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Gateways, Funnels, and Stackers: How People Hide Property Ownership Through Offshore Structures

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do wealthy individuals use offshore financial structures like shell companies to protect personal assets? And how is such offshore wealth structuring itself variably organized? Moving beyond conceptualizations of offshore as concerning only individual tax havens, this article investigates offshore wealth structuring as a fundamentally ...
Kristin Surak, Johnathan Inkley
wiley   +1 more source

Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
wiley   +1 more source

A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
wiley   +1 more source

China's Strategic Approach to Tech Diplomacy in a Time of Global Uncertainty

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the wake of U.S.‐China technological competition and the COVID‐19 pandemic, “tech diplomacy” has gained prominence in Chinese political and academic discourse. This concept is often ideologically framed to critique Western hegemonic narratives perceived as hindering China's technological advancement.
Zhao Alexandre Huang, Xiang Meng
wiley   +1 more source

Securing Democracy: Online Political Advertising Regulations and Practices in the EU and its Member States

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Starting with the Facebook‐Cambridge Analytica scandal and its link to Brexit and the 2016 US elections, the nexus among online political advertising, micro‐targeting, and data‐driven electoral campaigning has revealed its disruptive potential for democracies.
Enea Fiore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Paradigm Shift in the Making? Geopolitical Challenges and Institutional Changes in the International Monetary System: From Neoliberalism to a Pluralist Multipolar Financial Order

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examined the critical challenges facing the international monetary system, arguing that they have created conditions for a shift from a neoliberal framework to a pluralist multipolar financial order. Using an interdisciplinary approach that blends international law and international relations, the paper provides an analysis of the ...
Jiangyu Wang
wiley   +1 more source

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