A Book Review of "Max Weber and the Theory of Modern Politics" by Mohammad Hossein Jamshidi

“…It studies the review of the central concern of Weber to prospects for the liberal parliament in the authoritarian societies in the era of mass politics and bureaucratic organizations. …”
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Socialism and the Will to Fail A Critical Review of the Book Socialism: A Failed Idea That Never Dies by Morteza Bahrani

“…On the contrary, and by historical experience, it is capitalist liberalism that has set before us the right and progressive will. …”
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Replacement income and informal commerce during the COVID-19 pandemic in Huancayo, Peru by Patrick Clark, Aparicio Chanca-Flores, Susan Vincent

“…It is concluded that the focus on economic formalization of the last decades of financial liberalization are not considered advantages that informal activities offer in relation to formalization. …”
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Freedom of Expression in South Sudanese Judicial Struggle: Bought or Fought For? With Special Reference to India by Varun Chhachhar, Wol Deng Akech

“…The paper seeks to reckon the concerned institutions in South Sudan to the ongoing liberal jurisprudences on the right to freedom of speech and expression on one hand and on the other hand informs the concerned institutions for a serious litigation and enforcement of Bill of Rights in South Sudan. …”
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From Incoherence to Sustainability: Performance, Activism, and Social Media in the Most Recent Russian Poetry by Kirill Korchagin

“…The central hypothesis of this article is that all of these poets react differently to the methods of discursive organization provided (and enforced) by social networks and strive in different ways to liberate themselves from the censorship of the algorithm: some emphasize the discursive incoherence of the platform, while others, on the contrary, seek to develop a sustainable manner of uniting private discourses into a new totality. …”
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Islam et nationalisme en Asie centrale au début de la période soviétique (1924-1937). L'exemple de l'Ouzbékistan, à travers quelques sources littéraires by Stéphane A. Dudoignon

“…Uzbek literature from those years brings to the fore the permanence of a political Turkish-Islamic identity, the redefinition of intercommunitarian relations (between Muslims and non-Muslims) and, in a more general way, the revitalisation of Muslim liberalism. These questions are treated through the study of Čulpân's (1897-1938) prose. …”
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Review of the Book "Economics from Another View" by Vahid Moghadam, Hadi Amiri

“…At the same time, the author's goal is not to enter into the depths of economic thought, rather than introducing thoughts of unheard economists and their placement in the liberal tent to the audiences. The writer, in introducing the thoughts of famous economists such as Adam Smith, Marx, and Keynes, has value-judgments and he is not successful at assessing the value of their ideas in context of their time and progress of economics. …”
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Simulating Growth Kinetics in a Data-Parallel 3D Lattice Photobioreactor by A. V. Husselmann, K. A. Hawick

“…ABM has been heralded as a method of practical scientific inquiry into systems of a complex nature and has been applied liberally in a range of disciplines including ecology, physics, social science, and microbiology with special emphasis on pathogenic bacterial growth. …”
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A Critical Review of the Book Religion and Theory of International Relations: Theory and Practice by Bahram Navazeni

“…By compiling these articles, the translator has attempted to address the important role of religion in shaping international relations in the Westphalian period and by evaluating its position among various mainstream and minor theories of international relations such as realism, liberalism, and constructivism, he has explored the function of different world religions such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism, both in inciting civil strife and converging, and in uniting and strengthening the world peace. …”
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A ATUAÇÃO DE JOSÉ DA SILVA LISBOA (VISCONDE DE CAIRU) COMO DEPUTADO NA ASSEMBLEIA CONSTITUINTE DE 1823 by Alexandre Ganan de Brites Figueiredo, Amaury Patrick Gremaud

“…Esta pesquisa adota a hipótese de que as incursões de Lisboa nesses temas revelam posições que limitam e contradizem uma concepção econômica liberal, apresentando um pensamento paradoxal no qual o conservadorismo convive com uma visão peculiar de liberalismo, típica de um mundo em transição.…”
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TOWARDS ANOTHER COSMOPOLITANISM: TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA by Denise Vitale, Renata Nagamine

“…In addition, their cosmopolitanism lights up and pressures the traditional liberal cosmopolitanism at the same time. We propose a theoretical article with an empirical support which is resulted from a qualitative field research developed within the years of 2014-2018.…”
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Populações tradicionais e inclusão social no Brasil:Um paralelo entre as políticas de acesso à terra e à educação superior por indígenas e quilombolas by Ana Lúcia Aguiar Melo, José Luiz de Moura Filho

“…In order to tackle the social inequalities that have deepened during decades of liberal governments, ethnic movements have been demanding the construction of public policies that, although they seek common objectives, deal with the segments according to their specificities. …”
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Le Phare de Bayonne et La Sentinelle des Pyrénées : regards croisés de deux journaux français sur l’actualité espagnole de 1838 by Alain Pauquet

“…Despite the Elliot Convention signed in 1835, these violations of human rights where supported by the context of violence in popular circles, wether liberals or carlists. The author emphasizes the role of press editors and he shows how the ideological opposition between the two newspapers leads them to privilege different news and practice two distinct kinds of journalism.…”
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Jonathan Gruber’s “Public Finance and Public Policy”: A Critical Analysis by Mohammad Javad Sharifzadeh

“…But, the book has some important shortcomings such as: its emphasis on the Pareto approach and neglecting alternative approaches such as the Rawlsian approach or the Amarya sen`s capability approach, lack of care to the historical approach and issues, neglecting non-liberal economists’ theories (e.g. socialist theories), neglecting the specific issues of the public finance in developing countries and ignoring new scientific instruments and issues such as game theory and behavioral public finance.…”
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Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya y Nancy Fraser, Feminism for the 99% A Manifesto. Editorial Verso, 85 Páginas, Londres - Nueva York, 2018. ISBN 978-1-78873-442-4 by Margarita Cabrera

“…Lo anterior busca distanciarse de posturas como el “feminismo liberal” cuya estrategia es la incorporación de la mitad de las mujeres de elite a altos cargos de las compañías, lo cual es criticado por las autoras, ya que no involucra un “feminismo de las masas” (de ahí el 99%), sino de una minoría de mujeres privilegiadas. …”
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Els Valors i principis fundacionals de la Unió Europea en temps d’incertesa i policrisi by Joan Lluís Pérez Francesch

“… Es reflexiona sobre la importància dels valors i principis constitutius de la Unió Europea en una època que es considera de crisi d’identitat del projecte europeu, que cal revitalitzar davant de greus amenaces com ara la polarització política, la hiperegulació burocràtica, la crisi de les estructures pròpies de l’Estat de dret en alguns Estats membres, les tendències autoritàries de la democràcia il·liberal, les reaccions euro escèptiques de grups polítics populistes, tot plegat en un escenari internacional incert i en un context de “policrisi” de gran complexitat. …”
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Innovative paradigms in New Japanese art: a case study of Yokoyama Taikan's selected artworks by Mao Xing, Sarena Abdullah

“…This paper argues that Taikan's reconstruction and breakthrough of the traditional framework of Japanese painting liberates and transcends the boundaries of traditional artistic concepts and promotes its transition from tradition to modernity.…”
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Prevalence and associated factors of self-reported oral health problems among adults in the Fanteakwa districts in Ghana by Joana Kwabena-Adade, Enoch Aninagyei, Joy Ato Nyarko

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Radical orthodoxy and protestantism today: John Milbank in conversation by J. Milbank

“…If a great deal is mentioned about past thinkers and genealogies of the modern, it is not because RO thinkers suppose that this is at the heart of the modern, but rather because rival, liberal theological outlooks often, in part, depend, either openly or covertly, on stories about the past and the readings of some crucial thinkers. …”
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Archi-écritures de genre et politiques de différance : immondices verbales et littéracies d’intervention dans le quotidien des établissements scolaires by Rodrigo Borba, Adriana Carvalho Lopes

“…We conclude that these linguistic interventions may open up possibilities to “make a difference”, i.e. to repeat reality in different ways, to (re)imagine futures and to (re)design territories in ways that liberate them from fixed, purist and well-circumscribed concepts and practices.…”
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