No doubt, Australia's parochial anxieties about China in its recent Foreign Policy White Paper stem from a Eurocentric establishment with entrenched "Cold-War" era views about international relations and fantasies about preserving a bygone legacy of Anglo-American hegemony.

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It has been argued and stated that the 21st century is America's Pacific Century, the century or millennium of Asia, and century or era of China, the inevitable superpower. This paper explains the essence of the new changes when the Pivot Policy was announced by President Obama in 2011. The main question discussed is therefore the following: ‘Why (and how) did President Obama adopt (and impleme...

Despite successes in global health to combat specific diseases, progress remains slow particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We discuss two challenges in the global health landscape currently: the waning hegemony in global health governance and the recurrent pendulum swing between horizontal (health systems focused) to vertical (single-disease focused) programming by donors and agencies. Using Eth...

This paper traces the development of critical rationality and rationally defined intelligence from ancient times through to the present. The idea of intelligence will be situated within a civilisational perspective, and in particular the western rationalist hegemony. Thus the development of western theories of mind is first traced, up until the beginnings of the modern era. Then seminal relevan...

The proliferation of crematoriums indicates a high demand for cremation services, particularly in Bali. One the newly established crematorium foundations is located Badung Regency, specifically Tuka Customary Village, Dalung. Crematoriums are considered facilitators conducting Pitra Yadnya (ancestral ceremonies) Hindu devotees. However, construction often brings forth various problematic issues...

Abstract In the face of ever escalating global socioecological crises, necessity radical systemic transformations has gained increasing political and academic traction over last decade, among others in context ‘green’ bio-based economies. We draw on works philosophers Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe Judith Butler to develop a typology transformational dynamics. this typology, word transformation...

the absolute hegemony of international code of (academic) communication has resulted in the development and spread of the discoursal voice of the culture form which historical english has emerged, and, as a consequence, any violation from the generic conventions and thinking patterns born out of such a discourse has resulted in the deprivation of non-native thinkers form active participation in...