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Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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Importance. In 2024, G.H. Bumagin, secretary of the Leningrad and Novgorod regional Committees of the CPSU(b), who played a very important role in many events of the Battle for Leningrad, as well as in the restoration of the Novgorod region in the first ...
D. A. Vorob’ev
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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The Ottoman Siege and Assault of Constantinople in 1422 AD: Its Military and Political Aspect
This paper addresses the military and political aspect of the Turkish siege of Constantinople in 1422 AD, when the Ottomans gained valuable experience to use it later, in the final battle of 1453.
Tatiana V. Kushch
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The Mughal Siege of Jodhpur, 1565
In his book, The Formation of the Mughal Empire, Douglas Streusand remarked that "although Jodhpur is certainly a great fort, Abu al-Fazl's notice of its fall is so brief that the Mughals probably did not have to mount siege operations in order to take ...
Saran, Richard
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Abstract This article analyses to what degree Benjamin Robins's discoveries in his book New Principles of Gunnery, 1742, affected the British mathematical, military, and educational world of the mid‐eighteenth century. While it drew praise and critique from Europe, especially from the notable mathematician Leonhard Euler, his mathematical theories were
Samuel Dodson
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Siege Theme in Works of 21st-Century Russian Playwrights
This article examines the process of reactualizing the Siege of Leningrad within contemporary literary and dramatic discourse. The study aims to identify the specific ways in which modern Russian playwrights individually interpret the siege experience ...
A. Yu. Meshchansky, L. A. Savelova
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Guardians Under Siege: Civil Society Access and Reform of the UN Human Rights Council
ABSTRACT This article examines how restrictions on civil society participation at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) undermine the institution's effectiveness. Through stakeholder interviews and analysis of recent developments, we show that civil society engagement does not merely fulfil a democratic aspiration, but it is an operational ...
Inés M. Pousadela, Samuel King
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