NeoLiberalism
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Global Issues in the Perspective of Liberal Theory
Kosrat Khdir Abubakr, Anwar Mohammed Faraj
Global issues play a central role in world politics on in practice, and they also hold a prominent place in the theoretical literature on international relations research. While the literature on realism divides global issues into high-policy and low-policy issues, the main question with this study is whether liberal theoretical orientations concur with that belief? The main aim of the study will be to answer this question and clarify what and how liberal theoretical perspectives address major global issues. With this objective in mind, the study relies on several key assumptions of liberal theory, especially regarding the rejection of pyramid hierarchy of global issues or their classification into high-policy and low-policy issues. Nonetheless, certain liberal theoretical stances firmly hold that collaboration on artistic and scientific matters is more successful and that this kind of achievement would foster greater cooperation in resolving global political, military, and strategic concerns and crises. Consequently, in order to answer the main question of the study, achieve its objectives and prove its main hypotheses, the research depends on each of the methods of deductive method, analysis and comparative method. In order to achieve this, the paper is divided into two main discussions, each with two main themes. This research will be very important to Kurdish academic center because there isn't much scientific research on the topic in Kurdish. It also has some valuable scientific results because it draws on several original sources in English.
Volume 10 · Issue 4 · December 2023Coronavirus from Slavoj Žižek's perspective: From Capitalism to Communism
Muslim Hasan Mohammed, Nawdar Zeyad Ridha
The world system has followed capitalism. According to Slavoj Žižek, capitalism is facing many crises. One of the crises created by this system is the coronavirus pandemic. Since capitalism thinks only in terms of profit and the market, it cannot overcome this pandemic with its own rules. Moreover, the main culprit is the political model of capitalism, neoliberalism, as it becomes increasingly barbaric through privatisation, corporations, media and social media. Meanwhile, the coronavirus has instilled fear in people's hearts and expanded the power of the state over citizens. Žižek argues that all these help to sprout socialism and pave the way for a new form of communism. This stems from the fact that capitalist mechanisms and tools cannot prevent a crisis such as the coronavirus. Instead, states, organisations and individuals must resort to communism. This communism embodies more cooperation and coordination, because in times of crisis, neither the state alone and without the cooperation of members of society can overcome the crisis, nor can any state face the crisis alone. However, it is important for the state to avoid implementing a particular ideology, as ideology can lead to totalitarianism and restriction of freedoms. In return, Žižek says that if countries move beyond the nation-state stage and move towards a post-nation state by implementing a new form of communism, our liberation, survival and defence will grow and become stronger. Žižek is also interested in the concept of catastrophe and believes that catastrophe helps to rebuild and revive. Although the coronavirus has caused catastrophe, it carries the seeds of revival.