Articles, tagged with "sam vaknin"

Reprinted with permission from: "The Second Civil War in the USA and its Aftermath" by Sam Vaknin (second, revised impression, 2029) Summary of Chapter 83 "The polities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries swung between extremes of nationali... Read >
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Pathological Narcissism, Group Behaviour, and TerrorismBy: Sam Vaknin1. What is pathological narcissism?All of us have narcissistic TRAITS. Some of us even develop anarcissistic PERSONALITY. Moreover, narcissism is a SPECTRUM ofbehaviours - from the healt... Read >
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Immigrants and the Fallacy of Labour ScarcitySam VakninUPI Senior Business CorrespondentSkopje, MacedoniaFirst Read:Migration and Brain Drainhttp://samvak.tripod.com/pp118.htmlJean-Marie Le Pen - France's dark horse presidential contender - isclearly emot... Read >
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The Sickly State of Public HospitalsSam VakninUPI Senior Business CorrespondentSkopje, MacedoniaHospitals are caught in the crossfire of a worldwide debate. Shouldhealthcare be completely privatized - or should a segment of it be leftin public hands? As t... Read >
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Games People PlayBy: Sam VakninGames and role-playing are as ancient as Mankind. Rome's state-sponsoredlethal public games may have accounted for up to one fifth of its GDP. Theyoften lasted for months. Historical re-enactments, sports events, chess -are ... Read >
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And Then There Were Too ManyBy: Sam VakninThe latest census in Ukraine revealed an apocalyptic drop of 10% in itspopulation - from 52.5 million a decade ago to a mere 47.5 million lastyear. Demographers predict a precipitous decline of one third in Russia... Read >
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Private ArmiesBy: Sam VakninLast week, Christopher Deliso recounted in antiwar.com that Dutch Radio,based on reports leaked by a Dutch military analysis firm, accused the USgovernment of aiding and abetting terrorists in Macedonia. Not for the firsttime, ... Read >
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Why the Beatles Made More Money than Einstein By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Why did the Beatles generate more income in one year than Albert Einstein did throughout his long career? The reflexive answer i... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Winning the European CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" According to a June 2005 OECD report, and contrary to popular, media- fostered impressions, farm subsidies are being phased o... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

To Give with Grace By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Yankee Go Home. Nato is Nazo. American trash culture. The graffiti adorn every wall, the contempt seems to be universal. America and Americans are perceived... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Future of the Book By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" One of the first acts of the French National Assembly in 1789 was to issue this declaration: "The free communication of thought and opinion is one of the ... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Golden Sham - Privatizing with Golden Shares By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" In a rare accord, both the IMF and independent analysts, have cautioned Bulgaria in early 2002 that its insistence on keeping g... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, Bellaonline, and eBookWeb, a United ... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Internet in the Countries in Transition By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Though the countries in transition are far from being an homogeneous lot, there are a few denominators common to their Internet exp... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Last Family By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" There is no word for it in Russian. Platon Karatayev, the typical "Russian soul" in Tolstoy's "War and Peace", extols, for pages at a time, the virtues of commun... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Magla Vocables By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The Macedonians have a word for it - "Magla", fog. It signifies the twin arts of duplicity and ambiguity. In the mental asylum that the swathe of socialist co... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Matrix Revisited By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" It is easy to confuse the concepts of "virtual reality" and a "computerized model of reality (simulation)". The former is a self- contained Universe, replet... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Medium and the Message By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" A debate is raging in e-publishing circles: should content be encrypted and protected (the erstwhile Barnes and Noble or Digital goods model) - or sho... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Pettifogger Procurators By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Four years ago, the most unusual event has gone unnoticed in the international press. A former minister of finance has accused the more prominent mem... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Rip van Winkle Institutions By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The West - naive, provincial and parochial - firmly believed that the rot was confined to the upper echelons of communist and socialist societi... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Russian Devolution - Regions and Center in Putin's Russia By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" A centerpiece of President's Putin overhaul of Russia is the reversion to the Kremlin of the power to appoint gover... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Technology of Law, The Law of Technology By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" "The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make it its home for... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Eureka Connection By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" A common, guttural cry of "Eureka" echoed as the peoples of East Europe and the Balkans emerged from the Communist steam bath. It was at once an expression... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Expat Experts By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Lewis Carroll wrote: "Curtsy while you're thinking of something to say. It saves time." What a missed career. He should h... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Encroachment of the Public By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" As Aristotle and John Stuart Mill observed, the private sphere sets limits, both normative and empirical, to the rights, powers, and obligations... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Author of This Article is a Racist By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Or, so say many of the readers who react vehemently - not to say minaciously - to my articles. They insist that I demonize, chastise, disp... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Demise of the West? By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The edifice of the "international community" and the project of constructing a "world order" rely on the unity of liberal ideals at the core of the organ... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Books of the Damned By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" "I have gone into the outer darkness of scientific and philosophical transactions and proceedings, ultra-respectable, but covered with the dust of disreg... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Jamaican OverDrive - Outsourcing and Offshoring Case Study By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) tried and failed to find proof or traces of widespread ... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Knowledge and Power By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" "Knowledge is Power" goes the old German adage. But power, as any schoolboy knows, always has negative and positive sides to it. Information exhibits the sam... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Internet Advertising - What Went Wrong? By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Spielberg's blockbuster, "Minority Report", is set in the year 2054. The future - at least according to a team of MIT futurologists, hi... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Hitler and the Invention of the West By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" In his book - really an extended essay - "Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order" - Robert Kagan claims that the p... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Electricity Markets in Eastern Europe By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Russia's lower house, the Duma, debated, in November 29, 2002 a far reaching reform in the bloated and inefficient electricity generatio... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Entertaining the Masses in Transition By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" A June 2005 IREX report, quoted by the Southeast Europe Times (SE Times), analyzes the media in countries in transition from Communism by... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Europe's Agricultural Revolution By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The June 2005 budget summit in Brussels foundered on the issue of farm support and subsidies which now consume directly 46.2% of the European ... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Digital Object Identifiers and the Future of Online Content - Part II By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" http://www.doi.org/ The DOI Foundation has unveiled the DOI-EB (EB stands for e-books) Initiative in the Boo... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

A Comment on Campaign Finance Reform By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The Athenian model of representative participatory democracy was both exclusive and direct. It excluded women and slaves but it allowed the ... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

A Taxonomy of Political Conflict In Central and Eastern Europe By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" When the current government of Macedonia came to power and I signed on as its economic advisor, I was asked by local j... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a systemic, all- pervasive condition, very much like pregnancy: either you have it or you don't. Once you have it, you have it day an... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists using the future stream of dividends emanating from their share holdings to send their kids to college or as co... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Why do We Love to Hate Celebrities By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Q. Fame and TV shows about celebrities usually have a huge audience. This is understandable: people like to see other successful people. ... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Abu Ghraib Syndrome - Why Good People Ignore Abuse By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Why do good people - church-goers, pillars of the community, the salt of the earth - ignore abuse and neglect, even whe... Read >
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The Natural Roots of Sexuality By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Recent studies in animal sexuality serve to dispel two common myths: that sex is exclusively about reproduction and that homosexuality is an ... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The New Europeans By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Many of the nations of central and east Europe have spent most of their history as components of one empire or another. People in this region are used to be... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Psychology of Torture By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" There is one place in which one's privacy, intimacy, integrity and inviolability are guaranteed - one's body, a unique temple and a familiar terri... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Women in Transition - From Post Feminism to Past Femininity By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" "[In]... the brothels off Wenceslas Square, in central Prague, [where] sexual intercourse can be bought for USD 25... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Acquired Situational Narcissism By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a systemic, all- pervasive condition, very much like pregnancy: either you have it or you don... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The False Maps of Maskirovka By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" In the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, maps lied. Whole towns were placed incorrectly, omitted altogether, minimized, exaggerated, or dist... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The euro and the History of Previous Currency Unions By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" I. The History of Monetary Unions "Before long, all Europe, save England, will have one money". This was written by Wil... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Emerging Water Wars By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Growing up in Israel in the 1960's, we were always urged to conserve precious water. Rainfall was rare and meager, the sun scorching, our only sweet w... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

The Classification of Cultures By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Culture is a hot topic. Scholars (Fukoyama, Huntington, to mention but two) disagree about whether this is the end of history or the beginning ... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Surviving on Nuclear Waste By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" On May 11, 2005, Romania will host a two-day exercise simulating a nuclear accident. It will be conducted at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant. But... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Russia's Energy Sector By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The pension fund of the Russian oil giant, Lukoil, a minority shareholder in TV-6 (owned by a discredited and self-exiled Yeltsin- era oligarch, Bori... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Skopje - Where Time Stood Still By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Frozen at an early morning hour, the stony hands of the giant, cracked clock commemorate the horror. The earthquake that struck Skopje in 19... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The noted economist, Julian Simon, once quipped: "Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no mat... Read >
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German State Elections Compared By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The May 22, 2005 elections in North Rhine-Westphalia (with 18 million inhabitants, Germany's most populous state) are expected to determine ... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

A Dialog about Anti-Semitism By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Rabid anti-Semitism, coupled with inane and outlandish conspiracy theories of world dominion, is easy to counter and dispel. It is the more "reas... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" "I believe that when man evolves a civilization higher than the mechanized but still primitive one he has now, the eating of human flesh will be sanctioned. For then man will h... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" "It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the e... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin

What Makes a Leader? By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" How does a leader become a leader? In this article, we are not interested in the historical process but in the answer to the twin questions: what qualifies... Read >
Author: Sam Vaknin