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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The development of national strategic plans (NSPs) under the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) involves considerable coordination between Member States and the (European) Commission. In this process, the Commission provides recommendations to each Member State before they submit their draft NSPs and observations at a later stage before ...
Daniel Polman, Pieter Zwaan, Gerry Alons
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Disasters, Dictators, and Donors: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Activity (Mis)Reporting
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how governments manipulate economic data to secure more foreign disaster aid. By using nighttime lighting as a reliable measure of economic activity, we make two key findings: (1) foreign disaster aid is positively linked to a country's understatement of its gross domestic product, indicating a deliberate strategy to ...
M. Martin Boyer +2 more
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Political Fictionality: Vladislav Surkov and the Rise of the Authorial State
The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article introduces the concept of political fictionality as a theoretical framework for analyzing the convergence of literary authorship and political power in Russia during the Putin era, using Vladislav Surkov—a longtime presidential advisor and ideologue as well as fiction writer under the pseudonym Natan Dubovitskii—as its principal ...
Ekaterina Vassilieva
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Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
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Shaping Arab Identity Through the Beautiful Game: A Heterotopic Analysis of the 2022 World Cup
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar functioned as a heterotopic space through which Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) identities were publicly articulated, negotiated and made visible. Drawing on Foucault's notion of heterotopia and Lefebvre's understanding of space as socially produced, the paper approaches the ...
Ghufrane Daymi
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“Who here is a volunteer?” Peacebuilding, brokerage, and moral authority in Papua New Guinea
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper is a critical examination of the global peacebuilding industry as it has operated in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and is based around the author's experience as a volunteer broker to the United States Agency for International Development Papua New Guinea Peace Project.
Michael Main
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Local Tests of English in Global Contexts: A Malaysian Case Study
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global tests of English are usually used globally and local tests locally. However, this global–local dichotomy has been challenged by test localisation, globalisation and glocalisation. An emerging critical question in this regard is whether local tests of English can be used locally and globally at the same time.
M. Obaidul Hamid, Mohd Faiz Mohd Yaakob
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American Imperialism and Environmental Concerns in Syed Waliullah's The Ugly Asian
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bangladeshi bilingual writer Syed Waliullah's novel in English, The Ugly Asian (2013), written during the 1960s but published posthumously in 2013, highlights the struggles of a fictional postcolonial nation in Asia in the face of American imperialism.
Rakibul Hasan Khan
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Scandinavian Political Studies, Volume 49, Issue 4, November 2026.Abstract We analyze challenges and adaptation strategies of Nordic legal overseers, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen and Chancellors of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, amid the COVID‐19 crisis. We study how the accountability capacities of the legal overseers were affected when standard practices of inclusive decision‐making were severed ...
Tero Erkkilä +2 more
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Bioethics, Volume 40, Issue 8, Page 793-807, October 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines Israel's destruction and ‘humanitarianisation’ of Palestinian health systems, arguing that this should be understood as an instance of ‘necropolitics,’ as conceived by Achille Mbembe. We review the extensive, long‐term destruction of health systems in Palestine before 7 October 2023 and the catastrophic acceleration of that
Mohammad Salaymeh +2 more
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