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This paper explores the political involvement of transnational corporations and their directors in elaborating the project of 'climate capitalism' advanced to address climate change. Climate capitalism seeks to redirect investments from... more
In contemporary democracies, global capitalism exerts a significant influence over how state power is exercised, raising questions about where political power resides in global politics. This question is important, since our specific... more
If the United States made global capitalism in the twentieth century (Panitch & Gindin 2012), can China unmake this American making in the twenty-first? If global capitalism was made by integrating the West under the aegis of American... more
Peter Bailey coined the term "parasexuality" to refer to a specific mode of Victorian sexuality and to address the repressed/vulgar dichotomy of scholarship around Victorian sexuality. I take the same basic concept and bring it into a... more
This article examines the significance of the concept of agency for the project of critical theory as defined by Robert Cox. Even if numerous scholars recognize the importance of agency, very few have managed to set up an agenda that uses... more
A comparative historical perspective shows how globalization and the specificities of China's rapid growth era limit its hegemonic potential in the twenty-first century global economy. Although state capitalism and openness to foreign... more
A final reflection paper on fieldwork engaging in a visual study of the material conditions detailed in the proposal, fieldwork presentation, and fieldwork document
The environmental damage that plastic waste is causing has catalysed government action against plastic bags around the world. Despite anti-plastic bag policies gaining traction globally, there has been limited investigation of how the... more
MoMA's recent launch of the 'New MoMA' (October 2019) serves as a point of departure for a critical reflection on a general tendency in the museum landscape to promote inclusion and democracy. Bourdieu's A Social Critique of the Judgement... more
Russian soft power in Ukraine: a structural perspective In this article, I adopt a structural approach to Russian soft power, switching focus from the supposed agent of power (Russia), towards the subjects of power (Ukrainians). I... more
A partir das duas guerras mundiais do início do século XX, assistimos a uma “guerra de imagens” ou uma “guerra de imaginários”, em particular, entre a Alemanha nazista e os Estados Unidos, onde a “economia” que se faz presente se... more
The importance of overt levers of business political influence, notably campaign donations and lobbying, has been overemphasized. Using executive branch policymaking during the Obama administration as a case study, this article shows that... more
The COVID-19 pandemic makes us vividly aware of the major global imbalances and challenges that we collectively face today (Sakketa and Koebner, 2020; Sumner et al., 2020). As we witness too often, a crisis – whether economic, political,... more
This article aims to explore inherent power dimensions in the Swedish children’s comic book Bamse. While previous scholars have noted the ideological aspects of the series, (and placed these in a context of the Swedish welfare state),... more
Our contemporary world is organized in a modern/colonial structure. As people, professions and practices engage in cross-country Design for Sustainability (DfS), projects have the potential of sustaining or changing modern/colonial power... more
Foucault defines power in a variety of ways; this essay is concerned with Foucault’s conception of power and its relation to the discourse of ‘sexuality’ as well as the reception of this by historians of gender and sexuality (in which I... more
draft of proposed paper on cross cultural aspects of teams
This article argues that since the Meiji Restoration, the degree of Japan’s misplacement has changed, depending on its structural power and ability to shape the concept of ‘Asia’ as a region. More specifically, there are three historical... more
This paper investigates whether financial liberalization has led to a change in the nature of Balance-of-Payments (BOP) financing by looking at two case studies: the Mexican Peso crisis and the Korean Won crisis. In addition, the roles of... more
It is widely agreed that recent decades have witnessed a power shift towards the emerging economies. Yet the magnitude of the power shift and its implications for the global economic order are much contested. For some, the diffusion of... more
MoMA’s recent launch of the ‘New MoMA’ (October 2019) serves as a point of departure for a critical reflection on a general tendency in the museum landscape to promote inclusion and democracy. Bourdieu’s A Social Critique of the Judgement... more
Our contemporary world is organized in a modern/colonial structure. As people, professions and practices engage in cross-country Design for Sustainability (DfS), projects have the potential of sustaining or changing modern/colonial power... more
Garland, C. (2014) ‘As Barriers Fall, Contingency Becomes Possibility: Protest Resisting and Escaping Containment and Categorization’, Part II Identity, Embodiment and Categorisation in Eds. Lamond, I. and Spracklen, K. 'Protests as... more
Can non-EU member states influence the EU’s energy policy? The Europeanization of energy policy in third countries is often described as a one-directional process in which these countries essentially adopt the EU energy acquis. Our... more
The EU’s capacity to face off these mounting exter-nal challenges, resist geopolitical pressures and fos-ter peace and security in its neighbourhood will, in-deed, largely be mediated by its internal cohesion and resilience.... more
Clean or dirty? What is capitalism’s purity level? Understanding as “clean” a society free from personal power and direct force, capitalist market economies have been distinguished from feudal societies because of the absence of direct... more
The prediction of America’s decline is a regularly recurring phenomenon; this also pertains to the pivotal field of global finance. This paper argues that, first, we have to consider the United States together with the other Anglophone... more
A look at Australian contemporary art practice and our power to change Institutions and how it is reflected in my work, 'The Artist is Present.'
For most analysts, Brexit reveals the highly contingent power of finance and the clear limits to its ability to influence crucial policymaking outcomes. By contrast, I contend that UK-EU negotiations demonstrate the unique capacity of... more
This chapter presents an application of in-depth interviews to the study of translators and interpreters working for international organizations. It first introduces the scope of sociological approaches to legal interpreting and... more
To cite this article: Sözen, Ahmet, A Theoretical Evaluation of Different Faces of Power: US-Turkey Relations Towards Iraq, Uluslararası İlişkiler, Volume 6, No 24 (Winter 2010), p. 55-78. ... Copyright @ International Relations Council... more