Abuse and westernization: Reflections on strategies of power

Article Abstract:

Some basic dissemination and internalization strategies of power relations on several levels are uncovered by using Foucault's concepts of power relations, discourse and internalization. First, it looks at power at the individual level and then applies this analysis to Westernization in Africa, arguing that the basis strategies by which power is disseminated and internalized into the bodies, psyches and cultures of Africans are the same as in abuse.

Africa, Economic aspects, Abuse of administrative power

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A crisis-density formulation for identifying rivalries

Article Abstract:

The study reports the results of a project that identifies interstate rivalries through the repeated incidence of international crises using data from the International Crisis Behavior project. Despite, the existence of other rivalry data collections, a crisis-density population of rivalries has the potential for making important new contributions to this growing literature.

Crisis Management (PR), Crisis management, Rivalry

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Water power: Why Congress zeroed 'bunker buster' appropriations

Article Abstract:

The circumstances that led to the funding for the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP), also known as a 'bunker buster', being cancelled by the U.S. Congress are detailed.

Financial management, Finance, United States. Congress, Company financing, Military vehicles, Vehicles, Military

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