: ethics has been a subject of interest since the birth of philosophy. however, significance of ethics in modern time is more salient; time of ubiquity of technology in every aspect of human life. ethics similar to any human phenomenon has to do with language and in understanding it thoroughly, such features have to be examined. this research seeks to critically study the ethics in e-government...

This article revisits the long-standing question of the relations between ethics and politics in Machiavelli's work, assessing its relevance to the 'liberalism of fear' in particular in the work of Judith Shklar, Bernard Williams and also John Dunn. The article considers ways in which Machiavelli has been a 'negative' resource for liberalism - for instance, as a presumed proponent of tyranny; b...

The Republic of Turkey continues to grapple with a foundational tension between isolationist impulses steeped in nationalist, sovereigntist, i.e., realist outlook on the world, and what I call “embedded liberalism” republican project. Yet, neither realism nor liberalism are sufficient, show, explain Turkey’s trajectory. Invoking three visions international system as envisaged (billiard balls), ...

This article gives an overview of 4 important lacunae in political liberalism and identifies, in a preliminary fashion, some trends in the literature that can come in for support in filling these blind spots, which prevent political liberalism from a correct assessment of the diverse nature of religious claims. Political liberalism operates with implicit assumptions about religious actors being...

William Davies’ The Limits of Neo-Liberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition (Sage, 2014) provides a searching new investigation of the meaning and implications of the neo-liberal project. Davies identifies neo-liberalism as centrally concerned with the replacement of politics by economics. He examines the consequent efforts of economic experts to make government amenable t...