#ir theory

[amereid1960]

نظرية التعقد والنقاش النظري الخامس في حقل العلاقات الدولية - مراجعة للأدبيات

نظرية التعقد والنقاش النظري الخامس في حقل العلاقات الدولية – مراجعة للأدبيات نظرية التعقد والنقاش النظري الخامس في حقل العلاقات الدولية – مراجعة للأدبيات الكاتب : حمشي محمد الملخص: تقدم مراجعة الأدبيات هذه قراءة توليفـية بيـن الأدبيات التي تجادل بأن حقل العلاقات الدولية يعرف تحولا نحو نقاش خامس من جهة، والأدبيات التي تدعو إلـى تحول الحقل نحو تبني الـمفاهيم والأدوات التحليلية التي (يمكن أن) تزوده…

[alewaanewspaper1960]

نظرية التعقد والنقاش النظري الخامس في حقل العلاقات الدولية - مراجعة للأدبيات

نظرية التعقد والنقاش النظري الخامس في حقل العلاقات الدولية – مراجعة للأدبيات نظرية التعقد والنقاش النظري الخامس في حقل العلاقات الدولية – مراجعة للأدبيات الكاتب : حمشي محمد الملخص: تقدم مراجعة الأدبيات هذه قراءة توليفـية بيـن الأدبيات التي تجادل بأن حقل العلاقات الدولية يعرف تحولا نحو نقاش خامس من جهة، والأدبيات التي تدعو إلـى تحول الحقل نحو تبني الـمفاهيم والأدوات التحليلية التي (يمكن أن) تزوده…

[butterabrod]

So it's getting shorter, huh? Maybe, the pencil symbolizes the length of the story, and maybe, it symbolizes Ava as the one who's leaving traces in other's hosts lives, writing her own story.

[yuckso]

Wrathia's Plan, the book foreshadowing the goals of each demon

This theory is about how each page of the specific demon actually foreshadows what they desire from each of their pact

First we see wrathia's page

The page next to her shows titan being stabbed or destroyed by what appears to be her magic, we know Wrathia's goal in the pact is to kill titan, and the page shows that.

We also know Tuls goal is to desire Ranancule, and Tylo's goal is to see her children being freed . And each of their pages show it:

From these images, the pages is potentially telling us what each of the demons desire. This could also potentially mean Renancule might also desire to meet again with Tuls ^^

So lets us see the rest of the pages of the demons that we know of, that could potentially be their goals in each pact:

In Nevy's case, first her desire was to recover her memory and be aware of what she is but since she has recovered a considerable amount of her memory. From the page she could potentially desire of what appears to be her and her people reuniting, or somewhat another demon that is part of kingdom.

For Pedri, he seems to desire of what looks like to be the egg that him and Wrathia hid away from titan. We see some sort of chains signifying the egg is locked away in some sort of place. Or it could be some jail like place with a circular door, that he desires to go into.

Now lets us look into the other demons that could potentially be their pages in the book based on their desire:

Alexa and her demon's goal is to find "someone" considering her demon has this "cloud" like theme, I speculate this page could be hers not only does it have those clouds theres also another demon next to her that could potentially be the demon she is desiring to find.

Next we have Aurora's demon which Aurora stated that "I was trying to find someone for him" and the page shows another demon that could potentially be what Aurora"s demon is trying to find. Now each of these speculations is just based on their appearances and desires there are actually others pages in the book about other demons desiring to find their partners too. But i picked these among all of them becuase they look the most accurate.

Last we have Tratar's demon:

I cant post the other pictures(due to the 10 images limit but ill post the full ver in my account again) but in terms of appearance that tratar"s demon only having one eye and the hairstyle. This could potentially be his demon desiring of what it seems to be a city or land that the demon is from.

Thats it for this theory, if this is legit then we can speculate the desires of the future demons we would see soon. Hope you enjoyed reading!

[creative-hanyou-girl]

So I'm watching the Eclipse with my mom and it has me wondering if this event would have a effect on Inuyasha and possibly his transformation. It'd be interesting to see what would happen.

[doublethetheories]

New Symbolism Notes (Panel #0168)

With Ava's Demon being back, I think now more than ever it'd be fun to re-analyse the earlier segments with our new knowledge. This theory is basiclaly just bullet points to get my ass back in the game.

Panel #0168 has been topic for discussion since the DAWN of Ava's demon, but with the context of the last few years of updates, it'd be interesting to take a look back and re-examine this frame's contents.

It establishes symbolism; This post for the most part, will be me recording these connections for public use since they will likel be helpful in the future.

Maggie — Green/Triangle: Association with butterflies. (Confirmed in her cast image; Not much to say here but it may come into play down the line.)

Gil — Diamonds/Blue, he's represented by the fish to the right (as also seen in cast image), but what on earth does it mean that they're in crystals??

Erios — Lime green / Stars, the creature here is bizarre... will they also become a monster of failure? Most of the others are clearly identifiable beings but this one isn't... makes me worried Gil isn't the only one we need to worry about.

Veevra — Crescent, red (connection to scavengers) is represented here by an insect looking creature? A wasp perhaps? (RE: Hivemind theory.)

AngelicPurr — Pink/Hearts, we're seeing them connected to a snake here? I'm curious how that may come into play later, especially with its fangs being bared here...

Also a bonus connection that isn't established here but is consistent throughout the comic is that Pedri is HEAVILY associated with dragonflies, and his presence is almost always proceeded by them. We've discussed this already heavily on this blog so I won't dig into it much more until we have new info on this.

[fanlovedlt]

My opinion about the previous update last week.

Spoilers but not really for previous avas demon update:

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I love the fact that the party announcement was gonna play during this whole start of the conversation they were gonna have.

They both apparently wake up with literally two airhorns I don’t blame them. Maggie definitely look like that. She had an irritated dream while we all know what Gil was probably dreaming about~~~~~~

Not gonna lie I had to ask my twin sister to read this update for me because I was genuinely worried that this whole conversation was going to go haywire or probably go worse in case of everyone was going to get in disagreement, but I’m glad that Ava also wanted to apologize and admit that she did definitely say some hurtful things to Gil when her only plan was to try to recruit him and get him to trust her.



I’m glad that Maggie doesn’t seem to be butting in and it’s just allowing Gil and Ava to have a time to talk. But not gonna lie I really did like Maggie having her hair down. It just made her look very pretty, and very sort of calm because with her hair up it just kinda look like she was always ready for something while her having her hair down just kind of seems like she’s more relaxed. I don’t know how to explain it. it’s like as a girl myself I always put my hair up whenever I need to do something while I only allow my hair down whenever I know I’m going to relax or I’m just going to chill so I guess it’s kinda like that.



Ava was definitely on a roll here. She seemed as if she wanted Gil to trust her that she would believe him if he were to admit that he has Nevi as a host same way that Ava has Wrathia as her pacted demon.

I also enjoyed that Gil does seem to be listening to her, but doesn’t exactly want to put his full attention towards her probably meaning that he is still having second thoughts on whether or not to fully forgive her or to fully believe her since he’s right on one thing, they are still very different.

Ava honey no it was definitely not fate. I’m sorry, but I feel so bad that these four were stuck with having to be the host of four powerful demons that no matter what affected their life to the point where affected the people around them and affected the way of their own thinking like they couldn’t really spend their childhood doing what they want because there was always something going on.

Example:

Wrathia practically controlled Ava’s life to the point where she made her be abandoned by everyone around her.

Even though we don’t know too much, I want Pedri to Odin, all we can guess is that that similar to Wrathia, Pedri didn’t really controlled Odin, but he did become somebody that Odin was terrified of exact same way that Wrathia terrified Ava.

From what we can guess with Nevi, even though she didn’t hurt Gill in anyway, she did became the reason that when Gil tried to talk about her, or tried to understand her existence, people started considering him a weirdo because he was either seen talking to himself or doing something when he was alone.

And we don’t know too much about Maggie and Tuls, but I can’t imagine on how Maggie had to be careful with being packed with Tuls especially with the leaves, coming out of her hair and having to use his powers to get someone to like her only for that to fail and weaken him a bit.

So no matter what it pained me when Ava started talking about how it was fate that brought them together when in my opinion, they were just the unlucky group that were chosen to be hosts with a bunch of demons who wanted to escape a failed victory of some sort. 

[duxwriter]

Ahem, more Ava's Demon cause brain rot theories/information

I supported the Kickstarter, and pointed out by another user (@fanlovedlt) Wrathia gets covered in snakes (though in the same chapter she speaks through a snake as well)

This is during Ava's dream and mind meeting after committing her act of wrath (more on why that means something later)

Now, Wrathia is covered in snakes

Snakes have a meaning (as most animals do)

With a shedding of their skin through sloughing, they are symbols of rebirth, transformation, immortality, and healing, but also are known as a creative life force and fertility on their own.

Now, Wrathia here, very Satan-esqu

Titan is even god coded

Chapter fifteen (called the first sin)

The following chapters (sixteen and twenty) are called "Hellfire" and "Paradise lost"

(Fun fact! Paradise lost is an epic poem written about the fall of mankind by John Milton featuring a very different version of Satan compared to how he was depicted at the time in old art and literature as well as making god the antagonist)

Now, why might this be important to what I have to say?

Snakes in the daytime mean good things, but in dreams, it's very different

Snakes in dreams typically represent a person in the dreamer's life who exhibits low, dirty, toxic, or poisonous behavior.

But they can also mean health or healing!

It can mean a sense of healing, personal transformation, or that you are moving forward.

But it also deals with the context of Ava and Wrathia in these scene's

Now, Wrathia speaks through a snake

If you know the story of Adam and Eve (note, Adam and Eve were both naked before eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge, the snake is in a tree and both Wrathia and Ava appear "naked")

Ava even calls Wrathia a "snake"

Usually a term to call someone false, fake, etc.

(very fitting for Wrathia's character)

Now, Wrathia doesn't have typical Satan horns

But they are known as demon horns (goat/sheep like, especially with the eyes)

Wrathia is regal, a demigod (as explained by Odin's peoples thoughts on how the universe happened, again, a very bible/god related story)

(note, there are seven sins, and it took six (the seventh to rest) days to make the world, there are also seven sins and seven virtues)

Satan was "regal" and "royal" as he was depicted now and (sorta) then

Where does this all lead?

Ava commits an act of wrath (term used in lieu of acts of many different religions concept of gods acting against mortals for slights or divine retribution, take the story of Niobe from Greek myth, where she says she's better than Leto so Artemis and Apollo slay her children in an act of wrath against her)

Ava basically makes hell (on titans planet) for people, and herself (note, she thought it was a dream, many people who commit or have been committed against think it's a dream/wish it was a dream)

Where I'm going with this is, It's very bible coded (as well as Alice in wonderland with the rabbit hole Ava basically sent herself down)

It both shows Ava's growth, Wrathia's horrid personality

Wrathia and Ava talk about a high, which often is said how hubris feels (or an act of defiance or fight/flight response when you pick to fight)

(also little tidbit, snake Wrathia is in a tree, which looks like a fig tree, fig trees are symbols of wisdom and success in abundance, but Jesus also cursed a fig tree in the bible, as a warning for people not to be hypocritical. Basically "Jesus Christ warning Christians that they must bear fruits after their conversion worthy of repentance or risk being condemned to Hell." Is how it's interpreted to many churches, but it also has several different meanings in the bible (like hunger for true worship, as it bore no fruit)

(also, the fruit of knowledge was never described, many simply assume it's an apple from paintings and modern media, but, it's very possible it could be any fruit, like a fig)

(we see here the tree is snapped, as in, it's been cursed/destroyed, again, the bible says Jesus cursed the tree)

(I also need to say, Fig trees can represent happiness in dreams)

[fitzrove]

Not to simplify a complex historical issue in a tumblr post but I think the reason Conspiracy (Elisabeth Essen/Hungarian prods) and fandom discussions/headcanons/fanwork deriving from it (ie. advancing the interpretation that the cause of Rudolf's anguish & the thing Tod is trying to manipulate him to do is the pursuit of Hungarian independence/seizing the Hungarian throne) tend to set me off is that it ignores the thing that's, like, the historical and the musical Rudolf's actual main deal, which is anti-conservative thought and the emotional pain and feelings of powerlessness brought about by living in a world full of state-sanctioned prejudice, hatred and anti-intellectualism (among other things)

Which I, for, like, personal reasons, find more compelling to reflect upon and have portrayed on stage in our 21st century world (= "oppressive politics on state level bad" seems. Relevant somehow) than stuff like a privileged person's private quest for power (throne) or a vaguely positive portrayal of nationalism (especially since Hungarian nationalism in the 21st century isn't super cuddly or feel-good ajdkdldl, so I think having those foundation myths repeated actually borders on irresponsible - depending on the framing, that is)

Plus its not historically accurate, like the conspiracy plot has not been conclusively proven to have happened. Unlike todolf [redacted] which is indisputable historical fact

[beaningeneraldenial]

After reading the AA webcomic, I like to think that Shura got yeeted by Freedrock from the seven seas, through the dark sea and into the war seas.

[melancholypilled]

it’s sad how feminist critique and analysis of legitimate disciplines such as religious studies, international relations and philosophy is frowned upon since “gender studies” and “queer studies” have become a thing, since feminist theory is one of the most insightful ways of understanding complex issues. Women are already not seen as intellectuals historically, and it’s only become worse in the recent years.

[amereid1960]

نظرية التعقد والنقاش النظري الخامس في حقل العلاقات الدولية - مراجعة الأدبيات

نظرية التعقد والنقاش النظري الخامس في حقل العلاقات الدولية – مراجعة الأدبيات نظرية التعقد والنقاش النظري الخامس في حقل العلاقات الدولية – مراجعة الأدبيات الكاتب: حمشي محمد الملخص: تقدم مراجعة الأدبيات هذه محاولة لتركيب القراءة بين الأدب الذي يجادل بأن الأشعة تحت الحمراء كانت تحولا نحو مناقشة خامسة، والأدب الذي يدافع عن تبني المفاهيم والأدوات التحليلية (يمكن أن يكون ذلك) من خلال نظرية التعقيد.…

[alewaanewspaper1960]

نظرية التعقد والنقاش النظري الخامس في حقل العلاقات الدولية - مراجعة الأدبيات

نظرية التعقد والنقاش النظري الخامس في حقل العلاقات الدولية – مراجعة الأدبيات نظرية التعقد والنقاش النظري الخامس في حقل العلاقات الدولية – مراجعة الأدبيات الكاتب: حمشي محمد الملخص: تقدم مراجعة الأدبيات هذه محاولة لتركيب القراءة بين الأدب الذي يجادل بأن الأشعة تحت الحمراء كانت تحولا نحو مناقشة خامسة، والأدب الذي يدافع عن تبني المفاهيم والأدوات التحليلية (يمكن أن يكون ذلك) من خلال نظرية التعقيد.…

[liones-s]

'All theoretical constructs are inherently unobservable, and all measures are imperfect' (David Lake)

[lemonhemlock]

“Viserys made rhaenyra his heir and his word is law” “the team black kids were accepted by viserys and laenor so their legitimate” “the team black kids are half targaryen so that’s all that matters”

I will throw you off of a damn roof

None these people understand that we’re watching a show set in the medieval era where the laws and rules were different compared to now but they still try to use modern logic to explain it. We learned this in history goddamn it

Not only are the laws, rules, customs and beliefs different, but the entire political structure is fashioned so as to uphold them! Going against them or trying to change them is notoriously difficult!

Kings only started to consolidate more power slowly as feudalism gave way to centralized bureaucracies due to a variety of socio-economical factors that are very obviously lacking in the world of ASOIAF: the development of urban centres, of the merchant class / townspeople capitalists, expansion of trade, momentous events that lead to a decline in population (like plagues or disastrous wars) -> causing a reduction in the number of peasants, meaning that the peasants who did survive were precious human resources that were not so easily replaceable and demanded more rights for themselves, crusades that impoverished a lot of nobles etc etc - all of these which eroded the power of the feudal lord and allowed kings to absorb that power for themselves.

What these people don't understand is that noble lords held a tremendous amount of power over their own lands and, in an era where travel was difficult, the "king's will" was what they made of it. Sure, the king could THEORETICALLY go to war if a vassal was being too contrarian, but he'd have to convince his other vassals to join him and provide him with an army and wars were expensive. So it was much more advantageous to negotiate with these people and compromise rather than impose oneself via violence, although that did also happen, of course.

Another important catalyst for monarchs gaining more power at the expense of nobles is the introduction of gunpowder and CANONS. Previously, castles were incredibly effective at keeping the enemy out since they were nigh impenetrable. You could only take a castle either by sacrificing a ridiculous amount of fighters, rendering it not worth it, OR by starving it out, which could take MONTHS, was expensive AF and was also not worth it. Now, with canons, if you disobeyed the king, it became a lot easier to get fucked.

Aegon V has this very problem when the nobles opposed his smallfolk policies. So what does he decide to do?? He tries to come up with his own canons, which in-universe, means bringing dragons back. And we all know how that ended.

The difference, of course, is canons are not weapons of mass destruction, whereas dragons most definitely are. So the nobles are kind of in the right here to oppose a monarch that can unleash such a devastating level of death and destruction with no checks and balances imposed on their power.

Viserys can yap all he likes how Rhaenyra is his "rightful" heir, the nobles will only say yeah right and crown Aegon after he dies. "The King's word is law" - how is it law if you do not exercise the monopoly on violence? How is it law if you cannot enforce it? The only way you could make it law in these circumstances is if you convince enough people to abide by it somehow via negotiation and debate. The "law" you're talking about remains a laughable suggestion otherwise.

[child-of-hurin]

So I had fallen in with a criminal—I’d trafficked with them before, on my master’s behalf in Ianna-Ir. 

Any modern AU that doesn't account for Kamet meeting with a dealer to buy Nahuseresh's pot et cetera: consider