Genre: Social
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ASEAN, Sovereignty And Intervention In Southeast Asia
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adminSovereignty is highly valued and a prized concept. Politicians and opposition leaders alike vouch for its sanctity only to invoke the importance of breaking it, as and when, certain international issues impinge on the interest of their own constituencies. Thus, a double paradox. On one level, sovereignty is considered an…
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.That Used To Be Us
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adminThis is a book about America getting back its bearings, and if one should, balls. Michael Mandelbaum and Thomas Friedman argued in a compelling manner thatwhile America was sleeping on the job China stole ahead. China has the fastest supercomputer in the world, its infrastructure is littered with high speed…
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Orientalism
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adminOrientalism, according to Edward W. Said, is a discourse. One in which words, concepts, ideas and termsare constantly allowed to intermarry with one another, with the ardent purpose of producing one narrative. The singularity of this narrative, in turn, becomes a monopoly of knowledge. A monopoly, that is further supported…