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Remaking State Power Through a Paraquat Ban in Malaysia
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the state in its ability to enact environmental regulations. Specifically, this study investigates how Malaysian state actors changed, shifted and betrayed various, oftentimes competing interests to ban paraquat, an acutely toxic herbicide.
Caitlyn Sears
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When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
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Historical Perspectives on Deglobalization's Drivers, Outcomes, and Managerial Responses
Abstract The deglobalization process experienced in the early 2020s is not without precedent. This Special Issue leverages business history as a lens to generate new insights and to uncover previously hidden complexities and nuances. Studying previous periods of deglobalization and their varying drivers, outcomes, and responses, the papers in this ...
Andrew Smith +3 more
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Regulating via Conditionality: The Instruments of the New Industrial Policy
ABSTRACT Conditionality was a central concern in the development literature of the 1990s. With the significant expansion of targeted public support to private firms since the Great Financial Crisis, the issue of conditionality has once again become a focal point in industrial policy debates.
Fabio Bulfone, Timur Ergen, Erez Maggor
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Political Fictionality: Vladislav Surkov and the Rise of the Authorial State
Abstract This article introduces the concept of political fictionality as a theoretical framework for analyzing the convergence of literary authorship and political power in Russia during the Putin era, using Vladislav Surkov—a longtime presidential advisor and ideologue as well as fiction writer under the pseudonym Natan Dubovitskii—as its principal ...
Ekaterina Vassilieva
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Russia and a Just World: How to Overcome the New Bipolarity?
In the struggle for the future world order, various concepts of a just global order collide. Russia’s foreign policy documents emphasize the importance of establishing a world order that is multipolar and based on the dialogue of civilizations, respect ...
Andrei P. Tsygankov, Pavel A. Tsygankov
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Grocery Retail Location Patterns in Brno: Clustering, Inequality and Street Network Centrality
Abstract This study aims to evaluate the spatial distribution and clustering patterns of grocery retail chains in Brno, Czech Republic, focusing on national and multinational stores. By employing Geographic Information Systems and advanced spatial analysis techniques, including the nearest neighbour method, standard deviational ellipse, Kernel density ...
Josef Kunc +5 more
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Abstract figure legend Immunohistochemistry, electrophysiology and pharmacology are useful tools for understanding protein and channel expression and physiological reactions of calcium‐activated chloride channels (CaCCs). Conventional transmission electron microscopy has provided useful 2‐D information on organelle arrangement, localization and ...
Hiromi Tamada
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This research analyzed multipolarity in development financing, focusing on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Yeremia Nicolaus Widjanarko
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Abstract figure legend Schematic overview of the temporal evolution of the post‐myocardial infarction substrate leading to ventricular tachycardia. Acute ischaemic injury initiates metabolic and electrophysiological disruption, followed by progressive inflammatory, fibrotic and structural remodelling within the infarct border zone.
Mohammed Obeidat +6 more
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