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Behavioral, Ecological, and Morphological Data Suggest a Close Relationship Between the Ant Colobopsis truncata and the Gall Wasp Aphelonyx cerricola

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Aphelonyx cerricola and the different stages that make this gall colonizable by ants. ABSTRACT Wasps of the family Cynipidae are known to induce galls of a species‐specific morphology, which during senescence provide a refuge for secondary insect fauna, especially ants.
Daniele Giannetti, Diego Gil‐Tapetado, Enrico Schifani, Elia Nalini, Donato A. Grasso, Carlo Polidori   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Causes of business english speaking anxiety in the Balkans

Journal of English Studies, 2016
Learner anxiety is a critical affective factor in foreign languages education. This study investigated the main causes of speaking anxiety in the context of business English (BE) instruction.
Slavica Cepon
doaj   +1 more source

Incremental Shifts, Strategic Orbits: The Evolution of EU Space Policy Through Gradual Security Linkages

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the evolution of European Union (EU) space policy through the lens of historical institutionalism, highlighting how security and defence considerations have been incrementally integrated into a domain originally framed as civilian and scientific.
Gustavo G. Müller, Philip De Man
wiley   +1 more source

Arnavut ve Sırp Savları Bağlamında Kosova’nın Sahipliği Sorunu

Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2010
Balkanların ve Kosova’nın temel sorunu sınırların milliyetler ilkesine göre çizilmemişolmasıdır. Bu nedenden dolayıKosova bir asırdır Avrupa’nın en sorunlu bölgelerinden birisi olmuştur.
Halis Ayhan
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Russia's soft and sharp power in southeast Europe — the Russian hybrid influence operation in Montenegro [PDF]

, 2020
This is a chapter published in a conference publication that was written within the framework of the project “Reality Check Series: Sources, Tools, and Impact of External Non-EU-Engagement in Southeast Europe.” The project was led by the Südosteuropa ...
Garcevic, Vesko
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
wiley   +1 more source

Survey Report Albania

, 2019
In April and May 2019, more than one hundred surveys were distributed amongst influential figures in Albania.
Angjeli, Dior, Vrugtman, Leonie
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The European Union in the Indo‐Pacific: Gauging the EU's Indo‐Pacific Strategy Across Eight Indo‐Pacific Locations

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a macro‐overview of the reception and effectiveness of the European Union's (EU) Indo‐Pacific Strategy (IPS) released in April 2021. Drawing on research conducted across eight Indo‐Pacific locations—Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand—the study involved 111 semi‐structured ...
Nicholas Ross Smith, Martin Holland
wiley   +1 more source

A Framework for Responsible Aid to Burundi [PDF]

, 2003
The report shows the framework of aid in ...

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The logic of secret alliances

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Alliances are typically understood as agreements intended to deter aggression from enemy states. By signaling an ally's commitment to a protégé state, a shared enemy may be deterred from attacking. In light of this signaling logic, secret alliances are puzzling.
Peter Bils, Bradley C. Smith
wiley   +1 more source