Four questions to Will Kymlicka
While liberal values can be twisted to justify limiting civil rights, religious authorities may not replace civil law, argues Will Kymlicka. "The same forces that support ethnic politics within liberal democracy also operate over time to channel it in peaceful and democratic ways." [ more ]
"Critique & Humanism" takes a neighbourly view on Turkey; "dérive" doesn't play ball; "Reset" picks up the pieces after Veltroni's defeat; "Multitudes" joins the carnival; "The Hungarian Quarterly" finds the country in a gloomy mood; "Mittelweg 36" asks what's in a friendship; "Revista Crítica" reads epistemologies of the South; "Springerin" sees the provincial in the universal; "Kulturos barai" watches patriarchs fall; and "Cogito" casts a tragic hero for our times.
is the head of the Peace Centre at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Achievements, shortcomings, challenges
The Venezuelan government has not achieved the change of economic paradigm it promised. Measures against poverty do not affect structural income inequality, while improvements in political participation operate within the logic of an authoritarian political system. [more]
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