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South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
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Measuring the time‐varying market efficiency in the prewar and wartime Japanese stock market, 1924–1943

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 131-159, March 2025.
Abstract This study examines the adaptive market hypothesis in the prewar and wartime Japanese stock market using a new market capitalization‐weighted price index. First, we find that the degree of market efficiency varies over time and with major historical events. This implies that the hypothesis is supported in this market.
Kenichi Hirayama, Akihiko Noda
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The Acquisition of Grammatical Marking of Indefiniteness with the Indefinite Article a in L2 English

Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2007
The article system is a notorious source of difficulty for second language (L2) learners of English, largely because it is based on a complex set of abstract distinctions which are, to some extent, arbitrarily mapped onto surface forms (a, the, and zero).
Monika Ekiert
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Private Land Ownership: Tax or Socialize?

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study compares the land reform concepts of Henry George and Silvio Gesell, both of whom rejected private appropriation of land rent as unjust. While George proposed to “hollow out” private land ownership through a comprehensive land value tax, Gesell aimed at full socialization of land combined with lease auctions and compensation of ...
Dirk Loehr
wiley   +1 more source

When First Nations Don't Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
As Minister for External Affairs in the Chifley Government, Herbert Vere Evatt played a pivotal role at the United Nations in securing the partition of Palestine and recognition of the State of Israel. These endeavours were represented by Evatt and in subsequent commentary as exemplifying Evatt's commitment to justice.
Jeff Rickertt
wiley   +1 more source

Grammaticalization in Progress in Old French: Indefinite Articles [PDF]

, 2012
Cross-linguistically, indefinite articles tend to emerge later than definite articles. Old French has a full-fledged definite article, but the grammaticalization process leading to the indefinite articles un and du/des in Modern French is at an earlier stage than is commonly assumed.
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National identity after conquest

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Conquering powers routinely adopt state‐directed nationalization projects that seek to make the boundaries of the nation coterminous with the (newly expanded) boundaries of the state. To this end, they implement policies that elevate the economic status of individuals who embrace the occupier's national identity and discriminate against those ...
Christopher Carter, Daniel W. Gingerich
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Binary quantum random number generator based on value indefinite observables

Scientific Reports
All quantum random number generators based on measuring value indefinite observables are at least three-dimensional because the Kochen–Specker Theorem and the Located Kochen–Specker Theorem are false in dimension two.
Cristian S. Calude, Karl Svozil
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Giving and Reflections on Life Extension: How Love Might Shape the Choice of Whether to Live Past a Natural Human Lifespan

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing upon a deprivationist account of the badness of death, Ingemar Patrick Linden advocates for a hypothetical state called “contingent immortality.” The future Linden champions is one in which every person would be able to live for as long as they would like, save for events like accidents or murder.
Andrew Moeller, Ann‐Marie Shorrocks, Keith Lemna   +2 more
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