the mass production of silk and its importance as goods exportable and strategic caused its monopoly by the shah-abbas i (996-1038 a.h.) and then the recruitment of the armenians merchants in his monopoly. therefore, the question is what function had the three related factors (silk, monopoly politics and armenians) in safavids economy and politics. for a careful investigation, after a review of...

Objectives. Park planning and development in the Los Angeles metropolitan area offer an opportunity to explore the assertion that ‘‘Western cities are now being managed, organized and governed in different ways’’ leading to a ‘‘new urban politics,’’ and the suggestion that urban regime theory captures cultural and civil societal influences and organizations in its descriptions of coalitions and...

This article examines the relationship between psychiatry and politics in thought of Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), one most influential thinkers twentieth century. The aims to demonstrate that developed a unique approach psycho-politics dialectically engages from his earliest works. Fanon’s can be traced work early 1950s, namely doctoral dissertation Black Skin, White Masks (1952). From Masks, trie...

In a recent article, Gorik Ooms has drawn attention to the normative underpinnings of the politics of global health. We claim that Ooms is indirectly submitting to a liberal conception of politics by framing the politics of global health as a question of individual morality. Drawing on the theoretical works of Chantal Mouffe, we introduce a conflictual concept of the political as an alternative...

In his landmark trilogy, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, sociologist Manuel Castells argued that networks, information technology, global economic flows were altering the nature of politics, power, states. This article examines network dynamics wrote about in relation to transnational crime illicit markets. further explores Castells’s influence on study organized crime, econo...

In February 2009, the US Congress passed a US$787 billion stimulus package designed to put the country on the road to economic recovery. Thereafter, managing ‘the stimulus story’ became, as Time magazine reported, ‘a full-time White House preoccupation’ (Scherer, 2009: 31). Obama and his team understood that without a concerted effort to communicate the plan, it would almost certainly fail in t...

Whereas Phenomenology of Perception concludes with a puzzling turn to ‘‘heroism,’’ this article examines the short essay ‘‘Man, the Hero’’ as a source of insight into Merleau-Ponty’s thought in the early postwar period. In this essay, Merleau-Ponty presented a conception of heroism through which he expressed the attitude toward post-Hegelian philosophy of history that underwrote his efforts to ...