Pomodernus modernybės atsakas

Review: Gellner, Ernest. 1992. Postmodernizmas, protas ir religija. Vilnius: Pradai.Recenzija: Gellner, Ernest. 1992. Postmodernizmas, protas ir religija. Vilnius: Pradai

Lietuva NATO misijoje Afganistane : tarp idealizmo ir pragmatizmo

Straipsnyje visų pirma siekiama parodyti, kaip Lietuvos dalyvavimo NATO misijoje Afganistane atveju idealistinėmis retorinėmis figūromis persmelktas diskursas, kaip tam tikro Lietuvos (kaip tarptautinių santykių veikėjo) įvaizdžio kūrimo įrankis, Lietuvos valdžios pasitelkiamas siekiant pragmatinių Lietuvos užsienio politikos tikslų, orientuotų į visai kitą geografinę ir mentalinę erdvę (Lietuvoje dažnai įvardijamą kaip „transatlantinė erdvė“) nei regionas, kuriame fiziškai veikiama – Centrinė Azija – ir kuriame Lietuva neturi jokių interesų. Kartu, pasitelkiant Stefano Guzzini suformuluotus „socialinės realybės konstravimo“ ir „žinojimo socialinio konstravimo“ konceptus, analizuojamas diskurso transliuojamo vaizdinio ir realybės santykis. Straipsnyje taip pat keliamas klausimas ar, atsižvelgiant į ekonominės padėties visame pasaulyje, taip pat ir Lietuvoje, bei saugumo padėties Afganistane prastėjimą, pasirinkta užsienio politikos tikslų įgyvendinimo taktika pasiteisins ilgalaikėje perspektyvoje ir kokie galėtų būti jos tolesnės plėtotės scenarijai. Siekiant atsakyti į pastarąjį klausimą paskutinėje straipsnio dalyje analizuojama LRV naujai priimta „Lietuvos Respublikos dalyvavimo tarptautinės bendruomenės veikloje Afganistano Islamo Respublikoje 2009–2013 metų strategija“. Reikšminiai žodžiai: Afganistanas; Gyventojai; Integracija; Karinės pajėgos; Konstruktyvizmas; Saugumas; Socialinio žinojimo konstravimas; Socialinės realybės konstravimas; Tarptautiniai santykiai; Tvirtos draugystės operacija; Afghanistan; Construction of social reality; Integration, conctructyvizm; International relations; Lithuania; Military forces; Operation enduring freedom; Security; Social construction of knowledgeThe purpose of the article is first of all to show how in the case of Lithuania's participation in the NATO mission in Afghanistan the discourse that has spread by idealistic rhetoric figures, as a tool for creating a certain image of Lithuania (as an actor in international relations), is employed by the Lithuanian government to pursue pragmatic goals of the Lithuanian foreign policy oriented toward a totally different geographic and mental space (frequently named in Lithuania as "transatlantic space") than the region in which physical action takes place, i.e. Central Asia, and in which Lithuania has no interest whatsoever. At the same time, making use of the concepts "construction of social reality" and "social construction of knowledge" formulated by Stefan Guzzini, the relationship between the image broadcast through discourse and the reality are analysed. The article also asks whether taking into account the worsening worldwide economic situation, specifically in Lithuania, and the safety situation in Afghanistan, the chosen tactics of pursuing of foreign policy goals will pay off in the long term perspective and what could be scenarios for further development. To answer the latter question, the new government-endorsed "Strategy of the participation of the Republic of Lithuania in the activities of the international community in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan for the years 2009-2013" is analysed in the last part of the article

Lithuania

Regionistikos katedraVytauto Didžiojo universiteta

Country report : Lithuania

This Country Report offers a detailed assessment of religious diversity and violent religious radicalisation in the above-named state. It is part of a series covering 23 countries (listed below) on four continents. More basic information about religious affiliation and state-religion relations in these states is available in our Country Profiles series. This report was produced by GREASE, an EU-funded research project investigating religious diversity, secularism and religiously inspired radicalisation.This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 770640

The Islamic Khilafa State as a Post-/ Anti-National State Formation: Challenges of the Changing Understanding of ‘Citizen’ and ‘Nation’ to Europe

Routinely, people, who have, over the past five years, travelled to Western Asia to settle, are being referred to, in the Western popular discourse, as ‘foreign fighters’. Though, admittedly, many among them did join various armed groups, a rather significant part of them did not or even could not have become members of armed groups. This is first of all true of children who travelled with their parents but also young females, in the Western popular parlance pejoratively called ‘jihadi brides’. However, even these categories aside, those (young) men who did join armed groups in Syria and Iraq, though they may be identified as ‘fighters’, may also not be regarded (and certainly many among them do not see themselves) as ‘foreign’. As the overwhelming number of people who travelled to West Asia joined the Islamic Khilafa State (IKS), their status in the entity is more of ‘naturalized citizens’, whose naturalization process is epitomized in the joining of the armed forces of the Islamic Khilafa State. Those, who did not (or could not) join the IKS armed forces, became citizens through pledging allegiance to the khalifa (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi) and by performing what they themselves regard as compulsory hijra - relocation from the lands of unbelief to the land of Islam under the declared khilafa. The khilafa project initiated by the Islamic State is a unique phenomenon, not only from the point of view of the theories of international relations but also in respect to the classical notions of state formation and nation building, and puts the conceptualization of citizenship in a new light. As such, it poses new challenges not only from the perspective of narrow military security but also from a much broader one, particularly, to the countries, among them European, the citizens of which forsake their original social contracts for a new one

Internetiniai musulmonų šaltiniai informacinių karų kontekste - "Kavkazcenter" Lietuvoje atvejis

The ability to disseminate information to a wide audience of Internet users has become a powerful tool due to the global nature of the Internet. This is very relevant in the case of a propaganda war, during which the Internet becomes a virtual battlefield. Websites propagating ideology are set up by politically involved organisations and informal groups of Muslims who imagine themselves to be in a state of virtual warfare. One of them is “KavkazCentre”, the website of a Chechen separatist jihadist group Riyadhu as-Salihin, which is the subject of this article. As the case of this organisation shows, both Lithuanian government institutions and public institutions (the media, NGOs, private individuals) were poorly prepared for the challenge. It can be said that this case caught them all unawares. The “KavkazCentre” saga dragged Lithuania’s government and the public into a global information war vortex. And although most players were unprepared, the experience turned out to be useful – enabling weak spots in our political, judicial and public life to be identified