World Political Leaders Research Articles

Current sports safety problems in Ukraine and the world

The article is devoted to the analysis and assessment of current problems and challenges faced by sports in Ukraine and the world, in connection with global crisis processes that lead to profound social changes. In recent years, the issue of sports safety in the world has become more relevant against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in Ukraine due to military operations on its territory. Thus, security protocols are gradually undergoing changes and actions to ensure security of various levels are adapted to modern conditions. Safety instructions for mass sports events of various levels, orders of specialized services and ministries of various countries regarding the organization of events on their territory, government resolutions and laws regulating the safety of athletes, spectators and sports facilities were analyzed. Globalization processes are rapidly changing, which requires quick solutions without losing their quality. The topic of sports safety has become more relevant in recent decades. Sport is a global phenomenon that unites representatives of all social groups and strata. Although the official slogan of the international sports movement, which is supported by all its members, is: "Sports outside of politics", but at the same time, it is a powerful means of political influence and manipulation. History has seen many boycotts driven by political decisions in response to wrongful or military actions by one party against another. Everyone remembers the terrorist attacks committed at the Olympic Games and other international competitions. All this led to the intensification of the development of research in the field of sports safety. At the same time, sports competitions, especially international ones, attract the attention of a large number of spectators, which causes the desire of world political leaders, public figures, representatives of culture and art, etc. to participate in them.The study showed that the process of adaptation and response is imperfect and requires careful study and analysis, which determines the relevance of the topic.

Analysis of the online communication strategy of world political leaders during the War in Ukraine (February 24, 2022 - January 23, 2023)

This paper studies the online communication strategies of world leaders during the war in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to January 23, 2023. To analyze the collected data, various qualitative and quantitative methods such as content and sentiment analysis were used. The findings indicate that the majority of world leaders communicate via Twitter, and their tweets are mainly positive in tone. The most active communication strategies involve using hashtags related to the issues of the war, retweeting messages from other leaders, and issuing statements about the conflict. The results suggest that the participating leaders position themselves as the voice of the nation and emphasize the importance of international solidarity in achieving peace. Furthermore, the study reveals that the leaders are highly engaged in bidirectional communication, with the majority of messages focused on people's safety and the need for a diplomatic solution. The findings of this study could help policymakers understand how online communication plays a role in international conflict resolution as well as how world leaders can effectively use online communication to engage with their public.

Online communication strategy of world political leaders during the Ukraine crisis (February 24 - December 24, 2022). Comparative case study: Joe Biden, Ursula von der Leyen and Jens Stoltenberg

This case study looks at the online communication strategies of three prominent world political leaders during the Ukraine crisis in February-December 2022. Using the case studies of U.S. President Joe Biden, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, this study examines how the three leaders used online communication tools to shape their respective strategies and communicate their messages to the international community. Through an in-depth analysis of each leader's approach to online communication, the study reveals how the three leaders used varying levels of engagement, commentary, and content to project strength, unity, and stability during a time of significant international tension. It also highlights how each leader used different strategies to reach and engage a global audience, indicating a clear need to understand the nuances of online communication to successfully navigate complex global crises. The study ultimately suggests that strategic use of online communication can be a powerful tool for world leaders in times of international crisis.

POLITICAL CARICATURE AS A KIND OF CREOLIZED TEXT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CRISIS OF UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE GREEK PRESS)

Using scientific works in the field of creolized text theory, an attempt was made to analyze the specific features of political caricature in Greek mass media discourse, as well as to identify the role of verbal and nonverbal components of creolized political caricature texts in conditions of hybrid warfare. The research department of 162 political caricatures of national and world political leaders and international events in the context of the crisis of Ukrainian-Russian relations served as the material of the presented work. Illustrations were selected from the Greek media, including newspapers, magazines, social networks, thematic blogs and websites. The subject of research in this work were structural, lexical-semantic, graphic and historical-cultural characteristics of the creolized text of political caricature in Greek and English. In order to achieve this goal, the authors of the article solved the following tasks: 1) define the concept of «creolized text» and give synonymous definitions; 2) identify the characteristics of political caricature as a genre / type of creolized text in political, media and artistic discourses; 3) analyze and describe the relationship between the structural components of the creolized text of a political caricature; 4) identify common stylistic devices of political caricature and give examples. The performed analysis of the works showed that the real world in the information space is transmitted through the prism of metaphor, irony, antithesis, animation, personification, metonymy, and synecdoche. The work highlights the leading anthropomorphic and zoomorphic images of famous political leaders, as well as strategies and tactics of their formation in terms of cognitive metaphor. Common tactics in political cartoons include tactic of «hanging» labels, tactic of contemptuously ironic belittling of any advantages of the target (strength, significance, quality, scale, etc.), and tactic of exaggeration of its disadvantages.

EMPIRICAL APPROACH OF REVITALIZING SOCIETY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: A SHORT ANALYSIS OF SAYYED JAMAL AL-DIN AFGHANI'S POLITICAL THOUGHT

Sayyed Jamal al-Din Afghani was a philosopher, influential Islamic thinker, and political activist in the 19th century in Asia. He is well known for his Intellectual contributions and political thoughts. The pan-Islamic movement, Al wahada Islamiya terminology, and the literature about awareness against western thought were Afghani's most influential works. Moreover, Afghani's political thought has significantly impacted the leaders, Muslim countries, and Islamic civilization. This study aims to explore and analysis of Sayyed Jamal al-Din Afghani's political thought and its impact on the Muslim world. This article conducted the qualitative method to analyze his writings and recent articles, journals, and books. This study has found that the political principles and philosophical approaches of Seyyed Jamal Uddin Afghani and it has a significant role in constantly striving to unite Islamic societies and save them from colonial oppression. Moreover, this article has illustrated Afghani's approach and how he came up with solutions for Muslim countries affected by western civilization in the 19th century. Finally, the Islamic world's political leaders should take Sayyed Jamal al-Din Afghani's political and intellectual ideas for their countries and societies to regain the Islamic civilization.

COVID-19 Metaphoric Blends in Media Discourse

The study aims at describing COVID-19 metaphorical representations in media discourse. The analysis of conceptual metaphors in political and medical discourse enables a reconstruction of metaphorically based knowledge of coronavirus in English speech communities. Being produced by world political leaders and media presenters these conceptual metaphors influence the socialunderstanding of the novel disease both directly and indirectly. The study is based on the Conceptual Metaphor theory, Conceptual Integration theory and Discourse analysis. The range of the target domain COVID-19 includes the following source domains: WAR and PERSON. The latter is further elaborated as GUEST, INTRUDER, ENEMY, CRIMINAL, SPY, TEACHER. The focus is on the cross-space mappings which present the sets of systematic correspondences between the target and source domains. The novel conceptualisations based on the conventional use of metaphoric patterns are analysed within the framework of the following cognitive devices: extending, elaboration, questioning, and combining. The conceptual blends and emergent structures that provide additional layers of COVID-19 interpretation are represented by means of Conceptual Integration Networks, namely, double- and multiple-scope models. The analysis reveals that the conceptual metaphor COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS WAR is mostlyrepresented in political discourse that refers to the disease as a general threat to the world. In medical discourse the metaphor COVID-19 IS PERSON is objectified, with further elaboration of the source domain. The correlation COVID-19 IS TEACHER reveals positive connotations of the phenomenon.

Economic security theory: stages of development and transition to a new reality

The process of formation and development of the theory of economic security is objectively related to the cyclical nature of economic development. Economic security as a phenomenon is of little interest to researchers in prosperous periods of economic activities. On the contrary, during periods of economic crises, scientific analysis of the risks and threats to the national economy in foreign markets and the reasons for the decline in the efficiency of domestic production comes to the fore. The article examines the stages of the formation and development of theoretical research in the field of economic security in the works of Western scientists, starting from the 1930s of the twentieth century, and also Russian researchers and practitioners from the 1990s up to the present. Particular attention is paid to changes in the economic security of the trends in today’s pandemic crisis and developing based on its structural and civilizational crisis in the world economy. The article substantiates that today almost all countries perceive the social factor not as a kind of addition to ensuring national economic security, but as its priority component. World political leaders, members of the public, entrepreneurs are clearly aware and widely discussing the existence of a contradiction between social and economic interests within the framework of such a phenomenon as “national economic security.” And now there is an active search for opportunities to remove this contradiction. The current situation inevitably requires clarification of the actual and potential threats to economic security for modern Russia, and the adoption of appropriate measures to prevent and neutralize them. The article also discusses the possibility of including the system of state monitoring, assessment and countering threats to socio-economic development for modern Russia in the existing institutions of state regulation at the federal and subfederal levels.

Влияние глобализации на мировое лидерство и культурное разнообразие

The paper considers the main sociopolitical trend of the modern world - globalization, which led to the emergence of terms such as global governance and global leadership. One of the characteristic features of the modern world is the interethnic diversity of images and concepts, and, accordingly, world political leaders are obliged to form effective international communications, taking into account cultural diversity. A new model of global governance is proposed, for which leaders are in demand, capable of controlling reorganization changes in modern life. The examples of the differences between the world leaders of the future are given - their cultural, emotional intelligence. Only leaders with a high level of cultural intelligence will be able to influence the trajectory of changes in the future.

CRISIS NEWS AND ONLINE PUBLIC SPHERE: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF FACEBOOK COMMENTS ON NEWS STORIES ABOUT AYLAN KURDI

Ponte Academic JournalDec 2021, Volume 77, Issue 12 CRISIS NEWS AND ONLINE PUBLIC SPHERE: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF FACEBOOK COMMENTS ON NEWS STORIES ABOUT AYLAN KURDIAuthor(s): Nadira Khanum ,Hina ShahidJ. Ponte - Dec 2021 - Volume 77 - Issue 12 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2021.12.6 Abstract:Internet specially the social media covers the most fashionable public sphere, as it gives a shared place to people to share data, information, and communication similar and different visions, possibly engaging those otherwise missed out in the leading discussions. The aim is to look for the trends of online public sphere related to the case of Aylan Kurdi – the Syrian Boy who drowned, on news stories shared by Facebook fan pages of CNN and Al Jazeera English. The study analyses around 250 user comments posted online on news stories of the fb pages. Findings revealed peace-oriented responses in the comments and online community. Al Jazeera and CNN commenters responded differently as both lamed different political actors for the crisis, although CNN commenters responded as outsiders and Al Jazeera commenters found more interested in the reasoning and logic of the incident. The online sphere is not only strengthening the social media, ornamenting, and improving the world public opinion about the different socio-economic and political crises but also compelling the world political leaders and governments, the decision-makers, to act and react for a better peaceful society. Download full text:Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution Username Password

IN THIS ISSUE

This year will focus on celebrations and reflections on occasion of the 70th anniversary of the United Nations. At the same time, the Millennium Development Goals as well as the Sustainable Development Goals for thepost-2015 era remain central items on the agenda when global governance issues and international responsibilities are discussed.Notions, which by implication always also carry a local meaning and impact on domestic policy in as much as domestic policy (not only as foreign policy) also impacts on global governance issues. The divide often maintained is more than ever artificial and misleading in the face of the global challenges humanity faces — not only in terms of environmental degradation as a resultof climate change. Many issues do not have any territorial boundaries orare transcending those.
 The inter-linkages of the local and the global (for which the term'glocal' was minted a few years ago) are obvious not only when it comes tohumanitarian disasters and emergency situations appealing to globalsolidarity, such as the recent earthquake in Nepal and its devastating consequences. Other manifestations of solidarity in a global world include the almost world-wide 'Je Suis Charlie' response and outcry to the terrorist attack on the journal and the cold-blooded execution of its cartoonists in Paris. The gathering of world leaders there in defiance of the assault on civil liberties and freedoms of expression was a symbolic act of some magnitude and brought together even deeply antagonistic political players. But at the same time the lack of similar visible and determined symbolic acts of defiance by the world's political leaders and Western civil society agencies, suggesting an absence of a similar degree of moral outcry and global protest over the ongoing slaughters and abductions by Boko Haram in Nigeria or the massacre of students at the Garissa University College in Kenya seem to suggest that we still live in times of double standards and/or selective perceptions. Humanity as well as humanbeings remain divided and seem to live in different worlds. Likewise, the tragedies taking place visibly in broad daylight on the Mediterranean Sea, reaching a scale of human loss at days bordering to the numerical proportions of 9/11, have not been met with a similar rigorous political will topromote true values of humanity.

HISTORY WRITING WITHOUT CLOSURE

ABSTRACTIn The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past, Kalle Pihlainen pays tribute to Hayden White's work on narrative constructivism through a comprehensive and critical evaluation of his work. The book's seven chapters are based on previously published and reworked essays, starting with Pihlainen's 2013 essay on narrative truth and ending with his 2006 essay on the confines of the form. The Work of History is timely in light of some world political leaders’ apparent immunity to facts, their use of history, and the role of power, as Pihlainen also discusses the ethics and politics of historical constructivism (xiii). At the same time, the book is “a meta‐critical enterprise,” as White states in his foreword (x): it scrutinizes and explains White's work and its reception, including the debates on the production of knowledge, the ontological status of historiography, the various representations of history, and the kinds of audiences historians envision. Although narrative constructivism seems a bit passé, Pihlainen wants to further elaborate this theoretical approach to disentangle and explain some fundamental misconceptions about it that still exist among historians. One misconception is that constructivism inherently neglects the ethical impulse and supposedly lacks the potential for political engagement. Pihlainen urges historians and theorists to find ways of becoming politically committed in their writings and to challenge their readers to do the same.

Offline: It's time to convene nations to end this pandemic

A historic and calamitous milestone was reached this week. WHO reported more than 10 million cases of COVID-19 and over 500 000 COVID-19 deaths. The world's political leaders have been tested and they have been found wanting. It's hard to recall a more lamentable response to a global emergency. Even the climate crisis had its Kyoto and Paris agreements. But despite the urgency of this continuing human catastrophe, despite the immediacy of the economic collapse we are witnessing, there has still been no moment when nations have been convened to reflect on lessons to be learned, to coordinate actions to protect citizens, and to plan for future spikes or waves of infection.

Twitter diplomacy as an instrument of foreign policy communication

Currently, social networks are increasingly being used as an effective medium for public diplomacy. The article is devoted to the consideration of the phenomenon of Twitter diplomacy and its role in the foreign policy of most countries of the world. The events of recent years show that Twitter has not only become a new tool in diplomatic activity, but also changed the way the diplomatic processes themselves are perceived. Diplomats and world political leaders have begun to understand the benefits of some of Twitter's services and capabilities to maintain the most favorable relationships in a networked public space. Thanks to Twitter, the relationship between social networks and diplomacy began to transform into a dynamically developing modern phenomenon, showing that social networks can play both negative (Twitter revolutions, social instability, the formation of negative public opinion, etc.), and a positive important role in building favorable relations and ensuring peace between peoples. Therefore, Twitter today remains the most popular social network for world political leaders and foreign ministries of several countries.

Выход США из парижского соглашения по климату и его возможные последствия

The article analyzes the tendencies and perspectives of the global climate problem solution in light of the United States’ withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement. The acuteness of the global warming problem is demonstrated by constantly increasing greenhouse emission rates, especially in world’s largest economies, which directly affects the climate change. The author traces the timeline of the global climate regime formation under the United Nations, with the Paris Agreement as its latest and the most progressive element. In this context, the more politically fringe looks the decision declared by the U. S. President Donald Trump in June 2017 to completely withdraw from the Agreement from purely economic considerations. The reasons and motives of the withdrawal are thoroughly investigated, conclusions are drawn regarding the effect this step would have on the United States’ own environmental perspective, its leadership position in world politics, and especially on the international environmental cooperation in the fight against global warming. As most politicians and experts agree, while Washington will undoubtedly benefit economically in the short term, this action will have severe long-term consequences. On the one hand, being one of the most serious polluters in the world scale, the U.S. will be thrown back in the matter of air protection, which would affect environmental situation not only on the American continent, but worldwide. On the other hand, Washington’s denial of its international finan¬cial obligations enshrined in the Paris Agreement and other UN documents will cause a drastic shortage in financing of the according international programs (especially in developing countries). The decision declared by D. Trump arouse big opposition both inside the country and abroad, drew strong criticism from world political leaders (including partner countries). Eventually, the United States run the risk of becoming an outsider in the international environmental cooperation (which will continue at any rate) and facing greater environmental challenges in foreseeable future.

Personality and International Politics: Insights from Existing Research and Directions for the Future

This article focuses on personalities, or individual differences, of world political leaders. After arguing that international relations theory has experienced a turn toward decision makers, I briefly overview one of the dominant approaches to the study of leader personality in foreign policy: Leadership Trait Analysis. While this research includes a number of important studies that directly challenge traditional understandings of international relations and engage with international relations theory, I argue that the subfield of personality studies in foreign policy is ripe for new theoretical and methodological developments. In the final section of this article, I outline several specific areas for future research, including a connection between foreign policy-personality approaches and the growing body of work on political leadership.

An Interdiscursive Analysis of Post-The Innocence of Muslims Political Discourse at UN Forum

This research focusses the interdiscursive analysis of political discourse to expose the hegemonic relations in the world politics. It is backgrounded in the issue of blasphemy that emerged after the release of the movie trailer The Innocence of Muslims. The researcher restricted the context of the study to the UN General Assembly meeting September 2012 where the issue was discussed in the presence of world political leaders. The data of the study contains the speech of the US president Barak Obama and is analyzed by using Fairclough’s (1992) concept of interdiscursivity and hegemony. The analysis is focused on the discourse of the dominant political actor to find out the power relations and hegemony as exposed through the interdiscursive references present in his discourse. The study concludes that the dominant political leader uses different discursive strategies to construct and sustain power relations and hegemony. Interdiscursivity helps him to construct powerful self-image and to marginalise the subordinate group by highlighting its negative aspects and suppressing its ideologies.

Sources: Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia

Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia includes two volumes of 266 entries of assassinations and attempted assassinations of world political leaders from 465 BCE to 2012. Notable names include John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler, Benazir Bhutto, Rasputin, and Osama bin Laden. The only nonpolitical person included is John Lennon, included because of his sociopolitical involvement toward the end of his life. Four entries are included on organizations involved in multiple assassinations such as the Ku Klux Klan. The entries, arranged alphabetically, include a description of the assassination, a profile of the victim, and an explanation of how the assassination or attempted assassination effected politics and society of the time.

The Role of Institutional Trust in the Adoption of Gold Dinar in Kelantan: An Empirical Analysis

The August 2007 global financial crisis has been linked to the fiat monetary system. This has made the world political leaders to call for the rebuild of the world monetary system from the scratch as was done at Breton Wood. One of the suggested options is the adoption of an alternative monetary system based on gold. In these regard, some states in Malaysia, for example, Kelantan have taken the initiative to mint their own gold dinar to be used simultaneously with the fiat money (Malaysian Ringgit). An unexplored issue in this regard is the rationale for adoption of such alternative mean of exchange. As such, this study adopts an extended theory of planned behavior (TPB) in which h u t is included as an antecedent variable in the original TPB model. Structural equation modeling analysis was carried out on data elicited from economic active residents in Kelantan via survey questionnaire. This is to assess the indirect relative explanatory strength of h u t on adoption of gold dinar in Kelantan using attitude, social norms and perceived behavioral control as mediators. The study found that the structural model fits the data. Also, h u t was found to influence adoption of the gold dinar while attitude and perceived behavioral control mediates the relationship.

Physicians’ Groups Say Nuclear Threats Are Even Greater Today Than in the Past

THROUGHOUT HISTORY, PHYSIcians and other health care workers have dealt with catastrophes, caring for the victims and often feeling helpless when a disaster is so great that many lives are instantly lost or are beyond saving. For decades, a group of physicians has been urging other clinicians, political leaders, and the public to imagine an event of apocalyptic proportions that could very possibly occur today. The cause would be nuclear war. In the early 1960s, the newly formed Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) published a comprehensive analysis of a clearly defined thermonuclear attack on the United States, including its human and ecologic consequences in a given area, specifically metropolitan Boston and southern New England (Ervin FR et al. N Engl J Med. 1962;266:1127-1137). In the Boston area alone, the analysis estimated, the blast, heat, and radiation from a thermonuclear attack would kill 1.4 million people and injure another 1.25 million. Of the latter, 1 million would die because no effective health care intervention would be possible. The authors urged physicians to educate people about such health dangers and to work to prevent them, as they do in other areas of preventive medicine (Sidel VW et al. N Engl J Med. 1962; 266[22]:1137-1145). The work by PSR grew into an international movement, leading to the 1980 founding of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which recruited more than 150 000 doctors worldwide, held numerous international conferences that included US and Russian military leaders, met with world political leaders, and appeared on specially produced television programs broadcast throughout the former Soviet Union and the United States. In 1985, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to IPPNW for its service to humankind by spreading

Simulating the Cold War: The Yalta Conference

Many of our students would rather be anywhere else on earth than in our classrooms. With the aid of the latest technologies, they have developed skills that allow them to be physically present, but mentally in another world, taking on a series of other identities—email correspondent, movie viewer, photo editor, social network commentator, and consumer, among others. Rather than despair in the face of this behavior, however, teachers can channel those escapist desires for educational purposes. This historical simulation on the 1945 Yalta Conference keeps students in the classroom but encourages and, indeed, requires them to take on new roles. Students talk, act, and walk like world political leaders, all the while paying careful consideration to an event that shaped the direction of world history for the next forty-five years. The aftermath of World War II is critical to an understanding of how the Cold War developed. As the Allied powers approached victory over Japan, Germany, and Italy, nations began diplomatic negotiations with each other which would profoundly shape the contours of the Cold War. At Yalta, the leaders of the three major Allied powers— President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union—met in February 1945 to discuss the postwar world. These leaders sought to defeat Nazi Germany as rapidly as possible, but they were also concerned about the future. Anticipating conflict with each other, American and Soviet leaders sought to establish a postwar world in their own best interests, while the British, uncomfortable as a second rate power, hoped to protect their power base and so emerge as the leader of a powerful postwar western Europe. Many Cold War disputes have their origins in the agreements and disagreements at Yalta.