regulating relations with great powers constitutes one of the most significant issues of each country’s foreign policy. iran, the soviet :union: and later russia have failed to establish strategic relations, despite their efforts to enhance mutual relations since late 1980s. it is believed that iran found it politically expedient to have ties with moscow due to its disputed relations with the w...

Th e dynamics of the emerging transnational stage in world capitalism cannot be understood through the blinkers of nation-state-centric thinking. In her study Empire of Capital, Ellen Meiksins Wood exhibits the reification and outdated nation-state-centric thinking that plagues much recent work on world capitalism and US intervention, expressed in the confusing notion of a ‘new imperialism’. Th...

During the last several decades, important new research has been published on Swedish Caribbean colony of Saint Barthélemy, but this almost exclusively focused its early years, during modern period. By time it was returned to France in 1878, heyday long past. Nevertheless, article argues that press coverage island’s transfer 1870s provides a useful window into colonial mentalities an era consti...

The media imperialism thesis is the most widespread systemic account of cultural globalization. This is in spite of the fact that various ethnographic studies of culture consumption continue to produce evidence that shows that the predictions derived from this approach are not consistent with what is observed. In‐ stead of homogeneity of consumption, we find diversity of interpretat...