Managing our SOBs: Washington's response to friendly dictators in trouble
Abstract Why does the United States either continue to support or turn its back on a friendly dictator once that dictator is faced with internal uprisings? This study argues that a US president's decision to either remain loyal to or abandon dictators when they are in trouble ultimately depends on the preservation of acquired influence (PAI).
Victor A. Béliveau
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Politics of Crisis: Threatening and Defending Journalistic Expertise—A Processual Account
In this article, we argue for making the frequently invoked notion of “crises of journalism” itself the proper subject of sociological analysis. Based on a case study of a public controversy over an adversarial TV interview with a well‐known politician on Austria's public service broadcaster ORF, we provide an analysis of the practical use of crisis ...
Alexander Antony +2 more
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Abstract This article investigates the history of the German–Greek relationship in the context of European integration and demonstrates that West Germany and German–Greek business networks played a crucial role in the shaping of Greece's post‐war growth model.
Christos Tsakas
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Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzung und Transparenzdefizite der Techniknutzung
Seit 2018 ist auch für Datenverarbeitungsvorgänge der Polizei nach dem EU‑Datenschutzrecht bei hohen Risiken für die Rechte und Freiheiten der Betroffenen eine Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzung (DSFA) vorgeschrieben.
Hartmut Aden, Jan Fährmann
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Postscript – From Pandemic Diplomacy, Mainlandisation of Hong Kong to the Embattled Belt and Road Initiative: The Enigma of Communist China’s Superpower March [PDF]
Days marched on, months flew by, and a year marked by turbulence has soon again reached its closing when we are preparing this special focus issue, Communist China’s Superpower March, Party-State’s Entrenchment, and the Remaking of the Global Order (Vol.
Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh
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Sheikh Hasina Government’s India policy: a three-level game? [PDF]
This article seeks to analyze the sources of the Sheikh Hasina government’s India-positive foreign policy approach from theoretical and empirical standpoints. Theoretically, it engages three broad schools of thought and their competing claims about state
Chakma, Bhumitra
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The Fischer controversy, the war origins debate and France: a non-history [PDF]
The controversy that followed publication in 1961 of Fritz Fischer’s Griff nach der Weltmacht was not restricted to West Germany. Even if the Fischer debate abroad did not acquire the vehemence it took on domestically, intellectually the effect was ...
Keiger, JFV
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The divided kingdom: making sense of the 'Brexit' referendum [PDF]
The “in-or-out” referendum on Britain’s EU membership on 23 June 2016 has returned a narrow majority for “Brexit”. This result brings to the fore deep divisions within British society and has aggravated the current crisis of European integration.
Oppermann, Kai
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Vertane Chancen? Die aktuelle politische Debatte um Erweiterte DNA‐Analysen in Ermittlungsverfahren*
Abstract Wasted Chances? The Current Political Debate on DNA Phenotyping and Biogeographical Ancestry Analysis in Criminal Investigation in Germany. This paper discusses diverse understandings of ‘responsible science’ in heated political debates. It takes a current public debate around a German law amendment draft concerning the use of novel forensic ...
Veronika Lipphardt
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When states appease: British appeasement in the 1930s [PDF]
When do states appease their foes? In this article, we argue that governments are most likely to favour appeasing a foreign threat when their top leaders are severely cross–pressured: when the demands for increased security conflict sharply with their ...
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