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Political Significance of Sovereign Wealth Funds [PDF]
, 2017 Although there has been vivid academic debate as to what extent Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) are motivated by political reasons, it is rather clear that countries can use state-owned investment funds as a tool of their foreign policy. Even Barack Obama,
Kamiński, Tomasz
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The Italian Diplomacy of the Mexican Empire, 1864-1867 [PDF]
The Hispanic American Historical Review, 1971 ON APRIL 10, 1864, at the Chateau of Miramar near Trieste, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian von Habsburg accepted the imperial crown offered him by a Mexican delegation. As Emperor Maximilian I, he became the embodiment of that newly created sovereign entity, the Mexican Empire.' Thenceforth his imperative task was to win the recognition of the other ...
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Язык и текстThe article analyzes Russo-Neapolitan relations in the context of the Risorgimento — a period of Italian unification marked by significant social and political changes in 19th-century Europe.
I.V. Kanel
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ABE Journal, 2018 Ethiopia is an old country with a long history of political change, both domestically and towards the rest of the world. Internally, Ethiopia’s ever-changing socio-political behavior was manifested by a tradition of relocating its seat of government ...
Dirk van Gameren, Anteneh Tesfaye Tola
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Power Transition and Pragmatic Adaptation: Iran's Strategic Approach to China, Russia and the GCC
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how Iranian strategic thinkers conceptualise the country's ‘Look East’ policy (i.e., relations with China and Russia) and the GCC states. Using thematic qualitative content analysis of approximately 70 documents from Iranian state official, advisory and academic institutions (2015–2025), it reveals that Iran's eastward ...
Sara Bazoobandi
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Changing the University System Management: a study of the Italian scenario [PDF]
, 2015 Over recent years, the Italian University System has been handling a phase of deep changes, which have had significant impact on its mission and on the way it operates.
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Studia HumanitatisThe research examines the diplomacy of Florence in the initial stage of the Italian Wars of 1494-1559. The author substantiates the concept of analysing the events of 1498-1499 in Florentine diplomacy as a certain “border period”, when the Tuscan ...
Pavlov Kirill Vladimirovich
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing significance of informal intergovernmental organisations (IIGOs) in global politics necessitates a re‐evaluation of leadership dynamics. We develop a theory framework that enables us to explain why countries take on leadership roles in IIGOs, with a specific focus on climate politics.
Christin Heinz‐Fischer +1 more
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Countering FIMI by Digital Authoritarianisms: Audience Architecture and Reverse Language Engineering
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) campaigns on social media are currently both more accessible and more impactful than the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) or European Union's (EU), offering their opponents superiority and efficiency on those platforms.
Michelangelo Conoscenti
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Dilemmas of a ‘democratic peace’:World War One, the Zimmerwald Manifesto and the Russian Revolution [PDF]
, 2015 This article looks at the influence of the Zimmerwald Conference of 1915 on the peace policies of the Petrograd Soviet, the Socialist-Revolutionaries, the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks after February 1917.
King, Francis
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