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Managing our SOBs: Washington's response to friendly dictators in trouble

Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

Politics of Crisis: Threatening and Defending Journalistic Expertise—A Processual Account

Symbolic Interaction, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 541-569, November 2022., 2022
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, Silke Steets, Michaela Pfadenhauer   +2 more
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Growth Models and Core–Periphery Interactions in European Integration: The German–Greek Special Relationship in Historical Perspective

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 945-962, July 2021., 2021
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

TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 2020
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]

Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 2021
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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Vertane Chancen? Die aktuelle politische Debatte um Erweiterte DNA‐Analysen in Ermittlungsverfahren*

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 279-301, September 2018., 2018
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
wiley   +1 more source

Hopes against Hobbes: On Authoritarianism, Regime Legitimation and Soft Power with a Review of Richard C. Bush’s Hong Kong in the Shadow of China: Living with the Leviathan (2016) [PDF]

Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 2017
Richard C. Bush’s Hong Kong in the shadow of China: Living with the Leviathan (2016) represents an important study on post-“Handover” Hong Kong focusing on the making of the 2014 Occupy Campaign and Umbrella Movement and the impact on the coming ...
Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh
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Brave New World Meets Nineteen Eighty-four in a New Golden Age: On the Passing of Liu Xiaobo, Advent of Big Data, and Resurgence of China as World Power [PDF]

Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 2018
This paper aims to discuss recent years’ worrying development in the intensified persecution of dissidents in the People’s Republic of China, as most vividly symbolised by the death of the country’s high-profile prisoner of conscience Liu Xiaobo, and the
Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh
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Left Conservatism: Sahra Wagenknecht's Challenge to the German Party System

The Political Quarterly, Volume 95, Issue 4, Page 634-644, October/December 2024.
Abstract This article reviews the record of Germany’s current coalition government consisting of the SPD, Greens and liberal FDP under chancellor Olaf Scholz, a member of the SPD. Since 2021, the coalition’s failure to set a coherent policy agenda, permanent infighting and external challenges, such as the Ukraine war and immigration, have led to a ...
Jörg Michael Dostal
wiley   +1 more source

Too Soon to Tell? Land Reform in Zimbabwe Too Soon to Tell? Die Landreform in Zimbabwe

Africa Spectrum, 2011
Review Article: Ian Scoones, Nelson Marongwe, Blasio Mavedzenge, Jacob Mahenehene, Felix Murimbarimba and Crispen Sukume (2010), Zimbabwe’s Land Reform: Myths and Realities, London: James Currey, ISBN 978-1-84701-024-7; Harare: Weaver Press, ISBN 978-1 ...
Roger Southall
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