Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: UNscathed in Politics and Sociology?

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Monday, September 28, 2015

UNscathed in Politics and Sociology?

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Scapegoat

U.N.
Secretary General

"If everything goes wrong, I become an easy scapegoat - we joke that "SG" , or secretary-general, is now standing for scapegoat," he continues. "I don't complain about this. But when there is a unity of purpose and solidarity among security council members, particularly the five permanent members, you can real things." Tett (2015).


Additional links:
René Girard (1923— ) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
https://www.iep.utm.edu/girard/#H3

Steven D. Brown In praise of the parasite: the dark organizational theory of Michel Serres.
https://www.academia.edu/1561872/In_praise_of_the_parasite_The_dark_organisational_theory_of_Michel_Serres

Maria L. Assad Reading with Michel Serres: An Encounter with Time

My source:
Gillian Tett, (2015) Lunch with the FT Ban Ki-moon, 'I'm an easy scapegoat', Life, FT Weekend, 19-20 September, p.3.