The human encounter with the Divine Reality is often with a personal God. Using Eric Voegelin's hermeneutic, the symbol “Person” is rich in implications, some of which are evident in religious texts, some of which is explicated by John Macmurray and Emmanuel Mournier. These implications...

In 2005, Joseph Lane Jr. remarked: “Whenever we get a new war, we get a new Thucydides.” The fact that scholars and policymakers have turned to the History in response to the two world wars, the Cold War, the Gulf War, the more recent Iraq War and the “war on terror” demonstrates the...

This paper explores the evolution of the bases of mass partisan support for the Brazilian Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) since 1989, when public opinion data first became available. In this period, the proportion of Brazilians who identify as petistas grew from about 5% to 25%. In this paper we...

This paper deals with the concepts of disorder within the theoretical framework of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Eric Voegelin. I will try to give a very brief and un-finished insight into the use of a comparative approach concerning both theories and it is therefore just a first step into two...

Several recent works, such as Brian Balogh's Government Out of Sight and Sheldon Pollack's War, Revenues, and State Building, have attacked the “weak state” trope in the American political development literature. My paper intends to assess this revisionist literature. The argument is the...

Current research on self-determination conflicts -- whether they manifest in separatist, secessionist, or autonomy demands -- tends to grant causal supremacy heavily to the last couple of decades. I argue that this tight historical focus misses much of the explanation for why it is that such...

Besides their ideas and social networks, émigré intellectuals bring with themselves practices for engagement with intellectual work. This article focuses on one such practice: the intellectual Kreis [circle]. It focuses on the Geistkreis, an interwar Viennese interdisciplinary intellectual...

This article offers a historical analysis of the contributions of U.S. interwar agricultural economics to the economics of information. Concerned with improving the circulation of information on agricultural markets, agricultural economists analyzed the relationship between agents’ information...

The Great Depression was the most devastating and destructive economic event to afflict the global economy since the beginning of the twentieth century. What, then, were the origins of the Great Depression and what have we learned about the appropriate policy responses to economic depressions...