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THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICTS ARE CONFLICTS BETWEEN EXISTING AND EMERGING IMAGES OF A WORLD ORDER. NARROW POLITICAL -MILITARY AND ECONOMIC APPROACHES AND ACTION PROPOSALS ARE CONTRASTED WITH THE INTERDISCIPLINARY SYSTEMIC ANALYSIS OF TWO FUTURE SCENARIOS. SCENARIO ONE POINTS UP THE DISASTROUS MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMIC RAMIFICATIONS OF US MILITARY INTERVENTIONS; TWO ENTAILS OIL AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES

STUDIES IN A METHODOLOGICAL FASHION THE SOCIAL POWER AND STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIPS USING AS A MODEL THE PRISONERS' DILEMNA GAME AS A CASE FOR THE MORE GENERAL PROBLEM OF OVERALL HUMAN COOPERATION. EXTERNAL CONTROL CARIED OUT IN A RATIONAL FASHION AND THE GENERAL CONTEXT OF SOCIAL RELATIONS IN AND OUT OF PRISON ARE ALSO DISCUSSED.

THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICTS ARE CONFLICTS BETWEEN EXISTING AND EMERGING IMAGES OF A WORLD ORDER. NARROW POLITICAL -MILITARY AND ECONOMIC APPROACHES AND ACTION PROPOSALS ARE CONTRASTED WITH THE INTERDISCIPLINARY SYSTEMIC ANALYSIS OF TWO FUTURE SCENARIOS. SCENARIO ONE POINTS UP THE DISASTROUS MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMIC RAMIFICATIONS OF US MILITARY INTERVENTIONS; TWO ENTAILS OIL AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES

Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Introduction: an Historical Survey of the Hegel-Marx Connection -- 2 Hegel and Marx: Reflections on the Narrative -- 3 Hegel's Legacy -- 4 Marx and Scientific Method: a Non-Metaphysical View -- 5 From the Critique of Hegel to the Critique of Capital -- 6 Marx's Doctoral Dissertation: the Development of a Hegelian Thesis -- 7 Hegel and Marx on Needs: the Making of a Monster -- 8 Recognition and Social Relations of Production -- 9 The End of History in Hegel and Marx -- 10 Hegel and Marx on International Relations -- Bibliography -- Index.

For our analysis we draw upon Macherey's essay 'The text says what is does not say' (in Walder 1990) where he argues for the legitimacy of interrogating a text for 'what it tacitly implies, what it does not say … for in order to say anything there are things which must not be said' (Ibid 217, his italics). As with society, all works have their margins – the incompleteness that reveals their birth and production … ' What is important in the work is what it does not say … what the work cannot say … because there the elaboration of the utterances is acted out in a sort of journey to silence' (Ibid 218). Our critical analysis of the Government e-learning strategy (2005) reveals that rather than harnessing technology to empower the typically disenfranchised within the educational debate, it is those very stakeholders at the margins who are silenced whilst the interests of those with institutional and economic power are given voice. Our analysis will show that rather than creating a stakeholder society, Government through its policy documents positions the already disempowered as either silent or deficit and our conclusions suggest that rather than a discourse of transformation, 'regulation not education' (Lillis 2001), is the real goal of the dominant stakeholders.

In this paper, we introduce a theoretical perspective based on the concept of relational control, the exercise of control over social relationships. The paper focuses on three of the principal ways human agents structure cooperation and conflict among persons and groups: through control of interaction and organizational opportunities, control of differential payoffs or outcomes of interaction, and control over cultural and ideological orientations of actors in relation to one another. We consider divide-and-rule strategies used to structure noncooperative or conflictive social relationships. The role of the state in regulating management/labor relationships in industrialized or industrializing societies is examined to illustrate the structuring of more cooperative relationships. Parallels to the analysis of international relations are suggested.