1 Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA. 2 Mechanical Engineering Research Institute and Division of Web Science and Technology, KAIST, Daehak-ro, Dajeon 305-701, Korea. 3 School of Economics and Trade, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sankyuk-dong, Buk-gu, Daegu 702-701, Korea. 4 Department of Political Science and International Relations, Seoul...

Over the past fifteen years Marxist theoreticians have devoted considerable attention to reconceptualizing the place of "class" in the overall Marxist theory of society and social change. In this paper the author situates class structure within a broader context of class analysis. He defines the concept of "the political," both as it bears on the problem of the political aspect of practices and...

the armenian-turkish conflict except the disagreement between the two countries has also developed in the regional and international levels. it is becoming the conflict of interests and competition of superpowers in regional and international sphere, which has its great influence on the complication of the process of the conflict between the two countries. taking into consideration the disagree...

. it can be claimed that no other country in the world possesses such a geopolitical situation. although such a situation provides the country with a set of opportunities, any wrong decision-making, apart from national and international realities, in choosing the focus of policies and foreign relations activities may turn it into a ground for crisis and continued failure for iran. this paper se...

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), attributing a particular importance to “woman” -in the narrow senseand to all oppressed groups -in the broad sense-, has a peculiar position in the history of political thoughts. Taking a position different from the modern male thinkers in her era, she expanded such ideas as “reason”, “natural rights”, “social contract” towards relations between genders and patr...

This study attempts to provide a framework for understanding the role of the “embeddedness” in China’s economic success reflected by a unique embedded integration of state-market-society relations. “Embeddedness with Chinese characteristics” is the central concept of this study for analyzing how cultural and political uniqueness influences economic activities and shapes distinctive institutiona...

Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction. The international women's movements have constructed `women's experience', as well as uncovered or discovered this crucial collective object. This experience is a fiction and a fact of the most crucial, political kind. Liberation rests on the construction of the consciousness, the imag...

This course intends to examine the developments in Europe and U. S. since 1919 until today. The new political structure after 1918 will be considered from the point of global developments. World involvement of the U. S. in Europe affairs, Cold War Sovietisation of Eastern Europe and the Third World countries are also to be discussed. The relations among the industrial and non-industrial politic...

Excerpt] These are hard times for unions. There is currently a broad cross-national trend toward the decentralization of bargaining in industrial relations, which challenges established bases of union influence everywhere. The combined effects of intensified world market competition, new microelectronic technologies, managerial strategies to reorganize production, and the success and influence ...

This brief response to Timothy Webster's article, "China's Human Rights Footprint in Africa, "critical-ly appraises China 's disavowal of human rights, the rule of law and democracy in its African relations. China has argued that its African relations are based on the principles of political equality and reciprocity, mutual trust and benefit, common prosperity, sincerity and friendship. I criti...