¿ES FACTIBLE EL PROGRESO SOCIAL CUANDO DIEZ MENOS UNO ES IGUAL A CERO? by Alexander Miller

“…Este artículo analiza las opiniones de dieciséis académicos caribeños sobre el progreso social y concluye que tal cosa es en realidad inalcanzable en el Caribe, donde las metanarrativas diezman las masas y mantienen las posiciones de poder de unas pocas elites. Een vista de esto, un paso importante hacia el avance social en Eel Caribe sería la evisceración de las metanarrativas europeas atrincheradas.…”
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Georgian Direction of Russian Foreign Policy: Negative Scenario by A. A. Suchentsov

“…Replacement of the ruling elites in Georgia expands the space for dialogue with Tbilisi, but the main trend in the foreign policy orientation of Georgia's - Euro- Atlantic integration - seems to remain unchanged. …”
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Rekonsiliasi Politik Pasca Pilpres 2019: Menumbuhkan Semangat Kebangsaan dalam Konstruksi Sosial Budaya by Jerry Indrawan, Anwar Ilmar, Ardli Johan Kusuma

“…Rekonsiliasi yang terjadi harus bersifat menyeluruh sehingga berdampak positif ke semua lapisan, baik elit, maupun masyarakat, dan dilakukan bersamaan secara top-down, maupun bottom-up. …”
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Authoritarianism vs Democracy as a Key Contradiction in Approaching the Study of Political Leadership by Ilya E. Strelets

“…‘Democratic transit’ through ‘color revolutions’ in the context of intensive information exchange intensifies the multidirectional trends of globalization and glocalization, introducing into the sphere of public policy leaders with dubious subjectivity who do not justify the hopes of either foreign beneficiaries, or local elites, or the population. Attempts to build political institutions where decisions are made not by leaders, but by elites, in countries that are not part of the circle of Western democracies, prove unviable. …”
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The Soviet-British Relations at the Turn of 1917/1918: Key Issues and Untapped Opportunities by E. Yu. Sergeev

“…The author emphasizes that position of the British political elites regarding the seizure of power in Russia by Vladimir Lenin and his supporters was not as straightforward as it was portrayed by the Soviet and Russian historiography: the British politicians faced a dilemma since they did not want to see Russia either as a neutral country or an enemy. …”
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Locarno Treaties (1925) in the Context of the Versailles System Transformation as seen from London by E. V. Khakhalkina, V. S. Dzyuba

“…A systematic comparison of views of the Conservative and the Labour party representatives on the Geneva Protocol and the Rhineland Pact shows that by mid-1920s the British political elites advocated for an in-depth transformation of the Versailles order, particularly, through the development of an effective mechanism for maintaining international security. …”
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Drafting of the Union treaty in September-December 1991: from the dismantling of statehood to the USSR's collapse by A. V. Lukashin

“…The Union Treaty, originally designed to create the necessary balance in the relations between the Center and the republics, in practice was an instrument for the implementation of the ambitions of the Republican elites and became one of the factors of the USSR`s collapse.…”
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L’appel à l’ennemi : l’anticommunisme à l’École supérieure de guerre au Brésil (1954-1964) by Rodrigo Nabuco de Araujo

“…Opposing Communism helped pull these elites together and shaped the central axis of the new doctrine that both civilians and military officers were elaborating at the Superior War College. …”
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Les Banū Thaʻlaba, une famille andalouse à Fès (iiie/ixe-ive/xe siècle) by Aurélien Montel

“…Then, the study of the Banū Thaʻlaba will lead to some more general reflexions about the society of this time, particularly on the integration of Andalusian at the Maghreb al-Aqṣā’ urban elites.…”
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Reorienting Heritage: Poetic Exchanges between Suquṭra and the Gulf by Nathalie M. Peutz

“…Two historical events that occurred on the Yemeni island of Suquṭra — the conquest of the island by “Christians” in the 9th century and the execution of a group of Suquṭran elites in 1974 —are made relevant today in poetry exchanges between the island residents and the Suquṭran expatriate community in the Gulf. …”
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La Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris by Sébastien Bureau, Guilherme Marinho de Miranda, Lionel Rossini

“…It offers to them a set of centralized services and a privileged living environment but considers itself above all as a melting pot for the meeting of cultures and the spreading of French culture among international intellectual elites. Beyond intentions, we tried, by the meeting of managements and residents, to grasp the current reality of cultural exchanges thanks to the policy of the "mixing" and the dynamic of "the space lived" on residents.…”
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SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF MODERN RELIGIOUS TERRORISM by N. Grigoriev, E. Rodyukov

“…Religious terrorism - one of the most early in human history directions of terrorism, that already during very great while is used in opposing different by the nature and organizations of socio-political forces, including religiously-fanatic groupments of different scale and orientation, political and ethnic elites, social and political associations, separate states. …”
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La gauche marocaine, défenseure du trône. Sur les métamorphoses d’une opposition institutionnelle by Abderrahim El Maslouhi

“…The cooptation of the elites of the Moroccan social movement in a participatory or moderate position and their integration into the state’s social liberalism is as much a matter of political as it is of individual and collective survival. …”
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Čarodějnické a kouzelnické procesy v zahraniční historiografii: nové perspektivy a úhly pohledu by Zuzana Kobrlová

“…Also some questions concerning, for example, the role of torture or solving the problem whether the processes can be described as a profitable programme of elites are accentuated here. These questions are subsequently partly answered just through the new results of the international research. …”
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Río Bec. Des grandes maisons et des récoltes by Marie-Charlotte Arnauld, Dominique Michelet, Chloé Andrieu, Alfonso Lacadena, Éva Lemonnier, Boris Vannière, Philippe Nondédéo, Julie Patrois

“…In the Río Bec region, archaeological, iconographic and epigraphic data indicate that kingship has been weakly articulated from AD 550 to 950. Sub-royal elites were active, creating highly visible houses with land domains that served factional strategies and, late in time, diffused architectural ideas over a wide area. …”
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The critical commitment of philosophy. On Marcuse’s critical project by Mauricio García Echeverri

“…As a personal exercise to clarify concepts, its aim is to provide an overview of Marcuse’s conception, based especially from his book One-Dimensional Man, about an advanced industrial society and how our thinking is being more and more rooted in what social elites want us to believe. At the same time, the article provides a basis to think this problem in an increasing postmodern society that is forgetting the most important critical authors of the 20th century and its main preoccupation: the identity between subject and society.…”
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Le populisme climatique de Donald J. Trump et le libre marché des idées by Jean-Daniel Collomb

“…Donald Trump’s climate populism is defined as a rejection of the authority of intellectual, media and scientific elites in the name of the ability of ordinary people to decide for themselves and in defense of their material well-being. …”
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Referencia y performatividad en el discurso publicitario: las reglas del flujo televisivo by Josep Gavaldà Roca

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“PARA AFIANZAR ESA LIBERTAD TAN DESEADA, NO BASTA SOLO LA MUERTE DE BOLÍVAR”: ANTIBOLIVARISMO E O DILEMA CONSTITUCIONAL VENEZUELANO DE 1830 by Matheus Amilton Martins

“…Resumo Neste trabalho, analiso sob quais pressupostos as elites política e intelectuais produziram uma nova legitimidade constitucional para a Venezuela, após a dissolução da Grã-Colômbia. …”
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La falsa promesa y el amargo fruto del neoliberalismo: desarraigo político y económico, transformación cultural y el auge de la política protofascista by Thomas Palley

“…Tales élites obstruyen la política necesaria para revertir las causas profundas de la desviación hacia el protofascismo. …”
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