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Unipolar Hangover and American Offshore Leadership: Systemic Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine and Gaza Wars

The Korean Journal of International Studies
This article examines the dynamic interplay between the international system and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, analyzing how unipolarity has shaped these conflicts and their broader impact on global structures.
doaj   +1 more source

Rebuilding trust in national police: The case of the UN mission in Mali

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract International interventions often aim to reinforce both capacity as well as perceived legitimacy of national security forces. However, how peacekeeping operations manage to improve trust in the national police has received limited attention. In this article, we evaluate whether and how UN missions can (re‐)build trust in the national police ...
Nadine Ansorg, Zorzeta Bakaki, Jessica Di Salvatore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Women Make Better Borrowers and Loan Officers? Evidence From Afghanistan

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how gender is associated with microfinance loan performance in Afghanistan, a conservative and conflict‐affected society. We use data from over 9500 borrowers across Taliban‐ and government‐controlled areas for the period from January 2017 to February 2020, before the 2021 Taliban takeover.
Mustafa Disli, Shakir Jalaly, Laurent Weill   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A newly discovered Carolingian text: Candidus' Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti, written for Charlemagne

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlemagne. By discussing selected passages from the Heptateuch, Candidus seeks to demonstrate that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, thus the whole Christian ...
Lukas J. Dorfbauer
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Between Two Greedy Institutions: Family Resilience and Intergenerational Dynamics in Turkish Military Families

Family Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines how career military families in Türkiye navigate competing institutional demands, how military community structures foster resilience, and how military identity is transmitted across generations. Background Military families must negotiate the demands of two greedy institutions—the armed forces and the family—yet ...
Adem Baspinar, Halime Okay
wiley   +1 more source

Conscription 2.0: Compulsory Military Service and the Rise of Women in the Swedish Armed Forces

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides a deeper understanding of gender integration in the Swedish Armed Forces, often portrayed as a “North Star” of gender equality, by studying (1) numeric data on the presence of women in the SAF from 2001 to 2023, (2) how official SAF personnel documents describe and explain these data, and (3) how gender integration ...
Elin Berg, Ralph Sundberg
wiley   +1 more source

Pan‐Europe Revisited: Inter‐War Debates and the EU's Pursuit of Geopolitical Power

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Union's (EU) transformation from a peace project to an assertive geopolitical actor reflects enduring tensions in integration theory dating back to the inter‐war period. This paper develops a comparative framework distinguishing territorial integration logic, which emphasises bounded political communities and collective defence ...
Kamil Zwolski
wiley   +1 more source

External Actors, Pressures and Influences: European Integration and the Outside World

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The European Union (EU) increasingly faces external pressures, ranging from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine to an economically and politically assertive China to deep changes in the transatlantic relationship with the United States.
Christian Freudlsperger, Lucas Schramm
wiley   +1 more source

From the Ground to the Stars: The Vertical Politics of the EU Drone Wall and Airspace Defence

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This research note analyses the European Commission's Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030 as a manifestation of a new spatial and technological logic of European defence: the vertical territorialisation of security. Moving beyond traditional perimeter‐based understandings of territorial defence, the Roadmap constructs a multi‐layered continuum ...
Justinas Lingevicius, Bruno Oliveira Martins, Giacomo Bruni   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The ‘Geopolitical Commission’: 40 Years in the Making?

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised MEPs she would deliver a ‘Geopolitical Commission’ during the five years of her term in office, unbeknown that the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine were around the corner.
Robert Kissack
wiley   +1 more source