Uranium: a Case-Study in Franco-African Relations

1989 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Martin
Keyword(s):  
National Defence ◽  
Power And Influence

France continues to wield considerable power and influence in Africa three decades after her former colonies achieved their independence. Based on a variety of socio-economic, political, and cultural interests, many of her actions in Africa are essentially neo-colonial in so far as they are designed to perpetuate the prevailing pattern of dominance.1 Yet, France also suffers from an almost excessive dependence on African sources for the supply of cheap minerals essential to her economy and national defence.

Total Defence in National Defence Policy: Case Study of Territorial Army Analysis of Problems and the Effects on MAF Readiness

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 2447-2459
Author(s):  
Faiezi Zuber Et.al
Keyword(s):  
Information Resources ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
Secondary Information ◽  
National Defence

The development of Territorial Army (TA) since 1900 has raised question on the TA’s ability to help the permanent teams (MAF and MA) in defending the nation’s safety. TA is one of the security team sources of energy under the Total Defence concept introduced in 1986. However, with numerous issues faced, TA’s ability is questioned about the problems this organization are facing. The objectives of this writing are to see the problems faced by TA and the effects on MAF and MA’s abilities and readiness in defending the nation’s safety. Besides that, this writing also does an overall analysis on the problems faced by TA and the effects on MAF and MA’s abilities. This writing uses primary and official resources and strengthened with secondary information resources.

scholarly journals Power, Patronage, and the Candidate-nomination Process: Observations from Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 314-336
Author(s):  
ADEEBA AZIZ KHAN
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Mayoral Election ◽  
Power And Influence

AbstractIn this article, by studying the candidate-nomination process of the two major political parties, I show how power is distributed within the political party in Bangladesh. I show that the general acceptance by scholars that political power lies in the hands of the innermost circle of the political-party leadership in Bangladesh is too simplistic. A more nuanced observation of power and influence within the party structure shows that, in the context of Bangladesh's clientelistic political system, which is based on reciprocity between patrons and clients and relies on the ability of middlemen to organize and mobilize (in order to disrupt through hartals and strikes), power is often in the hands of those mid-level leaders who are in charge of mobilizing because their demands cannot be ignored by the topmost leadership. Through studying the candidate-nomination process of the major political parties and using the Narayanganj mayoral election of 2011 as a case study, I answer questions such as whose interests political parties are representing, what channels of influence are being used, and why these channels exist.

scholarly journals Athens and the Anchoring of Roman Rule in the First Century BCE (67–17)

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-110
Author(s):  
Sam Heijnen
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Augustan Age ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Power And Influence

AbstractThe early Augustan Age witnessed an increase in building activities and overall interest in mainland Greece which has primarily been understood from the perspective of Roman appropriation of Greek culture, or from that of local Greek independence and “re-Hellenization.” Taking late Republican Athens as an extensive case study, this article shows that, when moving beyond either a top-down or bottom-up vision, developments in the late Republican and early Augustan Age can be properly contextualized as being part of a continuous strategy of Roman leaders and the Athenian elite to negotiate power and influence within a shared field of references.

Science and engineering: a case study in British experience in the mid-nineteenth century

1978 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-223 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Professional Recognition ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
British Experience ◽  
Power And Influence

By 1870, civil and mechanical engineers had both achieve a substantial measure of institutional and professional recognition in Britain. The great boom in industrial development and the construction of transport systems had ensured them places of importance and honour in mid-Victorian society. Several engineers had received knighthoods and become members of parliament. Many had grown rich from the practice of their skills, and had acquired large houses and landed estates (1). Yet behind this new-found panoply of power and influence, the great engineers of nineteenth century Britain remained essentially the same as the diligent artisans, millwrights, surveyors, and craftsmen, from whom the engineering profession had sprung in the previous century.

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