Category: Political Science, Politics
The 2020 Election in Myanmar: The NLD Supporters and Facebook
This article explored how the National League for Democracy (NLD) supporters used Facebook to conduct their campaigns in the 2020 election. I argue that the NLD supporters used Facebook to excite people’s sentiment to support the NLD and to resent the Union the Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), backed by the Myanmar military Tatmadaw. I …
Absoluteness, Sharp Transitions, and Indifference: Features of Propaganda and Thought Work in Post-Trust China
This article endeavors to comprehensively evaluate the attributes of propaganda and thought work in China under the leadership of the current regime. Previous studies have highlighted resemblances between the current regime and Mao’s leadership, particularly in terms of ideological manipulation. However, this article contends that while the propaganda strategies employed by the current regime exhibit …
China’s Global Role in the Middle East’s Geopolitical Landscape
The third term of President Xi Jinping has intensified the efforts of positioning China as a global power. China has not only re-designed its foreign behavior in terms of major power relations, but also it has established its involvement in other regions as a great power engagement. Recently, China strategized its relations with the Middle …
The Dynamics of British Counter Terrorism Strategy in the Post 9/11 Environment: An Analysis of Evolution, Prospects and Challenges
The Scourge of terrorism has emerged as a gigantic threat to global peace and humanity since the events of 9/11 which guided the states to adopt new counter terrorism strategies to contain and crush the threats and activities of the perpetrators. The United Kingdom along with its collated partners applied a strict mechanism and measures …
Assessing the OIC Member States’ Engagement in China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications
The remarkable demonstration of substantial collaboration between fifty-seven member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and China’s Belt and Road Initiative exemplifies a significant milestone in contemporary international cooperation. This article assesses the involvement of member states of the OIC in China’s BRI since 2013. The BRI is a large infrastructure development project aimed …
Critique of Francis Fukuyama’s Views on State Formation in Africa
This paper is a critique of Francis Fukuyama’s views on, essentially, the crisis of development in Africa which he associates with the weakness of state institutions in African countries. In analysing the underlying causes of weak state institutions in Africa, Fukuyama examines institutional development in the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Africa. But his approach is …
A Correlational Study of Political Accountability of Sanguniang Barangay and Barangay Readiness for Climate Change
Climate change is a worldwide phenomenon having far-reaching consequences in numerous areas of society, including the economy, government, and living conditions. To effectively mitigate these effects, the national government needs to develop and employ policies and directives that can fulfill the safety and protection requirements of its people through development efforts, therefore improving the overall …
Georgia and NATO: A Democratic Framework for Responding to the Totalitarian Information Space
Marked efforts to spread disinformation within Europe and NATO-allied nations has risen, not uncoincidentally, alongside a rise in totalitarian narratives and neo-imperial ambitions from the Russian Federation. Although Georgian political leaders and NATO have both worked independently to pushback against totalitarian narratives in the information space, the Substantial NATO-Georgia Package (SNGP) has not explicitly aimed …
Indonesian Young Muslim Voters and Their Views on Political Islam
Indonesia as one the biggest Muslim populated country, political Islam is important case to discuss because voters’ political preference can highly be affected by their believe in this sense, it could be religion. In addition, young Moslem voters although they are important political asset, there are rarely any research in exploring their perspective toward political …
Some Aspects of South Korean Youth Political Protest Culture of the Candlelight Rallies in the Information Technology Age
The rapid progression in information and communication technologies has created a new paradigm of political participation in several countries worldwide. The diffusion of this technology is at the global forefront in South Korea. The South Korean youths have a growing presence of this through expanding social networks, new alliances, businesses, protests and advocacy campaigns, and …
Socio-economic Status of Workers in State-owned Enterprises During China’s Reforms
This presentation investigates China’s working class and its historical change in social standing. It argues that during the Maoist period there was an illusion that a new society was established, in which the working class became the master of the society with political and economic power. Such an illusion was ended in post-Mao economic reforms …
World Order, Regime and Law of the U.S., UK, France and Europe
After the Second World War, the United States, United Kingdom, France and Europe have built Peace, World Order, Regime and Law with NATO and alliances. In 2020, the World is confused by the coronavirus pandemic. The United States, United Kingdom, France and EU cope with the pandemic. On March 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron said: …