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LNG as a Geopolitical Tool: Qatar’s Role in a Transforming Global Market [PDF]
Međunarodni ProblemiThis paper examines Qatar’s strategic international role, emphasising its use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as both an economic driver and a geopolitical tool.
Stefano Valente
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Review of: Lawrence Rosen. The Culture of Islam: Changing Aspects of Contemporary Muslim Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press [PDF]
, 2005 This is a preprint (author's original) version of the article published in American Ethnologist 32(2):2034-35. The final version of the article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2005.32.2.2034.
Lindholm, Charles
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Nations as Natural Families: From Kin Selection to Multilevel Selection
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In nationalism studies, nations are often viewed as artificial constructs. By contrast, many sociobiologists see nations as natural families or kin groups. They explain altruism and shared ancestry among co‐nationals through kin selection theory, which accounts for altruism towards close genetic relatives. In this article, we refine and deepen
Filipe Nobre Faria, Sandra Dzenis
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Ethnicity, Language, and Identity in Kenya
Modern Africa, 2019 This article unravels the manipulation of language and nonlinguistic communication strategies in political and sports discourses to negotiate various identities in Kenya.
Nathan Oyori Ogechi
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AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
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Tribalismo pós-moderno: Da identidade às identificações
Ciências Sociais Unisinos, 2007 The article discusses the characteristics involved in what is presently called post-modern. Michel Maffesoli reaffirms the idea that tribalism will be the dominating value in the coming decades.
Michel Maffesoli
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor +3 more
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Developing Walvis Bay Port into a logistics gateway for southern Africa: Issues, challenges and the potential implications for Namibia’s future [PDF]
, 2014 Many developing countries wish to become the ‘gateway’ to a region or part of a continent.One strategy involves encouraging logistics cluster development.
Bamford, Colin G. +3 more
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.Abstract Decolonial theory (DT) has been advanced as a strategy for decolonisation alternative to 20th‐century anticolonialism, positioning decolonisation as an epistemic project rather than a historical‐material one. Here, I examine DT's arguments about anticolonialism: that it had a dogmatic bias towards nationalism and postcolonial state formation ...
Lavanya Nott
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Trans-generational trauma and tribal conflict among AmaNdebele and VaShona Pentecostal clergy
African Journal of Pentecostal StudiesBackground: This article explores the intersection of trans-generational trauma and tribal conflict among AmaNdebele and VaShona Pentecostal clergy in Zimbabwe, rooted in the historical context of the 19th-century AmaNdebele invasions of Mashonaland and ...
Nomathemba N. Msipa, Maake J. Masango
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