ANTI- DIPLOMACY AND CIVIC EXISTENCE: HOW TO REINVIGORATE THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN A DEMOCRACY?

Аннотация

INTRODUCTION the current political elites as it is about POLITICS as The assertion that democracy is currently in crisis a whole, which is more like a theater of illusion or at the beginning of the 21st century actually has a soap opera aimed at stirring emotions and is no become a catchphrase. The gradual deterioration longer understandable to most citizens, the of the public sphere goes hand in hand with a low changes must not be superficial. The elites view it level of confidence in both the institutions and the as a cynical game rather than a means of political elites. Both democratic theorists and articulating and harmonizing social interests. political elites' responses to this crisis appear to ignore the real causes and, most importantly, NEOLIBERAL DEPOLITICIZATION POLICY remain extremely conservative. Any proposed The data showing a decline in citizens' interest in institutional changes are mostly cosmetic and do POLITICS, their level of political participation, and not change the system's core. Democracy does not their formal membership in political parties cannot require a refresher; rather, it requires a be used to fully comprehend the nature of the comprehensive reconstruction that involves change. Collin Hay looked at how a set of neoliberal adapting institutional infrastructure to a brand- ideas hurt politicians' definitions of POLITICS and new population and world. However, what is how people think about POLITICS. The public's required is an analysis that will go beyond the perception is that everyone, including politicians, institutional aspect of POLITICS and will not acts out of rationally understood self-interest and confine its conclusions and recommendations to simply tries to get as much of it as possible. the idea of system reform. Because the distrust is POLITICS has been subordinated to economically not so much about representative democracy and https://www.theamericanjournals.com/index.php/tajpslc 1 THE USA JOURNALS THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY (ISSN- 2693-0803) VOLUME 06 ISSUE06 understood rationality, and as a result, it has been particularize. To counter-propose a vision of an de facto depoliticized. Undermining beliefs about organization of a society that is free from political the unselfish motivations of politicians also interests, a negative image of POLITICS is created significantly contributed to a significant drop in by presenting it as the source of the ideological trust in the state as an institutional system of deformation of the world's image. representation of social interests. Therefore, depoliticization practices can be POLITICS, on the other hand, is the capacity to act justified as liberating from particularizes rather and think through a situation in which real than as destroying diversity or limiting collective or social choice is at stake. In this way, alternatives. As a result of the depoliticization of POLITICS is everywhere we are dealing with co- difference, POLITICS has been replaced by one in shaping our destiny rather than determining it, and which, regardless of our particular motivations, the issue is not limited to the individual. As a result, there is only one correct solution presented with everything outside of our control falls under the no alternatives. As a result, the purpose of category of non-POLITICS. Politicization is the politicization would be to oppose dominance in an process by which a problem is made the subject of environment where power relations are discussion, decision, and action, rather than just obstructed or subject to depoliticization, which speculation. Depoliticization, then again, is the prevents the formulation and emergence of an converse cycle, that is to say, matters that were alternative. already a subject of decision, stop being the subject ANTI-POLITICS AS A CHALLENGE of thought and are viewed as last and determined. Expanding Feed's depoliticization idea, Laura At the beginning of the 20th century, democracy Jenkins characterized Political issues as an had to deal with a growing lack of trust in imaginative, vague interaction that is politicians and political institutions. Formal characteristically complicated in nature, and its POLITICS is increasingly seen as a pointless members allude to various qualities and have, no spectacle run by public relations professionals. less than possibly, the capacity to challenge the laid While it may be impressive, formal POLITICS is not out request. politically effective from a citizen's perspective and, more importantly, it is dysfunctional from the POLITICS cannot exist without a genuine system as a whole. They are no longer able to possibility—or even a belief in the possibility of mobilize citizens because political parties no changing the existing order—of action that is longer resemble corporations that are more marked by randomness but is a reflective game concerned with the interests of their own members between the omnipresent relations