Published in International Politics (The Hague)
Russian actions since 2007 appear increasingly to constitute a realist approach to international affairs. Russia appears to be behaving as a rising power, attempting to become a regional or global superpower. Essential to this pursuit, a state must gather information strategically. We examine one feature of strategic information gathering, called a...
In this article, we intend to analyze the insertion of the CD “Carnival of Nostalgia” in the cultural policies of the Pará State Culture Department, in the context of the claiming for political and cultural hegemony in the city of Belém. The research is based on documentary and bibliographical sources. By means of a case study, we seek to locate th...
This thesis investigates how networked hierarchies structure global and regional orders. This question unfolds in a twin research problem, which requires a combined solution. Firstly, it raises the question of how international hierarchies and international orders relate. Secondly, it inquires how global and regional orders connect and shape one an...
Published in Postdigital Science and Education
This text starts with the premise that ‘normative democracy’ has rendered our societies vulnerable and burdened with unaddressed social inequalities. I highlight three central arguments: (1) Social media, and, consequently, citizen engagement are becoming a significant filter that can potentially re-imagine the political, economic, and social world...
Published in Globalization and Health
BackgroundGlobal Health has increasingly gained international visibility and prominence. First and foremost, the spread of cross-border infectious disease arouses a great deal of media and public interest, just as it drives research priorities of faculty and academic programmes. At the same time, Global Health has become a major area of philanthrop...
This introductory paper develops the theoretical framework and central argument of the Special Issue "Networking hegemony".
This Special Issue aims to explain the transition from the Cold War US-led system of exclusive bilateral alliances in East Asia (or “hub-and-spokes” system) into a “networked security architecture”, i.e. a network of interwoven bilateral, minilateral and multilateral defence arrangements between the US and its regional allies and partners, and that...
This paper deals with the Althusserian proposal about Ideological State Apparatuses, which is considered by its critics a reproduction theory. According to some of Althusser ́scritics, by making the educational system a Ideological State Apparatus, he denies that the dominated can offer resistance to the reproduction of the dominant ideology. Regar...
The Differential perspective rises up as a public policy strategy destined to the protection and rights reclaiming from historically isolated groups, affected by armed conflict in Colombia. Likewise, Colombian state has created a large number of legal regulation, which pretends to be a tool that satisfies protection of vulnerated rights in armed co...
Abstract: The present article tackles a new reading of Joseph Conrad’s novella The Duel (1908). The new approach construes the text as a revision of the politics of hegemony based on conflict —which defines present-day populism. After a thorough an analysis of the main rhetorical principle of the novella, the synecdoche war-duel, the author outline...
