If there is so little clear content to such significant concepts as religion, politics, God, and so on, then from where do they derive their rhetorical power?
It’s time for IR scholars and policy makers to let go of the use of the term ‘theocracy’ to explain the dynamics of religion-led politics worldwide.
Speaking and hearing are not necessarily opposite terms. They are part of the politics of silence and its ambivalence. Speaking creates meanings and forges connections.
By live-tweeting the 197 war in Pakistan @SouthAsia71 brings primary research to a broader audience and demonstrates the social media’s potential for research purposes.
The speculative nature of posthumanism requires that we have some sense of imagination as to how our humanity might comprehensively be affected by technology.
Sub-Saharan Africa should be allowed to reconstitute itself into a self-sustaining, organically integrated Unifederation that can address its predicament.
Indonesia is keen to engage with Australia as part of a regional balance of power and it welcomes trade and investment opportunities. Yet difficulties remain between the neighbouring states.
Rooting out predatory power such as that firmly in place after decades of military rule in Myanmar requires public and international buy-in.
Lessons learnt from Dutch colonialism have resulted in Indonesia’s mimicking and replicating its own code of imperialism, resulting in Papua’s accession into Indonesia.
The social benefits of the Troubles novels lie in their deeper understanding of the ethics of ‘the other’.
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