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The imperial boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.
Sensenig & Brehm [7] applied Brehm's reactance theory [8] to explain the boomerang effect. They argued that when a person thinks that his freedom to support a position on attitude issue is eliminated, the psychological reactance will be aroused and then he consequently moves his attitudinal position in a way so as to restore the lost freedom.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Boomerang effect may refer to: Boomerang effect (psychology) in social psychology; Imperial boomerang in ...
In Imperial Formations, Stoler and McGranahan's introduction highlights the often blurred, processual nature of imperial formations, asking not only about how to open up understanding of the imperial, but also what effective knowledge of imperial formations is now as much as in the past. The book builds on Stoler's earlier work but does so for ...
The theory of imperialism is the basis of most socialist theories of warfare and international relations, and is used to argue that international conflict and exploitation will only end with the revolutionary overthrow or gradual erosion of class systems and capitalist relations of production. [3]
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Blowback is the unintended consequences and unwanted side-effects of a covert operation.To the civilians suffering the blowback of covert operations, the effect typically manifests itself as "random" acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public—in whose name the intelligence agency acted—are unaware of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge ...
All this comes as Trump and his team push a sweeping theory of presidential authority-- one that asserts he has sole control over the executive branch and what Congress set up as independent agencies.