Leveraging community insights and navigating logistical challenges: a case study of the 2024 polio vaccination campaign in Gaza, State of Palestine. [PDF]
Dwyer H +23 more
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It's the Politics!—Global Trade Governance Beyond Technocracy
ABSTRACT The World Trade Organization (WTO) struggles to respond to the growing entanglement of trade and geopolitics. Drawing on existing scholarship and 20 in‐depth interviews with ambassadors and senior trade diplomats conducted in Geneva ahead of the 13th WTO Ministerial 2024, this article reveals a fundamental dilemma at the heart of contemporary ...
Nora Kürzdörfer
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Time Travel Within the History of Ethnobotany. [PDF]
Kalle R, Sõukand R.
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ABSTRACT Transnational due diligence regulations, such as the European Union Regulation on Deforestation‐Free Products (EUDR), are reshaping sustainability governance by transforming voluntary norms into binding global rules. Yet, their effectiveness depends on how well they align with domestic governance systems and on the power asymmetries that ...
John James Loomis +2 more
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Exporting Socialist Health Care: Soviet Humanitarianism in the Global South. [PDF]
Hearne S.
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Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy
ABSTRACT This study examines how political actors leverage social media in Afghanistan as a tool for political legitimation. Framing social media as a potential supply of legitimacy, it analysed X (formerly known as Twitter) content posted by the former Afghan government, humanitarian and Taliban political accounts between January 2020 and December ...
Hannah Oates
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Piaget as scientific diplomat: Exchanges between the Geneva School and Soviet psychologists during the 1950s-60s. [PDF]
García LN, Tau R, Ratcliff MJ.
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Cautionary Tales for Science‐Based Policy in Deep‐Sea Mining Governance
ABSTRACT This article examines how low‐certainty scientific claims permeate high‐stakes policy debates before rigorous validation. Using deep‐sea mining governance as a focal domain, the study traces high‐visibility narratives, including the “dark oxygen” hypothesis, radioactive risks of polymetallic nodules, projected impacts of sediment plume ...
Lucía Villar‐Muñoz
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Structured knowledge representation of the South China Sea: An LLM-based knowledge graph approach. [PDF]
Zhao R, Han Z, Liu H.
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Chinese Loans and Africa's Agricultural Investment: A Bayesian Multilevel Modelling Analysis
ABSTRACT Chinese lending to Africa expanded substantially after 2000, with agriculture often presented as a strategic sector in China–Africa development cooperation. This study examined whether Chinese loans to African agriculture reflected a differentiated financing strategy or formed part of a broader development finance portfolio.
Adrino Mazenda
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