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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Disneyland Paris à Val d’Europe : l’Art déco au xxie siècle

In Situ
Although Art Deco is usually thought to have run its course shortly after the Second World War, it only requires a few strolls through cities such as Cairo or Beirut to discover Art Deco buildings dating from the end of the 1960s. During this same decade,
Bernard Durand-Rival, Jean-Baptiste Minnaert   +1 more
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Palestine, Public Sentiment and the Limits of Omani Foreign Policy Discourse

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how expressions of solidarity with Palestine in Oman reveal transformations in state–society relations during the Gaza war of 2023–2025, a period of leadership transition and regional rupture. Drawing on elite statements, opinion columns and semi‐structured interviews, it combines framing analysis with thematic analysis ...
Sumaiya Al‐Wahaibi
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The Mechanics of Critique

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Immanent critique is often presented as a distinctive approach to political and social philosophy. But Rachel Fraser argues that immanent critique cannot satisfy three plausible criteria that characterise it as a distinctive approach: it cannot be normatively significant, social, and make no appeal to external standards.
Michael O'Connor
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GEO-POLITICAL FACTORS INFLUENCING KENYA AND TANZANIA FOREIGN POLICY BEHAVIOR SINCE 1967 [PDF]

Journal of Defense Resources Management, 2021
The question regarding the extent to which foreign policy influences regionalism is subject to debate. This issue is still emotive, fluid, speculative and anchored on conjecture.
Patrick Wakhungu JUMA, Elijah Onyango Standslause ODHIAMBO   +1 more
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The distinctive incorporation of sociological neoinstitutionalism into Japanese sociology and its theoretical insights for the discipline

Japanese Journal of Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 206-223, March 2025.
Abstract Although sociological neoinstitutionalist thought has made indelible imprints across the social sciences in Japan, its incorporation into Japanese sociology at large has been relatively limited, and its broader applications to analyses of global social phenomena using World Society Theory are even less prominent.
Ralph I. Hosoki
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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
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Differentiated by Design? Cross‐Border Cooperation in Europe as Differentiated Integration From Below

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Differentiated integration has become a central concept in contemporary theorizing about European integration, reflecting the increasingly multi‐speed, multi‐tier and multi‐menu nature of integration within the European Union (EU). This research note extends the conceptual lens of differentiated integration to the level of cross‐border regions.
Georg Wenzelburger, Stefanie Thurm
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Synchronising Disease X: How the EU Prepares for the Next Public Health Emergency

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract After the COVID‐19 pandemic, the European Union has taken steps towards closer cooperation in health emergency preparedness and response. For this reason, it has established the European Health Union (EHU), which joins an ongoing trend of health securitisation.
Paula Dornbusch
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Modernism and Structuralism: Serbian Ethnology/Anthropology in the Last Twenty Five Years of the Twentieth Century

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2009
Modernisation of Serbian ethnology/anthropology in the second quarter of the twentieth century was marked by structuralism. More precisely, structural analysis that became a must of the analytical interpretation was based on the work of Claude Levi ...
Ivan Kovačević
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