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Towards Democracy’s Anarchic Condition
Authors: Nelson Bryan
Published: January 2025

This chapter attempts to frame the concept of politics with greater precision. On this question, both Rancière and Abensour, often drawing directly from the insights of Arendt, will return to a critical analysis of Plato as the origin of what Arendt calls the “tradition of political philosophy,” a tradition often more concerned with government and rule than politics itself. Reconsidering his famous allegories in the Republic, this chapter argues that Plato’s consistent disavowal of democracy’s “anarchic” condition inadvertently uncovers something essential to the meaning of politics itself: politics is that which remains irreducible to rule. Very much keeping with Arendt, this opening chapter explores the background to this inherent tension between politics and rule as observed in the tradition of political philosophy beginning with Plato. Then, circumventing this tradition entirely, it turns to a historical discussion of the Greek polis in attempt to reformulate the concept of politics in a manner which draws it ever closer to democracy itself.
To Think Democracy Otherwise: Claude Lefort and ‘Savage’ Democracy
Authors: Nelson Bryan
Published: January 2025

Chapter 3 explores some of the larger questions animated by what Lefort calls “savage” democracy. While many readers of Lefort simply ignore his sporadic references to savage democracy, others, such as Abensour, place it at the very centre of their interpretation of his thought. This chapter turns to Lefort specifically to organise a general concept of democracy consistent with the author’s theory of the antinomies of politics. In many respects, to theorise democracy in this way demands we reconsider and reevaluate everything about how we think about democracy itself. Whether a discussion of the French Revolution or May ’68, the pivotal historical moments Lefort tends to associate with savage democracy seem to demand we bracket all our assumptions about what democracy means and return again and again to those fundamental questions: how should democracy be thought? How do we go about organising its concept? On what basis? And to what end? This is an exercise of political philosophy. This chapter first situates Lefort’s savage democracy according to Tocqueville’s notion of democratic revolution, then, following Abensour, moves to develop savage democracy as an emancipatory political act explored through discussions of permanent contestation, democratisation and the ongoing struggle for human rights.
Democratisation of the Sensible: Democracy against the Police
Authors: Nelson Bryan
Published: January 2025

Having developed a working concept of democracy with Lefort in the previous chapter, the final two chapters of this book are dedicated to elaborating two models of the antinomies of politics in more distinguishing terms: Rancière’s model of a democracy against the police and Abensour’s model of a democracy against the State. While not entirely compatible, these two models serve to inform and enhance our conception of democracy substantially. Chapter 4 offers a systematic analysis of Rancière’s account of the police and its place within his larger theory of democracy. Situating the concept according to Foucault’s late work on government and governmentality, it is demonstrated that Rancière understands the police according to a regime of representation, a distribution of the sensible, a symbolic constitution that governs over both the organisation and representation of the community. It is in this respect that Rancière can be read to expound a theory of a democracy organised against the police. In this context, democracy takes the form of a defiant act of subjectivation, in which the demos, as a manifest political subject, challenges the categories, identities and classifications of the police and creates new possibilities for both the organisation and representation of the social.
The Politics of Emancipation: Democracy against the State
Authors: Nelson Bryan
Published: January 2025

In this final chapter, it is Abensour’s model of a democracy against the State that is considered and explored as a second theoretical model of the antinomies of politics. Against the backdrop of Lefort’s Machiavellian conception of the political, through a series of close textual readings of the young Marx, Abensour isolates and develops the enigmatic idea of “true” democracy in which Marx postulates the formal disappearance of the State itself. Therefore, with Marx, Abensour not only successfully disentangles the concept of democracy from that of the State, but at the same time, binds it categorically to the perpetual struggle for emancipation and autonomy. This is what Abensour at times calls “insurgent” democracy. After placing Abensour’s larger project in context and situating his political theory with respect to some of his most important sources from the Frankfurt School to Machiavelli to Pierre Clastres to utopian thought, it is this conflict between democracy and the State that remains the focus of chapter 5. Contrary to the longstanding tradition of political philosophy, it is demonstrated that Abensour’s work helps us forge the vital connection between politics and emancipation. This is very much at the heart of his democratic theory.
Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism
Authors: Keeble Arin
Published: January 2025

Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism is a detailed study of the ways contemporary novels from around the world have represented terrorism. Over five chapters, it explores a movement away from ‘event-based’ narratives toward depictions of terrorism as a violent symptom or feature of twenty-first century world-systems and neoliberalism. Beginning with the early literary response to 9/11 and the ‘9/11 novel’ genre, it moves through more recent depictions of the endless war on terror, state terrorism, white nationalist terrorism, and historical narratives of terrorism that resonate in the current political climate. In doing so, it examines the changing ways literature has sought to make sense of both the reasons why terrorism occurs and the effects it has on victims, survivors and international and intercultural relations.
The Novel of Terrorism and the War on Terror
Authors: Keeble Arin
Published: January 2025

This chapter analyses four key novels of the war on terror: Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2018), Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs (2016), Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017), and Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies (2020). It considers the way the discourses of terror and terrorism have shifted during this period. Through detailed close readings, I show how, in each of these novels, formal innovations challenge the deeply troubling and Islamophobic frames in which terrorism has been defined in the war on terror era. I also consider the powerful depictions of state violence and state terrorism offered in these texts.
Electoral Integrity in Turkish Electoral History
Authors: Toros Emre
Published: January 2025

This chapter focuses on Turkish electoral history and studies the electoral problems the country has experienced since the 1940s through the lens of electoral integrity. It provides information on the political landscape of the relevant eras and then, by utilising the incident-based DIEV-T data, descriptively elaborates on the nature and intensity of the electoral issues. The chapter also portrays the evolution of the problems related to electoral integrity in Turkey, and the information provided in this chapter sheds further light on recent electoral issues that the country has experienced.
How do Perceptions of Electoral Integrity Relate to Electoral Expectations?
Authors: Toros Emre
Published: January 2025

This chapter focuses on the underlying integrity and individual-level variables that affect electoral expectations. Findings show that supporters of political actors who have lost elections hold more unfavourable views of democracy and governance than supporters of the winners. Furthermore, these 'surprised losers' see reduced electoral responsiveness, believe elections lack integrity and question the validity of political processes. So, understanding this phenomenon provides insight into and a different viewpoint on citizens' faith in the political system and contentment with democracy.
Epilogue General and Presidential Elections of 2023 – an Integrity Outlook
Authors: Toros Emre
Published: January 2025

This chapter analyses the Turkish general and presidential elections of 2023. It argues that the 2023 elections have repeated what the country has experienced during the last two decades when electoral integrity matters have frequently come into question, both positively and negatively. The media terrain was uneven, which created severe problems for the integrity of the elections. Instances of inadequate execution of some processes, notably during voting and counting, have been highlighted, but none of these irregularities has been major enough to change the evaluation of the election as, broadly, healthy.
Introduction
Authors: Gieskes Edward
Published: January 2025

The introduction presents an overview of genre theory from classical thinkers to contemporary theorists. It argues that the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Mikhail Bakhtin offer a useful way to think about genre and generic change that avoids some of the impasses of both prescriptive and descriptive accounts of genre while also not falling into teleology.
“Chaucer (of all admired) the story gives”: Shakespeare, Medieval Romance and Generic Innovation
Authors: Gieskes Edward
Published: January 2025

The chapter examines Shakespeare’s narrative debts to medieval poetry by reading Troilus and Cressida with Chaucer and Henryson and Pericles with Gower. I examine Troilus and Cressida as an instance of generic innovation at the turn of the century and argue that the play deliberately fails as a dramatizing of a medieval romance narrative as part of an intervention in contemporary struggles with dramatic form. Pericles was more popular than Troilus and Cressida despite sharing some of the same disjointed narrative structure and satirical content. The chapter accounts for the two plays’ different receptions in terms of the dramatic field at the moment of production. As Bourdieu points out, generic transformations depend on innovative works finding receptive audiences, not on innovation itself. The narrative innovations of Troilus and Cressida and Pericles—ruptured narratives, inconclusive or “unsatisfying” endings—resonate with and respond to both their medieval sources and the contemporary dramatic field.
Anxious Humour and Alienating Labour
Authors: Koutsourakis Angelos
Published: January 2025

This Chapter focuses on the politics of humour in films concerned with issues of labour alienation. The chapter opens with a brief discussion of themes of labour alienation in Kafka and then addresses the Chaplin and Kafka connection aiming to identify the link between a comic grotesque aesthetic and Kafkaesque films expressing angst about alienating work in modernity. This is followed by close readings of Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg’s Шинель (The Overcoat, 1926) and Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936). The last section focuses on Ermanno Olmi’s Il Posto (The Post, 1961), a film about alienating labour in post-war Italy.
Bureaucracy
Authors: Koutsourakis Angelos
Published: January 2025

This Chapter opens with Hannah Arendt’s discussion of bureaucracy as a form of violence that leads to the constant reproduction of pointless processes that refute democratic accountability. This is followed by close readings of three films dealing with the nightmare of bureaucracy in different political systems: Stalinist Czechoslovakia (Postava k podpírání (Joseph Kilián, 1963)), post-revolutionary Cuba (La muerte de un burócrata (Death of a Bureaucrat, 1966)), and post-colonial Senegal (Mandabi (The Money Order, 1968)). While in the first two case studies emphasis is placed on connecting the films with Stalinism, and post-revolutionary contradictions, the analysis of Mandabi draws attention to bureaucracy and/as postcolonial underdevelopment.
Memories from the Holocaust in Central Europe
Authors: Koutsourakis Angelos
Published: January 2025

This Chapter focuses on memories from the Holocaust in two Central/Eastern European films. It opens with a brief introduction which explains why the Holocaust was and remains a taboo subject in Central/Eastern Europe; firstly, because of the post-WWII Jewish purges and currently because of these countries’ tendency to rehabilitate problematic figures from the past on account of their anti-Communist credentials (see Ghodsee 2017, Traverso 2016). I then proceed to a discussion of Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos’ film Obchod na korze (The Shop on Main Street, 1965) to examine dark humour and tragicomedy as ways of encountering the Holocaust. The second case study discussed here is Wojciech Jerzy Has’s Sanatorium pod klepsydrą (The Hourglass Sanatorium, 1973), a film whose source text was written before the Holocaust and reflected on “the Polish Jewish condition”. Starting with Bruno Schultz’s (the source text’s author) connection with Kafka, the Chapter analyses the film adaptation as a post-Holocaust elegy.
Parables of Underdevelopment
Authors: Koutsourakis Angelos
Published: January 2025

This Chapter focuses on the legacy of European fascism in South America. It begins with an introduction that outlines an understanding of Kafkaesque films in the global South as aesthetic responses to conditions of underdevelopment. This is linked to the work of Eduardo Galeano and ongoing debates regarding modernism’s global expansion as a response to combined and uneven development (see Warwick Research Collective, 2015). The Chapter shows that the two films discussed here – Hugo Santiago’s Invasión (co-written with Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges, 1969) and Raúl Ruiz’s La colonia penal (The Penal Colony, 1970)– allude to historical experiences of Western interventions and enforced underdevelopment.
Politicising the Absurd
Authors: Koutsourakis Angelos
Published: January 2025

One of the canonical approaches to the study of Kafka and films from the Czechoslovak New Wave influenced by the Bohemian author is to analyse them through the lens of Martin Esslin’s Theatre of the Absurd (see Owen 2011, Hames, 2009, Bates 1977). I begin this chapter by taking issue with this canonical reception. I acknowledge the influence from the post-war theatre tradition typically labelled as absurd, but I invite the reader to think beyond the category of the absurd. The Chapter does this by focusing on two case studies: Jan Němec’s O slavnosti a hostech (A Report on the Party and the Guests, 1966) and Karel Kachyňa’s Ucho (The Ear, 1970). The analysis of the first film focuses on its modernist critique of language, which is characteristic of late modernist literature/theatre ad nauseam categorised as absurd. This is followed by an analysis of Stalinist surveillance in The Ear, which also traces the film’s indebtedness to post-WWII theatre.
Yeats, William Morris and the Aesthetics of the Everyday
Authors: Hartley Lucy , Whittier-Ferguson John
Published: January 2025

This chapter analyses how Yeats’s work and career were shaped by an aesthetics of the everyday derived in large part from the socialist, panaesthetic ideas of William Morris. Questioning Yeats’s occasional tendency to cast Morris as a dreamy idealist, and also noting Yeats’s later turn away from romance and towards to a reactionary Modernism, the chapter does not seek to smooth out such distortions or discrepancies. Tracked rather is how certain Morris-derived aspects of Yeats’s early ideas and responses to the deprivations of modernity that obtained throughout his long career. The younger poet continued to hold fast to an ideal of a shaped, purposeful and integrated life. He also still saw Morris as ‘a guide to the resources of the past’. Thus Yeats’s artistic development should be understood as a story of resistance to and modification of Morris’s social and aesthetic practices.
The Institutionalisation of Art in Dublin: Yeats, Sociability and Transnationalism
Authors: Milligan Kathryn
Published: January 2025

This chapter explores how Dublin was central to many of Yeats’s artistic initiatives.Against the backdrop of the broader history of the Irish capital’s artistic culture and institutions, it traces Yeats’s key role in the foundation and running of such organizations as the Abbey Theatre, the Abbey Ballet School, the Dublin Drama League, the Municipal Galley of Modern Art, the United Arts Club and the Irish Academy of Letters. A notable culture of sociability in the city is shown to have acted as a dynamic force across Yeats’s career. This operated alongside and helped to further certain cultural nationalist aspirations. However, the chapter also highlights how the city’s social circles and cultures overlapped with those of London and other locations. Thus the chapter traces how sociability and transnationalism informed how the poet shaped and was shaped by the artistic fabric of pre-and post-independence Dublin.
The Virtual Archive of Anima Mundi
Authors: Armstrong Charles I.
Published: January 2025

This chapter focuses on questions concerning the archive and memory. We know that Yeats was cognisant of the importance of the National Library in Dublin, having done extensive research in what he described as its ‘magnificent eighteenth-century room’ when it was based in Leinster House. This chapter suggests that the British Museum in London also played a key role in crystallising his ideas of archival space. It argues that Yeats’s conception of a collective memory is inherently aesthetic, as it posits a close interrelationship between different artforms. This is particularly evident in Yeats’s essays in Ideas of Good and Evil (1903). It shows itself more indirectly too when his later poetry draws upon Keats as an exemplar for the literary deployment of collective memory.
On the Scale of Art and the Aesthetics of Difficulty: Rereading ‘Lapis Lazuli’ as Ecological Critique
Authors: Sheils Barry
Published: January 2025

This chapter suggests that Yeats’s poetry often sets to work discrepancies and obstacles to our comprehension of how artworks fit into larger contexts. Its main case study is Yeats’s poem ‘Lapis Lazuli’, based on a response to a Chinese carving. Thus Yeats in this chapter is encountered in a global context, surpassing Dublin and London. Although vulnerable to being interpreted as an instance of Orientalism, this chapter suggests that the poem sets to work a material stance of ‘not-knowing’. The poem is not just a representation of something. Instead, it encounters the art object as an assemblage of sometimes incompatible meanings, contexts and scales. This enacts a quandary of reception that is profoundly ecological as well as aesthetic.
Knowing Ruskin’s Cat: Yeats and the Proper Names of the Aesthetic
Authors: Morash Christopher
Published: January 2025

This chapter looks at how Yeats’s later writings are inundated with names. This usage transcends mere everyday nominalism. Instead, it implies a creative and idiosyncratic form of aesthetic shorthand. Yeats was writing his poems and prose works of such promiscuous naming at a time when the philosophical problems posed by naming were being posed in the analytical philosophy of Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore. Yeats’s own responses to such ideas are traced via his correspondence with Moore’s brother, the poet and artist Thomas Sturge Moore. A sense of the wider nature of Yeats’s philosophical reading and thinking at this time and its relationship to his own writing is also recuperated. The chapter argues that whether it is in referring to Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Noh theatre, Plotinus or Shelley, the proper name for Yeats becomes evidence of the created image producing its own object of knowledge.
Cuchulain the Cowboy: A Tale of Yeats and the Wild West
Authors: Harper Margaret Mills
Published: January 2025

This chapter argues that a form of production or projection took place in Yeats’s appropriation of the myth of Cuchulain. It points out that the latter is a rich figure, functioning in a number of different registers. Among other things, the reworking of the myth shows evidence of Yeats’s surprising but strong engagement with American Westerns, including the iconic, visual qualities of the American West. Even if Yeats invariably presented his own (at-times near compulsive) engagement with this form of popular fiction as a mere diversion, the chapter identifies a surprising confluence between the genre and Yeats’s version of the mythical Irish hero.
Yeats and Edwardian Languages of Art
Authors: Hatchwell Sophie
Published: January 2025

This chapter uses a comparison with the conception of art found in the writings of Roger Fry around 1910 to develop an interpretation of how Yeats’s views about the visual arts and aesthetics more generally developed up to the midpoint of the second decade of the century. It suggests that the Edwardian languages of art found not only in Fry’s writing but also that of other art writers at the time, including Walter Sickert and D. S. MacColl, offer convergencies with Yeats’s contemporary thinking. These convergences centre on the emotional effects of art works, the relationship between art and daily life, and the use of a cross-medial sense of form, genre and mode to conceptualise these issues. Also examined are the structures and networks that supported this exchange of ideas. Delineating Yeats’s place in a heterogenous Edwardian art world, marked by such critical thinking and debate, underlines that the poet’s engagements with the visual arts are not reducible to a false Victorian-to-modern teleology.
Yeats, Byzantine Art and Celtic Occultism
Authors: Bullen J. B.
Published: January 2025

This chapter provides a detailed historical account of how the real and imagined locality of Byzantium developed in Yeats’s writings. Returning to the poet’s first invocation of Byzantine art in the 1896 short story ‘Rosa Alchemica’ reveals its connection with the poet’s imaginative and spiritual investment in ancient Ireland. Also passed onto the young Yeats via the influence of William Morris was a sense of Byzantium as a site of socially integrated, artistic production and high aesthetic achievement. Yeats’s subsequent real-life encounters with Byzantine mosaics on trips to Italy in 1907 and 1924, as well as the neo-Byzantine architecture of Stockholm during the award of the Nobel Prize in 1923, are shown to have had a major impact on the gestation of this motif. Nevertheless, its imaginative development still displayed a persistent connection with his hopes for Irish culture.
THE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR ISSUE
Authors:   Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation, ZHANG SH.
Published: January 2025

The nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula is one of the most complex and intractable challenges in the field of international security. The purpose of the article is to analyze how the nuclear problem of North Korea arose after the end of the Cold War. The research is conducted from the standpoint of the theory of political realism. The article analyzes in detail the prerequisites of the North Korean nuclear problem, including the needs of internal security, the conditions for the production of nuclear weapons and the role of the international community. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the two North Korean nuclear crises and their impact on international relations. The nuclear issue of North Korea is considered in the context of relations between the great powers: the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America. The research presented in this article opens up a new perspective for understanding the complexity of the North Korean nuclear issue and at the same time puts forward policy recommendations for the international community to address this problem.
ROLE OF TRUST IN POLITICAL AND CULTURAL LIFE OF SOCIETY - A SOCIOECONOMIC PROSPECTIVE
Authors:   Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation, PROSKURINA A.S.
Published: January 2025

Trust is an effective way to reduce tensions between social groups, and also acts as a tool for creating alternatives to formal structures of interactions, which is especially relevant for modern economic relations. The purpose of this article is to characterize the significance of cultural and political components in the formation of trust in this sphere. The crisis of trust is presented as a context that combines actors of different levels and forces them to care not only about economic success, but also about reputation, public good, digital footprint and interaction with the state. The multifaceted nature of the crisis of trust makes the task of mitigating and overcoming it one of the key tasks for the actors of economic relations. The study suggests effective approaches to building and maintaining trust in the challenging environment of interactions.
PROJECT PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT: RESULTS OF A DESK STUDY
Authors:   Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation, KAMENEVA T.N. , SHIKHGAFIZOV P.SH.
Published: January 2025

The article substantiates the need for a comprehensive study of the processes related to personnel management in the implementation of projects. The authors identify the main theoretical and methodological approaches that are heuristic for the problems of project personnel management (V.G. Aseev, P.V. Weil, A.P. Volgin, V.M. Matirko, V.I. Voropaev, M.R. Woodcock, I.N. Gerchikova, V.K. Gupalov, A.A. Demchenko, G.D. Dithelm). The main stages of personnel selection and selection are revealed, their specifics are determined. The results of a desk study conducted in April 2024 among organizations implementing projects of various kinds in the field of event management are presented. The analysis of the results of the conducted research shows the specifics of the personnel management involved in the project, identifies a number of problem areas. As recommendations for resolving existing difficulties, a set of measures is proposed, including the organization of a continuous training system for managers, the introduction of a psychologist position in the organization, and the improvement of the incentive system. The implementation of the presented recommendations will help to increase the competitiveness of organizations in the market of services, and their economic and social efficiency.
INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH IN THE STUDY OF POLITICAL RISKS
Authors:   State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation, PANESH K.M.
Published: January 2025

The subject of this article is the institutional approach in the study of political risks and its justification in the context of the development of state institutions. It is noted that the moment of society’s susceptibility to risks is generated within society, thus being a direct result of social practice. The factors that determine the range of possibilities of political power to carry out regulatory activities are highlighted. The author substantiates the relationship between society and public administration institutions. The integration of the managerial functions of the main state institutions is associated with ensuring the effectiveness of management in conditions when political risk factors are the responsibility of various departments, or we are talking about systemic risks associated with the mismatch of various subsystems of society. At the level of existing socio-political institutions, the integration of authorities to counter significant risk factors is implemented within the framework of the creation of special functional institutions - coordination centers, including representatives of authorities, whose combined efforts are necessary to resolve the acute problem that has arisen. It is concluded that it is necessary to create favorable conditions for the organization of “horizontal” interaction between various authorities and outside the structure of coordination centers, which cannot be organized for each specific problem.
THE ROLE OF SOCIAL PROJECT ACTIVITIES OF CIVIL SOCIETY INSTITUTIONS IN THE PROCESS OF FORMATION OF VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN YOUTH
Authors:   Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORLOVA I.V. , AVERKIEVA E.V. ,   Moscow Pedagogical State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Published: January 2025

The article deals with the issues of effectiveness of solving the problems of forming value orientations in the young generation of Russians in the system of social project activities. The analysis is based on the study of the process of transformation of the worldview of young participants of patriotic contests in the direction of approval and acceptance as a guide to action of the basic value orientations formulated in the current Federal State Educational Standards, relevant regulatory and legal documents, federal target programs and national projects. The empirical research was conducted by the survey method and verified by content analysis of feedback from the project participants. The purpose of the study is to identify and establish a connection between the dynamics of changes in the value attitudes of young participants and their participation in projects of patriotic orientation within the framework of federal target programs, as well as to identify the role of civil society institutions in the implementation of these programs.

Conclusions. As a result of the study, the authors conclude that the social project activities underlying the program-targeted approach to solving the tasks formulated in the national project “Youth and Children” have positive dynamics. The authors conclude that the three-link system (project-program-target) allows to include civil society institutions in the process of education of the young generation and get the desired result in the formation of value orientations formulated in the current Federal State Educational Standards.
PROBLEMS OF CYBERNETIC SECURITY OF SPACE ACTIVITIES: POLITICAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS
Authors:   Zhirinovsky University of World Civilizations, Moscow, Russian Federation, KOPYLOV A.V. , PIVOVAROV YU.F. ,   Scientific Research Institute (Military History) of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation, SHEVTSOV V.M.
Published: January 2025

The article raises the problem of protecting spacecraft and space infrastructure objects from threats of cybernetic influence. The analysis of the sources of cybernetic threats to space activities, their impact on the critical infrastructure and military security of states is carried out, international legal aspects of the protection of space information systems from cybernetic influence are considered. It is concluded that the cyber impact on space objects can seriously undermine the economic and military security of States, violate their sovereignty, and lead to military conflicts. To counter the growing cyber threat of space activities, joint efforts of States around the world and the adoption of an international convention on cybercrime and cybersecurity are necessary. This requires the intensification of Russia’s diplomatic activities to ensure the security of its space infrastructure and information sovereignty.
CONTEMPORARY EU ENERGY SECURITY: FORECAST OF CHANGES IN ENERGY SECURITY FOR THE MEDIUM TERM, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT INVESTMENTS AND DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
Authors:   Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation, IVANOVA N.V. , SHANGARAEV R.N.
Published: January 2025

The article discusses the problems of energy security in Europe and ways to overcome them, as well as various measures to overcome the energy crisis. The article cites the pros and cons of these measures and analyzes the role of policies in this area and their impact on the EU’s energy security. The purpose of the article is to study the impact of the transition to a green economy on energy security. As a result of the study, a forecast of changes in energy security for the medium term is presented, taking into account investments and the development of renewable energy sources.
ACTIVITIES OF UDMURT ACTORS IN THE PRESERVATION OF MONUMENTS OF INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE - THE MAIN BUILDING AND ARSENAL OF THE IZHEVSK ARMS PLANT IN THE 1960-1980S
Authors:   Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation, LAKHTIONOVA E.S.
Published: January 2025

The article reconstructs the conservation process in the 1960-1980s. monuments of industrial heritage - the main building and the arsenal, located on the territory of the former Izhevsk arms factory. The sources for the study were archival materials stored in one central and two regional archives, as well as information from periodicals. Many materials are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The author reconstructs the course of events related to the placement of objects under state protection, their repair and reconstruction. Those proposed in the 1960-1980s have been identified. ways of using these monuments, including taking into account the recommendations of regulatory documents of that time. It has been established that some intensification of the process of preserving the objects under study occurred in the second half of the 1980s. and in one case it was completed in 1994 (arsenal), and in the other it is currently being implemented (main building).
ON THE ROLE OF V.A. ANTONOV-OVSEENKO IN THE PREPARATION OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE «HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN THE USSR»: HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE PROBLEM
Authors:   Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Omsk, Russian Federation, CHERNONOZHKIN A.V.
Published: January 2025

The purpose of the research - to analyze the historiography of the role of V.A. Antonov-Ovseenko in the preparation of Volume I of the History of the Civil War in the USSR. The article considers one of the urgent problems of the historiography of the Civil War in Russia, including the analysis of the role of V.A. Antonov-Ovseenko in the preparation of the publication of the «History of the Civil War in the USSR» in 1928-1936. The author identifies and compares the existing concepts regarding the military, political and diplomatic activities of V.A. Antonov-Ovseenko. Special attention is paid to the study of time and the reasons for V.A.'s criticism. Antonov-Ovseenko projects the publication of two volumes of the «History of the Civil War in the USSR», as well as his analysis of the events of the beginning of the active phase of hostilities in Ukraine.

Results. The author concludes that scientific works devoted to the biography of V.A. Antonov-Ovseenko do not fully and comprehensively reveal all aspects of his participation in the preparation of volume I of the History of the Civil War in the USSR. Therefore, the study of this stage of his political activity needs further comprehensive development.
La «Chinagala» de Rodrigo de Reinosa: de la «Carajicomedia» a la corte de damas de Beatriz de Bobadilla en tiempos de la reina Isabel de Castilla
Authors: Cáseda Teresa Jesús
Published: January 2025

Este estudio analiza dos aspectos hasta ahora no trabajados de Coplas de la Chinagala de Rodrigo de Reinosa. En primer lugar, establece la relación con su principal fuente literaria, la Carajicomedia, (1511) del Cancionero General. Y, en segundo lugar, sitúa en su marco histórico las referencias a las mujeres que aparecen en la composición poética. Se trata en unos casos de prostitutas y en otros de damas de la nobleza al servicio de la Corte de la reina Isabel de Castilla que trato de identificar. Diseñada como una alegoría, esta investigación explica la razón del viaje a la isla canaria de la Gomera y el “destierro” de Beatriz de Bobadilla, a la que ni siquiera se nombra en el poema, cuya figura sirvió de inspiración para esta obra.
El oscuro negocio del jesuita Pedro de Vitoria y el rescate económico de don Juan de Arguijo
Authors: Sánchez-Cid Gori Francisco Javier
Published: January 2025

Pedro (Gobeo) de Vitoria, autor de Naufragio y peregrinación, ingresó en la Compañía de Jesús en Perú a fines del siglo XVI. Vuelto a España hacia 1612, en los años siguientes urdió un oscuro negocio y causó problemas a la orden ignaciana. Al mismo tiempo, administró la hacienda del poeta Juan de Arguijo, que se hallaba recluido en la casa principal de los jesuitas en Sevilla huyendo de la persecución de sus acreedores por estar en quiebra. En este artículo se relacionan las operaciones financieras de Vitoria con el rescate económico de Arguijo y de la mujer y la madre del poeta.
«Celtíbera patria»: nota a un sintagma de Calderón
Authors: Sáez Adrián J.
Published: January 2025

En este breve trabajo se analiza la presencia y el significado de la fórmula «Celtíbera patria» en dos comedias Calderón (Las armas de la hermosura y El segundo Escipión): para ello, luego de apuntar las similitudes de ambos pasajes se ofrece una explicación del sintagma desde las teorías sobre la identidad nacional coetáneas, ya que se relaciona directamente con el iberismo.
El doble papel de Hércules como libertador e invasor en la historiografía hispánica
Authors: Guzmán Viedma Juan Alfonso
Published: January 2025

El personaje de Hércules es objeto, en las obras historiográficas hispánicas, de una doble consideración como invasor y libertador. Tal disyuntiva, originada tras la apropiación del mito del héroe tebano por la historiografía peninsular, está presente en la Edad Media y culmina en el Renacimiento con, por un lado, la antipatía hacia el personaje en el siglo XV y, por otro, el olvido de esa animadversión desde la crónica viterbiense. A partir de ello, este artículo pretende dilucidar que el consiguiente retorno a la visión positiva del héroe en obras renacentistas posteriores, como la de Juan de Mariana, se relacionaría con un enfoque y objetivos historiográficos compartidos con las crónicas alfonsíes, a pesar de las diferencias entre ambos autores.
La contribución de fray Antonio de Guevara a la cuentística española de la primera mitad del siglo XVI: el relato del esclavo y el león y la historia de las tres cortesanas
Authors: González Luque M. Ángeles
Published: January 2025

En este trabajo se pretende estudiar la labor literaria de fray Antonio de Guevara a partir del tratamiento que hace de la narrativa breve y su confrontación con el estado evolutivo de este género durante la primera mitad del siglo XVI. Para ello, se va a atender a la elaboración del relato guevariano mediante el análisis de dos cuentos insertos en sendas cartas pertenecientes al Libro primero de las epístolas familiares (1539): el relato del esclavo y el león (I, 28) y la historia de las tres cortesanas (I, 63). Se analiza el empleo de la fuente clásica escogida para la elaboración de los textos, las características narrativas de los mismos y su transcendencia en la literatura posterior. Igualmente se examina la capacidad de experimentación del autor mediante la convergencia de los géneros narrativo y epistolar.
“Men who Deserve Nothing Better from a Wronged and Insulted Country than Exile”: The Loyalists and Popular American Misunderstanding
Authors: O'Brien G. Patrick
Published: January 2025

This article surveys the mutable nature of the loyalist memory throughout US history with specific attention to contemporary Americans' propensity to invoke the image of the loyalists during times of political polarization. It also makes a few suggestions on how to ensure we as scholars better represent the loyalists to the public during the commemorations and celebrations planned for Semiquincentennial in 2026.
THE 21ST CENTURY SHOULD BE THE CENTURY OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE TURKIC WORLD
Authors: Zeynalova Aytekin
Published: January 2025

At the initiative of the Republic of Azerbaijan, an informal summit of the Organization of Turkic States on the theme “Building a Sustainable Future through Transport, Connectivity and Climate Action” was held in Shusha on July 6, 2024. The importance of further strengthening and deepening the strategic partnership and using the full potential of the Turkic states in the economic, transport and other fields to formulate the collective strategy of the Organization of Turkic States was one of the priority topics at the meeting.
Another second priority topic was the Karabakh Declaration. The Karabakh Declaration is a historical and regional-global political issue based on a legal basis. At the same time, the Karabakh Declaration contains credible expectations that will contribute to new stability, security, socio-cultural and economic progress in a broad geopolitical context. This important document can also be considered an action program that can ensure the transition to the next stage in the development of Turkish statehood. The Declaration is the closest road map to be followed to adapt the new form of regional cooperation to the existing realities at the global level.
The unity and solidarity of the Turkic world also finds its clear expression in the large-scale reconstruction and reconstruction work carried out in our liberated territories.
As a result, we have witnessed the realization of the relations of brotherhood, friendship and strategic alliance between Azerbaijan, Turkey and the Organization of Turkic States at the highest level. The fact that the summit is being held at a time when global risks and threats are increasing and the crisis of mutual trust is deepening makes it necessary to raise our relations, which are strengthened by the spirit of eternal brotherhood, to a qualitatively new level and to develop them with joint approaches.
Liberating the open and distance learning model from the chains of oppressive education theories
Authors: Chibambo Mackenzie Ishmael , Divala Joseph Jinja , Chingombe Aggripa
Published: January 2025

This study argues that open and distance learning (ODL) continues to function as a platform for producing factory-like workers and white-collar laborers whose primary function is to serve the capitalist labor market. The study draws on Bowles and Gintis’ correspondence theory, as well as the Factory Education Model (FEM), and the Industrialized Teaching Model (ITEM) by Otto Peters, as theoretical propositions to explain how schooling contexts and the hidden curriculum prepare students the interests of employers (capitalists) and the powerful elites of modern society. While the findings of this study are applicable across various higher education contexts, ODL has significantly demonstrated a strong alignment with the predictions of the correspondence theory, FEM and ITEM, probably due to its mode of delivery and historical foundations. While some scholars may find these parallels unremarkable, the reality remains that existing ODL policies and practices continue to perpetuate epistemological injustices, stifling human agency, and curtailing various freedoms. Based on this, this study has proposed educational practices that are grounded in the principles of engaged and critical pedagogy, as advocated by Paulo Freire and bell hooks, as the most effective means of countering the harms perpetuated by FEM and ITEM. Methodologically, this study utilized a qualitative research design using critical hermeneutics, along with discourse analyses, observations, and lived experiences. Critical hermeneutics was chosen for its ability to reveal power relations and ideologies that perpetuate hegemony, domination, exploitation, and control over powerless individuals.
“We are left to fend for ourselves”: understanding why teachers struggle to support students’ mental health
Authors: Dabrowski Anna , Hsien Michelle , Van Der Zant Tamara , Ahmed Syeda Kashfee
Published: January 2025

Student mental health is linked to improved learning, and there has been significant international investment in policies, practices, and programs focused on preventing and responding to mental health conditions amongst young people. Accordingly, the number of mental health and wellbeing interventions now being implemented in education settings continues to grow, despite a lack of research on teacher readiness to implement such interventions. Numerous studies have associated educator stress and burnout with increased workloads, yet the complexity of student needs, coupled with an ongoing lack of support, continue to result in high rates of educator attrition. This paper presents the findings of a recent mixed methods study of educators from schools and universities in Australia. The research approach included three key activities: (i) a systematic document review and synthesis of literature and policy documents, (ii) a validated “teacher worry” questionnaire that explores reasons for worry amongst educators, and (iii) qualitative interviews with key stakeholders, including educational psychologists, teachers, and preservice education coordinators. Correlation analysis suggests a relationship between individual sources of worry and intention to leave the profession, while thematic analysis offers insights into the experiences of educators, and their need for better support. Overall, the findings suggest that although teachers are already heavily burdened by their workload, they are increasingly subject to elevated expectations of dealing with diverse students’ needs and behaviors. The research also indicates that educators’ stress and poor mental health reduces their motivation to help students to reach academic goals.
An optimized method for short-term load forecasting based on feature fusion and ConvLSTM-3D neural network
Authors: Yang Xiaofeng , Zhao Shousheng , Li Kangyi , Chen Wenjin , Zhang Si , Chen Jingwei
Published: January 2025

As renewable energy continues to penetrate modern power systems, accurate short-term load forecasting is crucial for optimizing power generation resource allocation and reducing operational costs. Traditional forecasting methods often overlook key factors such as holiday load variations and differences in user electricity consumption behavior, resulting in reduced accuracy. To address this, we propose an optimized short-term load forecasting method based on time and weather-fused features using a ConvLSTM-3D neural network. The Prophet algorithm is first employed to decompose historical electricity load data, extracting feature components related to time variables. Simultaneously, the SHAP algorithm filters weather variables to identify highly correlated weather features. A time attention mechanism is then applied to fuse these features based on their correlation weights, enhancing their impact within the time series. Finally, the ConvLSTM-3D model is trained on the fused features to generate short-term load forecasts. A case study using real-world data validates the proposed method, demonstrating significant improvements in forecasting accuracy.