Article Dans Une Revue Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS) Année : 2025

Editorial - PARISS (5.2)

Akos Kopper
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Ivan Manokha
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This issue of pariss (5.2) is closing a crucial year in which the existing political tensions around the possibilities of finding solutions to the ongoing violence in Ukraine and Palestine have exacerbated. At the time of writing, November 11th, a date that saw the closing of the first world war in 1918, the hope for the emergence of diplomatic solutions led by international institutions is depicted as illusory by all the warmongers. The election of Donald Trump on November 6th is analysed as the end of international law, rise of protectionism and self-interest, treating international relations as a realm of cynical foreign affairs looking only at the short-term interests of the country. Is the triumph of nationalistic geopolitics blind to the consequences they created in the past? The previous issue evoked the increasing de-humanisation at work in the conduct of conflicts, and the sense of impunity that some leaders of these conflicts and their right-wing supporters had; this may now be extended to other countries which called themselves advanced democracies for so long. In these conditions we have to engage even more than before in an intellectual fight for maintaining decency, responsibility, international law and justice, as well as right of pacific dissent internally, including the possibility for academics to use their “freedom” in order to voice against nationalistic policies and bring their expertise to the fore. An International Political Sociology using reflexivity on the positioning of intellectuals in situation of danger, and on the strength of symbolic power against the brutalisation of the world is necessary, and needs to build collective voices, who may have diverse positions and trajectories but share the project to stand up to the wind, a position defended already by Etienne de la Boetie during the religion wars and which today can still be a political compass against the tyrants, the warmongers and their accomplices.

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hal-04928907 , version 1 (04-02-2025)

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Didier Bigo, Emma Mc Cluskey, Akos Kopper, Ivan Manokha. Editorial - PARISS (5.2). Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS), 2025, 5 (2), pp.113-117. ⟨10.1163/25903276-05020001⟩. ⟨hal-04928907⟩
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