The Democratic Educational Network held its 6th Annual Conference on May 12th, 2023, at the University of Westminster, in conjunction with the “Racism in Higher Education and Beyond” conference the day before, and was very successful. Both conferences brought together educators, students, researchers, and activists to discuss and present their ideas on achieving sustainable development...
Critical Analysis of Neoliberal NGOs Role and Relationships in ‘Developing’ Countries Shareefa Panchbhaya Since the 1980s, NGOs have played a crucial role in developing countries, but their role and relationships with the state have been heavily criticised by those who argue NGOs act as Trojan horses by actively supporting neoliberalism. Yet, NGOs in developing countries...
On Wednesday, 29th March, DEN organised a meal at the Mawlana Restaurant; the experience was special as everyone got together, making it unique. After two very long semesters, it was an excellent opportunity for the DEN members to reconnect. It was enjoyable to engage in casual conversations with everyone and learn more about one another....
Tuesday, April 4th marked the day when the members of the Democratic Education Network (DEN) went to see the phenomenal act, ‘Sylvia’, a musical play that takes you back in time to pre-World War I Britain, during a time of political unrest due to the Suffragette movement’s demands to give women the right to vote....
Joshua Heinrich About a week before the Russian attack on Ukraine, I herded about the Holodomor. The Holodomor, a genocide of the Ukrainian peasants, since followed my sphere of interest, not just because in the current war where references to the artificial famine have been made but also because last summer, I read Timothy Snyder’s...
Euan Southwell The financial system plays a significant role in the global political economy and its stability. This paper demonstrates the critical role of financial capital in the global economy by focusing on two systems: The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (Swift) and The Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX). In doing this, the...
Hydropolitics in the Ganges and Mekong basins: Beyond the Dichotomy of ‘Conflict’ and ‘Cooperation’ Devika Nambiar Abstract Human societies have disputed, connected, and negotiated over water resources since time immemorial. This interplay between water resources and politics is studied through the discipline of hydropolitics. While dominant discourses in hydropolitics lean on the ‘conflict or cooperation’...
Whenever we discuss what is natural to humanity, it is difficult to put ourselves in a theoretical scenario of a natural world when we exist in a world that is seemingly so far from away from ‘natural’. Questions arise on what is natural for us. At what point do we, as homo sapiens, become detached...
Devika Nambiar Abstract As Asian societies succumbed to Western dominance during the early twentieth century, a group of Japanese thinkers and nationalists were prompted to reinstall Asian control and values in the region through a socio-political ideology known as Pan-Asianism. Pan-Asianism emerged as a promising macro-nationalist ideology calling for Asian solidarity to confront and end...
In line with having a profound understanding of modern-day international relations and the international political system, this paper aims to present and analyse the conceptual fragmentations of the English school and the element of International Society in general. In doing this, the essay will explain what kind of structure the school has been established in...
The relationship between democracy and development has been debated amongst scholars for many years. They assess whether democracy is critical to developing and changing a given society. For some liberal scholars, development is a transition of countries towards capitalism; a liberal model of governance emphasises individual freedom, a parliamentary or presidential system of election, and...
We often view strikes as a significant disruption that damages our society. Negative connotations surround the word, and the action of strike often favours the right. However, some people turn a blind eye to the significance of this form of direct action in the past, present, and future, particularly in the 21st century, where democracy...