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University proceedings. Volga region. Social sciences

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки
Background. The prosecution authorities are the most important guarantor of ensuring the rights of military personnel and their families. Prosecutor’s supervision in this direction has acquired particular relevance in the context of a special military ...
S.E. Yakusheva
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Conceptualizing Private Military and Security Companies

Conflict Management and Peace Science
Research on private military and security companies (PMSCs) often groups distinct actors together, obscuring variation. I develop a new typology of PMSCs using k -means clustering, providing a more systematic approach than existing classifications, and assess how well prevailing ...
openaire   +1 more source

Who Knows, Cares and Acts for Sustainability in Times of Uncertainty? Demographic Differences in Perceived Knowledge, Concerns, and Pro‐Environmental Behaviors

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2026, some years after the Covid‐19 pandemic and the related economic crisis, the global landscape remains profoundly unsettled. Geopolitical conflicts, such as the war between Russia and Ukraine and the Middle East conflicts, continue to drive instability, reshaping global priorities and challenges.
Rosa Maria Dangelico, Serena Filippelli, Luca Fraccascia, Andrea Viggiani   +3 more
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The Wagner Group

Arab Journal for Security Studies
This study includes the mysterious World Wagner, a private military company, which is said to be related to Russian interests around the world. The awthors also explore its emerging origins and implications, and seek to provide a comprehensive analysis ...
Habib Badawi, Mohamad Daabul
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What's Inside the Green Bag? An Analysis of the Eco‐Design Options and a Visual Tool for the Development of Sustainable Fashion Accessories

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Integrating eco‐design practices in product development from the start is essential for fashion accessories like bags and backpacks, which involve complex manufacturing, diverse materials, and strong socio‐cultural meanings. Building on this premise and drawing from the Lifecycle Design Strategy Wheel, this study aims to characterize the eco ...
Francesco Paolo Lagrasta, Rosa Maria Dangelico, Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo   +2 more
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Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
wiley   +1 more source

How, and with what implications, did the use of Wagner PMC become one of the chief tools at Russia’s disposal?

Journal of Global Faultlines
The War in Ukraine has seen the private military company Wagner PMC used as a useful tool that has brought an additional presence into the war; however, the recent history and popularity of private military companies are in no way limited to Russia or ...
Alexander John Poulton
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The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions
Erika Kuever
wiley   +1 more source

Micro‐transitions and work identity: The case of academic entrepreneurs

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how academic entrepreneurs—scientists who found research‐based startups while remaining in academia—construct and sustain their professional identities amid frequent transitions between academic and entrepreneurial roles.
Marouane Bousfiha, Henrik Berglund
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Resource reallocation across successive systemic innovations: How Rolls‐Royce shaped the evolution of the turbojet, turboprop, and turbofan

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Despite the importance of resource reallocation in shaping a variety of strategic outcomes, strategy scholars have paid only limited attention to the processes by which firms reallocate their resources across successive systemic innovations.
Gino Cattani, Mariano Mastrogiorgio, Giuseppe Carignani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source