This article examines the socio-political, ideological, and mental prerequisites that shaped Armenia's transition to democracy following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Adopting a qualitative political-science approach that combines the historical-institutional method with a comparative analysis of the socialist and...
This article examines the agonistic turn in democratic theory, focusing primarily on the work of Chantal Mouffe. The starting point is the diagnosis of a systemic crisis of liberal democracy, which, contrary to the optimistic predictions of the late twentieth century, has not disappeared but has assumed new and more ac...
Background and Aims: This conceptual review article examines why accusations of Western double standards have become a durable frame in the contestation of the liberal international order. Existing international-relations scholarship has explained this contestation mainly through changes in material power, norm diffusi...
Charismatic authority has been widely examined in leadership studies, political sociology, social psychology, and industrial and organizational psychology. However, recent political and technological transformations indicate that leader-centered explanations alone are no longer sufficient. Political polarization, recur...
This article develops the concept of structural cynicism to explain transformations in trust, legitimacy, and public communication in late‐modern societies. Existing sociological approaches generally conceptualize cynicism as an individual attitude, a moral disposition, or a reaction to institutional failure. In cont...
Global concerns about inequality, systemic injustice, and social fragmentation have renewed interest in the Old Testament prophets and their ethical concepts of mishpat and tsedaqah. Existing studies employ lexical-theological, socio-rhetorical, liberationist, and public-theological approaches, yet remain fragmented an...
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