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The Commonwealth Games as an Example of Bringing States Closer Through Sport [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The aim of the article is to investigate the issue of positive sports diplomacy directed at bringing countries closer and deepening cooperation between them. Generally, sports diplomacy is a broader term and may include various ways of utilizing sport,
Abegunrin   +69 more
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Terrorism and Regional Security: The Challenges of Insurgency in the Sahel

open access: yesABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBO, 2023
This paper examines the incidences of terrorism in the Sahel region of Africa and its impact on regional security. The study suggests that terrorism festering in the Sahel is a product of bad governance and the inability of the states within the sphere ...
Eleanor Salka Minka   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Globalisation and Diplomacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
When I was about 15 years old, I asked my godfather, a palaeontologist, whether he thought global warming was a man-made or a natural phenomenon. He replied that however substantive the changes wrought by human beings might be, there was no way we could have substantially affected the cycle of global warming that has covered the billions of years over ...
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Ping-Pong Diplomacy and its Legacy in the American Foreign Policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The aim of the paper is to investigate ping-pong diplomacy between the Unites States and China, which was used by both countries as a diplomatic tool, aimed at achieving political rapprochement despite ideological dissonance and conflict over Taiwan ...
Kobierecki, Michał Marcin
core   +1 more source

Digital Transformation of the Tourism Industry and Its Impact on Export Potential: Evidence from Kazakhstan

open access: yesJournal of Central Asian Studies
Digital tourism in Kazakhstan is a rapidly developing field that is actively incorporating modern technologies to enhance the tourism experience and improve management.
Laylo Tashpulatova, Fotima Suyunova
doaj   +1 more source

INTERNATIONAL ISOTOPES MARKETS

open access: yesVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2016
The paper studies world markets of stable and radioactive isotopes. Isotopes have found various applications in science, industry, agriculture and other sectors of the economy, but especially - in medicine.
S. Z. Zhiznin, V. M. Timohov
doaj   +1 more source

The Application of Customer Service Standards and Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Discretion in Lithuanian State Agencies

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2020
The main purpose of this article is to explore how standardization of the public service provision and introduction of customer service standards affect the de facto discretion of civil servants. The study uses a qualitative case study approach. Two main
Civinskas Remigijus   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diplomacy

open access: yes, 2012
This chapter makes three main arguments. First, ideas and practices of diplomacy have a multi-millennial history much longer than is generally thought. Second, this long history has been characterised by both continuity and change. As a result, diplomacy has been as much adaptive as resistant to change.
Wiseman, Geoffrey, Sharp, Paul
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Two Competing Normative Trajectories in the Context of the First Baltic Gay Pride Parade in Lithuania

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2014
For a long time post-Soviet space has been perceived as homophobic and intolerant of LGBT persons. The three Baltic States - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - as former Soviet republics and current members of the European Union, represent the space where a
Mažylis Liudas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Science and Diplomacy [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2012
The world has much to gain from developing more knowledge- and innovation-based societies and from spreading scientific values, including meritocracy and transparency, that support democracy. This fundamental assumption underlies a renewed interest in science diplomacy, along with the widespread recognition that science and technology (S&T) are ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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