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The article examines the messages and political expression of the EZLN in Mexico, focussing on the political writings, declarations, letters, interviews and prose produced y the Zapatistas. The movement has created an important mediatic presence which has no precedent in the history of guerrilla movements and ethnic conflict elsewhere. The author analyses the principal ideological tenets of the EZLN and its political message in the context of this particular and exceptional form of political dissemination through discourse analysis. ; El presente artículo examina los mensajes y las expresiones políticas generadas por el Movimiento Zapatista, utilizando como unidades de análisis los escritos, declaraciones, cartas, entrevistas y la prosa aparecida en los cuentos literarios. Este movimiento ha logrado ocupar un espacio mediático sin precedentes en la historia de las guerrillas y de los conflictos étnicos mundiales. En este sentido, la autora reflexiona sobre los principales bagajes ideológicos del EZLN y sus mensajes políticos a partir de la particularidad y excepcionalidad de su conformación y composición.

As China and India evolve into superpowers, what is the reaction of Singapore? The thoughts of three strategic thinkers are compared: Michael Leifer, Kishore Mabhubani and Tommy Koh. Though differing in their perspectives, they concur that Singapore's long-term survival is dependent on its being a proactive and sociable member of a regional order, be it with a core that is accomodationist, civilisationally-oriented or idealistically pragmatic. (CIJ/GIGA)

Political functions of demonstrative emotional behavior have been extensively studied by Western medievalists, but little, if at all, discussed by scholars of Rus. This article offers an analyis of representations of emotions in Russian political narratives; it is informed by the concept of Spielregeln («rules of play»), developed by the German historian Gerd Althoff, and by application of anthropological theories to the medieval studies practiced by Anglophone scholars, such as Stephen White and Paul Hyams. These historians showed that societies lacking explicit normative documents regulated political and social interaction by means of implicit «rules of play» manifested in ritual behaviors. Public display of emotions was probably the most prominent among such behaviors. A comparison of information derived from Russian primary sources with the picture that emerges from scholarly literature on emotions in political narratives of the high medieval West suggests that social functions of emotions and the ways to send a political message by means of public emotional display were essentially the same in Rus and Latin Europe.

The EU-Turkey Statement was introduced in March 2016 as a solution to the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, with the aim of limiting irregular migration to Europe and securing the EU's external borders. As an act of externalization of the European border and migration control, the agreement has been regarded as controversial. This paper attempts to answer how the EU-Turkey Statement has been framed in the political discourse as an attempt to legitimize the externalization of European border and migration management to a 'safe third country'. The research question will be addressed through document and discourse analysis, and with the analytical lenses of humanitarianization, securitization and externalization of the Statement, its evaluations, and the political discourses surrounding it. In summary, the result of this analysis shows that the EU-Turkey Statement has been framed as a humanitarian and security crisis in order to justify a questionable externalization policy.