. The interdisciplinary study of manipulation in totalitarian ideologies The theme of the manipulative processes that were instrumental in installing , consolidating and preserving the totalitarian governments of the 20th century is currently attracting particular scientific and cultural interest for various reasons. Firstly the totalitarian regimes in their classical form are generally consid...

With the end of the Cold War, a large number of countries in the developing world emerged from civil conflict or another form of chaos in the early 1990s. While Cold War related conflicts winded down, a number of ethnic conflicts erupted, and several military interventions took place. Interventions were justified either for humanitarian purposes, as in the Balkans and several countries in Afric...

This article explores the forgotten manifesto The City of Man: A Declaration on World Democracy, which was composed in 1940 by a group of prominent American and European anti-isolationist intellectuals, including Thomas Mann, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Hermann Broch. Written in response to the victories of Nazi Germany, the manifesto declared that the United States had a new global responsibility no...

critical analysis of power discourse in zeinab habash’s poems discourse analysis is a modern approach which flourishing and growing in the context of postmodernism. norman fairclough’s three-dimensional framework in critical discourse analysis is one of the most practical aspects of this theory that includes analysis of (spoken or written) language texts, analysis of discourse practice (process...

Despite all contents of secularisation, a certain kind religious element is important in every modern totalitarian system, like Communism or National Socialism. Therefore, systems can be regarded as political religions. The following historical and philosophical reflections on the history ideas religions will contain three major parts: First, early uses concept ‘political religion’ by Campanell...

The political history of the twentieth century was characterised by great variability in the social and political systems in both time and space. The initial trend was one of general growth in the size of hierarchical organizations (giant firms, internal and external growth of States) then reversed in the last third of the century with the universal return to the market mechanism, break-up of c...

The ban of symbols totalitarian regimes is generally accepted in Europe although constituting a remarkable limitation on the freedom expression. legitimate reason for this historical situation which victims still live with us, and relatively young democracies want to prevent return toxic ideas dictatorships. peculiarity symbolic speech that used can have multiple meanings, so there may be need ...