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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might. [PDF]

Ann N Y Acad Sci
This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Atran S.
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Chemical Warfare Through the Ages: A Systematic Review From Antiquity to the Present. [PDF]

J Toxicol
Chemical warfare means the use of chemical agents that have direct toxic effects on animals, plants and humans, as weapons. The first documented use of a chemical agent for warfare purposes occurred in ancient times around 10,000 BCE in South Africa when weapons were dipped in chemicals and then used to attack and defend from enemies.
Honeyman DA, Heslop DJ, Lim S, MacIntyre CR.   +3 more
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Undiversity, inequity, and exclusion in supply chains: The unintended fallout of economic sanctions and consumer boycotts

Production and Operations Management, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Economic sanctions and consumer boycotts are common tools to punish organizations for undesirable behavior and attempt to coerce them to change their actions. However, these tools occasionally spill over beyond the intended recipients and affect guiltless supply chain members, jeopardizing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in ...
Timofey Shalpegin, Ajay Kumar, Tyson R. Browning   +2 more
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How gradients of climate and soil determine Mediterranean annual‐rich dryland vegetation

Journal of Vegetation Science, Volume 34, Issue 6, November/December 2023., 2023
This study explores the rich diversity of annual plant communities in drylands of central Crete, Greece, and their response to climate and soil factors. We found significant species turnover along environmental gradients, in particular soil pH, and identified indicator species for different bedrock types.
Friedemann von Lampe, Roman Mathias Link, Erwin Bergmeier   +2 more
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Spartan dependence on Laurion lead

Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 5, Page 1044-1058, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This article presents contextual evidence for the interpretation of lead isotope analysis (LIA) of artefacts from the Archaic Greek Mediterranean. In particular, I make a response to Wood’s suggestion in Archaeometry (2022, first view, ‘Other ways to examine the finances behind the birth of Classical Greece’) that the end of the production of ...
James Thomas Lloyd
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Popper’s Ahistoricism: The Case of the Peloponnesian War

Profil, 2019
I criticize Popper’s projection of modern ideals (liberalism, egalitarianism, humanism) onto antiquity. Without attempting to defend Plato or disprove Popper’s normative conclusions, the article shows that The Open Society and Its Enemies strongly ...
Jan Buráň
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Why Are China and the U.S. Not Destined to Fall into the “Thucydides’ Trap”? [PDF]

China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies, 2018
With the rise of China and relative decline of the United States, the question of whether both countries will fall into the so-called “Thucydides’ Trap” — an analogy to the Peloponnesian War in ancient Greece — has triggered heated debate within ...
Ling Shengli, Lv Huiyi
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Corruption and Urban Landscape in Plato: The Story of Atlantis, the Chronicle of Thucydides and the Geometry of the Town Plan

Gerión, 2022
The aim of this paper is to study Plato's use of landscape to convey the historical-political meaning of the Atlantis story. As the crux of the argument, I will argue two interlinked hypotheses: first, that the descriptions of Atlantis and primaeval ...
Nerea Terceiro Sanmartín
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La influencia de la historia clásica y la guerra antigua en el realismo político estadounidense [PDF]

Revista Enfoques, 2012
Political realism is a school of thought that considers power relationships as independent of the wishes, preferences and theories of actors and spectators. Historical lessons are essential to it.
Horacio Carlos Cagni
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« Nous sommes en guerre » ?

Histoire, Médecine et Santé, 2022
Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, many Heads of States have resorted to military metaphors, while the journalists and historians who were invited to recall the major epidemics of the past have regularly conjured up Thucydides’ account of “the Great ...
Reine-Marie Bérard
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