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The Laws of War in the Pre-Dawn Light: Institutions and Obligations in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War [PDF]

, 2005
This Essay in honor of Oscar Schachter criticizes both ahistorical renderings of the law of war and realist depictions of Peloponnesian War by asking whether Thucydides describes the conditions of a law of war.
Stephen M. Sheppard
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Economic sanctions and agricultural trade

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 1477-1517, August 2024.
Abstract Economic sanctions are more popular than ever. But do they affect agricultural trade? Combining two new datasets and capitalizing on the latest developments in the empirical structural gravity literature, we investigate the effects of sanctions on international trade of agricultural products.
Mario Larch, Jeff Luckstead, Yoto V. Yotov   +2 more
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Robust clustering based on trimming

WIREs Computational Statistics, Volume 16, Issue 4, July/August 2024.
Impartial trimming in Cluster Analysis allows for the exclusion of a fraction of potentially outlying observations (depicted by crosses in this graph). This approach results in robust clustering methods that can withstand anomalous or noisy data, while also highlighting such anomalies by taking into account cluster structures in the data.
Luis A. García‐Escudero, Agustín Mayo‐Iscar   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Devil is in the Details: A study of how Ancient Greek historian Thucydides’ greatest work, the History of the Peloponnesian War, changed historiography [PDF]

, 2016
Before the time of recorded history, how did people view historical events? Was it just a story that was told and past down with narrative embellishments? Or did they take a more factual approach?
Dodge, Kirsten E.
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Philosophy and biography

Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 328-337, July 2024.
Abstract Does the biography of a philosopher have any relevance to assessing their philosophy? After considering and rejecting three distinct treatments of this question, a different answer is articulated here. Distinguishing between the content and approach of a philosophical text, this article argues that biography is relevant to assessing the ...
Paul O'Grady
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Dediscoursification: a discourse-ethical critique of discursive production of the state of war

Političke Perspektive, 2016
This essay briefly presents the theory of dediscoursification as a theory of one of the major causes of war. Its key claim reads that discursive attitudes, such as lying, self-contradicting, and promise-breaking, ought to be theorized as causes directly ...
Dražen Pehar
doaj  

Do the Weak Have a Right to Fight the Strong? Moral Absolutes and the Probability of Success

Studia Philosophiae Christianae
The jus ad bellum requirement of the probability of success can be perceived as an unjust requirement which prohibits the weaker side of a potential or actual military conflict from committing itself to organized violence, even to defend and protect its ...
Stipe Buzar
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L’impero del mare come egemonia subalterna nel IV secolo (Diodoro, libri XIV-XV)

Historika : Studi di Storia Greca e Romana, 2016
In two passages of book XIV Diodorus emphasizes the recognized hegemony exercised by Sparta both on land and sea after the Peloponnesian War (XIV 10 and 13).
Cinzia Bearzot
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Decoloniality and the Spectre of Modernity: Notes for a Theoretical Critique

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 251-262, June 2024.
This article examines a thesis that has become a common currency in Latin American critical thought, namely that ‘coloniality’ is constitutive of modernity. This proposition rests on a reifying conception of modernity as a Eurocentric civilisational project which, I contend, is theoretically flawed and politically pernicious.
Julián Harruch
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Le choix de la forme du dialogue : le dialogue des Athéniens et des Méliens (Thucydide. V,85-113)

Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 2007
Agathe Roman, Choosing the dialogue form: the Melian dialogue (Thuc. V.85-113), DHA 33/1, 2007, 9-22. Abstract: The speeches in Thucydides are usually studied in a historical point of view.
Agathe Roman
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