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... change is interacting with the changing geopolitical landscape to produce an ever-growing array of art and aesthetics reflecting the emerging world order. © 2022 Caucus for a New Political Science 2022 Afrofuturism esotericism Geopolitics Black speculative culture Black Panther NEW...

....” This article explores debates over theories of the presidency in the light of twenty-first-century challenges to conventional definitions of “growth” and “national security.” In the face of global climate change and the decline of US military and geopolitical preeminence, can the presidency break free from its...

...Jules Boykoff Abstract Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has emerged as an outspoken challenger to US geopolitical preeminence in the Americas. This study explores the framing practices employed by mainstream newspaper outlets in the United States in their coverage of President Chavez over a ten...

...Carl Boggs Abstract US global expansion at the beginning of the 21st century is far more ambitious than anything pursued or imagined by previous imperial powers. American elites are presently seeking to reshape the world geopolitical terrain, with hundreds of military bases in more than 120...

...Douglas Kellner Abstract Bush administration foreign policy has exhibited a marked unilateralism and militarism in which US military power is used to advance US interests and geopolitical hegemony. The policy was first evident in the Afghanistan intervention following the September 11, 2001 terror...

...Shelby E. Ward Abstract Sri Lanka provides a geopolitical lens to analyze theviolence (both overt and discursive) necessary for the formation of the postcolonial nation-state. Following Himadeep Muppidi’s concept of the zoological metaphor as one of the colonial signs in international relations, I...

... and a change in geopolitics in the Middle East. The structure of political actors in power has shifted from Arab Sunni-Shiite to Shiite-Kurdish, and this has led to the transformation of Iraqi identity from an Arab-Sunni political identity to Iranian Shiite identity, providing Iran with an opportunity...

... political and economic forces are conspiring to overcome the altered material and geopolitical conditions that make evident the need for Puerto Rico's decolonization. Colonialism has given rise to an array of forces that impedes any changes in Puerto Rico's formal political status. Where once the US state...

...-protected workers. Today, without a frightening Eastern bloc, the bourgeoisie is far more willing to crush reformers. Ajl thinks that this geopolitical reality explains why the establishment hounds Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, and other GND supporters so viciously. The author argues that the left should...

... but important instances of political resistance. Yet, they also display flashes of epistemic conflict, which challenge the evolving engineered empiricities of fossil capitalism, imperial geopolitics, and indigenous genocide. Such forces that enabled Western capitalist domination, first, of our planet's material...

.... Specter thereby (re-) claims Realist theory as the actual founding theory of IR/FPA as we know it today, exposes its dark foundations as a theory of empire and its imperialist aspirations, and ties its ideas and concepts to what has come to be known as geopolitics, including Nazi-era connections. Specter...

... of the Cold War was that it had two losers, or at least one and a half. While its sudden eclipse marked the beginning of US unipolarity, it also spelled the end of America's geopolitical free ride? No longer would the Soviets be there to enforce "free world" cohesion under US auspices. That inadvertent...

... in the areas of international relations, postcolonialism, development, and identity politics. His book Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Inzagination is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press. He has published on different aspects of postcolonial IR and Tibetan identity. Bruce Baum is Assistant...

..., green political theory, and critical geopolitics focuses on the political challenges raised by globalization and governance after the Cold War. David S. Meyer is Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, and author, most recently, of The Politics of Protest...

... party duopoly; second, that the global food system, specifically the meat and dairy industry and the resulting resource depletion, is at the heart of the ecological crisis; third, that the unbounded nature of the ecological crisis which does not align with geopolitical boundaries, cannot be addressed...

... change" (133). The final two chapters consider recent and future geopolitical developments. Drawing on case studies from Israel, Liberia, and Japan, chapter 7 shows how women's peace activism "outside of the voting booth" can shape electoral politics, creating "inside the voting booth" options that put...

... of the Cold War" and other major international changes have created space or potential for significant rethinking, in reality, U.S. policy in the region continues to be guided by a geopoliticaL East-West Inentality. After tracing U.S. policy in regard to several key issues in Central America, I shall briefly...

... and contradictions between moral and geopolitical imperatives of imperialism and humanism, epistemologies and authorities based in empirical observation and religious texts, and events and institutions including the Reconquista, the Renaissance, and the Inquisition. A second claim regards the dialectic...

... the dominant geopolitical organization. They have to affirm the historical and contemporary legitimacy of indigenous knowledge systems and the struggles, which have encountered and negotiated dominant epistemologies in what Glissant calls the "processes of denaturing introduced by the conquerors14 In all...

... politics is futile12 This Special Issue takes these debates into account, using the term "humanitarianism" to signify the "good-doing" response to distant suffering, whether this distance is actually geographical or geopolitical (historically derived inequalities characterized by an economic disparity...