Political culture
National Gallery’s ‘Democracy’ looks at Southern European history and art
A new and timely exhibition titled "Democracy" that opens at the National Gallery of Art on Thursday explores the relationship of art with political history in southern Europe.
The exhibition will open to the public on Friday (July 12) and run to February 2, 2025.
A still-fresh mandate
It's been just 10 months since the last national election and the government won by a landslide. So, it is ludicrous from both a political and democratic standpoint that its legitimacy should come into question in any way, shape or form.
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Scientists announce discovery of “very strange” 240 million-year-old “Chinese dragon” fossil
Myth of reality?
Hill condemned last night's vandalism
He added that the legitimacy of democratic processes depends on transparency and everyone's willingness to respect the will of the people.
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AI and its potential impact on liberal democracy
Since 1992, Francis Fukuyama has often been called upon to explain how his prediction of the definitive dominance of the liberal democracy model after the fall of communism has been tested by events - by the internal convulsions in Western democracies and by the apparent success of authoritarian regimes such as China. But his theory has never lost its appeal.
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Two arrested for vandalizing minister’s office
Two men were arrested for vandalizing the Athens office of Alternate Foreign Affairs Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis on Friday.
The suspects were among a group of self-styled anarchists who spray-painted slogans on the walls and scattered fliers in what appeared to be a protest at the government's migration policy.
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US Push for Decentralisation May not Solve Bosnia’s Problems
In his current statements to the regional media, Serwer has presented some possible measures supposedly intended to reform the Dayton arrangement. His argumentation is based primarily on a call for more centralisation that would limit the powers of Bosnia's ethnically defined entities and cantons.
Why Greeks traditionally decorate a boat instead of a Christmas Tree
The true origin of a tradition
Brave New World: The State and Technological Revolution
This description applies both to the first Industrial Revolution and to our current moment. One way or another, the wave of technological revolution underway today will require a new theory of state.
Students to discuss stance after anarchist cache raid
Students at the Athens University of Economics and Business are expected to meet Wednesday to decide on their stance following a police raid on the campus earlier this month that turned up an anarchist cache of makeshift weapons.