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Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
wiley   +1 more source

The Naval War Board of 1898 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The early months of 1898 witnessed the explosion of Maine and additional inducements for war. The Naval War Board, which first made its appearance in late March was summoned to arrange strategy for the impending hostilities.
Wenzer, Kenneth C.
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Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Avatars and Lebensform: Kirchberg 2007 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Several years ago, after a decade of experiments in the software industry, I returned to academia and found philosophy colleagues troubled by the term “virtual reality” — a term which enjoys wide usage in the ?eld of immersive computing but which raises ...
Heim, Michael
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Promotion of Polish culture in Japan – outline of the situation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
W artykule, w pierwszej części, zdefiniowane są główne obszary promocji kultury polskiej w świecie, z podziałem na dwa kierunki: wewnętrzny (terytorium Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), oraz zewnętrzny (poza granicami Polski).
Rodowicz-Czechowska, Jadwiga
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Influencing User Intentions on Interactive Websites: Insights From the Technology Acceptance Model

open access: yesIEEE Access
This study harnesses the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to unravel the influence of design elements on user interactions with interactive websites.
Liu Lun   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Art of Diplomacy in Vocally Negotiating Barn Owl Siblings

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
To resolve conflicts over limited resources, animals often communicate about their motivation to compete. When signals are transient, the resolution of conflicts may be achieved after an interactive process, with each contestant adjusting its signaling ...
Pauline Ducouret   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Madam Ambassador: A Statistical Comparison of Female Ambassadors across the U.S.,German, and EU Foreign Services. College of Europe EU Diplomacy Paper 03/2019 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Since the end of the Cold War, transatlantic partners have championed enlightenment principles and progressive values around the world, including gender equality.
Schiemichen, Laura
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