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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

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Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

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Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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Cultures of Corruption: Evidence From Diplomatic Parking Tickets [PDF]

Corruption is believed to be a major factor impeding economic development, but the importance of legal enforcement versus cultural norms in controlling corruption is poorly understood.
Edward Miguel, Raymond Fisman
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

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Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

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Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s

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Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
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Tianxia: the Weight of History on Chinese Diplomatic Discourse, 1992-2022

This study explores the positioning and influence of the historical philosophy and institution represented by Tianxia in contemporary Chinese diplomatic discourse. Since Zhao Tingyang's 2005 publication The Tianxia System, academic discussions on China's
Luo, Jiannan
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Diplomatic relations with Austria...

Speech made by Lewis Cass of Michigan to the U.S. Senate on January 4, 1850, regarding suspending diplomatic relations with Austria.Full catalog title: Diplomatic relations with Austria. : Speech of Hon.
Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866
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Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

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Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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Linguistic Features OF Diplomatic Discourse: A Comparative Study OF Turkish AND Uzbek

This article examines the linguistic features of diplomatic discourse through a comparative analysis of Turkish and Uzbek. Diplomatic discourse is viewed as a distinct institutional form of communication characterized by formality, politeness, neutrality,
Axmedjanova, D. B. (Dilafruz)
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