scholarly journals Brazil, Think Tanks, and the International System: A Discourse Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Munhoz Svartman ◽  
José O. Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Method ◽  
International System ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
System A ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Rising Power ◽  
Positive Light

With the arrival of the Worker’s Party to power in 2003, Brazil engaged in an expansion of its international political participation through the BRICS, IBAS, and other multilateral forums. United States-based think tanks noticed this heightened engagement and subsequently produced a considerable volume of research about Brazilian foreign policy. This article employs discourse analysis as its research method, as well as post-structuralist and post-colonial theoretical approaches, to understand the representation that Brookings and CFR publications crafted about Brazil as an “emerging” or “rising” power. Specifically, we argue that Brazil was typically portrayed in a positive light. However, this constitution was based on hierarchical and racialized thinking that seeks to reaffirm preexisting global power relations.

Explaining Beijing’s Shift from Active to Passive Engagement in Relation to the Arab-Israeli Conflict

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 93-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Burton
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
International System ◽  
Military Assistance ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Chinese Military ◽  
Arab Israeli Conflict ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Rising Power

As a ‘rising power’, China is expected to play a greater global role. But current Chinese involvement in the long-running and internationalised Arab-Israeli conflict is limited. How to explain this? What does it suggest about China’s regional and global role? Studying Beijing’s involvement since the 1950s, I note Chinese military assistance to the Palestinians during the 1960s-70s and strong criticism of Israel. But from the 1980s Beijing adopted a more diplomatic approach and endorsed the two-state solution. The change was due to China’s broader regional and international relations. During the Cold War Beijing’s ‘active’ pro-Palestinian stance was associated with being ‘outside’ the superpower-dominated international system. By the end of the Cold War Beijing was ‘inside’ the international system and increasingly integrated into the global economy. Commercial considerations trumped political ones, emphasising diplomacy. This suggests China’s exercise of global power may be more nuanced and less overt than otherwise assumed.

State-Minority Contestations in Post-colonial Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-165
Author(s):  
Mansoor Mohamed Fazil
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Research Method ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Social Force ◽  
State Structure ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Military

Abstract This research focuses on the issue of state-minority contestations involving transforming and reconstituting each other in post-independent Sri Lanka. This study uses a qualitative research method that involves critical categories of analysis. Migdal’s theory of state-in-society was applied because it provides an effective conceptual framework to analyse and explain the data. The results indicate that the unitary state structure and discriminatory policies contributed to the formation of a minority militant social force (the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – The LTTE) which fought with the state to form a separate state. The several factors that backed to the defeat of the LTTE in 2009 by the military of the state. This defeat has appreciably weakened the Tamil minority. This study also reveals that contestations between different social forces within society, within the state, and between the state and society in Sri Lanka still prevail, hampering the promulgation of inclusive policies. This study concludes that inclusive policies are imperative to end state minority contestations in Sri Lanka.

Forschungsperspektive »Interkulturalität«

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Elberfeld
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

In the 20th century the European sciences have tried in different ways to develop post-colonial forms of knowledge. Since the 1920s, under headings such as »intercultural«, »multicultural« and »transcultural«, discourses have arisen in the USA and in Europe in which, until the present, new perspectives and structures in the sciences have developed. The article offers, on one hand, a discourse analysis of these three headings until 1980 and makes clear by way of examples how complicated and deep the challenges are for knowledge discourses in Europe within the scope of the research perspective of »interculturality«.

scholarly journals Fashioning the Post Colonial Reading: Cultural Representations In Vogue Mexico and Latin America and Arabia Editorials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martyne Alphonso
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Editorial Content ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
And Gender

This study analyzes regional editorial content as produced by Vogue magazine. Vogue has developed an empire comprised of 22 international editions. Vogue Mexico & Latin America, and Vogue Arabia, are the only two editions that encompass numerous countries, cultures, and voices. Using discourse analysis through a cultural studies lens, this study analyzes six editorial spreads to uncover what cultural messages are being produced, how these images impact national identities, and who is or is not represented in the fashion image. Intersections of fashion with culture, identity, race, and gender, are analyzed through critical discourse analysis to address constructions of power, specifically within a cultural and postcolonial framework. Visual narratives in Vogue Arabia and Vogue Mexico & Latin America reflect values seemingly distinct to their region, but are charged with cultural assumptions and inaccuracies. For postcolonial cultures vying for identities independent of their colonial past, these marketable stereotypes continue to suppress their structural agency.

scholarly journals PROPAGANDA: AHOK TIDAK PANTAS JADI GUBERNUR

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adi Prakosa
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Research Method ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
On Line

<p>Independent press and objective news are the rules. But on the news "Chairman of DPW Gerindra DKI: Ahok Enggak Indonesia Banget", in news published by Republika.co.id on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 edition, normative things that are violated. This is the reason to review the discourse submitted by Republika on line. The research method uses discourse analysis of Fairlcloud model. The theory used as a reference is Critical Theory. The results show that the news reviewed represents Ahok inappropriate to be governor. There are propaganda techniques applied, namely the name  calling, card staking, and testimonials.</p><p>Keywords: press, news, discourse analysis</p>

After Unipolarity: China's Visions of International Order in an Era of U.S. Decline

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall L. Schweller ◽  
Xiaoyu Pu
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
World Order ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
International Order ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Rising Power ◽  
Emerging Powers

The emerging transition from unipolarity to a more multipolar distribution of global power presents a unique and unappreciated problem that largely explains why, contrary to the expectations of balance of power theory, a counterbalancing reaction to U.S. primacy has not yet taken place. The problem is that, under unipolarity and only unipolarity, balancing is a revisionist, not a status quo, behavior: its purpose is to replace the existing unbalanced unipolar structure with a balance of power system. Thus, any state that seeks to restore a global balance of power will be labeled a revisionist aggressor. To overcome this ideational hurdle to balancing behavior, a rising power must delegitimize the unipole's global authority and order through discursive and cost-imposing practices of resistance that pave the way for the next phase of full-fledged balancing and global contestation. The type of international order that emerges on the other side of the transition out of unipolarity depends on whether the emerging powers assume the role of supporters, spoilers, or shirkers. As the most viable peer competitor to U.S. power, China will play an especially important role in determining the future shape of international politics. At this relatively early stage in its development, however, China does not yet have a fixed blueprint for a new world order. Instead, competing Chinese visions of order map on to various delegitimation strategies and scenarios about how the transition from unipolarity to a restored global balance of power will develop.

The Democratic Advantage by the Numbers

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Matthew Kroenig
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
International System ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
Democratic Advantage ◽  
Significant Support ◽  
Over Time

This chapter examines quantitative evidence for a link between a state’s domestic political institutions and its power in the international system. Using standard international relations datasets, it finds significant support for the democratic advantage idea. It is notable how often democracies appear at or near the top of global power rankings. And this is even more remarkable when one considers how historically rare this form of government has been. This chapter finds that, on average, democracies possess more power than autocracies. It reveals that they are more likely to find themselves among the major powers and at the very top of the global distribution of power. Finally, it also demonstrates that, when comparing democratic and autocratic competitors from a common baseline and watching their power trajectories unfold over time, the trend-lines favor democracies. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the research design for the case studies to follow.

India

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Dionysis Markakis
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
International System ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Power Theory ◽  
Middle Power ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Rising Power ◽  
Indian Foreign Policy

This chapter assesses whether and how India is developing into a rising power in the Persian Gulf. Dionysis Markakis approaches India’s reconnection with the region in terms of ‘middle power theory’ and disaggregates the dominant economic, sociocultural, and military drivers of Indian policies in the Persian Gulf. Markakis suggests that India is still attempting to carve out its niche in the international system and that multiple factors lie behind its reticence to engage proactively in regional and world affairs. These include the strong element of multilateral alignment that runs through Indian foreign policy as well as domestic institutional weaknesses within the structure of Indian government itself. For Markakis, a primary challenge for Indian policymakers is how to outline a more proactive, rather than reactive, approach to foreign policy and the conception and exercise of power.

scholarly journals Is it the end of North-American hegemony? A structuralist perspective on Arrighi’s systemic cycles of accumulation and the theory of hegemonic stability

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 434-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCOS VINICIUS ISAIAS MENDES
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
North American ◽  
International System ◽  
The United States ◽  
The North ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
Theory Of Hegemonic Stability ◽  
Hegemonic Stability

ABSTRACT The paper aims to present some aspects of the debate about the end of the hegemony of the United States, in light of the theories of systemic cycles of accumulation and hegemonic stability. Among the conclusions, the paper shows that the North-American hegemony is diminishing not only because of the emergence of new powerful countries, such as China, but because the international system, composed by new powerful actors such as multinational corporations, global cities, religious organizations and transnational terrorist groups, is diminishing the means by which the US has exercised its global power since the mid twentieth century.

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