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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Intelligence and Public Diplomacy: The Changing Tide

Journal of Strategic Security, 2014
This article argues that the executive branches of governments will need to change the way that they employ intelligence for public diplomacy in the context of military action.
Jonathan Pinkus
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The Naval War Board of 1898 [PDF]

, 2016
The early months of 1898 witnessed the explosion of Maine and additional inducements for war. The Naval War Board, which first made its appearance in late March was summoned to arrange strategy for the impending hostilities.
Wenzer, Kenneth C.
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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The European Union as a Diplomatic Actor in Turbulent Times

Studia Europejskie
This article contributes to an analysis attempting to identify the capacity and resources of the European Union as an actor in international relations hitherto defined as a “soft” power, a normative actor relying mainly on diplomacy in conflict resolution,
Beata Piskorska
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From Dangerous, to Preventive, Protective and Quiet Diplomacy: The Downturn in State Sovereignty at the Expense of International Human Rights Enforcement

Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy, 2008
Theo Tschuy’s book Dangerous Diplomacy illustrates why freedom of speech, a free press, critical opposition and self-reliant citizens with no fear of the high and mighty are alpha & omega in all societies. Even though some success is achieved in creating
Peter Orebech
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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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India as a Foreign Policy Actor – Normative Redux. CEPS Working Document No. 285, February 2008 [PDF]

, 2008
This paper analyses India’s behaviour as a foreign policy actor by looking at India’s changing relations over the past decade with the EU, US, China, Japan, Myanmar, Pakistan, Nepal and, in a historical departure, the former princely state of Sikkim.
Kumar, Radha.
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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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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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