Paul Ghils

Doctor in Philosophy, professor emeritus of the Free university of Brussels, He taught language sciences and international relations in Algeria, Gabon, Mexico, Iran and Belgium. From 1985 to 2005, he edited Transnational Associations, the journal of the Union of International Associations (UIA), which also publishes the Yearbook of International Relations), and created the cosmopolitical journal Cosmopolis in 2007. He has published numerous studies at the intersection of philosophy, language science and political science. and the and now edits a terminology and conceptual database on various subfields of international relations, hosted by the European Observatory for Plurilingualism (EOP).

Editorial

Cosmopolis A Review of Cosmopolitics   2016/1   Presentation   Between the legal order observed by René-Jean Dupuy and his description of a possible Terrestrial City, and the tragic events that undermined the notion of a common humanity in 1915, Florian Aumond examines the symptoms of an emerging […] awareness of human destiny. René-Jean Dupuy’s […]

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Editorial Dominique de Courcelles et Paul Ghils This issue addresses the general concept of “spirituality” as it appears in various cultural contexts and timeframes, through contrasting ideological views. Without necessarily going back to artistic and religious remains of primitive men, which unquestionably show pursuits beyond the biophysical dimension and illustrate practices seeking to unveil the

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A critique of surveillance Presentation Paul GHILS Cosmopolis welcomes Philippe-Joseph Salazar as a guest editor of this special issue, devoted to the theme of “surveillance” in its varying forms and perceptions across the world. The current upsurge of surveillance policies and, to a minor extent, of defensive movements to limit their expansion, appears to parallel

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Presentation Paul GHILS This issue features a couple of papers on the concept of « anthropocene », which has been coined to name the increasing impact of human activities on the global environment. Its significance is so great that some scientists have proposed that a new […] geological era has begun. For their part, social scientists have

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Presentation Fabio La Rocca discusses the components of the postmodern city in the framework of a socio-anthropological ‘climatology with a view to explaining the social architectonic of contemporary urban worlds through the expressive forms used by individuals to participate in the collective effervescence of urban environments. Luciana Alvarez examines political conflict and life in the

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Presentation In an important interdisciplinary study, John P. Abraham and a team of American and Australian climate scientists find evidence that the science of global warming sceptics, otherwise described as revisionists, is less robust than the mainstream scientific community, which supports the central tenets of anthropogenic climate change. Contrary to major contrarian views and corresponding

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