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Digital Power and the Bangladeshi Platform Economy: Economic Emancipation or Neocolonial Exploitation? (2025)
Thesis
Laila, N. Digital Power and the Bangladeshi Platform Economy: Economic Emancipation or Neocolonial Exploitation?. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In the era of Industry 4.0, political power undergoes transformation due to the rise of AI-driven technology. Thus, it reshapes concepts of international development and socioeconomic disparities in the cyber-physical domain. While digital power is c... Read More about Digital Power and the Bangladeshi Platform Economy: Economic Emancipation or Neocolonial Exploitation?.

Visions of the Gulf: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry and the Geopolitical Imaginations of Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran (2022)
Thesis
Beyad, M. M. Visions of the Gulf: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry and the Geopolitical Imaginations of Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis aims to explore the ways in which the Iranian and Iraqi states articulated and represented Gulf regional politics from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. In recognising the limited amount of work looking at the role of discourses and ideas... Read More about Visions of the Gulf: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry and the Geopolitical Imaginations of Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran.

Fear and Insecurity : Competing Narratives of the Iran-Israel Relationship (2019)
Thesis
Leslie, J. G. Fear and Insecurity : Competing Narratives of the Iran-Israel Relationship. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Years after the Islamic Republic of Iran resumed its nuclear development program, Israeli leaders began constructing a narrative aimed at instilling in their polity the fear of Iran as an existential threat to the Jewish State. Building upon Israel’s... Read More about Fear and Insecurity : Competing Narratives of the Iran-Israel Relationship.