Specialized Committees of International Organizations an Important Source of Organizational Autonomy
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Assigning the preparation of decisions to specialized committees composed of member state representatives is a widespread response to the ‘governor's dilemma’, that is, the tension between competence and control, in international organizations (IOs). We theorize a causal mechanism referring to self‐selection and agenda‐setting effects and show
Michael Giesen +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Socrates, Piety, and Nominalism [PDF]
, 2009 The argument used by Socrates to refute the thesis that piety is what all the gods love is one of the most well known in the history of philosophy. Yet some fundamental points of interpretation have gone unnoticed.
Rudebusch, George
core
Beyond the European Army Illusion: A Prudent Strategy for the Real European Zeitenwende
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Benjamin Daßler, Moritz Weiss
wiley +1 more source
Winged horses, rascals and discourse referents
Theoria, EarlyView.Abstract This paper discusses some remarks Kaplan made in ‘Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice’ concerning empty names. I show how his objections to a particular view involving descriptions derived from Ramsification can be avoided by a nearby alternative framed in terms of discourse reference.
Andreas Stokke
wiley +1 more source
US‐Japan Alliance: Emmeshing Bilateralism Into Broader Multilateralism
Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 13, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT In the 21st Century, geopolitical confrontation between the Eurasian continental powers and the sea powers works to divide Asia. The US‐Japan alliance has transformed itself from Japanʼs asymmetrical security dependence of the Cold War period into a mutual and more integrated partnership today.
Yoichiro Sato
wiley +1 more source
Duration and Term Structure of Trade Agreements [PDF]
Why are some trade agreements concluded for a limited period of time while others have the form of evergreen contracts supplemented with an advance termination notice clause?
Mikhail Klimenko, Sergei Guriev
core
Tragic Irony of American Federalism: National Sovereignty versus State Sovereignty in Slavery and in Freedom, The Federalism in the 21st Century: Historical Perspectives [PDF]
, 1996 A plurality on the Supreme Court seeks to establish a state-sovereignty based theory of federalism that imposes sharp limitations on Congress\u27s legislative powers.
Kaczorowski, Robert J.
core +1 more source
Navigating and reframing tensions within equity‐centered learning health systems
Learning Health Systems, Volume 10, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract Introduction Canada recently joined a growing list of countries that are establishing national collaboratives to exchange knowledge on and scale learning health systems (LHSs) across geographies and sectors. The first symposium of the pan‐Canadian Learning Health Hub was held in June 2024 and included a keynote presentation and breakout ...
Ibukun‐Oluwa Omolade Abejirinde +1 more
wiley +1 more source
Taboos as Drivers for Counterculture: Normalizing Misogyny in Incel Communities and Beyond
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Mihaela Popa‐Wyatt, Justina Berškytė
wiley +1 more source
Ontology After Folk Psychology; or, Why Eliminativists Should Be Mental Fictionalists
Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 1-11, March 2026.ABSTRACT Mental fictionalism holds that folk psychology should be regarded as a kind of fiction. The present version gives a Lewisian prefix semantics for mentalistic discourse, where roughly, a mentalistic sentence “p” is true iff “p” is deducible from the folk psychological fiction.
Ted Parent
wiley +1 more source