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PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedded in metaphysical truths, and enacted in service of the future. Part 1 assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the “preambular approach to history”
Antoon De Baets
wiley   +1 more source

EIGENSINN AND DOMINATION IN LIBERAL AND ILLIBERAL SOCIETIES

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article is a posthumously published text that was written by Alf Lüdtke and Alexandra Oeser but was left unfinished when Lüdtke died in February 2019. It examines two central notions—and their articulations—that Lüdtke and Oeser use differently in their work: domination and Eigensinn. On domination, it focuses on perspectives of Max Weber'
Alf Lüdtke, Alexandra Oeser
wiley   +1 more source

Japanese Women's Attitudes Toward Learning Languages Other Than English in the Era of Global English

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study on female Japanese learners of the Korean language is situated in the centuries‐long anti‐Korean sentiments in Japan, the global popularity of the Korean Wave, particularly among women, and the essentialized image of socially marginalized young Japanese women who study English with romantic desires for Western men.
Yoko Kobayashi
wiley   +1 more source

Integration potential of post-Soviet area for a quarter of a century: problems and prospects

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Russian History, 2013
The article is devoted to the integration processes in the post-Soviet area. The authors prove that the integration potential of the former Soviet republics increased through some regional multispeed and different sectoral vectors of focal convergence ...
S F Grebenichenko, S Zh Toktamysov
doaj  

Norm Contestation in EU Foreign Policy: The Case of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The EU considers gender equality fundamental to its identity, with Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) playing a crucial role. This article delves into the contested aspects of EU foreign policy concerning SRHR from 1997 to 2021. Through document analysis and 18 semi‐structured interviews, it discerns three phases of contestation.
Diego Badell
wiley   +1 more source

Suicide Trends in the Former Soviet Slavic Republics

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2015
Introduction High suicide rates in the former Soviet Slavic republics (fSSr) Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and its profound fluctuations over the past decades have attracted considerable interest. There is suggestion that mass privatization as an economic strategy was a crucial determinant of differences in mortality trend in post-communist countries ...
openaire   +1 more source

Geopolitics on a Shoestring? Unpacking the EU'S Geopolitical External Assistance to Central Asia

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines how the European Union's (EU) increasingly emphasised geopolitical ambitions are reflected in the practice of its external assistance policy. An analysis of EU documents around various policy initiatives and funding instruments reveals that in the Commission's understanding, geopolitical external assistance increases EU ...
Balázs Szent‐Iványi, Dóra Piroska
wiley   +1 more source

The EU as a Security Provider: Changing Foreign Policy Roles Amongst Nordic EU Member States

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article addresses the Nordic European Union (EU) member states' changing national role conceptions prompted by concerns about a weakening international rules‐based order, a flagging transatlantic commitment and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Anna Michalski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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