water use efficiency (WUE) in maize through a review of literatures on the topic. It then examines strategies to improve WUE, through plant breeding, biotechnology and changes to agronomic practice. In breeding for improv...

Research on a wide range of topics related to rising economic inequality is flourishing throughout the social sciences. One topic that is gaining fresh attention is the politics of inequality. We know very little, however, about how Americans define and perceive inequality or how they express and enact their political desires for more or less of it. In the absence of such knowledge, and under t...

this article deals with some social aspects of scientometry. although scientometry and isi -one of the scientometry evaluative standards- are something necessary for scientific measurement, they are not without defects. in this regard, the author argues that there are two significant points among criticism. these points are supposed to be external and internal. the external point is highly affe...