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Chinese Salvation: Taoist Philosophy in Varlamov’s Shanghai

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2015
The article explores the multiple realizations of Taoist philosophy in A. Varlamov’s short story Shanghai. The author maintains that Chinese philosophy has a considerable influence on contemporary Russian writers and is a major approach aimed to solve ...
Chi Jimin
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“The Noblest of all Things is Water”

Critical Hermeneutics
In a series of lectures delivered in 1909 at the Moscow Theological Academy, Florensky presented an audacious thesis: philosophy – he claimed – was born of the worship of the god Poseidon.
Andrea Dezi
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Deterrence Through Resilience and Civil Preparedness: The Comprehensive and Militarised Models of Civil Defence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As hybrid threats blur the line between war and peace and challenge conventional deterrence logics, states increasingly turn to concepts of resilience, civil preparedness and whole‐of‐society as elements of their security strategies. This raises the question of how civilian agency can be viewed as an element of deterrence and what the ...
Agata Mazurkiewicz, Heljä Ossa
wiley   +1 more source

Complementarism and Consolationism: Mapping out a 21st-Century African Philosophical Trajectory [PDF]

, 2019
African philosophy has been compelled to constantly define itself in relation to a domineering Western philosophy given the historical circumstances of colonialism and the dual heritage of the professional African philosopher who is at once an African by
Ada Agada; Research Fellow The Conversational School of Philosophy Nigeria
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Leo Tolstoy and Russian Religious Philosophy (part II)

, 2018
The Ideas of Leo Tolstoy are one of the key catalyzers for the emergence of the “new religious consciousness” and religious philosophy at the beginning of the XX century in Russia.
Regula M Zwahlen, Zwahlen, Regula M., A S Tsygankov, Tsygankov, A.S.   +3 more
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Navigating the Indo‐Pacific: The EU's 2025 Council Conclusions Amidst Geopolitical Uncertainty

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT More than four years after the EU released its Indo‐Pacific Strategy (in April 2021), the Council of the EU provided fresh ‘Conclusions’ (in October 2025) stating that the EU should ‘further intensify its strategic focus, presence, visibility and actions in the Indo‐Pacific’.
Nicholas Ross Smith, Richard Whitman, Paul Bacon, Martin Holland   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk Scenarios for European Rearmament

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union has launched a flurry of initiatives to ramp up European defence spending. Efforts to bolster European defence have further intensified in response to the United States' increasingly hostile stance towards its erstwhile European allies.
Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni
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Dilemmas of Civilian Participation in Military Deterrence and Defence: Legal and Ethical Dimensions

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can civilians participate in deterrence and defence in ways that do not jeopardize their immunity from deliberate attack? The principle of civilian immunity from deliberate attack in war is a core element of contemporary international humanitarian law (IHL). Uniformed combatants and others who take up arms pose a threat may be liable to be
Neta C. Crawford
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Rethinking Societal Resilience as Deterrence: A Feminist Perspective on NATO and Ukraine's Experience

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent shifts in European security have placed resilience at the center of deterrence and defense strategies. While resilience has traditionally been understood as the ability to withstand disruption and sustain military operations, there have been calls for a whole‐of‐society approach that strengthens societies against hybrid threats and ...
Jan Daniel, Míla O'Sullivan
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Foreign direct investments distribution in the Russian Federation: do spatial effects matter? [PDF]

, 2009
In this paper we explore the hypothesis of spatial effects in the distribution of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) across Russian regions. We make use of a model, which describes FDI inflows as resulting from an agglomeration effect (the level of FDI in ...
Buccellato, T., Santangelo, F.
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