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...
‘Decolonizing’ higher education in Pakistan: If not now, when? A body of discourse is emerging on the practice of ‘decolonization’ within education and the larger social sciences. Putting it plainly, decolonization means “the undoing of colonialism.”1...
“The rest of the world – and you know this very well, Federica – is not exactly a garden”: The West, the ‘Rest’ and the Tale of Forgotten Colonialism Antique photograph of the British Empire: Annexation of the territory of the king of Ado Beginning with uncivilized...
