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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
wiley   +1 more source

‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
wiley   +1 more source

Critical rationalism: a critical essay [PDF]

, 1987
The aim of this essay is to establish that critical rationalism currently exists in an incoherent state. This is demonstrated through an analysis of the discourse's key fields (its metaphysics, metascience and politics), their constituents and conditions of co-existence.
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Rational Functions with Prescribed Critical Points [PDF]

Geometrical and Functional Analysis GAFA, 2002
A rational function is the ratio of two complex polynomials in one variable without common roots. Its degree is the maximum of the degrees of the numerator and the denominator. Rational functions belong to the same class if one turns into the other by the postcomposition with a linear-fractional transformation.
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
wiley   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Sharing the Same Playground? An Analysis of the Private Sector's Role in Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article takes the emergence of tech diplomacy as the motivation for an investigation into shifting relationships between traditional diplomatic actors and non‐state actors. The observation that ‘new diplomatic actors’ and new diplomatic venues have led to a ‘new kind of diplomacy’ dates back to at least the 1990s.
Katharina E. Höne
wiley   +1 more source

On The Dialectical Maxim Of Critical Rationalism

, 2018
The paper discusses one of the major principles of critical rationalism with a critical approach. This principle is about giving all participants the opportunity to argue in a friendly spirit.
Kriste Shtufi
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An Ontological Security Interpretation of Global South Middle Powers' Non‐Alignment in the Ukrainian War

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores why a group of Global South middle powers has adopted stances on the Ukrainian war that diverged from the positions of the United States under President Joe Biden, the European Union and the broader NATO/Western alliance. I claim that these disparities are partially explained by the affiliation these states have with the ...
Marco Vieira
wiley   +1 more source

Change in the Geometry of Power in the Light of the Nature of the Cultural and Regional Geopolitics of Power; Case Study Changes in Western Asia [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat, 2016
Until the early twentieth century, international relations affected issues such as war and peace, anarchy of the international system, foreign policy and military power.
Ali Adami, Elham keshavarz
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