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The aim of this article is to describe the difficult beginnings of post-war Polish-Czechoslovak relations. Its chronological framework starts with the establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland, which, in addition to the Polish
Materski, Wojciech
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‘Three Circles’: Winston Churchill's Approach to International Relations
ABSTRACT This article introduces a special issue that explores Winston Churchill's relationship with different countries. As its starting point, this piece takes Churchill's world view that Britain derived her status from its position at the focal point of three intersecting circles: Europe, the British Empire and the wider English‐speaking world ...
ALLEN PACKWOOD +2 more
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The Development of British civil affairs and its employment in the British sector of allied military operations during the Battle of Normandy, June to August 1944 [PDF]
Civil Affairs and its more robust sibling, Military Government, were military organisations designed to ensure that basic civil order and welfare were maintained in those allied and enemy states encountered on operations during the Second World War ...
Flint, E R
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ABSTRACT During the past two decades, foreigners have acquired housing stock in many of Rio de Janeiro's oldest and most iconic favelas, or self‐built neighborhoods, and invested in capital improvements, with an eye toward turning private residences into lodging accommodations.
ALESSANDRO M. ANGELINI, GARETH A. JONES
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The Recriminalization of Homosexuality under Stalin: New Sources, New Answers
Abstract Drawing on newly uncovered archival and printed sources, this article offers a fresh perspective on the recriminalization of homosexuality under Stalin by challenging key assumptions in existing historiography. It demonstrates that the OGPU did not actively advocate for new anti‐sodomy legislation. Although Leningrad homosexuals had been under
Irina Roldugina
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Abstract Mentally ill defendants are regularly sentenced to death in Texas, the leading executioner in the United States. In this article, I explore the reasons for this phenomenon by analysing the arguments developed by prosecuting attorneys in capital punishment trials involving defendants who advance insanity or diminished capacity claims but are ...
CHLOÉ DEAMBROGIO
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The Christian Right and US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century [PDF]
The thesis discusses the role of the Christian Right in the US foreign policy decision making process. The research revealed that the Christian Right has long been fascinated with some international issues in general and US foreign policy in particular ...
SALLEH, MOHD,AFANDI
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REFUGE AND THE WILDED CLASSROOM: FIGURE, PRACTICE, SPACE
ABSTRACT University teaching in a context of escalating planetary crisis requires new approaches to pedagogical encounter. Reconceptualising the university classroom as a potential refuge from polycrisis, we identify symptoms and effects of the academic‐industrial complex and ‘fast academia’ in our practice, and we develop ways to take refuge from ...
Peter Arnds +2 more
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René Girard's Revision and Misapprehension of Psychoanalysis
ABSTRACT René Girard's theories of mimetic desire, religious sacrifice, and violence have been immensely provocative and influential. His ways of framing literary desire and conflict are fascinating, as they illustrate how desire and rivalry unleashed lead to violence and derangement.
Jerry S. Piven
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Psychedelic Therapies as Resistance to Neoliberalism: A Brazilian Schizoanalytical Perspective
ABSTRACT Psychedelic‐assisted therapies can be intertwined with the forces of neoliberal rationality, reductionist psychiatry, biomedical psychopharmacology, individualized models of subjectivity and fascism. Through a genealogical and critical review, this study seeks to demonstrate how the ongoing ‘psychedelic renaissance’ and its current ...
Ernesto Grillo Rabello +1 more
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