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Employing thematic investigation and illustrated through case studies, Dodds explores how global politics is imagined and practised by countries such as the US and other organisations including Greenpeace, the IMF and CNN International. In addition, the author discusses how issues such as environmental degradation, terror networks, anti-globalisation protests and North-South relations challenge, consolidate and subvert the existing international political system.

This commentary wonders why these canonical textbooks, conceived and written in the UK as the country was integrating itself economically and politically into the European project, make so little reference to Europe as a conceptual, analytical or geopolitical framework. These highly successful textbooks have helped create an idea of modern human geography as an essentially Anglo-American social science, different in form, content and objectives from earlier, largely European versions of the discipline.

The recent surge in public remembrance of the Second World War in China has been substantially undergirded by a centrally planned and systematically implemented discursive shift which has remained overlooked in the literature. This study examines the revised official narrative by drawing on three cases from China's school curriculum, museums and formal diplomacy. It finds that the once dominant trope of “national victimization” no longer represents the main thrust in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) rhetoric on the Second World War. Under Xi Jinping, this has been replaced by a self-assertive and aspirational narrative of “national victory” and “national greatness,” designed to enhance Beijing's legitimacy and advance its domestic and foreign policy objectives. By emphasizing national unity and CCP–KMT cooperation, the new narrative offers an inclusive and unifying interpretation of China's war effort in which the victory in 1945 has come to rival the 1949 revolution as the critical turning point towards “national rejuvenation.” The increasingly Sino-centric and centrally controlled narrative holds implicit warnings to those challenging Beijing's claim to greatness.

This study examines the way world history is taught in two Arab states of diverse backgrounds and international statuses, i.e., the Syrian Arab Republic before the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the United Arab Emirates. Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) is applied to analyze extracts taken from each country’s history textbooks, highlighting the commonalities and differences between them. More specifically, historical narratives are juxtaposed and various insights into the interplay between state ideology and international relations are provided. Findings reveal the relevance of domestic politics and regional geopolitics in determining Syrian and Emirati views of other Arab peoples, colonialism, the Ottomans, and the Western and non-Western worlds alike. More importantly, the study sheds light on what these societies consider important to be taught as part of their building and indexing of national identity, amidst turbulent times in the entire region.

Bennett Reimer's philosophy of music education laid out in his influential A Philosophy of Music Education (1970) was born in the height of Cold War superpower confrontation but until recently its connection to Cold War politics and mentality has not been noticed and explored, in large part due to Reimer's decontextualized and depoliticized discourse. The present article, building on the findings of recent Cold War historiography and research on cultural Cold War, places Reimer's theory in the historical context and examines the entrenchment of its aesthetic foundation as well as Reimer's understanding of the relation of music education to society and politics and the developmental dynamics of the discipline in the Cold War political climate and ideology.

PurposeThe study aimed to identify the best practices for open educational resources (OER) management in Nigerian open education university libraries and the implications for policymakers.Design/methodology/approachA mixed-methods approach was used, which included a survey questionnaire administered via Google Forms to academic librarians and other library staff of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). The study’s population was 398 and 273 participants responded to the survey. The study included all academic librarians and other library staff representing the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria. The data were analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The study’s results were presented using frequency counts, percentages tables and the qualitative data analysis was done thematically.FindingsThe findings of the study are consistent with existing literature on best practices for managing OER, which emphasized the importance of establishing clear policies and strategies for OER management practices, such as guidelines for acquiring, creating, curating and disseminating OER.Originality/valueThe originality of the study concludes by recommending that policymakers should develop policies that support the implementation of best practices in OER management to improve access to educational resources and reduce costs for students.

Whether they are testifying before the California State Board of Education about public school textbooks, lobbying legislatures to officially recognize \"Hinduphobia,\" or curating public representations of India and Hinduism through participation in civic life, Hindus engage in self-fashioning practices that affirm their Americanness by asserting their ethnoreligious difference. Using discourse analysis, this article explores how right-wing Hindu diasporic investments in religio-cultural continuity and geopolitics manifest in advocacy campaigns that mimic the strategies of Jewish and Zionist organizations, as well as white, Christian supremacist groups. It argues that Hindu organizations leverage multiculturalism in efforts to promote their political agendas and silence critics. In a framework of minority rights and victimization politics, contemporary enactments of citizenship by right-wing Hindu American groups-such as projects to instantiate definitions of Hinduphobia-not only mirror the strategies of right-wing Zionist groups but are bolstered through alliances with them.

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: Analysis of the mediation phenomenon in US drone warfare and its consequences for drone operators and for global politics. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The primary issue is how the physical separation from the battlefield affects soldiers controlling unmanned vehicles and how technological dominance associated with drones impacts international law and perception of the enemy. The paper analyzes a broad range of sources, including academic literature, NGO reports, journalistic investigations, military textbooks, and personal accounts from drone operators. The theoretical framework draws from Carl Schmitts books, Nomos of the Earth and Theory of the Partisan. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: In the first part, the study examines the mechanics of drone warfare and analyzes the personal experiences of drone operators. In the second part, the focus shifts to the realm of geopolitics, exploring the transformations it undergoes due to the impact of remote warfare. RESEARCH RESULTS: Workers in the unmanned warfare program exhibit symptoms similar to those experienced by soldiers on the battlefield. The precise and humanitarian elimination of enemies can be counterproductive, potentially leading to the dehumanization of the enemy and radicalization on both sides of the conflict. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: The fact of separation from the battlefield does not necessarily guarantee safety, precision, or humanitarian outcomes. On the contrary, in some instances, it can lead to soldiers suffering, civilian casualties, and escalation of conflict intensity.

A considerable body of critical literature has analysed how scientific discussions on water-conflict links are picked up in the political, academic, economic, civil society and media domains. By contrast, there are almost no such studies for the domain of education. This void is crucial as school attendance rates and the prevalence of environmental education are on the rise, while school education has privileged access to young people during their political socialisation. We address this void by analysing the depiction of water conflicts in school textbooks from a critical geopolitics perspective. More specifically, we use a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse the visual and textual content of German geography textbooks published between 2000 and 2017. Our findings reveal that the analysed school textbooks securitise water and overstate the risk of water conflicts, which could yield a range of negative societal effects. The textbooks further reproduce Orientalist stereotypes about the Global South, and about the Middle East in particular, and often promote an uncritical green economy stance towards the privatisation of water. Water conflicts are hence discussed in the context of a crisis discourse and reproduce powerful knowledge that privileges certain political interests at the expense of others.

In recent years, armed banditry has been on the rise in Nigeria, with far-reaching consequences. The paper examined the growing incidence of armed banditry and how it affected human security in the Northwest Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria. The study is methodologically structured in using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative approach involved the use of primary data derived from the administration of a structured questionnaire to a sample of six hundred (600) respondents drawn from five (5) local governments, each chosen from four states (Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, and Kebbi). The quantitative approach involved the generation of data from secondary sources such as textbooks, journals, newspapers, and internet sources. The information generated from the latter source was analysed descriptively in accordance with the objectives of the study. Data derived from the primary sources was presented in tabular form and used to test the hypotheses by the utilisation of a non-parametric statistical instrument, chi square (x2), tested at the 0.05 level of significance at 6 df. The findings reveal that armed banditry affected human security in the Northwest Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria. It was also found that armed banditry is driven by unemployment among youth, political interest by politicians, porous international borders, and poverty. The findings further reveal that the use of the military by the Federal Government has not helped in the fight against armed banditry; rather, it has led to the dispersal of these brigands to areas that were hitherto not affected by the menace. Finally, it was established that the surge in banditry across the country has far-reaching negative implications for human security in Nigeria. It was recommended that the federal government should, among other things, rejig the internal security architecture by increasing security presence in rural and urban centres through the deployment of more security personnel, the purchase of more patrol vehicles, communication gadgets, and modern weapons for the Armed Forces and other security agencies. Above all, it was recommended that, to effectively police our international borders, a new Border Patrol Force be established to carry out routine patrol, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations along our borders with neighbouring countries like the republics of Niger, Chad, Cameroun, and Benin, and also that a vigilante should be established in each local government area to complement the duties of the police force in the rural areas.