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Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 123-142, March 2026.The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
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Neo‐Slavery as Instrumentalization: Amazon, Surrogate Motherhood, and Mobile Phones
Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 97-105, March 2026.ABSTRACT Despite being perceived as a remnant of the past, slavery persists in today's increasingly economized and biopoliticized world. To thematize the actuality of slavery, we initially return to Aristotle's discussion/justification of slavery as instrumentalization of human beings. Then we revisit Plato's allegory of the cave through three distinct
Bülent Diken +2 more
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The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 1, Page 88-124, January 2026.What makes a right fundamental, and how does it achieve this status? This article critically examines these questions through a detailed analysis of the 2022 amendment to the 1998 ILO Declaration, which recognised the right to a safe and healthy working environment as a fifth fundamental right.
Ioannis Katsaroumpas, Maria Kotsoni
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Tibrone, un armosta poco intraprendente? Note su uno spartano in Asia
Erga-Logoi, 2022 This paper focuses on the Spartan harmost Thibron, who led two expeditions to Asia in the first decade of the 4th century. It aims both to reconstruct the historical events, which are set in a context in which Sparta’s political action is characterised ...
Paolo A. Tuci
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Is there really a dictator's dilemma? Information and repression in autocracy
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 1, Page 381-395, January 2026.Abstract In his seminal work on the political economy of dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe posited the existence of a “dictator's dilemma,” in which repression leaves an autocrat less secure by reducing information about discontent. We explore the nature and resolution of this dilemma with a formalization that builds on recent work in the political economy
Scott Gehlbach +3 more
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Senofonte, Ciropedia: Ciro bambino e adolescente
PeithoIn the last decades the Cyropaedia enjoyed a renewed interest, mostly addressed to the controversial character of Cyrus, exemplary leader or susceptible to a dark reading. However the character of Cyrus as a child and adolescent, who appears in Cyr. 1.3-
Fiorenza Bevilacqua
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Xenophon und die spartanische Nauarchie
Historika : Studi di Storia Greca e Romana, 2016 Xenophon generally considered Sparta to have been a well organized, ideal city-state, which fact he attributed to the presumed lawgiver Lycurgus. By contrast, he saw the Sparta of his own time as having gone awry in several ways, especially due to the ...
Lukas Thommen
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Xenophon’s political philosophy: a project for the whole of Greece
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2018 [full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] This paper discusses Xenophon’s political philosophy and its Greek context. One of the major themes running through Xenophon’s works is leadership, which he tackles implicitly or explicitly ...
Alius Jaskelevičius
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Exploring the importance of aromatic plants' extrafloral volatiles for pollinator attraction
New Phytologist, Volume 248, Issue 2, Page 517-528, October 2025.Summary Aromatic plants occur in many plant lineages and have widespread ethnobiological significance. Yet, the ecological significance and evolutionary origins of aromatic volatile emissions remain uncertain. Aromatic emissions have been implicated in defensive interactions but may also have other important functions.
Aphrodite Kantsa +3 more
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