Various nations across the globe have always used media as a tool to safeguard their strategic interests by promoting their ideologies, cultural or democratic values; policies and priorities, political ambitions and at the same time used media in propaganda and counter propaganda operations both in times of peace and war. Such an exercise has mostly been accomplished through official media unde...

annual meeting of the BAAS in 1927 that there should be a comprehensive moratorium on scientific research. She also draws on the controversy to deconstruct dominant representations of rationality and Englishness. Working in the underresearched field of the history of inter-war university education, Keith Vernon describes University Grants Commission-inspired efforts to inculcate "culturally dep...

Fertility has unanimously declined across the entire post-communist region. This study explores the variation in fertility trends over time among these countries and assesses to what degree three explanations are applicable: second demographic transition (SDT), postponement transition (PPT) or reaction to the economic crisis. Moreover, on the basis of SDT and PPT theoretical tenets, as well as ...

the current study examines contradictions in muhammad mahdi al-jawahiri’s political poetry. al-jawahiri led most of his life amidst the turmoil caused by the political events and developments that iraq has undergone through different periods beginning with the 1920 revolution led by religious leaders and ending with al-ba‘th party and saddam hussein. al-jawahiri has beencontradictory in his poe...

Abstract While debates about far-right populism often concentrate on Central and Eastern Europe, research these parties predominantly focuses Western countries. Addressing this remarkable gap, article revisits the ‘protest voting’ explanation for electoral support far right. Using European Social Survey data (2002–16) from 22 countries, we show that political dissatisfaction is a stronger expla...

Students of political development have not always been good at understanding drastic political change (Myron Weiner and Samuel P. Huntington, Understanding Political Development, Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1994, 33). Kevin Deegan-Krause contributes to efforts to remedy this shortcoming. He seeks to answer a fascinating puzzle of post-communist transition: What can account for both th...