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Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
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Short history of the Soviet/Russian Western Group of Forces in Germany 1945-1994
, 2012 textThe body of knowledge in the English language concerning the Soviet/Russian Western Group of Forces which occupied Germany from 1945 until the fall of 1994 is virtually non-existent. This thesis is an attempt to begin adding to this limited knowledge.
Nowacky, Elliott Carson
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Japanese Women's Attitudes Toward Learning Languages Other Than English in the Era of Global English
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study on female Japanese learners of the Korean language is situated in the centuries‐long anti‐Korean sentiments in Japan, the global popularity of the Korean Wave, particularly among women, and the essentialized image of socially marginalized young Japanese women who study English with romantic desires for Western men.
Yoko Kobayashi
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates the nature, effectiveness, and implications of English private tutoring (EPT) among Grade 11 students in rural Kazakhstan. Drawing on survey responses from 160 students within a larger sample of 740, the study examines participation patterns, motivations, perceived benefits, and the financial and social costs ...
Anas Hajar, Mehmet Karakus
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Colonization of minds: Ukraine between Russian colonialism and Western Orientalism. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2023 Kotliuk G.
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A Causal Map Framework to Explain Support for Strong Leaders in Politics
International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article introduces a computational theory explaining why some people support strong leaders in politics, arguing that this support sometimes arises because people view a strong leader as means to address social problems. The theory proposes that people develop a causal map concerning the consequences of the rise of a strong leader.
Francesco Rigoli
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Who Cares: Why the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict Matters (More) to Some EU Member States
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 1287-1309, July 2026.Abstract What drives the salience of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict amongst EU member states? This article employs domestic foreign policy theories to explain the factors underlying variation in salience, estimated analysing all country statements made at the United Nations General Assembly between 1993 and 2017.
Valerio Vignoli +2 more
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The EU as a Security Provider: Changing Foreign Policy Roles Amongst Nordic EU Member States
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 1453-1472, July 2026.Abstract This article addresses the Nordic European Union (EU) member states' changing national role conceptions prompted by concerns about a weakening international rules‐based order, a flagging transatlantic commitment and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Anna Michalski +2 more
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Pan‐Europe Revisited: Inter‐War Debates and the EU's Pursuit of Geopolitical Power
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The European Union's (EU) transformation from a peace project to an assertive geopolitical actor reflects enduring tensions in integration theory dating back to the inter‐war period. This paper develops a comparative framework distinguishing territorial integration logic, which emphasises bounded political communities and collective defence ...
Kamil Zwolski
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The system of the nazi occupation policy in the soviet territory as the factor of economics gains?
, 2015 The paper is dedicated to the analysis of Nazi economic policy on occupied Soviet territories of Ukraine and Belarus in the period from 1941 to 1943. The principles of applied economic policy and its possible influence on the achievement of designated ...
Fabiánková, Klára
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