Endnotes ...
Terror in Ukraine
1 Stilwell, Blake. “The 7 rules for fighting a ‘just war,” We are the Mighty, 18 October 2019. Retreived from: https://www.businessinsider.com/these-are-the-seven-rules-for-fighting-a-just-war-2019-10?r=US&IR=T
2 Sarah Repucci and Amy Slipowitz (et. al). Freedom in the World - 2022: The Global Expansion of Authoritarian Rule (Washington, D.C.: Freedom House, 2022. Retrieved from: https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/FIW_2022_PDF_Booklet_Digital_Final_Web.pdf
3 Fung, Katherine. “China President Warned Biden Democracy is Dying: You Don’t Have Time,” Newsweek, 27 May 2022. Retrieved from: https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-naval-academy-speech-china-democracy-warning-1710966
4 Gopnik, Adam. “Power Up: Are today’s dictators different,” Book Review, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022, 56); reviewing Moises Naim,The Revenge of Power. How Autocrats are Reinventing Politics for the 21st” Century (St. Martin’s); K.S. Komireddi’s “Malevolent Republic”; Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s “Strongmen”; & Surgei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tryanny in the 21st Century (Princeton)
5 Ibid, 58-59
6 Ibid, 60
7Applebaum, Anne. “The Bad Guys Are Winning,” The Atlantic, 15 November 2021.Retrieved from: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocrats-are-winning/620526/
8 Ibid.
9 Interview MSNBC. Retrieved from: https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/anne-applebaum-authoritarianism-is-on-the-rise-and-democracies-need-to-be-better-prepared-for-them-135799365821
10 Fairies, Bill. “Fiona Hill Says Putin Sensed West’s Weakness Before Ukraine War,”
Bloomberg, 5 May 2022. Retrieved from: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-05/fiona-hill-says-putin-sensed-west-s-weakness-before-ukraine-war?utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dbd%26utm_campaign%3DPol%26cmpId%3DGP.Pol
11 Zbigniew Brzezinski and Carl Friedrich. Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1956).
12Whitfield, Stephen. Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980, 95.
13 According to Whitehead in Process and Reality, uprootedness is the foundation of the abstraction: ‘to be torn up by the roots.’ And the creation of the idea is described as a tearing. See: Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality: Corrected Edition (New York: The Free Press, 1979), edited by David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne.
14 Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1973), op cit, 457.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid, 475.
17 Ibid, 478.
18 Ibid, 469.
19 Oakeshott, Michael. “Rationalism and Politics,” Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (New York: Basic Books, 1962)
20 Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism, op cit, 469.
21 Stephen Whitfield argue that, “if anything, Arendt did not sufficiently develop her definition of the totalitarian mentality as the abolition of ‘reality.’” Yet, he fails to recognize that the essential definition, which she strove for in her theory, was the cause of her failure. See: Whitfield, Stephen. Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism, op cit, 101.
22 Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism, (Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, Meridian Books, 1958/1962), 459.
23 Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism, op cit, 461-62
24 Ibid, 464
25 Orr, Robert. “Reflections on Totalitarianism, Leading to Reflections on Two Ways of Theorizing,” Political Studies, Vol. XXI, #4.
26 Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism, op cit, 465
27 Ibid, 465-66
28 Ibid, 469.
29 Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism, op cit, 471