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The Impact of Democratization and Globalization on Environmental Sustainability in Brazil
Geological Journal, EarlyView.Fossil fuel, economic globalisation, and economic growth drive environmental degradation while democratisation positively influences environmental quality. ABSTRACT Although Brazil still possesses significant ecological reserves, the surplus in its biocapacity has been rapidly declining in recent years.
Mustafa Naimoğlu +3 more
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Czech Journal of International RelationsChiara Libiseller reviews Jakub Eberle and Jan Daniel’s timely book on the politics of Hybrid Warfare (HW) in Czechia. According to Libiseller, the book provides an insightful analysis of the detrimental effects of the HW discourse on democratic politics
CHIARA LIBISELLER
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Bridging the Gap: Canadian Engineer Operations at Canal du Nord–Bourlon Wood, 1918 [PDF]
, 2019 During the last hundred days of the Great War, the Allied armies swept eastward past the Hindenburg Line with hammer-blow offensive warfare. Performing their work under intense machine gun and shell fire, engineers erected bridges and constructed roads ...
Pascas, Brian
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Embracing Complexity in HRM Research: A Call for System and Process Perspectives
Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Human resource management (HRM) is inherently complex. It involves systems of principles, practices, and activities operating at individual, group, organizational, and macro levels, which are interlinked through complex processes. Yet, empirical research has not kept pace with this conceptual richness.
Rebecca Hewett, Madleen Meier‐Barthold
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With One\u27s Own Arms: Condottieri, Machiavelli, and the Rise of the Florentine Militia
, 2014 This paper examines the use of mercenary warfare on the Italian peninsula during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. It later focuses on the unique political and economic environment in Florence that led to Niccolo Machiavelli orchestrating the ...
Boncardo, Michael N.
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, 2002 Recent empirical and theoretical work suggests that reputation was an important mediator of access to resources in ancestral human environments. Reputations were built and maintained by the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information about ...
Hagen, Edward H., Hess, Nicole C.
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The Impact of Geopolitical Risk on Trade Credit
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In light of escalating global geopolitical tensions, understanding how firms respond to external shocks has become a critical issue for policymakers, corporate managers, and investors. This study investigates the impact of geopolitical risk (GPR) on firms' reliance on trade credit (TC)—an essential form of short‐term financing, particularly ...
Wafa'a B. Al‐Yafei, Hamdi Bennasr
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The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks [PDF]
This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker’s objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender’s objective is diametrically ...
Brian Roberson +2 more
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Rural Violence and Warfare in Medieval South India
Cracow Indological StudiesThis paper explores the problem of rural violence in medieval South India through a study of hero-stones collected from the districts of lower Karnataka between the 9th and 13th centuries. These documents reveal a world of everyday violence in which the
Daud Ali
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Psychometric properties of the king spiritual intelligence questionnaire (KSIQ) in physical veterans of Iran-Iraq warfare [PDF]
, 2015 Aims: The study's purpose was to determine reliability and validity of the King spiritual intelligence questionnaires in veterans of Iran-Iraq Warfare. Methods: In this cross sectional study, 300 veterans of the Iran-Iraq war completed the King spiritual
Abbaszadeh, A. +8 more
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