ABSTRACT This paper explores why a group of Global South middle powers has adopted stances on the Ukrainian war that diverged from the positions of the United States under President Joe Biden, the European Union and the broader NATO/Western alliance. I claim that these disparities are partially explained by the affiliation these states have with the ...
Marco Vieira
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Considerations for evaluating pragmatic design elements in digital health intervention trials: the case of Keep It Up! 3.0. [PDF]
Nanette B +8 more
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Dewey's pragmatism as a critical sociology
The article shows that Dewey's pragmatism can be the basis of a critical sociology, which offers epistemological, metatheoretical and methodological concepts to analyze micro-sociological situations, and to "unmask" phenomena of power and hidden mechanisms of the social.
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Layered Incoherence in Middle Power Foreign Policy: Indonesia and the U.S.‐China Rivalry
ABSTRACT Amid the intensifying U.S.‐China rivalry, middle powers, especially those from the global south, are often portrayed in IR literature as strategic hedgers, expected to balance between major powers to preserve regional autonomy and stability. Yet many, like Indonesia, display contradictory foreign policy behaviour by rhetorically championing ...
Moch Faisal Karim
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Illegal yet ongoing: surrogacy through the moral prism of urban Chinese women in Nanjing. [PDF]
Li Z.
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Brokering Peace: Emerging Middle Powers, Agency and Mediation
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of mediation in emerging middle power conduct in an increasingly fragmented world. It asks why and how emerging middle powers seek mediator roles in international conflicts, focusing on Turkey and Indonesia's responses to the Russia–Ukraine war.
Buğra Süsler, Chris Alden
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Beyond Controversy? The Promotion and Early Critical Reception of Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Fifty Years Later. [PDF]
Stuhrmann C.
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Further explorations of possibilities, methodologies of the future and rogue traders [PDF]
Jack, Lisa Janet
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ABSTRACT Amid shifting geopolitical tensions, the notion of “research security” has become an increasingly prominent concern in science policy. This paper analyzes how research security is framed and operationalized in Germany and the United States using discourse analysis and securitization theory.
Nicolas V. Rüffin +3 more
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Prepectoral no mesh versus mesh immediate implant-based reconstruction after mastectomy (Restore-B): a multicentre single-blinded randomised controlled feasibility study protocol. [PDF]
Rolph R +12 more
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