According to a popular aphorism, biometrics are turning the human body into a passport or a password. As usual, aphorisms say more than they intend. Taking the dictum seriously, we would be two: ourself and our body. Who are we, if we are not our body? And what is our body without us? The endless history of identification systems teaches that identification is not a trivial fact but always invo...

this study aims to investigate the changes in turkey's security discourse in process of turkey's accession to european :union:. it seems that europeanization of turkey is one of the most important factors in the change of its security discourse. turkey's political and security language has been changed and, in this country, we are witnessing a new political and social contract th...

this papers examines the counsel of the formation of the expediency discernment council in the islamic republic of iran. it aims to analyse the reasons why late imam khomeini decided to form the council. having demonstrated the reasons for the formation of the council, its functions, duties and responsibilities, the article pays a particular attention to the late imam khomeini. it shows that th...

“Green ideology” and the risk for the environment – Cause-effect Relation an Implementation. Part 1. Political aspects, morphology and implementation The objective of the report is to give the political characteristics and features of the “green ideology”; to describe the political conditions and the political situation with respect to the management of the environment; to define the characteri...

This text analyzes the relationship between political deliberation and democracy. Its content differs both from a scarcely normative idea of competitive politics, predominant in contemporary Political Science, and from a philosophical defense of the deliberation, founded on an idea of common reasonability or on an ideal of communicative speech. The central argument of the author is that deliber...

there are many reasons for the health inequities that we see around the world today. public policy and the way society organises its affairs affects the economic, social and physical factors that influence the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age - the social determinants of health. tackling health inequities is a political issue that requires leadership, political cour...