The process of state formation seen in the past century in developing countries has diverged dramatically from the process experienced in Europe unsurprisingly as a result of different historical conditions. While the early European state building model will likely not repeat itself, it remains useful to compare state-making processes and experiences of survival to gain insights into contemporary state building and development.
It is possible that nuclear negotiations with Iran will continue to prove fruitless and will continue on for an indefinite time.
Western models of empowerment bring only one dimension of gendered power and agency that are unlikely to have the same purchase in the Female Genital Cutting context.
Studying the aspects of everyday life creates a fresh perspective on IPE that breaks from traditional assumptions about social behavior and interactions.
Western perspectives on IR have framed COVID-19 as an invisible enemy to be defeated, but Daoist theory may change how we understand the pandemic.
The ICC would benefit from an extension of the IOM’s mandate to include the oversight of intermediaries used in the OTP as it will improve the Court’s judicial process.
The idea of good motives presents the most interesting critique of liberal internationalism, and can offer a path that appeases both realism and internationalism.
In his essay, “Understanding a Primitive Society” Peter Winch claims that cultures are enclosed in language games which are both mutually unintelligible and equally valid. In doing so he is trying to prevent anthropologists from concluding that a culture is ‘wrong’ about reality (i.e. their belief system and how that informs their daily life) (Winch 79). Winch sees such judgement as an open door to cultural imperialism; if a culture is wrong than it stands to be corrected by the culture which judges it as such. He has every reason for such a noble pursuit. Writing in the time of African decolonization, he had born witness to the colonialists’ domination of innumerable cultures. Justified out of a ‘need’ to civilize the inferior savages and support the superior Europeans (through slaves and natural resources) this unequal cultural relationship allowed for utter destruction on the continent.
The claim that institutional misconduct was the cause of the financial crisis is only partly correct. Both Neo-Realism and Liberalism led up to the financial crisis.
In recent years the concept of biopower has become central to the study of the social and life sciences; with numerous interdisclipinary research networks established to investigate the reality of biopower, in relation to subjects as diverse as stem cell research, biotechnologies, and the War on Terror.
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