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Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introductory Chapter: Cultural Change in Political Communities and Twenty Years of Crisis in the Twenty-First Century -- 1 Illiberal Challenges to the Wave of Democratization -- 2 The Hobbesian Challenge to the Post-Cold War International Political Community -- 3 The Volume -- References -- Contemporary Conflict, Political Participation and Cultural Change -- Societies Open to Conflict: Political Culture and Digitalization in the European Political Landscape -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Research Issue, Approach, and Aims -- 3 Classic Political Culture Theory and Its Cybernetics Foundation -- 3.1 Classic Approach to Political Culture and Political Participation -- 4 European Union's Digitalization Program and Its Significance -- 4.1 Digital Transformation of Society and Polity in EU Member Countries -- 4.2 Far Implications of the Digitalization Program -- 5 The Cultural Change: Areas and Patterns -- 5.1 Models of Political Organization: Governance Networking -- 5.2 Political Stability in Western and Eastern European Countries -- 5.3 Political Participation -- 5.4 Populist Political Ideologies and Parties -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Lower Spectrum Conflict Mechanisms -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 State of the Art -- 1.2 Theoretical Approach -- 2 Agents' Typology -- 2.1 Conflicting Arrangements -- 2.2 Attempt for a Generic Phasic Pattern of LSCM -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Political Culture and Political Agency: From Gaugamela to Mosul -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The History of Political Culture in a Nutshell -- 3 From Alexander the Great to ISIS -- 3.1 The Battle of Gaugamela -- 3.2 The Battle of Mosul (2014) and ISIS -- 3.3 The Islamic State and Its Success in the Conquest of Mosul -- 4 Conclusion -- References.
Personalism, Symbolism, and Power in San Luis, Argentina. Cultural Change and Political Practices in San Luis, Argentina -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Existence of the Social -- 3 Predominant Properties and Practices, Facts and Actions -- 3.1 The Cultural Pattern: Personalism from the Three Existences of the Social Cultural Patterns -- 3.2 Personalism from the Three Existences of the Social -- 3.3 Personalism as Communication -- 4 Participation and Citizen Mobilization with Personalist Leaders -- 4.1 About Participation -- 5 Personalism as a Cultural Pattern -- 6 Local Politics in San Luis -- 6.1 Poggi -- 6.2 Election Narratives 2021 -- 7 Democratic Culture and Political Culture -- 7.1 Cultural Change or Change of Political Practices -- References -- The Shift in Kazakhstan Citizens' Political Participation: Pre and Post the 2019 Political Transition -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 Political Engagement of Kazakhstanis in the Closing Decade of Nazarbayev's Rule -- 4 The Political Awakening of Kazakhstan Citizens Following Nazarbayev's Resignation in 2019 -- 5 The Influence of January 2022 and Russia's War in Ukraine on Kazakhs' Political Activism -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Populism, Extremism and Cultural Change -- Populism, Extremism and Cultural Change as Traceable in the European Value Study -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The European Value Study -- 2.1 Availability of Variables for Comparisons Between Countries and Waves -- 2.2 Availability of Variables for Detecting Cleavages Within Countries and Their Development Over Time -- 3 Methods -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Items Reflecting Attitudes with Respect to Government and Private Responsibility and Towards Income Differences -- 4.2 The Role of Immigrants and the Possible Enlargement of the European Union -- 4.3 What Children Should Learn.
4.4 Variables Measuring What Behaviour People Believe to Be Justifiable -- 4.5 Questions Asking Respondents in Which Institutions They Have Confidence -- 4.6 Satisfaction with the Political System -- 4.7 Democracy at the End of the 2010s -- 4.8 Correlations Between Factors -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Polish-Belarus Border in the Political Narrative During the Migration Crisis in 2021-2022 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Security of the State in the Political Discourse -- 3 The Function of the Borders -- 4 The Strategic Narrative -- 5 The Narrative of Border Protection -- 6 Securitization of Migration and the Figure of the Stranger -- 7 The Escalation of Polish-Belarus Border Crisis -- 8 Conclusions -- References -- Make Live and Let Die: Biopolitical Borders, Migrants, and Refugees in PiS's Poland -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Biopolitical Security and Bordering in the (Post)biopolitical Approach -- 3 "Invaders" Versus "brothers": The Double-Janus Face of PiS Discourse on Refugees and Migrants -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Promoting Peace to End Russia's War Against Ukraine: An Unholy Alliance Between the Far Right and Far Left in Germany? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 Comparative Analysis of Peace Communications by the Alternative for Germany and the Left -- 4 Outlook -- References -- The Impact of War in Ukraine on the Political and Ideological Agenda of European Post-communist State Conservative Populists: The Case of EKRE -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Definitions -- 1.2 Methodology -- 2 Literature Review: Pseudo-conservative Populist Politics in Post-communist Europe -- 2.1 Contextualizing Populist Politics: Major Vectors of Impact -- 2.2 The Nature of Post-communist Populism: A Tale of Three Discourses, the Populist, the Pseudo-democratic, and the Pseudo-conservative -- 3 Conservative Populist Parties in Post-communist Europe.
3.1 Attitudes Towards the Kremlin and Russia Before and After 2022. Pro-Russian and Anti-Russian Discourses -- 3.2 The Defense of Neo-traditionalist Values. Critical Right-Wing Populist Discourse Towards the Courts, Sexual Minorities, and Migrants -- 4 EKRE and Its Rhetoric: The Populist Layer -- 4.1 Governance Techniques: Majoritarian Democracy -- 5 EKRE's Conservative Populism in the Context of Kremlin's Rhetoric and Deeds -- 5.1 The Different Discourses of EKRE Politicians and Attitudes to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- The Russia Discourses of Estonian Populists: Before and After the War in Ukraine -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual Frame -- 3 Presenting the Case -- 4 From Intransigence to Accommodation with Russia -- 5 Russophones as an Electoral Resource -- 6 The War in Ukraine: Old Legacies and New Contexts -- 7 Conclusions -- References -- War of Narratives and Revisionist Challenge-The Evolving Strategic Partnership Between the New Right Movement in the United States and the Russian Federation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conservative Crusade Against Western Liberalism -- 3 Strategic Narratives can Change the World -- 4 The Culture of Fear and the Insecurity Dilemma in Highly Securitized Societies -- 5 Conservative Revolution: The Emergence of New Right Ideology in the United States -- 6 Vladimir Putin and His Strategic Challenge -- 7 Conclusions -- References -- Afterword.
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