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Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
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FEATURES OF DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY OF THE ENTENTE POWERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
The article analyzes the prerequisites for the formation of the Palestinian question in the policy of the «great powers» of the period preceding the First World War.
Kolobov O.A. +4 more
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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The article describes main directions of the state policy in attraction of foreign capital to the domestic economy and peculiarities of its realization in the gold-mining industry. Special attention is paid to legal documents defining conditions of activities of foreign investors.
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Introduction. The article concentrates on the religious policy of the Russian Empire in the Early Modern Time. For the first time in historiography, a study was carried out concerning the place of Catholic missionaries who settled on the southern outskirts of Russia, in the religious policy of Russian secular and spiritual authorities.
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ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Russia's geopolitics in the Black sea region
The article examines the geopolitical significance of the black sea region for the foreign policy of Russia. The history of Muscovy’s development before the Russian Empire is mainly connected with the process of increasing expansion on the Black sea and
А. Yermekbayev +2 more
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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GERMAN FACTOR IN RUSSIAN-BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY RELATIONS IN 1910 - THE FIRST HALF OF 1914
The article is dedicated to comprehension of German influence on Russian-British foreign policy relations in 1910 - the first half of 1914 - the period, which preceded the beginning of the First World War.
Konstantin Kasparyan
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Russian Foreign Ministry and the Reorganization of Russian Orthodox Churches Abroad in 1860-s
Based on the unearthed documents from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire, the article examines an interaction of Russian diplomacy and Russian orthodox churches abroad in the process of their reform in the early 1860-s.
V. O. Pechatnov, V. V. Pechatnov
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