CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION I.1 Background of the Study Building a bilateral relation with another state always becomes very needed and important to a state to enhance its foreign relations. It also applies to Indonesia as one of the most populous countries in the world with the third largest democracy in the world. As one of the example, the bilateral relation between Indonesia and Australia. Indonesia has been shared a strong bilateral relation with Australia since a very long time ago. Indonesia and
It is clear from both theoretical and empirical literature that social capital is a context specific notion and an outcome of a particular community and locality. And so, studies conducted so far and to be conducted in the future in this area could have their own contribution in enriching the theoretical, methodological, and empirical literature of the subject matter. As indicated above, the theme of social capital has got diminutive attention in the policy framework and strategy of national and
How to study regionalism in Greater East Asia For a long time, East Asia’s regional institutional environment was based on comparison with the European case What is Regionalism? On the Concept of region, regionalism and regionalization “Katzenstein defines regions as having both “material and symbolic dimensions” that are traceable in “patterns of behavioral interdependence and political practice.”3 In other words, regions “reflect the power and purpose of states.”4 This emphasizes the importance
as a logical development of the concept of the financial capital. Francis Fukuyama mentioned that it is impossible to avoid any social interaction in the financial capital. (Trust p.19) And that is probably the reason why at the end of the 20th the theory of the social capital became one of the most popular in social and economic sciences. The term "social capital" has gained the greatest popularity in the academic discourse thanks to James S. Coleman's works (Coleman, 2001) and Robert Putnam (Putnam
The study focused on the Niger Delta area of Nigeria. The region is situated in the southern part of Nigeria and bordered to the south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the East by Cameroon. It occupies a surface area of about 112,110 square kilometres. The Niger Delta represents about 12% of Nigeria's total surface area. The Niger Delta region is made up of nine states of Nigeria, namely: Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, and Rivers. Over half of the Niger Delta region is
the benefit and betterment of their members. Therefore, the communication that runs through the branches of every network is vital for the leaders and common students to be aware and knowledgeable of what the group is planning
Neoliberalism conceptualized within different frameworks and different approaches because of its incomplete, uneven and contradictory presence. Some scholars studied it as a political economy process, while some see as a bunch of policies and reform programs. Some assert as a way of state formation and some insist on the governmentality aspect of the neoliberalism. Harvey’s “A brief history of neoliberalism” and Hardt and Negri’s “Empire” set the theoretical framework of the political economy, namely
machinery, where the power is one of the core goals in politics. According to Scarrow (2006: 21-22), the study on political parties academically has been developed by scholars since the third quarter of the nineteenth century. During this time, scholars examined the political party as mainly a response to the swift improvement of the role of political party in the government. Meanwhile, studies on political parties deal with new discourses in the late nineteenth century when parties became an extra-parliamentary
outcomes were intended or side effects. There’s a big difference between walking up to someone in the street and punching them straight in the face, and accidentally hitting someone while trying to provide directions to another passerby. In the first case, intentions would be bad, and so the outcome is judged as a moral offence; the latter was an accident, a side-effect of trying to help someone else, and therefore not morally blameworthy. But what happens in the brain when judging other people's actions
distinctly different theories of media power that, without being able to capture all scholarly contribution within this field (Thune,2009), do provide a useful departure for better understanding “the central theoretical positions that are currently informing the knowledge about the role played by the news media and think tanks in international politics”(Thune 2009:37). This literature review provides an opportunity to assess the academic research