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Coaxing Compliance: Ethiopian Lawyers, Chinese Companies, and the Cultivation of Respect

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past three decades, a growing number of Chinese enterprises have entered Ethiopia's construction and manufacturing sectors as contractors and investors. While adapting to a new regulatory environment, many of these companies have faced administrative challenges and accusations of noncompliance, some of which have been brought to court.
Miriam Driessen
wiley   +1 more source

Views from the East: changing attitudes to Venice in late Byzantium

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
wiley   +1 more source

Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future. [PDF]

open access: yesPNAS Nexus
Fletcher C   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

At the controls: Politics and policy entrepreneurs in EU policy to decarbonize maritime transport

open access: yesReview of Policy Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The recent adoption of the FuelEU Maritime regulation, aiming to decarbonize maritime shipping, is part of the EU clean energy transition to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Based on autoethnographic method and qualitative text analysis, applying the multiple streams framework as a theoretical lens, this article explores and explains the ...
Fredrik von Malmborg
wiley   +1 more source

Embracing the politics of transformation: Policy action as “battle‐settlement events”

open access: yesReview of Policy Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Societal transformations for addressing climate change are intensely contested and at risk of resistance and backlash to ambitious policy action. But they are frequently modeled through heuristics such as S‐curves which abstract from such conflicts, assuming increasing returns to scale as a driver of transformations.
James Patterson, Matthew Paterson
wiley   +1 more source

Muslim women's agency; getting past the binary trap

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Although feminist theorizing on Muslim women's agency has come a long way, recent models reflect a one‐dimensional conception of agency that reinvigorates problematic binaries and undermines feminist politics. To address these limitations, the author focuses on the interpersonal arena where agency involves not only doing but also the ...
Fauzia Husain
wiley   +1 more source

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