Sport in International Relations. Expectations, Possibilities and Effects
The aim of this article is to show how sport can matter in international relations. Sport can be a subject or a tool of international relations. It can be used by states or geopolitical blocks to display their alleged superiority or any other desired ...
Michał Marcin Kobierecki
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The Ijtihadi Approach of Allameh Sharafuddin and the Issue of Contemporary Islamic Communities' Unity [PDF]
Developing a relationship between the two variables of religious differences and the Islamic unity has been one of the main concerns of current Islamic scholars.
SeyedSajjad Izedehi, Mahmood Fallah
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Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements
ABSTRACT This article examines whether Latin American countries are keeping pace with global trends in trade agreement depth or falling behind. Using 681 agreements (1970–2019), we develop the Depth Index of Trade Agreements (DITA) to weight provisions endogenously through factor analysis based on co‐occurrence patterns.
Raphael Gomes da Silva +2 more
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Hybrid Pattern of State Legitimacy: Constraints and Capacities of Iranian Cultural Legacies [PDF]
Purpose: The key problematic of this paper is to reach a solution to link three sources of reproduction of legitimacy in Iran: ancient Iranian tradition (Pre-Islamic), Islamic tradition and modern pattern which is based on people.
Mohammad Javad Gholamreza Kashi +1 more
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Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration
ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
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Do Universal Free School Meals Improve the Dietary Quality of Food‐At‐Home Purchases?
ABSTRACT Since 2014, the number of schools offering universal free meals to all enrolled children without requiring annual meal applications has increased meaningfully. Using USDA's Purchase to Plate Crosswalk, a difference‐in‐differences framework, and a nationwide consumer panel, the effect of universal‐free‐meal exposure on the diet quality of food ...
Xueying Ma +2 more
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Farmers' Preferences for Gene Editing Crops and Influencing Factors
ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE) is gaining momentum worldwide, but limited data on UK farmers' preferences hinders our understanding of its potential impact amid deregulation debates. Based on a survey of 200 English arable farmers, we employ a Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logit regressions to investigate current preferences for GE crops.
Bertolozzi‐Caredio Daniele +1 more
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The Functional Logic of Rulers in the Process of the Realization of the Islamic State, Based on the Structuration Approach in the Political Thought of Ayatollah Khamenei [PDF]
In the school of thought of Ayatollah Khamenei, the Islamic state is a key link in the chain of Islamic civilization-building; a process that is founded on the linkage of committed agency and legitimate structure.
Abbas Alirezaei +1 more
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The Lack of Historical Struggle and Defeat of Constitutionalism in Iran (Mashroutiat) [PDF]
The theory of progress of constitutionality(Mashroutiat) which was aptly named “the new threshold” was aimed to lay the basis for constitutionalism by limiting the State.
Davoud Paran, Shoja Ahmadvand
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ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
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