A world system theorist, Immanuel Wallerstein attempts to describe a modern covering economic, political and cultural areas. In his theory, he argues that the conflicts between countries which determine order in these areas are not true because is built on capitalist economic basis. He regards powerful states such as United States of America, Russia, Japan European States, seem be engaged compe...

Abstract The hydropolitical interaction of Nepal and India can be well defined within the framework hydro-hegemony. Two case studies hydro-hegemony counter-hegemony are illustrated in this paper, unleashing approach resistance from vantage point Nepal: Upper Karnali Saptakoshi high dam. Both share a common norm that Nepal, as small state, has been providing access to Indian hydro-hegemony, whic...

Central Europe is not only a territorial and historical Reality, but in the Thinking of Germany during first half 20th Century concept, cultural political project. Behind it desire for German hegemony. The meaning ranges from formal to informal imperialism. This served purposes did exclude ethnic cleansing or extermination. Depending on constellation, idea underwent frequent changes. essay trac...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....

Dış politikada denizlerin önemi uzak ve yakın tarih boyunca önemini korumaktadır. Denizlere hâkim olan dünyaya olur düşüncesi ile hareket eden Amerika Birleşik Devletleri (ABD), bu doğrultuda Arktik politikasını yeniden düzenlemektedir. Alaska Arktik’e giriş anahtarına sahip ABD, sadece deniz yolları değil ayrıca enerji güvenliği de küresel rekabette önemli bir alanda yer aldığının farkındadır....