Abstract This article aims to revisit the enterprise of Chinese School (CS) IR and discuss how it should be viewed handled in discipline, specifically from within analytical framework power/resistance nexus put forward by Foucault, Bhabha, Spivak. The argument this is twofold. Firstly, CS attempts reinvigorate traditional concepts (that is, humane authority, Tianxia system, relationality), whic...

This article contributes to the debate concerning the identification of politically relevant cases of corruption in a democracy by sketching the basic traits of an original liberal theory of institutional corruption. We define this form of corruption as a deviation with respect to the role entrusted to people occupying certain institutional positions, which are crucial for the implementation of...

Motivated thinking leads people to perceive similarity between the self and ingroups, but under some conditions, people may recognize that personal beliefs are misaligned with the beliefs of ingroups. In two focal experiments and two replications, we find evidence that perceived belief similarity moderates ingroup favoritism. As part of a charity donation task, participants donated money to a c...

Abstract In recent years, weaker and consolidated democracies alike were in many instances caught by a wave of autocratisation. However, given the protractedness time phenomenon democratic erosion, it is not unlikely that process overlaps with multiple electoral cycles. This gives to those parties committed liberal democracy window organise themselves challenge incumbent at ballots. The present...

Lafayette College, with strong programs in engineering and the liberal arts, requires sophomore students to enroll in a “VaST” (Values and Science/Technology) course. These courses incorporate approaches from the engineering viewpoint and ideas from the social sciences and humanities. As a result of taking a VaST course, students should be better able to see and understand engineering and scien...

1.1 g-SIS0 Model States States in g-SIS0 systems have the following fields. • S, the set of subjects • O, the set of objects • G, the set of groups • T , the set of times • >T , the total order on T • Time ∈ T , the current time • StrictJoin ⊆ S ×G× T , the record of strict join events • LiberalJoin ⊆ S ×G× T , the record of liberal join events • StrictLeave ⊆ S ×G× T , the record of strict lea...

Addressing Carsten and Worsfold's (2000) assertion that online learning eliminates the possibility for "liberal learning," the author of this paper describes the context and guidelines for an online discussion assignment that he used as a faculty member at a liberal arts college. The purpose of this assignment was to help students engage in personal development by examining the ways course cont...

At present liberal education is generally understood and justified as the acquisition of critical thinking skills and individual autonomy. Traditionally, however, the ultimate purpose of liberal education has been leisure. Freedom, it was thought, was not simply the result of critical thinking but also required the cultivation of leisure that involved a vigilant receptivity — a stillness from t...

F or roughly the first three quarters of the nineteenth century, the "liberal school" thoroughly dominated economic thinking and teaching in France. 1 Adherents of the school were also to be found in the United States and Italy, and liberal doctrines exercised a profound influence on prominent German and British economists. Although its numbers and authority began to dwindle after the 1870s, th...