Digital Colonialism: Navigating New Forms of Servitude in Industry 4.0 Although the world has undergone four waves of industrial revolution, one phenomenon remains intact: the exploitation of weaker nations at the hands of stronger ones. Industry 4.0 is essentially...
Undermining Decolonisation The term ‘decolonisation’ is generally believed to have been coined by a German scholar named Moritz Julius Bonn in 1932,1 but as a comparison of the number of scholarly articles containing the term before and after the year 2000 shows,2 its...
Captive Minds, Coloniality and International Relations Ever since Stanley Hoffman1 exposed International Relations as a hegemonized discipline, there has been a growing trend among International Relations scholars to unveil the knowledge and power structures which...
Reading Between the Lines: The Devil is in the Interpretation “…now is not the moment to blame the victim,” writes Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Steven Tian, and Dan Raviv in Time Magazine1 while defending the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has made Gaza the...
‘Eurocentrism’ in the Field of International Relations (IR) The field of International Relations (IR) adopts a ‘Eurocentric’ gaze in envisioning world politics. With Eurocentric biases contaminating IR, the discipline is identified as being parochial and...
Power and Consent: Interpreting Gramsci’s Multidimensional Nature of Hegemony Just as a captain cannot steer a ship without the crew’s cooperation, rulers cannot exercise power without the consent of the governed or as Parker contends: Dominant groups in...
