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Between De Jure and De Facto Statehood: Revisiting the Status Issue for Taiwan
Island Studies Journal, 2008 This paper revisits the status prospects for Taiwan in light of recent events in Kosovo and Tibet. In both cases, and certainly in Taiwan itself, the long standing contest between claims for self determination and the tenacious defence of the principle ...
Barry Bartmann
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Gender &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
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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Japan's defence diplomacy in South East Asia
, 2017 Theoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 56-69.Chapter 1. Introduction -- chapter 2. Research design -- Chapter 3. Literature review -- Chapter 4. Case Studies -- Chapter 5.
Foulkes León, Daniel
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Gender &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
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Defence Diplomacy: Battling for the Heart of the Pacific
, 2021 As the Pacific region has become more strategically contested, regional powers have intensified their use of defence diplomacy. As a result, the number and scale of military Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) deployments, exercises and ...
Roddis K, Tan A
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Russian Soft Power in Central Asia between Official Discourse and Local Practice
Halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦atynastar ža̋ne halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦u̇k̦yk̦ seriâsìAfter 2022, Russia's normative corpus subjects the concept of soft power to a fundamental reorientation. The language of organic attractiveness gives way to that of civilizational confrontation, while categories such as “state-civilization ...
A.B. Kuzembayeva, Ye.S. Chukubayev
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Civil Society Shifts, Challenges and Responses to COVID-19: Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Space and Culture, India, 2022 This paper discusses to what degree did civil society organisations (CSOs) felt threatened during COVID-19 in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The authors explore how civil society organisations handled lockdowns.
Ibrahim Natil, Venkat Rao Pulla
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Decades of investment in defence diplomacy resulted in Thailand being the first ASEAN country to support the Australian-led UN-mandated 1999 intervention in East Timor.
Blaxland, John
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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