Since the breakdown of bipolarity, the international community had to cope with independence movements spreading in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe. Given the peculiar coercive character of the Soviet and Yugoslav Federations and the Soviet Union’s hegemonial rule in Central Europe, the wish for independent statehood can be understood as a sum of single secessionist movements. This art...

Abstract Protecting science from politicization is an ongoing concern in contemporary society. Yet some political influences on (e.g., setting public funding amounts) are fully legitimate. We need to have a clear account of when influence (an illegitimate influence) order properly detect and address the problem. I argue this paper that understanding how space scientific inquiry distinctive demo...

In this commentary, I argue that corruption in health systems is a critical and legitimate area for research in order to strengthen health policy goals. This rationale is based partly on citizen demand for more accountable and transparent health systems, along with the fact that the poor and vulnerable suffer the most from the presence of corruption in health systems. W...

Ideology is the source of all organized activity—there is no possibility of organized social activity without an internalized morality or ideology to legitimate it. Indeed, ideology is the transcendent phenomenon of everyday life, not as the causal or motivating factor in social activity, but as the link between organized mental activity and the organized social world. Ideology serves to legiti...

Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using tech...

Abstract The representatives of contested states – that is, territories whose claim to sovereign statehood is not, or not fully, recognised by the international society often make significant efforts engage in diplomacy. Two literatures have recently begun explore these diplomatic activities, one focusing on ‘rebel diplomacy’ insurgents and secessionist movements, other ‘liminal actors’ global ...

since the beginning of human history, one of the basic dilemma that every political institution must solve is how to exercise legitimate authority—that is, how to govern with the consent.“you can’t sit on bayonets,” goes an old political expression.this is a way of saying that although a state can exercise its power through the use of police force or coercion, in the long run the use of force w...