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Peripheral traditionalism: Judeoislamic self‐help in Marseille's northern districts Traditionalisme périphérique : entraide judéo‐musulmane dans les quartiers nord de Marseille

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1041-1059, December 2025.
Through the synagogue‐cum‐community space of St‐X in Marseille's infamous peripheral northern districts, local urban‐invested intercommunal communication and solidarity are generated via self‐help initiatives that particularize humanitarianism. Because of their traditionalist Jewish and Muslim religious anchorings and the stranglehold of laïcité over ...
Samuel Sami Everett
wiley   +1 more source

From Rebuilding to Restoring Political Order: A New Agenda for Failed Arab States

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 3-17, Winter 2025.
Abstract A new approach to rebuilding collapsed states is being trialed in the Arab world, most conspicuously by the Trump administration but with broad international support. This replaces the previous model—favoring democratic building blocks like inclusion, compromise, reconciliation, accountability, and citizenship—which is now seen as too costly ...
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg
wiley   +1 more source

Capitalist transformation without political participation: German capitalism in the first half of the 19th century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The paper analyzes the political economy of capitalist transformation in Germany during the first half of the 19th century. Current approaches in institutional economics stress the dependency of economic and political institutions in 'open access orders',
Wegner, Gerhard
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On the natural border: A bio‐geo‐political reading

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract This article engages in a critical analysis of the concept of the natural border. It highlights its inherently biopolitical nature by exploring how it intersects with biology, history and geography. In the last decades, critical border studies have deeply questioned the naturality of borders.
Matteo Proto, Francesco Buscemi
wiley   +1 more source

Violent Intimacies: White Counterrevolution and Fears of Miscegenation and Black Rebellion in Kleist's Verlobung in St. Domingo

open access: yesThe German Quarterly, Volume 98, Issue 4, Page 261-277, Fall 2025.
Abstract Heinrich von Kleist's Die Verlobung in St. Domingo (1811) represents a unique work among contemporary colonial narratives that grapple with the world‐shattering events of the Haitian Revolution. This article contributes to the growing scholarship on the connections between German cultural production and the colonial world, as I reflect on how ...
Will Weihe
wiley   +1 more source

The Lost Large Mammals of Arabia

open access: yesJournal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 6, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim If successful, plans to restore the vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula (AP) as announced by the Middle East and Saudi Green Initiatives will see the greatest increase in vegetation cover since the beginning of the Holocene Humid Phase (HHP), roughly 9–10,000 years ago.
Christopher Clarke, Sultan M. Alsharif
wiley   +1 more source

Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 389-406, Summer 2025.
Abstract Guided by Foucault's concept of “discursive formations,” the study reported here draws on primary archival and secondary source material to examine how French has been discursively shaped in England and in relation to English. Unpacking sociohistorical constructions of sameness–difference offers a productive frame to explore ideological ...
Simon Coffey
wiley   +1 more source

Risk Management in the Public Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Central Government Settings in France, Germany, and Italy

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 293-307, May 2025.
ABSTRACT In recent years, public organizations have come under increasing pressure to implement comprehensive risk management (RM) systems that are based on international frameworks and standards. However, little is known about whether different countries have addressed this issue in their regulatory strategies and how they have done so.
Léonard Gourbier   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analytic Narratives: What they are and how they contribute to historical explanation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The expression "analytic narratives" is used to refer to a range of quite recent studies that lie on the boundaries between history, political science, and economics.
Mongin, Philippe
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