Paul-Erik Korvela
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul-Erik Korvela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul-Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Korvela |
| SIGNATURE | KORVELA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Democratic Innovations, or Innovating Democracy
From Utopia to Dystopia
Farewell to Anarchy
This article scrutinizes the conceptual history of international anarchy. The argument purported here is that even though the idea of international anarchy is often seen as very central for the academic discipline of international relations, the concept is in fact not found from the forerunners or classics of the discipline. The assumption of international anarchy is commonly seen as a defining feature of a Realist school of international relatio…
The Ancient Pedigree of Post-Factualism
nonPeerReviewed
Widening the scope of comparative political theory
nonPeerReviewed
Postdemocracy and the End of History
The article asserts that certain trends and developments are possibly threatening democracy in established democracies. Even though democracy might not face any external challengers, as an ideology it nevertheless faces threats endemic to itself. There are clearly detectable trends that possibly transform or have already transformed established democracies into postdemocracies, managed democracies or controlled democracies. Thus, democracy might …
Sources of governmentality
The article scrutinizes Michel Foucault’s interpretation of Machiavelli in his famous lecture on governmentality. Foucault is slightly misguided in his search for the origins of governmentality, the article asserts. Foucault gives credit for the development of what he calls a new art of government to anti-Machiavellian treatises, but also follows those treatises in their distorted interpretation of Machiavelli. Consequently, Foucault’s analysis g…
The Horror, the Horror
nonPeerReviewed
Geopolitics of the Cosmopolis
Through an analysis of a speech held by Finnish Minister of Defence Jyri Häkämies at CSIS in Washington in 2007, the article scrutinizes the new emergence of “geopolitics” in international politics. Although its novelty is debatable, in this new geopolitical discourse the main focus is not related to the spatial borders of a nation state but instead to securing territory beyond these borders. It seems that “common values”, basically undefined but…
Refounding Modern Political Thought
nonPeerReviewed
Machiavelli’s Critique of Christianity
peerReviewed
Nascono liberi e non schiavi”
Sources of governmentality
The article scrutinizes Michel Foucault’s interpretation of Machiavelli in his famous lecture on governmentality. Foucault is slightly misguided in his search for the origins of governmentality, the article asserts. Foucault gives credit for the development of what he calls a new art of government to anti-Machiavellian treatises, but also follows those treatises in their distorted interpretation of Machiavelli. Consequently, Foucault’s analysis g…
From Utopia to Dystopia
Nascono liberi e non schiavi”
Machiavelli’s Critique of Christianity
peerReviewed
Refounding Modern Political Thought
nonPeerReviewed
Geopolitics of the Cosmopolis
Through an analysis of a speech held by Finnish Minister of Defence Jyri Häkämies at CSIS in Washington in 2007, the article scrutinizes the new emergence of “geopolitics” in international politics. Although its novelty is debatable, in this new geopolitical discourse the main focus is not related to the spatial borders of a nation state but instead to securing territory beyond these borders. It seems that “common values”, basically undefined but…
The Horror, the Horror
nonPeerReviewed
Sources of governmentality
The article scrutinizes Michel Foucault’s interpretation of Machiavelli in his famous lecture on governmentality. Foucault is slightly misguided in his search for the origins of governmentality, the article asserts. Foucault gives credit for the development of what he calls a new art of government to anti-Machiavellian treatises, but also follows those treatises in their distorted interpretation of Machiavelli. Consequently, Foucault’s analysis g…
Postdemocracy and the End of History
The article asserts that certain trends and developments are possibly threatening democracy in established democracies. Even though democracy might not face any external challengers, as an ideology it nevertheless faces threats endemic to itself. There are clearly detectable trends that possibly transform or have already transformed established democracies into postdemocracies, managed democracies or controlled democracies. Thus, democracy might …
Widening the scope of comparative political theory
nonPeerReviewed
The Ancient Pedigree of Post-Factualism
nonPeerReviewed
Farewell to Anarchy
This article scrutinizes the conceptual history of international anarchy. The argument purported here is that even though the idea of international anarchy is often seen as very central for the academic discipline of international relations, the concept is in fact not found from the forerunners or classics of the discipline. The assumption of international anarchy is commonly seen as a defining feature of a Realist school of international relatio…
From Utopia to Dystopia
Democratic Innovations, or Innovating Democracy
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)