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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Sociology and The Complexity of What Is Missing

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What is ‘missed’ by sociological literature underpinned by assumptions of presence that a missing approach can rectify? I appropriate a metaphysics of presence and an alternative focus on what is missing as ontological foci to revisit complexity studies in sociology.
Konstantinos Poulis
wiley   +1 more source

Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

Studying Tech Diplomacy—Introduction to the Special Issue on Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on tech diplomacy, exploring its emergence and evolution as a distinct approach to global affairs in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Originating with Denmark's 2017 “TechPlomacy” initiative, tech diplomacy has gained global momentum, with over two dozen countries adopting
Corneliu Bjola, Markus Kornprobst
wiley   +1 more source

Tech Diplomacy and the Digital International Order: The Case of the EU–U.S. Trade and Technology Council

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the evolving role of the U.S.–EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) in advancing the EU's digital diplomacy, with a particular focus on its contribution to global digital ordering. Positioned at the intersection of normative engagement and regulatory coordination, the TTC operates as a hybrid mechanism that integrates ...
Corneliu Bjola, Raluca Csernatoni
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution of information and management architectures of higher educational institutions in conditions of disintegration

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна: Серія Економіка, 2017
The article describes features and principles of operation of higher education institutions mostly in Donetsk and Lugansk regions, in conditions of fighting and disintegration territories. The problems of higher education, their solutions de facto and de
V. N. Danich, S. N. Shevchenko
doaj  

Democratic participation in the air strikes against Islamic state : a qualitative comparative analysis [PDF]

, 2018
Haesebrouck, Tim
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Malaysia's Ambivalent Middle Power Status: A Global South Perspective From a Reconceptualised Geoeconomics

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article adds a geoeconomics dimension to the geopolitics‐focused middle power literature that generally depicts Malaysia as an ambivalent middle power, especially from the identity and behavioral perspectives, even if the country's middle power status stands on stronger capability indicators.
Helen E. S. Nesadurai
wiley   +1 more source