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Populism and Foreign Policy
What kind of foreign policy do populists execute once in power? Based on the existing literature, we conceptualize populism as a set of ideas whose two core elements are anti-elitism and antipluralism. From this we develop a set of hypotheses regarding both substantive aspects of foreign policy as well as foreign policy–making processes of populist leaders in government. An analysis of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign policy record serves as a first plausibility probe of our hypotheses. We find that our concept of populism carries most explanatory value in the procedural aspects of foreign policy making as well as in its communication, less so in those aspects relating to the goals or substance of foreign policy. Whereas foreign policy under Modi’s populist leadership is highly centralized and personalized, the traditional foreign policy establishment, including most notably the Ministry of External Affairs, has lost some of its previous authority. Engaging the Indian diaspora abroad emerged as another characteristic of populist foreign policy making. By contrast, the case of India does not confirm our hypothesis regarding a preference of bilateralism over multilateralism, nor does populism necessarily preclude investing in global public goods.
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“Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality
Illiberal leaders—sometimes called strongmen—often campaign on being more effective. The tradeoff presented to citizens is straightforward: they promise to cut through the indecisiveness and gridlock of democratic debate and give people what they want. Such leaders often use the rhetoric of economic grievances, corruption, and redistribution, but do they follow through on those promises? We answer this question using data from 38,557 speeches by 381 leaders in 120 countries between 1998 and 2024, combined with economic indicators from the World Bank and V-Dem measures on regime type and resource inequality. Utilizing a machine learning approach, we employ BERT language models that place leaders’ speeches on two continuous dimensions measuring liberal–illiberal speech and left–right economic positions. We test whether illiberals are more effective at translating their economic preferences into material changes. We show that illiberal leaders do deliver the goods—but only when they are on the economic right and only in the direction of greater economic inequality. Illiberals resemble populists because they engage in the rhetoric of cultural exclusion, but they do not push a distributional policy that benefits most citizens. The policy preferences of illiberal leftists, on the other hand, have no apparent effect. This article makes methodological contributions by building a one-dimensional scale for measuring the economic left–right positions of political leaders. This article also contributes to our understanding of the pernicious effects of illiberal leaders in deepening economic inequality.
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The Criminal Responsibility of Senior Political and Military Leaders as Principals to International Crimes
As shown by the trials of Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor and Saddam Hussein, the large-scale and systematic commission of international crimes is usually planned and set in motion by senior political and military leaders. Nevertheless, the application of traditional forms of criminal liability leads to the conclusion that they are mere accessories to such crimes. This does not reflect their central role and often results in a punishment which is inappropriately low in view of the impact of their actions and omissions. For these reasons, international criminal law has placed special emphasis on the development of concepts, such as control of the crime and joint criminal enterprise (also known as the common purpose doctrine), which aim at reflecting better the central role played by senior political and military leaders in campaigns of large scale and systematic commission of international crimes. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the case law of the ICTY and the ICTR have, in recent years, played a unique role in the achievement of this goal.
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Hölderlin contra Goethe. Gemeinschaft und Geschichte in Max Kommerells ,,Der Dichter als Führer in der deutschen Klassik
Der Beitrag geht von der Beobachtung aus, dass Max Kommerells Studie zum Dichter als Führer in der deutschen Klassik von einem tiefen Antagonismus zwischen Goethe und Hölderlin geprägt wird. Dieser erschließt sich in erster Linie über Brüche in
den jeweiligen Geschichts- und Gemeinschaftsmodellen, die Kommerell den beiden Dichtern implizit attribuiert. Führt Goethe weniger eine Gemeinschaft als einen erlesenen Zirkel an, so versucht die Studie Hölderlin als prophetischen Wegbereiter einer völkischen Revolution zu vereinnahmen.
Das auf gemeinschaftsbildenden Postulaten beruhende wissenschaftliche Selbstverständnis Kommerells kann von diesem Problem natürlich nicht unberührt bleiben.
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The Organs of J.S. Bach
The Organs of J. S. Bach is a comprehensive and fascinating guide to the organs encountered by Bach throughout Germany in his roles as organist, concert artist, examiner, teacher, and visitor. Newly revised and updated, the book's entries are listed alphabetically by geographical location, from Arnstadt to Zschortau, providing an easy-to-reference overview.
Includes detailed organ-specific information:
high-quality color photographs
each instrument's history, its connection to Bach, and its disposition as Bach would have known it
architectural histories of the churches housing the instruments
identification of church organists
Lynn Edwards Butler's graceful translation of Christoph Wolff and Markus Zepf's volume incorporates new research and many corrections and updates to the original German edition. Bibliographical references are updated to include English-language sources, and the translation includes an expanded essay by Christoph Wolff on Bach as organist, organ composer, and organ expert.
The volume includes maps, a timeline of organ-related events, transcriptions of Bach's organ reports, a guide to examining organs attributed to Saxony's most famous organ builder Gottfried Silbermann, and biographical information on organ builders.
Publication of this volume is supported by the American Bach Society.
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Martin Heideggers Rechtsdenken und der Nationalsozialismus
Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential thinkers of modern philosophy. However, against the backdrop of his engagement for the NS dictatorship, it is debated until this day whether his philosophy has national-socialistic or totalitarian tendencies. Views on this issue range from the opinion that his ideological beliefs were only private and are to be separated from his philosophical ideas to the opinion that his philosophy in its core was fascist. This paper deals with this question from a legal perspective and undertakes to examine whether Heidegger’s legal thinking was influenced by the Nazi ideology.
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Martin Heideggers Rechtsdenken und der Nationalsozialismus
Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential thinkers of modern philosophy. However, against the backdrop of his engagement for the NS dictatorship, it is debated until this day whether his philosophy has national-socialistic or totalitarian tendencies. Views on this issue range from the opinion that his ideological beliefs were only private and are to be separated from his philosophical ideas to the opinion that his philosophy in its core was fascist. This paper deals with this question from a legal perspective and undertakes to examine whether Heidegger’s legal thinking was influenced by the Nazi ideology.
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