Digital technologies enable the mass datafication of human activity in new and intimate ways, allowing for both active passive tracking bodily functions, physical movements, consumption habits, social encounters, even moods feelings. Despite seeming newness these developments, however, Internet scholars recognize that data production use has always been bound up with broader relations between i...

Egypt and Turkey makeup about half of the whole population Middle East are two leading nations in eastern Mediterranean, including Iran as a whole. Both countries now recognized most tremendous modern military forces East. Besides, Cairo Ankara major Muslim centers: Al-Azhar Mosque is largest Islamic University world significant feature Egyptian soft power; historical association between last C...

This essay of the month discusses some of the lessons to be learned from the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and applied to the new opportunities in South Africa to undue patriarchal systems and transform gender relations. In South Africa socialism and equitable gender relations will be manifested in the care with which the Reconstruction and Development Program is implemented in gende...

development of the modern education system and iranian high interest in studying the new science and broad government support government over the last century of the modern educational system, and high costs to expand and improve its quality by no means imply the entrance of science and scientific attitude to iranian relations. system of economic production and social relations and political st...

development of the modern education system and iranian high interest to study the new science and broad support government over the last century of the modern educational system, and high costs to expand and improve its quality by no means enter science and scientific attitude to life, not an iranian relations. system of economic production and social relations and political structure of modern...

China’s relations with the West deteriorated dramatically following the Tibet and Olympic torch relay controversies in the spring of 2008. Because of its focus on the balance of material power, realist International Relations theory can do little to help us understand such developments. Instead, it is the political psychology of international relations that provides the most leverage on the rol...

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This paper presents a framework for the integration of values (internalized norms) in a positive analysis of institutions and institutional change. Informal, norm-based institutions and formal – legal, economic, and political – institutions are co-determined as an equilibrium in the relations among economic and political actors. The paper discusses various ways that formal institutions influenc...

This article explores the merits of foregrounding the dichotomy of politicization vs de-politicization for our understanding of bio-objects in order to study their production, circulation, and governance in European societies. By asking how bio-objects are configured in science, policy, public, and media discourses and practices, we focus on the role of socio-technical configurations in generat...