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2022
This chapter examines through comparative history the U.S. military occupations in the South after the Civil War and Cuba following the war with Spain. It explores continuity and change in the culture of armed occupation, from problems of racial equality and nation-building to economic development.
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This chapter examines through comparative history the U.S. military occupations in the South after the Civil War and Cuba following the war with Spain. It explores continuity and change in the culture of armed occupation, from problems of racial equality and nation-building to economic development.
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Systems Research, 1996
Relying on von Foerster's distinction between trivial and non-trivial machines, this paper discusses some crucial arguments for a constructivist concept of ‘empiricity’. The concept ‘empirical’ is oriented towards (social) knowledge and knowledge-constructing operations instead of objects or reality, thus following the strategy of systems theory to ...
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Relying on von Foerster's distinction between trivial and non-trivial machines, this paper discusses some crucial arguments for a constructivist concept of ‘empiricity’. The concept ‘empirical’ is oriented towards (social) knowledge and knowledge-constructing operations instead of objects or reality, thus following the strategy of systems theory to ...
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2015
In the light of the literature and empirical evidence on the diffusion of IR among companies, as well the critical issues in its adoption, it could be of interest, not only to assess whether the integrated reports issued by companies are consistent with the IR framework, in terms of elements and guiding principles, but also in evaluating the overall ...
PISTONI, ANNA ISIDE EUFEMIA, Songini, L.
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In the light of the literature and empirical evidence on the diffusion of IR among companies, as well the critical issues in its adoption, it could be of interest, not only to assess whether the integrated reports issued by companies are consistent with the IR framework, in terms of elements and guiding principles, but also in evaluating the overall ...
PISTONI, ANNA ISIDE EUFEMIA, Songini, L.
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This essay examines a possible strategic transition in American statecraft from direct management of the international system toward selective management through leverage networks. Rather than interpreting current U.S. policy through the traditional categories of liberal internationalism, isolationism, or nationalism alone, the essay argues that a ...
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1969
I want to begin by considering a case in which ‘necessary’ truths (or rather ‘truths’, turned out to be falsehoods: the case of Euclidean geometry. I then want to raise the question: could some of the ‘necessary truths’ of logic ever turn out to be false for empirical reasons?
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I want to begin by considering a case in which ‘necessary’ truths (or rather ‘truths’, turned out to be falsehoods: the case of Euclidean geometry. I then want to raise the question: could some of the ‘necessary truths’ of logic ever turn out to be false for empirical reasons?
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From the seventeenth century to the First World War, both free and unfree labor were essential for building an empire. This ambitious study examines the relationship between capitalism and coercion across the British, French and Russian empires throughout centuries of economic transformation.
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2017
This chapter challenges Bull and Watson’s 1984 account of the nature and impact of European imperialism on the so-called periphery. In contrast to a membership narrative, which analyses who became part of the expanding ‘core’ of international society and when, it draws on theories of interaction to demonstrate how the development of states in the ...
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This chapter challenges Bull and Watson’s 1984 account of the nature and impact of European imperialism on the so-called periphery. In contrast to a membership narrative, which analyses who became part of the expanding ‘core’ of international society and when, it draws on theories of interaction to demonstrate how the development of states in the ...
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