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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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Peace and Security Grantmaking by U.S. Foundations, 2008-2009 [PDF]
, 2011 Examines trends in grantmaking by U.S. foundations for civil society initiatives worldwide to promote peace and security, including by issue area, strategy, and foundation and grantee characteristics.
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Trading on Preconceptions: Why World War I Was Not a Failure of Economic Interdependence [PDF]
, 2012 World War I is generally viewed by both advocates and critics of commercial liberal theory as the quintessential example of a failure of economic integration to maintain peace.
Beckett Ian F.W. +10 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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UN SECRETARY- GENERAL'S FORMS OF INVOLVEMENT IN THE PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES. THE DIPLOMATIC MEANS [PDF]
Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2016 The United Nations Secretary- General is a symbol and an instrument of the peaceful settlement of international disputes, with a proven effectiveness in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, even in the most difficult political contexts.
Oana-Adriana IACOB⃰
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A Partial History of Palestine [PDF]
, 2004 Discusses the history of Palestine up to 1948, discussing religions, history, ancestral claims, and global politics as significant aspects.
Sabbagh, Karl
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The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
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Nietzschean will to power and the politics of personalities in public diplomacy [PDF]
, 2017 The task of understanding and perfecting international and diplomatic relations is becoming more crucial, given the frequency of political disputes and intimidation via public diplomacy.
Anakwue, Nicholas
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History, EarlyView.Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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What Makes Autocracies’ Soft Power Strategies Special? Evidence from Russia and China [PDF]
, 2016 The paper problematizes the national soft power strategies of authoritarian states arguing that many of their features stem from those countries’ political regime.
Patalakh, Artem
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