this study attempts to explore the development and evolution of mackinder's geopolitical thinking in global politics of british empire and its influence thereafter. this research paper examines the characteristics of geopolitical perspective of britain, through halford mackinder's heartland theory during the three periods of the early twentieth century to the present time. in this reg...

Background: Educational institutions are strategic tools in disseminating knowledge on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) since education is an effective developmental tool. All the 17 SDGs tied one way or other to education, that is, ability of people learn and apply. This study applies unorthodox theories which include convergence models, neo-functionalism, inter...

The League of Arab States (also known as the Arab League) is well past its sixth decade of establishment. However, it has a long way to go to achieve the objectives enumerated in its charter. In a sense, there is much stronger propensity towards disintegration than integration in the League. This article seeks to study the reasons that account for the failure of such integration in the Arab Lea...

Social constructivism in the international relations theory (IRT) is youngest paradigm, which, together with neorealism and neoliberalism, one of three most popular theoretical patterns among specialists. This paradigm explains global transformations regional noticeable changes by studying social construction reality. Key concepts are identity, which shapes interests actors, intersubjectivity c...

Russlands invasjon av Ukraina kom som julekvelden på kjerringa. Blant hovedårsakene til mange observatørers måpende overraskelse var inngrodde forestillinger, faste forventninger og vante antagelser om interstatlige forhold. Mange disse har lenge vært vedlikeholdt en såkalt nyrealistisk tilnærming internasjonal politikk. Denne artikkelen begynner med å identifisere nyrealismens betydelige blind...

This article assesses the general significance for International Relations theory of the literature on globalization. It argues that globalization is a pervasively unsettling process which needs to be explained not only as an issue in its own right but for the insight which it affords into cognate areas of theory. In short, it advances an analytical model whereby globalization itself can be und...

ABSTRACT: Questo articolo analizza il cibo come parte dei simboli e delle immagini presenti nel romanzo Conversazione in Sicilia, di Elio Vittorini. L’autore italiano utilizza parlare cibo, così fa con altri temi del libro, per “dire senza dichiarare”, allorquando, metaforicamente, trasforma l’atto mangiare, o non poter critica sociale politica, un momento storico particolare l’Italia, allora g...