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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciThis 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 ToxicolChemical 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 +3 more
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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 +2 more
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Pericles' character in Old Attic comedy
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020 The paper discusses Aristophanes’ plays and the surviving fragments of other Old Attic comedy authors as one of the most important sources on Pericles’ biography. The main themes of comic invectives at Pericles were analyzed.
O.A. Rykantsova
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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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Johanna Hanink (ed.), How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy. Thucydides Speeches from The History of the Peloponnesian War, Princeton y Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 276. ISBN 9780691190150 [PDF]
Talia dixit, 2019 Review of Johanna Hanink (ed.), How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy. Thucydides Speeches from The History of the Peloponnesian War, Princeton y Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 276.
Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido
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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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C. W. Marshall and G. Kovacs (eds), No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012) [PDF]
, 2016 No abstract ...
Ruffell, Ian A.
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Delphi, war and the question of arbitration (500–400 BCE)
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 The purpose of this paper is to explore the Delphic oracle and arbitrations; Delphi’s impact on peace and conflict during the First and Second Peloponnesian Wars (460–445 BCE, and 432–404 BCE) in the Hellenistic world.
Adil Calap
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