It demonstrates that these centers operate within a complex network where politics, economics, media, and finance intersect, giving them an effective ability to redefine problems and formulate solutions that serve the interests of dominant powers. It also focuses on how they employ concepts such as "failed state" and "moderate Islam" in sensitive regional contexts, such as Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, making them partners in producing legitimacy for interventionist policies.
The research reviews models of prominent institutions such as RAND, Brookings, and WINEP, revealing the nature of their structural bias, their role in rotating elites, and their influence on media discourse.
It draws on internal Western critical readings (Chomsky, Foucault) to highlight the dimensions of these centers' cognitive complicity with power.
The research concludes the necessity of building local cognitive alternatives capable of resisting soft cognitive colonialism and formulating narratives that reflect societies' priorities and autonomy.
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