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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare

open access: yesGlobal 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

Can Scope Make a Difference? Assessing the Reach of Due Diligence Laws in Supply Networks

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) laws seek to make companies legally accountable for adverse social and environmental impacts across their supply chains. Although jurisdictionally bounded, these laws rest on the assumption that their influence can extend globally through supply networks.
Vera Săvulescu, Luc Fransen
wiley   +1 more source

Future Foreign Language Teachers’ Intercultural Competence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
There is a lack of research regarding the implications for foreign language study and intercultural competence. Scholars suggest that foreign language proficiency plays a role in cultivating intercultural competence, but agree that there is a lack of ...
Baalerud, Andrew
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Risk Scenarios for European Rearmament

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union has launched a flurry of initiatives to ramp up European defence spending. Efforts to bolster European defence have further intensified in response to the United States' increasingly hostile stance towards its erstwhile European allies.
Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni
wiley   +1 more source

Global Union Federations and Human Rights Due Diligence: Strategic Repertoires in a Shifting Legal Terrain

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the strategic engagement of global union federations (GUFs) with emerging human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislation as a mechanism of transnational labour governance. Drawing on a multimethod qualitative design—including legal and document analysis and interviews with union officials—the study identifies six ...
Ingrid Landau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Motivational factors and student attitudes in language specific classes with advanced learners of German [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This article reports on questionnaire results related to motivational factors and student attitudes towards an international bilingual email project between law and business students in England and Germany.
Leahy, C
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Carney's Davos Address and the (Contested) Re‐Imagining of Middle Powers

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By privileging the intervention of Canada's prime minister, Mark Carney, in his January 2026 Davos address, the work aims to re‐engage with the debate around middle powers extending from academic scrutiny to instrumental practice. On core themes, Carney's address provides exceptional focal points pertaining to the role of this category of ...
Andrew F. Cooper
wiley   +1 more source

An Examination of the Attitudes of Teachers of Turkish as a Foreign Language Toward Technology

open access: yes
Son zamanlarda bilim ve teknolojide yaşanan gelişmeler eğitim alanını doğrudan etkilemiştir. Bu durum, yabancı dil öğretimi faaliyetlerinde teknoloji kullanımı konusunu gündeme getirmiştir.
Çakır, Muhammed Hasan
core   +1 more source

The Continuity and Rupture of the ‘New Washington Consensus’: From Biden to Trump 2.0

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ‘New Washington Consensus’ (NWC) represents a major intellectual shift in the US approach to global economic governance. However, the NWC has never been subject to systematic academic critique. With Trump's return to the White House ushering in a new era of US trade policy, the NWC is widely considered to be politically irrelevant in the ...
Ming Du
wiley   +1 more source

Decision usefulness of SME financial statements in Sri Lanka

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 1059-1088, March 2025.
Abstract This paper examines the users of Sri Lankan small and medium‐sized entities' (SMEs) financial statements, and their information needs. Semi‐structured interviews found the main recipients of SME financial information are banks, the Inland Revenue Department and other government institutions.
Nisansala Wijekoon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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