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ENVIRONMENTAL STATECRAFT AND CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: Chengdu's Ecological Preservation and Eco‐development

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
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Military Diplomacy: An Appraisal in the Indian Context

CLAWS Journal, 2021
Defence Diplomacy is an integral part of foreign policy and state security, it helps in increasing military cooperation between thecountries and strengthening relations between the states. India’s growing global outreach and vibrancy of its foreign policy can begauged by the fact that it has made substantial efforts in defence and security cooperation,
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Family Work Among the Astors

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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DEFENCE DIPLOMACY AND ITS POTENTIAL FOR BRAZIL

Revista da Escola de Guerra Naval, 2016
This paper aims to identify some of the elements which should help clarify what is meant by ‘defence diplomacy’ (or ‘military diplomacy’) and how this diplomatic tool has been used in the context of Brazil.
Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
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Rethinking military diplomacy in achieving strategic ends [PDF]

Bezbednosni Dijalozi, 2014
This article argues that to be able to effectively transfer political guidance into tasks and effective missions on terrain, midlevel and junior officers along with noncommissioned officers, among others, during post-conflict operations must demonstrate
Metodi Hadji-Janev, Nenad TANESKI
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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Formats of Russia’s Network Diplomacy in Africa

RUDN Journal of Political Science
The relevance of the study is due to the need to rethink the role of new formats of diplomatic interaction considering the deepening cooperation between Russia and Africa, new trends in international relations (such as increased involvement in ...
Valeriia I. Bulva
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New Challenges for European Space Industrial Policy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European space industry is globally competitive but faces challenges due to fragmented governance, reliance on commercial markets, and increased international competition. The European Union (EU) has become a major stakeholder in this sector, with a ‘fragmented institutional market’ shaped by policies, initiatives and programmes at ...
Sara Dalledonne, Justine Dousset, Marco Aliberti   +2 more
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