O. OMORUYI

This study examines the role of women in the French Revolution, focusing on Olympe de Gouges and her fight for women’s rights between 1789 and 1793. While the French Revolution championed the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity, these democratic promises largely excluded women, relegating them to the private sphere. Utilizing a historical and analytical research design, this project investigates how female activists resisted this marginalization. The study specifically analyzes Olympe de Gouges’ seminal 1791 document, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, which challenged the male-centric biases of the revolution’s founding texts. The findings reveal that despite facing political suppression and ultimate execution during the Reign of Terror, Gouges and her contemporaries successfully laid the foundational framework for modern feminism, political inclusivity, and gender equality. The study concludes that women were not mere passive observers but active political agents who shaped the radical discourse of the revolution. It recommends a continuous revision of historical narratives to fully integrate and acknowledge the contributions of women in global political struggles.

Rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) has led to significant changes in social, economic and political relations of the modern society. Access to information and control over it contribute to the prevalence of soft power in politics of digital age, and empower the non-state actors in international relations. Contemporary diplomatic service, besides being faced with enhanced roles, requests for extended outreach and accountability, yet shrinking resources, is also challenged with multi-stakeholder and multidisciplinary international arena. All states activities across the globe are becoming increasingly efficient as a result of globalisation and the digitization of information that have comprehensively improved the way state relate, States in the International arena are conducting their daily businesses. Studies like Laura Galante, work titled “Defining Russian Election Interference: An Analysis of Select 2014 to 2018 Cyber Enabled Incidents” argued that, ICT plays a critical role in engineering and knowledge economy as well as in management. Information and Communication (ICT) seems to assume an explanatory role in energizing the coming together of world societies. More so, it aids in the acceleration of the interdependence of institutions, organs, processes and values.4 This study is therefore set to explore a symbiotic linkage and explain the nexus between ICT and the interstate relations as its relate to international politics. To achieve this goal, the study will examine the historical trend of ICT in the relation to Russia acclaimed interference in the United State presidential election in 2016