Pakistan’s reaction toward its Olympic field hockey team’s performance reflects its inferiority complex and the power relations of Pakistan with former colonial and western powers.
Habermas argues that the nature of dialogue can yield positive change, but can his theory apply to conversations in international organizations?
Nixon’s visionary pursuit of a China that was a responsible member of the world community bore undeniable fruit in 1972 and would continue to benefit the United States until this very day.
The US does not have a fixed definition of rationality. Instead, each ruling governmental cabinet tends to have a different political stance when it comes to determining rationality and irrationality.
Both the Soviet Union and the United States played an important role in facilitating the rise of radical Islamism during their Cold War rivalry.
As the study of globalisation evolves, gender perspectives act as a reminder that economic developments are not distinct from real people who make real choices.
Liberal modernisation theory is a one-size-fits-all approach towards development, which cannot succeed, given the vast socio-economic and political differences throughout the world.
Even if international politics granted a political union between the two Koreas, the domestic conditions in South Korea cannot sustain the successful implementation of a reunification.
The transformation from human day laborer to insect mirrors both Marx’s critique of capitalist society and Darwin’s theories of evolution, but does this inspire political revolt?
The World Bank is fundamentally partisan, not just because of the mercantilist argument that everything in the political is partisan, but also in terms of realist arguments of self-interest and national gains.
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