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La p(r)o(ph)étisation du social dans Des rêves et des lignes de Michel Feugain : entre autopsie et utopie [PDF]

Revue Roumaine d’Etudes Francophones, 2020
The Franco-Cameroonian poet Michel Feugain makes an autopsy of postmodern/postcolonial society in his poetic collection entitled figuratively Des rêves et des lignes [Dreams and Lines]. He completes his autopsy with a literary utopia.
Jovensel NGAMALEU
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It’s time for rational rationing [PDF]

British Journal of General Practice, 2013
> ‘Ask me my three main priorities for the NHS, and I tell you: efficiency, efficiency, efficiency.’ No government minister said this, at least not yet. Of course, the government wants quality too, but its war is on spending, and efficiency is its weapon. NHS spending power is set to remain stable at best for the foreseeable future.
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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“Nothingness or a God”: Nihilism, Enlightenment, and “Natural Reason” in Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi’s Works [PDF]

Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2013
Our paper analyzes one of the most important philosophical problems of the philosophies of the Enlightenment: the problem of the emergence and the justification of the autonomy of reason. Our study will reflect on the critique of the autonomous reason, a
STEFAN-SEBASTIAN MAFTEI
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Sharing the Same Playground? An Analysis of the Private Sector's Role in Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article takes the emergence of tech diplomacy as the motivation for an investigation into shifting relationships between traditional diplomatic actors and non‐state actors. The observation that ‘new diplomatic actors’ and new diplomatic venues have led to a ‘new kind of diplomacy’ dates back to at least the 1990s.
Katharina E. Höne
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PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION AND THE STATUS OF THE WOMAN IN SOCIETY OF THE XVIII CENTURY

Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2015
The purpose. The objective of this paper is to illustrate how the biological basis of the “natural” male and female characteristics is subjected to doubt in the books of the women-writers - “feminists before feminism” despite the dictatorship of the ...
Olha P. Vlasova, Nataliia P. Kostyuk
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Are rational expectations really rational? [PDF]

Economics Letters, 1992
Abstract This article investigates whether ‘rational expectations’ are really rational, i.e. whether they maximize agents' utilities in some way. For that purpose we construct a model where each agent may have a whole array of expectations schemes, including the rational expectations one.
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Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract War is often viewed as a bargaining problem. However, prior to bargaining, countries can vie for leverage by expending effort on diplomacy. This article presents a dynamic model of conflict where agenda‐setting power is endogenous to pre‐bargaining diplomatic competition.
Joseph J. Ruggiero
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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