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Many accounts of the rise and decline of neoliberalism forefront its ideological nature and capacity for hegemonic … leadership. In contrast, I argue that outside of elite groups neoliberalism did not become hegemonic in Gramsci\'s sense of a … \'national-popular\' force. Neoliberalism is a convenient term to describe a two-stage process of \'purifying\' the coercive …
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In practice, states have two options in designing foreign policy: counterbalance and alignment. Russia follows both strategies in relation with different foreign actors. Offensivity characterizes Russia’s relations with Moldova and Ukraine, where energetic and military ascendancy allows it to...
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The present paper argues that current mainstream understandings of civil society as ontologically different from the state and essentially positive (either normative or functionally) are problematic in order to understand the development of health care reforms. The paper proposes to ground an...
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The term “neoliberalism” is encountered everywhere today. In popular leftist political rhetoric it is often simply a … establish a neoliberal hegemony. Doing so reveals, however, that there are in fact a variety of neoliberalisms, and that the …
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coercive modalities of neoliberalism. This paper applies the Gramscian theory of the integral state to correct the bias towards …-coercive modalities of power and counter-power as inhering in capitalist political economy. The paper argues that studying neoliberalism …
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history of bitumen development in Nigeria. Ever since bitumen, also known as heavy oil or tarsand, was discovered in 1900 (GCU … discourse on resource governance and the socio-economic development of resource endowed communities in Nigeria. This paper … in a rentier capitalist economy like Nigeria and its implications for community development. It argues that the …
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Cieľom práce je reagovať a prispieť k diskusii o zverejnení sto tisícky tajných depeší internetovým portálom Wikileaks … empirické poznatky z odborných štúdií a spája tému Wikileaks s problematikou vzťahu transparentnosti a diplomacie a zahraničnej …
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accountability by considering the role of state executives in corrupt practices since Nigeria returned to democratic rule. The paper … corrupt while most Nigerians suffer abject poverty. This paper therefore suggests that Nigeria needs to reform its political …
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International Press report that the endless oil spills in Nigeria have created ecological disaster. …
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