Crystallography and Geopolitics [PDF]
Developed and developing nations recognize that innovation is key to their economies. Connecting this with the discipline of crystallography may not seem immediately apparent, but during the past century, understanding the structure of matter has transformed industries and created new frontiers, from the design of new medicines and materials to ...
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Is OPEC dead? Oil exporters, the Paris agreement and the transition to a post-carbon world [PDF]
The Organization of the Petroleum-Exporting Countries (OPEC) faces a perfect storm. It is squeezed between the revolution in unconventionals, which has increased global supply of hydrocarbons and lowered their price, and the prospect of a global peak in ...
Van de Graaf, Thijs
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From a critique to self-evolving (inter)discipline: Critical geopolitics vs. popular geopolitics [PDF]
The paper shows the development of critical geopolitics from its conceptualisation by O Tuathail, Dalby and Routledge at the end of the last century up to its critics and development of phenomena that influenced the self-evolution of discipline.
Marta Zorko, Dario Sršen
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Feasibility study of supplying the country's defensive human resources through the transformation of military service from conscription into a professional military; the case study of Iran [PDF]
The complexity of threats to all social, economic, political, and even cultural segments of the world in the 21st century has introduced various mechanisms for national security.
Kamel Moniri +4 more
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Geopolitics of the information age [PDF]
The purpose of this article is to clarify the essence and nature of geopolitics as a social science and academic discipline. The author's position is that geopolitics is an academic discipline within the field of social sciences, and its purpose is to ...
Robert Białoskórski
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We are the world? Anthropocene cultural production between geopoetics and geopolitics [PDF]
The article argues that the work of literary theorist Mikhail M. Bakhtin presents a starting point for thinking about the instrumentalization of climate change.
Last, Angela
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Epistemological Matrix of Contemporary Visual Culture [PDF]
The mental structure of the hipermodern West, which has been compounded since the Renaissance until today, reflecting a complex mutation of the collective and individual view of the world, maintaining a radical change of Western epistemology of ...
Jure Vujić
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The ‘Gay Olympics’? : the Eurovision Song Contest and the politics of LGBT/European belonging [PDF]
The politics of gay and transgender visibility and representation at the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual televised popular music festival presented to viewers as a contest between European nations, show that processes of interest to Queer ...
Baker, Catherine
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Este trabajo realiza una clasificación de las democracias en América Latina entre 2013 y 2018 a partir de un análisis factorial que incluye estas dimensiones: derechos políticos y libertades, Estado de derecho, participación, rendición de cuentas ...
Alex Tusell Collado
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Ukrainian Issues in Geopolitical thought of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries [PDF]
Ukrainian lands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have been in proximity of great geopolitical changes several times. During that time the Ukrainian nation – due to various factors – encountered a number of “windows of opportunity” for ...
Reginia-Zacharski, Jacek
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