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"Post-Hegemonic Regionalism" published on by Oxford University Press.

This paper examines the utility of the hegemonic stability theory in understanding regional power dynamics within Africa. The study operationalizes the concept of regional hegemony by drawing insights from a comparative foreign policy analysis of African regional powers, with emphasis on Nigeria. Using a largely qualitative methodology supplemented with primary data, the paper examines the underlying assertions of Nigeria's perceived 'hegemonic' influence. Through the use of the hegemonic stability theory as a theoretical lens, this paper argues that Nigeria's foreign policy shows few signs of a continental hegemonic disposition. In applying this theory at a regional level of analysis, the study finds very little empirical evidence that it fits the African regional context. In short, hegemonic claims in Africa are mere (un)official rhetoric and lack substance.

A review of recent Canadian literature on the political economy of sexuality, particularly the critical new literature on masculinity & heterosexuality. It is argued that masculinity & heterosexuality are not biological, nor are they politically neutral; rather, they are social accomplishments of a political nature located within a larger set of political, economic, & social relations. The gender & sexual obedience to both masculinity & heterosexuality is a human activity, a social product embodied by individual men in their everyday routine set of social relations. As a collective process, this obedience is supported by the social structure & expresses themes of competition with other men, the exploitation & subordination of women & other men, violence toward women & other men, & homophobia. Based on this conceptualization of hegemonic heterosexuality masculinity, it is suggested that, if issues of sexuality are relations of power in a M-dominated society, then the silence around heterosexism & heterosexual privilege must be broken in order to invoke a personal & social transformation, & to challenge the ideas & practices of power that continue to create expression. Modified AA