Modern media is a unique and as yet uncontrollable information battlespace with the potential to leverage internal and external forces to act on the side which can best utilize its effects.
Violence and terrorism were used for political objectives, but an entrenched government, be it the French in 1954 or the FLN in the 1990s, must appease its constituents, provide services, and uphold law and order.
Major processes such as globalisation remain – despite their international appearance – locally embedded. Area specialists can contribute to a more refined interpretation of these developments.
The question of ‘who governs?’ is problematic. We must, therefore, start our inquiry of power with a question of ‘how?’: how is power exercised?
The Realist approach reduces hegemony to economic and military dominance, while neo-Gramscian theorists broaden the concept of hegemony as established by forces within a state and on a world scale.
If America is an empire, it is not in the conventional sense of defined territorial occupation. However, it is essential to recognize the ways in which America has shaped the world of today.
The U.S. and the international community must recognize that the question at stake is not the fact of China’s rise, but how the global community can avoid shortsighted defensiveness.
Several cleavages that exist within the feminist movements in Turkey have become apparent following the second wave of feminism which occurred following the 1980 military coup.
Synthesizing the agency biases across theoretical schools of thought reveals a more comprehensive analytical picture than those viewed through a particular theoretical lens.
The basic premise of MLG is that European integration has taken exclusive power away from the state and spliced it up amongst supranational and subnational actors.
Before you download your free e-book, please consider donating to support open access publishing.
E-IR is an independent non-profit publisher run by an all volunteer team. Your donations allow us to invest in new open access titles and pay our bandwidth bills to ensure we keep our existing titles free to view. Any amount, in any currency, is appreciated. Many thanks!
Donations are voluntary and not required to download the e-book - your link to download is below.
