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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Pleasures in Socialism: Leisure and Luxury in the Eastern Bloc [PDF]
, 2010 This book is a significant contribution to the studies of everyday life in Eastern Europe under communist rule. It is the third in a series of volumes edited and written with Susan E.
Crowley, David, Reid, Susan Emily
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT On‐orbit rendezvous and docking constitute one of the most technically challenging activities in the history of space activities. As space endeavours mature to crewed missions, space rendezous and docking technologies (RDT) emerge as an area of technological innovation critical to advances in future crewed space exploration.
Nikita Chiu, Markus Kornprobst
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The North Atlantic alliance and collective defense at 70: confession and response revisited [PDF]
, 2019 The North Atlantic Treaty was largely a response to global sentiment that other international organizations, namely the United Nations, were not accomplishing their intended purpose of the maintenance and promotion of peace and order in the world.
Schmitt, Michael
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract How can defense alliances reap the efficiency gains of working together when coordination and opportunism costs are high? Although specializing as part of a collective comes with economic and functional benefits, states must bargain over the distribution of those gains and ensure the costs of collective action are minimized.
J. Andrés Gannon
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Ilya Kabakov face à l’art soviétique
Revue des études slavesThe rejection of socialist realism, which represented the norm taught in Soviet Art schools, was what united the unofficial artists who entered active life after Stalin’s death.
Galina Kabakova
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Soviet Art Movements between 1917-1990
Art and Design Review, 2021 After the October revolution of 1917, the Soviet Union was established by uniting five countries under one roof. After the Soviet Union was established, with the proposal of the totalitarian regime, the understanding of Social realism was accepted as the dominant view in all areas.
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Methis: Studia Humaniora Estonica, 2017 Tänapäeva Eesti kunstiajalookirjutuses kirjeldatakse rahvuslikku diskursust eelkõige nõukogude režiimile oponeeriva kaitsemehhanismina. Samas on see olnud üks olulisemaid märksõnu ka nõukogude kultuuripoliitikas.
Kädi Talvoja
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Constitutional Bait and Switch: Executive Reinterpretation of Arms Control Treaties [PDF]
, 1989 A new constitutional crisis has been thrust upon the American body politic. The crisis arises from a dispute concerning the allocation of legal authority for the interpretation, and especially for the reinterpretation, of international agreements. Once a
Koplow, David A
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