Military Deterrence vs Foreign Interference? Record of the Cold War by I. A. Istomin

“…It differs from them, as covert operations produce an existential danger to the political leaders of a target state, inciting overreaction on their behalf. …”
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Digital society: theoretical outlines of the emerging paradigm by Yu. A. Chernavin

“…Its elements in the course of interaction give rise to digital formal and informal institutions in the economy, politics, culture, and social life; form a new structural element of society – the digital information sphere; develop into a whole as a digital society. …”
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Effect of COVID-19 on the cultural identity of the Amazonian indigenous Waorani by Aldrin Espín-León, María Luisa Pertegal-Felices, Antonio Jimeno-Morenilla, Juan Guzmán-Montalvo

“…The results show that the cultural identity of the Waorani indigenous people has remained largely unchanged from the first measurement in 2017 to the second measurement after the pandemic in 2022 across most variables (economic, production, property, and land cultivation; family, reproduction, education, childcare, and medicine; organization, community politics, and justice; social, music, art, food, clothing, and housing). …”
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Sex, Gore and Provocation: the Influence of Exploitation in John Waters’s Early Films by Elise Pereira Nunes

“…Many exploitation filmmakers have had a strong impact on the filmmaker’s aesthetics and politics—among them, American filmmaker Russ Meyer, a master of sexploitation, whose strong female characters inspired the creation of Waters’s lead female heroines embodied by American drag queen Divine. …”
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A Science of Diplomacy by T. V. Zonova

“…One of the first significant studies of diplomacy as a political institution was the work by Tatiana Zonova "A Modern Model of Diplomacy. …”
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The Korean Peninsula as a Hotbed of Cold War 2.0 by R. R. Kalinin

“…Ambiguous and vague as it is, it may nevertheless be instrumental for the study of certain aspects of contemporary world politics. In particular, it allows one to consider the developments of the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue (KPNI) within the broader framework of emerging US-China confrontation. …”
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WORLD REGIONAL STUDIES AS A RESEARCH FRAMEWORK AND ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE by E. V. Koldunova

“…Vullers from German Institute of Global and Area Studies analyzing in 2014 three leading International Relations journals (International Organization, World Politics, European Journal of International Relations) diagnosed a serious geographic imbalance in the international studies, which meant a very limited number of articles based on the nonWestern empirical data.Even with such geographic imbalance in IR studies more important for preserving eurocentrism there was the absence of non-Western IR theories or IR theories originating from non-Western political context. …”
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Falling in the Midst of Crisis: The Collapse of the Mangkunegaran Autonomous Government in the Social Revolution Era, 1945-1946 by Fauzan Syahru Ramadhan, Alamsyah Alamsyah, Haryono Rinardi

“…They struggled to uphold the traditional politics and economy of the palace, which had endured for centuries and had been passed down through generations.…”
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Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: Can linguistic and semiotic analysis clarify their contrasts? by William J. Sullivan, Sarah Tsiang

“…Yet they share the fundamental dogmas laid down by the first ecumenical councils. History and politics are entwined in the disputes since the Great Schism of 1054, but even earlier there was controversy over basic dogmatic questions and other doctrinal matters. …”
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Russia and the West: Contradictory Dialogue by T. V. Zonova, A. Giannotti

“…Given the current militarization and securitization of world politics, strategic stability, which is highly dependent on relations between Russia and the West, is being called into question. …”
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Innovative Application of Nano-Organic Photochromic New Materials in Hakka Traditional Decorative Pattern Design by HuiJuan Lai

“…Hakka traditional decorative patterns are the epitome of local life and production customs, politics and economy, culture and art and other history and culture. …”
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„L’ uomo nuovo” nei testi di Virginie Despentes e Sandro Veronesi by Magdalena Lange-Henszke

“…Religion, philosophy, politics, literature, art, science perceive the new man as a perfect individual, a hero or a charismatic leader of a new humanity, liberated from all evil. …”
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Foreign Policy of Russia: ‘Soft Power’ of the Regions by S. P. Arteev

“…The paper starts with a general overview of the specifi c features of sub-state/sub-national actors in the world politics. In particular, the author emphasizes that these actors are synthetic by nature, which predetermines their particular role on the international scene, as they can use policy instruments specifi c to both state and non-state actors. …”
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International Organizations: the Main Factors of Emergence and Development by L. S. Voronkov

“…The article presents the main factors that in later stages of internationalization and development of contemporary international relations gave the impetus to emergence and development of international organizations, including the military-technological revolution, that gave birth to mass destruction weapons and avalanche-like growth of the number of human and material losses during wars and military conflicts, the Cold War between world communism and world capitalism, the collapse of the colonial system and formation ofa new main contradiction of the world politics between the "Club of rich countries" and states of the "global periphery", beginning of development of regional integration processes and, finally, the emergence of global problems. …”
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University as a City and University as a State: Methodological Tools of William Clark by V. K. Pichugina, Z. A. Lurie

“…Clark describes a scholar not in three spatial coordinates (of which he talks in the introduction), but in four: religion, politics, economics, and state/city. The last allows Clark to mark universities that accept or reject certain methods of transferring academic charisma on the educational landscape of the city. …”
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Navigating the energy transition: Interplay of geopolitics, economic complexity, and environmental governance in OECD countries by Linhui Wu, Saddam Hussain

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From Loan Sharks to Commercial Banks: Moral Crusades and the Segmentation of the Credit Market in the United States, 1900-1945 by Simon Bittmann

“…Our theoretical framework thus tries to bridge the gap between the sociological study of economic transactions, practices and contracts and the political-cultural approach of markets as politics, a separation often criticized by French and American sociologists alike.…”
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Business culture of entrepreneurship: Analysis of maturity in Ukraine and Russia by Larysa Ligonenko

“…To conduct a comparative study of the maturity of the business culture of entrepreneurship, an evaluation system was formed, which includes 21 evaluation objects, grouped into 4 components: 1) basic values (independence, security, equality); 2) ethical values (justification (perception) of unjust enrichment, appropriation of property, violence); 3) personal values (importance of family, friends, work, free time, politics); 4) economic values (recognition of the possibility of obtaining high entrepreneurial income and business development based on hard work, understanding the positives of the development of competition; giving priority to the development of private property over the state, personal economic responsibility over social dependence). …”
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A human capability approach to transformative innovation policy. Theoretical insights and practical implications for directionality by Alejandra Boni, Diana Velasco, Bipashyee Ghosh

“…“Responsibility and the hidden politics of directionality: opening up ‘innovation democracies’ for sustainability transformations.” …”
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At the Turn of the Nuclear Ages: Strategic Stability and Contours of a New World Order by V. A. Veselov

“…All these factors combined form a backbone of military and political interactions between the leading powers within the emerging world order.…”
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