Globalization and the “Democracy” in the Shadow of Power

Number: 23 May 1, 2017
  • Nurhayat Çalışkan Akçetin
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Globalization and the “Democracy” in the Shadow of Power

Abstract

Considering the historical developments, democracy as a form of governing people by people may have different meanings depending on the development level of societies. The concept of democracy which expresses a political transformation of modernism contains such elements as the rule of law, legal equality, and freedom. However, as discourse of democracy proves freedom, equality and justice, it may also be used as a tool to hide oppression, domination, inequality and injustice and unfortunately human rights have been used as a political weapon. The Reformation and the Renaissance which paved the way for modernism and hence democracy placed the general morality outside the social and political spheres. Modernism has reduced all down to secularism, and taken no heed of a priori principles. It has also disregarded whatever has been considered celestial for the sole purpose of establishing a global dominion over the earth, something which it has done for the quasi-single aim of increasing human freedom, equality and happiness. Today the whole world of the moral life are experiencing expatriated state with capitalism’s effect, the moral of the community the opportunity to representation in the environment can not be effective, public morality is losing its binding force. Thus, an individuals can not find the opportunity to lean on.top norms which will surround him in all respects. Therefore, in the area of rights and freedoms, interests have been at the forefront instead of universality. Because economic interests have become increasingly active on international relations and foreign policy. The capital owners both nationally and internationally shaped states in accordance with its own interests by putting pressure on governments. Furthermore, notions such as freedom, justice, democracy and human rights have become tools of justification for global-international forces to cover their imperial aims.

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Nurhayat Çalışkan Akçetin This is me

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May 1, 2017

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Year 1970 Number: 23

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Çalışkan Akçetin, Nurhayat. 2017. “KÜRESELLEŞME VE GÜCÜN GÖLGESİNDEKİ ‘DEMOKRASİ’”. FLSF Felsefe Ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, nos. 23: 123-38. https://izlik.org/JA27RF63TG.

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