The first bear raid and squeeze: Isaac Le Maire and the Dutch East India Company
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract In 1609, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) faced a bear raid by a syndicate of short sellers led by Isaac Le Maire, a former director. We reconstruct the forward trade between 1607 and 1611, the actions taken by the syndicate members, and the responses to these actions by the company.
Oscar Gelderblom +2 more
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Commercial practices of the arms industry and implications for global public health: a scoping review. [PDF]
Global HealthMeciar S +4 more
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Antiracist Agency–Family Responses to Everyday and Structural Racism
Family Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This paper introduces the concept of antiracist agency to examine how racially minoritized families actively navigate, resist, and challenge racism in everyday life. Background Although families play a central role in ethno‐racial socialization and identity formation of their children, less attention has been paid to how they respond
Ruta Yemane
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Czechoslovakia's Cold War Arms Towns as Sites of Military Globalization. [PDF]
East Eur Polit SocJohnston R.
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Multidimensional Militarisation, Evidence From Mexico's War on Drugs
International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article documents different dimensions of militarisation observed in Mexico since the start of the war on drugs. It argues that militarisation is a multidirectional phenomenon that is characterised by rationales that justify the use of illegal means to address complex issues, promising expediency and efficiency but rarely delivering on it.
Agustin Hernandez Berea
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The Russian aggression in Ukraine, launched on 24 February 2022, marked the return of conventional war in the European continent. While Western leaders have framed the ongoing conflict through a common narrative when speaking internationally, which varies in its national nuances, much less is known about the images and lenses that the European
Carlotta Mingardi +2 more
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Global, selective, or both? The case for differentiated cooperation in AI governance. [PDF]
Policy Scivon Ingersleben-Seip N, Mügge D.
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No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
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Legacy and impact of the 1925 Geneva Protocol: one hundred years of treaties and debates on chemical and biological weapons. [PDF]
Front MicrobiolGrunden WE, Tuovinen OH.
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Inflammatory and Immunological Basis of Periodontal Diseases
Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.The periodontal lesion emerges as an evolving immunological battlefield, where host–microbiome interactions, dysregulated immune responses, fragile resolution mechanisms, and inflammophilic dysbiosis converge to shift the balance from homeostasis to unrestrained tissue destruction.
Giacomo Baima +3 more
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