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Islamic Medievalism and Mobility in Mathias Énard's Street of Thieves
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 10-12, October-December 2024.ABSTRACT Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring uprisings, Jihadist extremism, and the neoliberal exploitation of the Global South, Mathias Énard's 2012 novel Street of Thieves (Rue des voleurs) follows the fortunes of Lakhdar, a young man from Tangier who finds himself living as an undocumented migrant in Barcelona's notorious Carrer d’En Robador,
Louise D'Arcens
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The Rise of Fiscal Capacity: Administration and State Consolidation in the Holy Roman Empire
Econometrica, Volume 92, Issue 5, Page 1439-1472, September 2024.This paper studies the role of fiscal capacity in European state consolidation. Our analysis is organized around novel data on the territories and cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the early modern period. Territories implementing an early fiscal reform were more likely to survive, increased in size, and achieved a more compact extent.
Davide Cantoni +2 more
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Kaliningrad oblast in the military system of the Russian Federation
Security and Defence Quarterly, 2019 From the geopolitical point of view, the Kaliningrad Oblast, due to its exclave location, has become an area of strategic importance. Its strategic nature has been steadily increasing with the successive enlargements of the European Union and NATO.
Marek Żyła
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Unlikely Alliances: How the Wars in Karabakh And Gaza Shape Northwest Asian Security
Middle East Policy, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 83-94, Summer 2024.Abstract This study analyzes how ongoing conflicts in the Levant and the post‐Soviet South Caucasus have upset the balance of relationships among Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Israel, Turkey, and Russia—and how this could escalate into a major, cross‐regional war.
Emil A. Souleimanov
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Plant, Cell &Environment, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 460-481, February 2024.Abstract Hydathodes are usually associated with water exudation in plants. However, foliar water uptake (FWU) through the hydathodes has long been suspected in the leaf‐succulent genus Crassula (Crassulaceae), a highly diverse group in southern Africa, and, to our knowledge, no empirical observations exist in the literature that unequivocally link FWU ...
Marc Fradera‐Soler +5 more
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The Kaliningrad Region in Exposé of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Poland in 2005-2016
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017 Geographical and geopolitical proximity of the exclave Kaliningrad region and the Republic of Poland can be an essential basis for the formation of “Kaliningrad vector” of Warsaw’s foreign policy (which might be a course separate from the general Poland ...
Yana A. Vorozheina
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Applied and Environmental Soil Science, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.The physicochemical properties of Western Ethiopian soils were negatively threatened with continuous cultivation crop lands. Soil amendments with biochar and lime facilitate and improve soil physicochemical properties directly and indirectly and enhance crop productivity.
Solomon Abeba Kenea +3 more
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No-exclaves percolation on random networks
Chaos, Solitons & FractalsNo-exclaves percolation (NExP) is a nonlocal percolation process in which the components are formed not only by the connected occupied nodes but also by the agglomeration of empty nodes completely surrounded by the occupied nodes. It has been studied in low dimensions, displaying such novel phenomena as the discontinuous transition to complete ...
Byungjoon Min +3 more
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The south Сaucasus in the geopolitical confrontation between the West and Russia [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: История. Международные отношенияThe article examines the process of reformatting the relations of geopolitical players in the South Caucasus after the second Karabakh War in 2020 and the beginning of the Russian Civil War.
Cholakhyan, Vachagan A.
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Urban PlanningMy work investigates the spatial transformations generated by conflicting competencies in the border city of Ceuta, a Spanish exclave on the northernmost tip of Morocco.
Mari Paz Agundez
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