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An Analysis of the Impact of the Syrian Crisis on Turkey’s Politic-Military, Social and Economic Security

Gazi Akademik Bakış, 2020
This study analyzes how the ongoing Syrian Crisis has affected Turkey’s security. It starts with an overview of recent developments in the Middle East in general and in Syria specifically.
Sertif DEMİR, Muzaffer Ercan YILMAZ
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When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Galit Itzhaki Draizin, Agamit Gelb   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The macro-economic impacts of Syrian refugee aid

Forced Migration Review, 2018
A new study on the effects of humanitarian assistance in response to the Syria crisis finds significant positive impacts for regional economic growth and job creation.
Tobias Schillings
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Career Sustainability Profiles of Self‐Initiated Expatriates and Associated Person‐Related Factors

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The increasingly volatile global working environment poses particular challenges for self‐initiated expatriates (SIEs), who often lack formal organizational support and must manage their careers independently. However, research on SIEs has largely focused on single international experiences or specific stages of the expatriation cycle, thereby
Shaofang Zong, Sandaruu Jayawardhana, Vesa Suutari   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guanxi and Wasta: 20 Years of Evolution and Future Directions for Informal Network Research

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides an examination of the evolution of networking in China and the Arab world over two decades and provides an update to, and new insights arising from, an article called Guanxi and Wasta; A Comparison, published in Thunderbird International Business Review in 2006.
Kate Hutchings, David Weir, Sa'ad Ali, Sven Horak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Bioregional Approach to Teaching Sustainability and Resilience Online

New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This chapter describes how the first graduate program in resilient and sustainable communities has evolved over the past decade, maintaining its bioregional approach to distance learning while adapting the curriculum to meet new challenges in the age of climate change.
Laird Christensen
wiley   +1 more source

Re-collecting Sherds: Rescue Activities of Archaeological Materials from Tell Afis, Syria

Asia Anteriore Antica
In September 2021 a small group of archaeologists, members of the University of Florence excavations at Tell Afis, made return to Syria and took part into an expedition concerning not the site itself, out of reach due to the political crisis in the ...
Candida Felli
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THE ALEVI / ALAWITE FACTOR IN TURKEY - SYRIA RELATIONS IN THE LIGHT OF THE SYRIAN CRISIS [PDF]

Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 2019
The Syrian civil war exacerbated sectarian divisions between the Alawite-ruled Syrian government and Syria's Sunni population, straining also the relations between the Sunni majority and Alawite and Alevi minorities of the neighboring Turkey.
Mkrtich Karapetyan
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Different Frontier, Same Legal Script? On the Course of Replicating Earth's Patterns in Space

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
As states and private actors expand their activities in outer space, the international legal framework governing this domain risks extending longstanding structures of global inequality beyond Earth. This article examines how international space law, shaped by a broader disciplinary pattern of reactive legal development, is poised to reproduce ...
Sivan Shlomo‐Agon, Michal Saliternik
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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source