China’s repression of Islam is spreading beyond Xinjiang

www.economist.com
ChinaSep 25th 2019 | DUANJIAPING
10-13 minutes
AS DARKNESS BEGINS to settle on Duanjiaping village, a few men in white skullcaps head towards a large mosque. It is time for the Maghrib, the fourth of the five daily prayers of devout Muslims. It is clear even before they reach the building’s high yellow walls that all is not right. The prayer-hall’s four minarets, topped by golden crescent moons, are still a towering landmark. But they are covered in scaffolding and green netting (see picture), and they are not due for repair.

The new geopolitics of Turkey, Syria, and the West

Kemal Kirişci
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Brookings Institute
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/02/14/the-new-geopolitics-of-turkey-syria-and-the-west/

As the turmoil in Syria enters its seventh year, its adverse geopolitical consequences stretch far beyond the Middle East. Developments in Syria have affected Turkey, too. Before the Arab Spring, Turkey was a rising star in its neighborhood, but has become a troubled nation in the years since. Its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is increasingly cited as a model for authoritarians around the region and the world, and if tensions between Turkey and the West lead to a fracture, more adverse geopolitical consequences could follow.

Turkey detains academics for alleged links to cleric Gulen

By Associated Press July 10

The Washington Post

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s official news agency says police have detained 42 people, including academics, for alleged links to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric less than a week before the anniversary of the failed coup.

Anadolu news agency said the operations Monday targeted people working at Turkey’s Bogazici and Medeniyet University. Prominent Bogazici academic and government critic, Koray Caliskan, and 19 professors from Medeniyet’s medical school are among the detained.

Is democracy an economic liability?

Jul 6th 2011, 17:01 by R.A. | WASHINGTON

The Economist

OVER at Democracy in America, a colleague embarks on an interesting discussion highlighting the similarities between the institutional roots of economic troubles in Europe and America. Then, alas, he goes astray:

I actually think the issue goes beyond the increasing unwillingness of Chinese authorities to even pretend to listen to Western complaints about human rights. Unless you buy the Nouriel Roubini argument, and I don't, China is going to be the world's largest economy within ten or 15 years, bigger than America or the euro-zone. And, in case anyone has failed to notice, it's a Communist country.

ΤΟ ΑΥΤΑΡΧΙΚΟ ΦΑΙΝΟΜΕΝΟ ΣΤΟ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΟ ΣΥΣΤΗΜΑ. ΤΟ ΑΣΥΜΒΑΤΟ ΜΙΑΣ ΣΧΕΣΗΣ ΜΕΤΑΞΥ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ

Γ. Κοντογιώργης, Το αυταρχικό φαινόμενο. "4η Αυγούστου" "21η Απριλίου". Ερμηνευτικές προσεγγίσεις, Εκδ.Παπαζήση, Αθήνα, 2003

(Απόσπασμα από το ανωτέρω έργο του Γ.Κ.σελ. 17-44)

Το αυταρχικό φαινόμενο ως μεταβατικό γεγονός και ως παρέκβαση

Ήδη από τον Αριστοτέλη και την εν γένει ελληνική γραμματεία της κλασικής εποχής, το αυταρχικό καθεστώς ταξινομήθηκε στις παρεκβάσεις των πολιτευμάτων, προκειμένου να υποδηλωθεί η ασυμβατότητά του με την καθεστηκυία ‘πολιτειακή’ τάξη. Η άποψη αυτή, εισάγει, εντούτοις, ένα αξιολογικό κριτήριο, το οποίο στην πραγματικότητα ενοχοποιεί το κοινωνικό πρόταγμα, στο μέτρο που αυτό υιοθετεί μια ριζοσπαστική εκδοχή του ζητήματος της ιδιοκτησίας και, κατ’επέκταση, της κοινωνικής ισότητας. Είναι προφανές ότι η παράκαμψη της πολιτειακής τάξης, προβάλει όχι ως αυτοτελές πρόβλημα, αλλ’ ως απόρροια του συνολικού διακυβεύματος, του γεγονότος δηλαδή ότι η ‘κοινωνική επανάσταση’ διέρχεται αναπόφευκτα από μια ανάλογη και, συνακόλουθα, μη συμβατική ‘διαχείριση’ της πολιτικής.