We contend that the Trump administration mainstreamed far-right politics through its foreign policy on China, World Health Organization and handling of Covid-19 pandemic. Our Gramscian-Kautskyian theoretical perspective concentrates elite power, class, interconnections between advanced global capitalism domestic inequality. show amplified US Sinophobia even as it deepened connections Chinese co...

In his article "Goethe's World Literature, Universal Particularism, and European Imperialism" Dongho Cha tracks the ideology in Goethe's concept of "world literature." Early comparatists claim to stand for the universalism of this concept by understanding it to totalize all literatures across linguistic, territorial, and national boundaries and intended to go beyond European nationalism. Cha ar...

Introduction The effect of imperialism on the economic development of Third World countries has long been a subject of interest to Marxist scholars. The international expansion of capitalist states, which led to the creation of a world market and the integration of pre-capitalist countries into this market, heralded a new phase of capitalism the implications of which are still being debated. Th...

There is a growing argument that economics can no longer provide any guiding schema for solving current management problems. Economic assumptions even destroy good and socially responsible management practice. In this paper, we analyze two reasons why standard economics can indeed be bad for managerial and political practice. One is the negative influence of wrong assumptions in economic theory...

One of the more remarkable but unobserved occurrences invariably effaced by area studies is the obvious fact that the peoples of the world outside of Euro-America have been forced to live lives comparatively by virtue of experiencing some form of colonization or subjection enforced by the specter of imperialism. This experience of living comparatively inevitably disclosed the instrumentalizing ...

A king u in a tournament is a player who beats any other player v directly or indirectly. That is, either u → v (u beats v) or there exists a third player w such that u→ w and w → v. A sorted sequence of kings in a tournament of n players is a sequence of players, S = (u1, u2, . . . , un), such that ui → ui+1 and ui in a king in sub-tournament Tui = {ui ,ui+1, . . . , un} for i = 1,2, . . . , n...

A new algorithm for identifying and locating singular points on a fingerprint image is presented. This algorithm is based on properties of the fingerprint orientation image, including a feature defined as a transition line. The transition line is shown to provide an efficient means of both tracking and classifying singular points without having to search through the entire fingerprint image. Th...

In this paper, a new SOM competition algorithm is proposed for image recognition applications. The competition in this algorithm depends on a subset of most discriminate weights of the network codebooks. This indeed can reduce the required recognition time of one image. In addition, the competition is applied on the pixels corresponding to the object gray levels only, this allows recognizing co...

Feature selection plays an important role in pattern recognition. The better selection of a feature set usually results the better performance in a classification problem. This work tries to select the best feature set for classification of rice varieties based on image of bulk samples using imperialist competition algorithm. Imperialist competition algorithm is a new evolutionary optimization ...