Towards sovereign international rela- tions studies? Book review of ‘Liberal values in theory and practice. On the issues of intellectual decolonization of Russia’ by L.S. Voronkov... by V. V. Kochetkov

“…It also highlights the political and economic contradictions inherent to the liberal democratic model of social development, propagated by the countries of the ‘collective West’ in order to maintain their own dominance in the system of international relations. …”
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Metatheory and Classification of Digital Human Rights and Freedoms by G. V. Alexeyev

“…The theory of individual freedom and legal equality, when faced with computer information processing algorithms, gives rise to paradoxes and oxymorons. The obvious contradictions in the moralism of the virtual world and real justice are complemented by the paradoxical conclusions of lawyers about the legal personality of robots with artificial intelligence and the similarity of the laws for the real world and cyberspace. …”
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EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM MANAGEMENT: STATUS, TRENDS, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS by V. P. Panasyuk

“…Negative tendencies and contradictions in modern management of education and educational systems, including problems of differentiation of the rights, competences and powers of bodies of various levels of management are revealed. …”
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Relationship Between Participative Decision-Making Within an Organization and Employees’ Cognitive Flexibility, Creativity, and Voice Behavior by Sun-Hee Kwon, Jeong-Sik Kim

“…This study addresses this gap by investigating the impact of participative decision-making on employees’ cognitive flexibility, creativity, and voice behavior. Specific contradictions and gaps in prior research are highlighted, particularly the limited understanding of how these variables interact. …”
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Embracing Plural Curricula Amid Neoliberalism in Contemporary Universities in Africa: Asante’s Afrocentric Idea Revisited by Phefumula Nyoni, Otilia Chiramba

“…The individualist-oriented complications posed by neoliberal ideals that tend to contradict and, in some instances, hinder the Afrocentric core principle of inclusivity have left African universities at a crossroads with little to show in terms of progress in the transformation agenda.  …”
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On third space and critical paralysis by Steven White

“…However, inspired (in a bad way) by ‘mystical Marxist’ Soja’s ‘startlingly arcane’ definition of Thirdspace, I argue that aspects of critical theory or critical social justice orientations to LD can lead to contradictions or even paralysis in attempts to actually use the considerable empirical insights provided by Whitchurch, and the metaphor of third space more broadly, to inform practice. …”
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THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL BASIS OF THE ORGANIZATION OF INDEPENDENT WORK OF BACHELORS (DIRECTION "STATE AND MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT") by Maksim N. Gordeev

“…Using the analysis of the theoretical basis of research, the contradictions arising from the organization of independent work were formulated, and the directions of the design of the educational process were singled out. …”
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Key factors in dynamics of Russia’s coal export to Europe during the sanctions period in the context of the EU green agenda by A. O. Rudneva

“…The relevance of the green energy transition in the EU and its contradictions in the context of coal import growth in Europe in 2021–2022 have been determined. …”
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La biodiversité, une ressource, mais aussi un fardeau ? Intérêt et limites des notions de services et disservices écosystémiques pour repenser les interactions nature-sociétés dans... by Julien Blanco, Clémence Moreau, Chloé Guerbois, Cécile Barnaud, Pierre-Cyril Renaud, Marc Deconchat, Émilie Andrieu

“…This concept also enriches the understanding of stakeholders’ positions and governance issues, for example in revealing contradictions and side effects of certain environmental policies. …”
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Liquid Regionalism in Latin America: The Institutional and Trade Dynamics of the Latin American Integration Association by M. E. Morales-Fajardo

“…The intergovernmental regionalism model underpinning LAIA has failed to progress toward the establishment of a free trade area, contradicting the objectives outlined in the Treaty of Montevideo.…”
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Book Review of the Women in the Legislation Arena in Iran (1285-1395) by Alireza MollayeeTavani, Sareh Asgari

“…The main content-based shortcomings are as follow: inconsistency of title with content, the loss of the first- handed references such as documents, extended negotiations, periodicals, memories, formal reports, and simultaneous historiography, ignoring other events and variables leading to the suffrage of women in the span of 57 years, missing to analyze some events and delivering very hurried, a superficial and skimming overview of the many of influential events and opinions, as well as proposing some contradicted demonstrations. Considering all the formal and content-based aspects of this book, it could be concluded that the book, despite its pompous title, has failed to sketch out an accurate account of events leading to the suffrage of women.…”
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L’Observatoire photographique national du paysage : transformations d’un modèle et hypothèses renouvelées de paysage by Frédérique Mocquet

“…A question arises concerning the possible reassessment of this approach after 25 years: Might not the “the OPNP heritage” be the continuation of an experimental programme the contributions, ambivalences, shortcomings and contradictions of which need to be re-examined today? …”
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The African Nationalist Idea of Africa by Tlhabane Mokhine Dan Motaung

“…However, these African modernisers failed to grasp the historicity of such enduringly baneful identity politics, and were thereby often themselves cast into the vortex of social contradictions reflective of this history. Mamdani made this observation when he stated that in kick-starting the nation-building project after independence, post-colonial elites turned their backs on the history of colonialism and thus on their own history. …”
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The End of the Old France. <i>Book Review of ‘From Triumph to Disaster: Political and Military Defeat of France in 1940 and Its Origins’ by A.A. Vershinin and N.N. Naumova</i> by V. Sergienko-Soler

“…They show instead that it was caused by a complex of factors: instability of the Third Republic’s regime, contradictions between political parties, strategic miscalculations of the military and politicians. …”
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Hindutva as a factor of unification and confrontation in Indian society by Olga L. Solodkova, Mariia S. Antasheva

“…Demonstrating heterogeneity of Hindutva perception in the Indian society, the authors identify the major contradictions of the BJP historical policy and its impact on the outcome of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. …”
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Legal regulation of the activities of the reviewing police personnel commissions of the USSR in the 20-s of the XX century by S. V. Vasyliev

“…It has been concluded that the activity of the commissions for reviewing the personnel of the police contradicted the legislative and by-laws in force at the time, which regulated the service and labour relations of the police officers.…”
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The Tao of Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Toward a Unified Theory of Tissue Regeneration by Kevin D. Bunting, Robert G. Hawley

“…These surprising findings contradict the dogma that adult stem cells are developmentally restricted. …”
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FEATURES OF PRE-ROMAN HISTORY OF SPAIN AND MODERN TIME: WHERE ARE SOURCES OF SEPARATISM? by A. A. Orlov

“…However the world economic crisis which has begun in 2008 destroyed the Spanish idyll, having aggravated old and having generated new contradictions. Traditionally painful problem for Spain was existence of centrifugal tendencies at the heart of which two main reasons lay: manifestations of the nationalism peculiar to those areas where Catalan, Basque and Galician nationalities historically lived, and a regionalism caused by aspiration of local elite to bigger distance from Madrid. …”
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Amplification of factors of regional markets transformations in the context of generation theory by R. S. Blizkiy, E. A. Divaeva

“…The purpose of the study is to determine the content of regional markets meaning on the basis of the analysis of Russian regional markets regularities of transformations and corresponding regional specifics, to develop a process-role model considering existing paradigms of regional economy, realizing the dilemma of contradictions of consumers generations, business and state in the demands, values, and space of the market, entailing causal relationship of amplification of Russian markets transformation factors. …”
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Protected Areas in the Slovak Carpathians as a Contested Resource Between Metropolitan and Mountain Stakeholders by Heino Meessen, Juraj Švajda, Thomas Kohler, Vladimíra Fabriciusová, Dobromil Galvánek, Miroslav Buraľ, Marcela Káčerová, Ján Kadlečík

“…In this paper, we discuss current challenges of LPA management with a particular focus on contradictions between local people’s views and nationally to internationally determined sectoral planning strategies. …”
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