Toma nota.../Take note...

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Stephen Kotkin is the John P. Birkelund Professor of History and International Affairs in what used to be called the Woodrow Wilson School and in the History Department of Princeton University, as well as a Senior Fellow (adjunct) at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He directs the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and co-directs its program in History and the Practice of Diplomacy, which he founded. He also founded Princeton’s Global History Initiative. His scholarship encompasses geopolitics and authoritarian regimes in history and in the present.

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¿El 'ocaso' de Kant y Nietzsche?

• El Día Mundial de la Filosofía se celebró ayer, el 3^er jueves de noviembre.
• La Filosofía reivindica su papel en la sociedad en plena crisis económica y de valores.
• La madre de todas las ciencias trata de sobrevivir frente a los saberes más utilitarios.
• Los distintos gobiernos han ido 'recortando' esta rama del saber con cada ley de educación.
• Los expertos hablan del interés por estimular cada vez menos el pensamiento crítico.

JOSÉ ANDRÉS GÓMEZ 

Madrid. Nov.17.– Dijo René Descartes que "vivir sin filosofar es tener los ojos cerrados sin tratar de abrirlos jamás", que "la Filosofía es la que nos distingue de los salvajes y los bárbaros", y que "las naciones son tanto más civilizadas y cultas cuanto mejor filosofan sus hombres". Pues bien, si Descartes echase hoy un vistazo a la realidad del sistema educativo español, acabaría echándose las manos a la cabeza ante el ocaso al que parece abocada la madre de todas las ciencias y la crisis de valores que se ciñe sobre la sociedad española.

Este jueves se conmemora el Día Mundial de la Filosofía. Sin embargo, las escasas o nulas salidas que ofrece esta titulación en el mercado laboral, la denostación que ha sufrido por parte de los distintos gobiernos tras cada reforma educativa (van cuatro leyes en cosa de 25 años: la Logse, en 1990; la LOCE, en 2002; la LOE, en 2006; y la Lomce, en 2013) y la consiguiente pérdida de vocación de los jóvenes frente a los saberes utilitarios, dificultan el desarrollo y la pervivencia de estos estudios que desarrollan el pensamiento crítico en los campus.

Participatory Budgeting Opens Path for Democratic Reform in Uzbekistan

Taskent, Nov.10.– Since his inauguration in 2016, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has paved the way for many policy reforms in Uzbekistan. Four of these reforms stand out as truly consequential.

The first two reforms are economic. The move to a mostly market-based foreign currency regime and the implementation of tax reforms delivered significant positive stimuli for economic growth and helped to open the Uzbek economy to foreign investment.

The third reform put an end to the abhorrent practice of state-sponsored forced and child labor. Possibly more than any other, this reform has earned Uzbekistan international praise.

Global Economy Cools In October 2022,
Reversing 2022-Q3 Rebound

The Earth's economy cooled in October, reversing what had been a strong rebound in the third quarter of 2022.

That's the assessment of how the pace at which carbon dioxide is being added to the Earth's atmosphere changed during the first month of the fourth quarter of 2022. That change comes as signs that the United States economy, the Eurozone's economy, and China's economy are all showing cracks after they rebounded during the preceding quarter.

The latest update to Political Calculations' chart illustrating the rate at which CO₂ is accumulating in the Earth's air shows the results of the rebounds taking place in the world's two largest economies

Because China is the world's largest emitter of CO₂ by a very wide margin, what's happening with its economy plays an outsize role in how much carbon dioxide is added to the Earth's air. During October 2022, China's government ramped up its ongoing COVID-zero lockdowns, seriously disrupting the nation's economy ...

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Location: University of Amsterdam & VU University:
21-23 June 2023

Liberal democracies face multiple external challenges from autocracies across the world, as well as internal challenges from populist politicians, nativism, and the normalization of incivility in media and political discourses. Character assassination (CA) often accompanies these political and social conflicts, especially when unresolved ideological and moral issues are involved. Social conflicts become aggravated when moral issues intermix with political and economic factors. Factions then resort to persuasive attacks on character to delegitimize and disempower their opponents. This increased polarization and aggressiveness of elite rhetoric likely foster voters’ cynicism and discontent with politics as usual. The increasing gap between liberal elites and the disgruntled electorate, in turn, likely provides even more fertile ground for intra-elite conflict and paves the way for illiberal conceptions of the democratic order.

This conference seeks to explore current-day illiberal tendencies as well as historical societies where emerging strong men and dictators manipulated the political system and undermined the rights of the people. In particular, it focuses on practices of character assassination in these highly unstable and polarized environments. We invite scholars to submit research and works in progress which will discuss the drivers of illiberalism and the erosion of civic rights in ages of conflicting ideologies from a variety of disciplinary and cultural angles. We welcome both theoretical work and case studies. Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit their work to the Journal of Illiberalism Studies.