scholarly journals Pandemics and soft power: HIV/AIDS and Uganda on the global stage

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 478-492
Author(s):  
Shane Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
National Reconstruction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Hiv Aids

AbstractThe COVID-19 outbreak of 2020 threatened years of effort by the Chinese authorities to extend its influence around the world. This article seeks to enhance understanding of China’s defensive engagement with global health agencies, and more broadly of the relationship between pandemics and soft power, through an analysis of Uganda’s evolving response to HIV/AIDS. As with COVID-19, HIV/AIDS presented a fundamental threat not only to countries’ internal social stability and population health, but also to governmental legitimacy and nation-states’ international reputation. HIV, however, also provided Uganda with an opportunity to enhance its global standing, influence international policy, and achieve national reconstruction. This case study highlights the importance of viewing international affairs from the perspective of the Global South. It argues that the very weakness of Uganda, and the structural marginality of HIV/AIDS, provided the leverage which would in the end deliver radical shifts within global health.

scholarly journals [The Wife's Obligation to Fulfill Inner Maintenance to Husband Who is Infected With Hiv / Aids: According to Islamic Family Law and Case Study] Kewajipan Isteri Menunaikan Nafkah Batin Kepada Suami yang Dijangkiti Hiv/ Aids: Menurut Undang-Undang Keluarg

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 64-75
Author(s):  
Md. Zawawi Abu Bakar ◽  
Rajwani Md. Zain ◽  
Wan Ab Rahman Khudzri Wan Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Family Law ◽  
Study Data ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Interview Methods ◽  
Islamic Family Law ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Husband And Wife ◽  
Hiv Aids

This paper aims to explain the dilemma that occurs in marital relationships. The issue of performing the external or internal maintenance obligation on the husband who has HIV / AIDS causes the wife to suffer. Thus, a qualitative study has been done to identify the dilemma that occurs in the relationship between husband and wife. Archival research methods such as the provisions of Islamic Family Law (UUKI), fiqh munakahat and case studies have been used. Interview methods were also performed to answer the objectives of the study. A total of 8 respondents, namely the wives of AIDS sufferers, were interviewed to obtain study data and the data was finally analyzed manually (QDA). The results show that there is discrimination against people living with HIV / AIDS (OHDHA) (wife) in the form of external and internal maintenance (husband and wife relationship). Even sadder, all respondents have been infected with HIV / AIDS as a result of intimate relationships with their husbands. The study finally concludes that OHDHA (wife) needs guidance and understanding of how to deal with the dilemma of performing duties as a wife and avoiding darar treatment from her partner (husband). Keywords: UUKI, Obligation, Wife, nafkah, HIV/AIDS. Makalah ini bertujuan menjelaskan dilema yang berlaku dalam hubungan suami isteri. Isu berkenaan melaksanakan kewajipan nafkah zahir atau batin terhadap suami yang menghidap HIV/AIDS menyebabkan isteri menderita. Justeru, satu kajian kualitatif telah dilakukan untuk mengenal pasti dilemma tersebut yang berlaku dalam hubungan suami isteri. Kaedah kajian arkib seperti peruntukan Undang-Undang Keluarga Islam (UUKI), fiqh munakahat dan kajian kes telah digunakan. Kaedah temubual juga telah dilakukan untuk menjawab objektif kajian. Responden seramai 8 orang iaitu isteri kepada penghidap AIDS telah ditemubual bagi mendapat data kajian dan data akhirnya dianalisis secara manual (QDA). Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahawa berlaku diskriminasi terhadap Orang Hidup Dengan HIV/AIDS (OHDHA) (isteri) iaitu dalam bentuk nafkah zahir dan batin (hubungan suami isteri). Lebih menyedihkan lagi semua responden telah dijangkiti HIV/AIDS hasil hubungan intim bersama suami. Kajian akhirnya menyimpulkan bahawa OHDHA (isteri) perlu kepada bimbingan dan pemahaman bagaimana menangani dilemma melaksanakan kewajipan sebagai isteri dan mengelakkan daripada perlakuan darar daripada pasangannya (suami).   Kata kunci: UUKI, kewajipan, isteri, nafkah, HIV/AIDS

Taiwan–Myanmar Relations within the Framework of the New Southbound Policy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Kristina Kironska
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Trade War ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This article combines the study of Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy with a case study of Taiwan–Myanmar relations from a perspective of political relations, economic cooperation, and Taiwan’s (un)recognisability in Myanmar—i.e. Taiwan’s soft power in Myanmar. The first part of the paper introduces the policy and compares it with the previous ones, and sheds light on Taiwan’s motivation to engage with Myanmar. It considers the ongoing trade war between the United States and China, due to which investment relocation from China is expected to sharply increase. The second part of the paper provides an insight into the relationship between Taiwan and Myanmar after Myanmar’s state-led political transformation from military rule and economic liberalisation since approximately 2010. It explains the main aspects and determinants of the relationship between two countries that share a neighbouring potential hegemon which they both wish to balance against.

Complicating the Relationship Between Sport and National Identity: The Case of Post-Socialist Slovenia

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mojca Doupona Topič ◽  
Jay Coakley
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
First Century ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Global Identity ◽  
Sociology Of Sport ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Relationship

Sociology of sport knowledge on national identity is grounded in research that focuses primarily on long established nation-states with widely known histories. The relationship between sport and national identity in postsocialist/Soviet/colonial nations that have gained independence or sovereignty since 1990 has seldom been studied. This paper examines the role of sports in the formation of national identity in postsocialist Slovenia, a nation-state that gained independence in 1990. Our analysis focuses on the recent context in which the current but fluid relationship between sport and Slovenian national identity exists. Using Slovenia as a case study we identify seven factors that may moderate the effectiveness of sports as sites for establishing and maintaining national identity and making successful global identity claims in the twenty-first century. We conclude that these factors should be taken into account to more fully understand the sport-national identity relationship today, especially in new and developing nations.

scholarly journals Ambassadeurs op het sportfront : Sport, politiek en diplomatie tijdens de Spaanse Burgeroorlog (1936-1939)

2021 ◽  
Vol 133 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-658
Author(s):  
Enrico Castro Montes
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Sports History ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Ambassadors on the Sports Front: Sports, Politics and Diplomacy during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)This article examines the role of sports in the international politics and diplomacy of nation states in wartime. Through a case study on public diplomacy during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), this article shows how sport could influence international public opinion. By focussing on some lesser-known international sporting events from this period, such as the 1937 Labour Olympiad in Antwerp, this article will move away from the dominant focus in sports history on mega-events such as the Olympic Games. Although research about the relationship between sports and diplomacy has grown in recent years, it has barely taken into account the influence of a war context on sport and diplomacy. This article attempts to fill this gap by analysing left-wing Belgian and Spanish newspapers, archives of the Belgian workers' sports movement, and unused source material from the FIFA archive.

Tourism in the History of US Foreign Relations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blake C. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Consumer Experience ◽  
American Frontier ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Reflection ◽  
The Relationship

Tourism is so deep-seated in the history of U.S. foreign relations we seem to have taken its presence for granted. Millions of American tourists have traveled abroad, yet one can count with just two hands the number of scholarly monographs analyzing the relationship between U.S. foreign relations and tourism. What explains this lack of historical reflection about one of the most quotidian forms of U.S. influence abroad? In an influential essay about wilderness and the American frontier, the environmental historian William Cronon argues, “one of the most striking proofs of the cultural invention of wilderness is its thoroughgoing erasure of the history from which it sprang.” Historians and the American public, perhaps in modern fashion, have overlooked tourism’s role in the nation’s international affairs. Only a culture and a people so intimately familiar with tourism’s practices could naturalize them out of history. The history of international tourism is profoundly entangled with the history of U.S. foreign policy. This entanglement has involved, among other things, science and technology, military intervention, diplomacy, and the promotion of consumer spending abroad. U.S. expansion created the structure (the social stability, medical safety, and transportation infrastructure) for globetrotting travel in the 20th century. As this essay shows, U.S. foreign policy was crucial in transforming foreign travel into a middle-class consumer experience.

scholarly journals ‘No Man’s Land’: Disability, Rehabilitation, Welfare Policy and the British Ex-Service Migrant in Australia, 1918–39

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Welfare States ◽  
World War ◽  
Error Type ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Political Perceptions ◽  
No Man's Land ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
First World

Abstract An inter-war analysis of the British and Australian departments charged with compensating disabled First World War veterans and the British ex-service migrant in inter-war Australia illustrates how nation-states have failed to unify welfare and disability rehabilitation. Contemporary welfare states continue to codify and establish categories of prioritisation regarding communities with disabilities for public finance administered by national government departments. This binational case study identifies reoccurring type one and type two error problems: policy can deny legitimate claims for state assistance while also validating and financing potentially illegitimate claims. This underlines the factors that dictate which error type is ruled to be the least significant and the impact the resulting model has on individual claimants. This study reinforces the thesis of David Gerber who stresses the ahistorical centrality of ‘biopolitics’ or the relationship between societal and political perceptions of a conflict on state policy, in the treatment of veteran communities.

scholarly journals Minorities’ Heritage Language Planning and National Multilingual Capacity Building

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 208
Author(s):  
Li Yan
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Heritage Languages ◽  
Education Planning ◽  
Multilingual Education ◽  
Industry Planning ◽  
The Relationship

As an important part of a nation’s soft power, national multilingual capacity refers to a nation’s ability to use a variety of languages acquired in dealing with domestic and international affairs in the development of a nation. The nation-security-oriented language planning in the post-9/11 America is closely related with the teaching, using and developing of the minorities’ heritage languages, which has to some extent facilitated the America’s national multilingual capacity. Taking National Security Language Initiative proposed by the American federal government as an example, this paper suggests that minorities’ heritage language planning be an endogenous shortcut to build the national multilingual capacity. Furthermore, the relationship between minorities’ heritage language planning and national multilingual capacity building is established by matching the five key parameters in heritage language planning with the five components of national multilingual capacity respectively, i.e., exploring the correlations between languages planning, talent planning, education planning, industry planning, policy planning and national multilingual resources capacity, individual’s multilingual capacity, national multilingual education capacity, national multilingual service capacity and national multilingual management capacity in detail by using an analytical method.

The Hegelian state and International polities

1983 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Vincent
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
International Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Intensive Study ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Moral Perspective ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

It is a characteristic of political theory and international politics that certain wellworn stereotypes are perennially wheeled out for generations of students. Some of these may be useful landmarks for scholarship, others offer only partial insights. This paper addresses one of these stereotypes which does not dissolve with more intensive study. It attaches to the Hegelian concept of the state in relation to international politics. I refer to the view that Hegel's concept of the state, elaborated in the Philosophy of Right, is the final unit of analysis for any theory of international politics; that it is impossible to go beyond the nation state; that it possesses a finality in that international affairs are only to be understood through the relation between nation states. One of the conclusions which is sometimes drawn from this stereotype. is that Hegel's account of international politics is Hobbesian in character; that is to say, the relation between states is rather like that between individuals in Hobbes’ state of nature. The ruling principle would thus be that ‘clubs are trumps’; or, more conveniently, that might is right. For an Hegelian there cannot be a legitimate concept of international order, because order only exists in the individual state. Each state has its own legal system and concept of right, therefore the relationship between states is simply the conflict of rights. To put this in a moral perspective: states are neither right nor wrong; this is simply how things are. This has often led to the paradoxical conclusion that Hegel is a realist as regards international affairs, though perhaps a better term would be ‘idealist-realist’. The aim of this paper is to examine the arguments for and against such a stereotype.

scholarly journals Dziedzictwo kulturowe na obczyźnie: chinoiserie w dyplomacji kulturalnej Polski i Chin

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
Marta Tomczak
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
The Relationship

Cultural heritage is used to promote political ideas and economic initiatives these days. It is not only a political construct but also a useful tool in both reaching domestic political goals (for instance, building one’s national identity) and developing international relationships (building soft power). This case study focuses on the cooperation of public and private institutions over the project of revitalisation of the Chinese Alley and building a Chinese garden in the Royal Łazienki Museum in Poland between 2012 and 2014. Using the concept of ‘heritage diplomacy’ coined by Tim Winter (2015), this paper analyses the relationship between the key actors that participated in the project and those who have been benefi tting from its results. The analysis shows how cultural heritage becomes an element of strategy in foreign relations in order to strengthen international and interinstitutional relations and how the political actors benefit from the outcomes of conservation and promotion of cultural heritage. It also makes it possible to identify the motivation of various actors while engaging in conservation of heritage on domestic and international levels.

scholarly journals Gambaran Perilaku Pencegahan HIV Pada Pasangan Serodiskordan dan Serokonkordan Di Yayasan Grapiks Bekasi Tahun 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Ravinka Ayundra Putri ◽  
Rita Damayanti
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Depth Information ◽  
Serodiscordant Couples ◽  
Prevention Behavior ◽  
Seroconcordant Couples ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Hiv Aids

ABSTRAKLatar Belakang. Pencegahan HIV pada pasangan serodiskordan dan serokonkordan berkaitan dengan perilaku yang berfokus pada pandangan dan keyakinan individu. Penelitian tentang HIV menemukan bahwa sebanyak 25% ditularkan oleh pasangannya yang positif HIV.Tujuan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengetahui gambaran perilaku pencegahan HIV pada pasangan serodiskordan dan serokonkordan di Yayasan Grapiks Bekasi.Metode. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain studi kasus dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Pengumpulan data dengan wawancara mendalam melalui WhatsApp call.Hasil. Sebagian besar pasangan serodiskordan dan semua pasangan serokonkordan konsisten menggunakan kondom dan keduanya patuh mengkonsumsi obat ARV. Semua ODHA mengungkapkan status kepada pasangannya tetapi hanya sebagian yang mengungkapkan kepada keluarganya. Pola relasi suami istri pada pasangan serodiskordan adalah head complement, sedangkan pasangan serokonkordan yaitu head complement dan senior junior partner. Pasangan serodiskordan menerima konsekuensi, sedangkan pasangan serokonkordan berharap tidak parah. Pasangan serodiskordan memiliki persepsi manfaat yang rendah dan persepsi hambatan yang tinggi daripada pasangan serokonkordan. Kedua pasangan mendapatkan informasi kurang mendalam tentang penyakit HIV/AIDS dari tenaga kesehatan.Kesimpulan. Terdapat perbedaan perilaku pencegahan HIV pada pasangan serodiskordan dan serokonkordan di Yayasan Grapiks Bekasi. ABSTRACTBackground. HIV prevention in serodiscordant and seroconcordant couples are concerned with behaviors that focus on individual views and beliefs. Studies found that 25% were transmitted by partners who were HIV positive. Objective. This research aims to determine the description of HIV prevention behavior in serodiscordant and seroconcordant couples at the Bekasi Grapiks Foundation.Methods. This study used a case study design with a qualitative approach. Data collection by in-depth interviews via WhatsApp call.Results. Most serodiscordant and all seroconcordant partners consistently used condoms and both partners adhered to taking ARV drugs. All PLWHA disclose their status to their partners but, some disclose to their families. The relationship pattern in serodiscordant couples is the head complement, while seroconcordant couples are head complement and senior junior partner. The serodiscordant partner accepted the consequences, whereas the seroconcordant partner hoped not to be severe. Serodiscordant couples have less benefit and high resistance than seroconcordant couples. Both partners received less in-depth information about HIV/AIDS from health workers.Conclusion. There are differences in HIV prevention behavior between serodiscordant and seroconcordant couples at the Bekasi Grapiks Foundation

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