The Characteristics and Functions of International Friendship Cities of China – and Prospects of Local Cooperation in Sino-Poland Relations [PDF]
Liu, Jiang, Long, Yang, Xin, Chen
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A Chequered History but Positive Future for British Public Administration
ABSTRACT Public services, public servants, and the study of Public Administration are operating in a context of global turbulence. Our review of the state of the discipline suggests that a core strength of British Public Administration has been the complementarity between scholarship and practice, responding to existential threats.
Ian C. Elliott +7 more
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Abstract Recent bilateral and plurilateral regional trade agreements (RTAs) increasingly incorporate climate‐related provisions, signalling a potential convergence of international trade and climate law. This trend goes beyond defensive provisions seeking to avoid conflicts between the two legal regimes, such as exceptions recognising climate change as
Andreas Buser
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Design of generative AI-powered pedagogy for virtual reality environments in higher education. [PDF]
Hemminki-Reijonen U +4 more
europepmc +1 more source
Export controls and the energy transition: Aligning security and sustainability
Abstract This article examines how the accelerating use of export controls, once motivated by narrow security interests, can now affect the pace and success of the global energy transition. As strategic rivalry intensifies among the US, the EU and China, export controls increasingly target access to critical and emerging technologies such as advanced ...
Olga Hrynkiv
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Be strong, be confident: the rise of China and the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. [PDF]
Chong GPL, de Kloet J.
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Standards as Authority: Self‐Legitimation in the European Union's Global Forest Governance
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how the EU's introduction of binding sustainability standards through the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) constitutes an authoritative claim and how this claim is legitimized. Using qualitative content analysis, the paper examines three interconnected self‐legitimation strategies: (1) framing standards as optimal ...
Julia Drubel
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Braking and Exiting: Referendum Games, European Integration and the Road to the UK's Brexit Vote. [PDF]
Ganderson J, Kyriazi A.
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Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom
ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
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