Russia has sought to maintain its influence in the South Caucasus by a variety of means, viewing region as an area crucial importance for core strategic interests. However, China’s prominence increased significantly over past decade, states seek diversify their diplomatic and economic ties. This essay explores whether Russia’s regional hegemony is being challenged China: does growing engagement...

Abstract We introduce a stochastic model in which adjacent planar regions A,B merge stochastically at some rate λ(A,B) and observe analogies with the well-studied topics of mean-field coagulation and of bond percolation. Do infinite regions appear in finite time? We give a simple condition on λ for this hegemony property to hold, and another simple condition for it to not hold, but there is a l...

Saul Bellow is a famous Jewish American writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature 1976 for Herzog, which about life of an intellectual after his divorce from second wife, and author has created number distinctive female characters ecological thinking book. This paper makes close reading Herzog perspective ecofeminism, analyzing state urban nature rural areas industrial society, as well situa...

At the end of last century, colonial, postcolonial and decolonial studies set in motion a “detachment” from dominant modes knowledge acquisition social sciences humanities. In 1990s, Latin American intellectuals debated colonial side modernity cultural, theoretical practical hegemony that central countries maintained. field art, this resulted problematization Eurocentric canons present artistic...

This article deconstructs the conceptual framework of social theorist Salman Sayyid by critically examining his work on political and hegemony in relation to thought post-Marxist philosopher Ernesto Laclau. elaborates a theory that necessitates communal break with existing society, move very similar Laclau more generally. In analyzing Sayyid’s theories caliphate Laclau’s conception hegemonic st...