Ecological movement in Baltic republics in the years of perestroika by A. K. Potapov

“…The aim of the paper is to analysis of the use of the environmental agenda to develop political national opposition in the Soviet Baltic republics during the years of perestroika. …”
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Flood Prevention and Maximised Wood Production at the Same Time: Sustainable Forestry in the Swiss Nineteenth Century by Martin Stuber

“…The argument of using sustainable forestry to meet future wood shortages only gained political clout in combination with flood prevention, which linked the intergenerational perspective of future wood needs with the acute disaster threat of the present. …”
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Vectors of Violence: Legitimation and Distribution of State Power in the _People’s Liberation Army Daily_ (_Jiefangjun Bao_), 1956-1989 by Aaron Gilkison, Maciej Kurzynski

“…One of the few major periodicals that continued publication during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the journal has received relatively scant attention from scholars, except for political science studies devoted to the PRC propaganda system. …”
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“We can and we must”: The scientificity of trade-union history-writing in the Soviet Union in the 1920s by Roman Gilmintinov

“…Instead of engaging with professional historians, the new regime initiated a whole range of large-scale participatory projects incorporated into political and public institutions to produce new, revolutionary history. …”
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Analysis of the Short-Term and Long-Term Impacts of the Coronavirus Crisis on International Climate Policy by Manuel Andreas Knoll, Zehra Aşkınsena İlkılıç

“…Climate policy in particular has been significantly influenced and lost importance on the political agendas of states after the outbreak. Over time, the coronavirus will either disappear or lose its initial impact due to medical measures. …”
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Sculpture, sculpteurs et ateliers (?) à Chambéry et alentour (vers 1480-v. 1530) by Laurence Riviere Ciavaldini

“…The commissioners of these works could be the officers of the ducal administration, living in Chambéry and the surrounding area, the city still being the administrative and political capital of the duchy of Savoy.…”
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The “construction” of the Greek landscape in the Hellenistic era by Iliopoulou Filio

“…In recognition of the importance of landscape as a crucial factor in the birth and evolution of civilizations, the current on-going doctorate thesis examines the way the Greek landscape was constructed - if at all - in the Hellenistic era, claiming that its design was based on certain architectural principles which reflect the political and social values of that historical period. …”
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Entropic «Virus» of Democracy Энтропийный «вирус» демократии Ентропійний «вірус» демократії by V. V. Khmel

“…The article deals with the social and philosophical analysis of democracy as an element of holistic social being in contrast to its political and instrumental interpretation in politology research. …”
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Borders of Wealth and Poverty: Ideas Stimulated by Comparing the Mediterranean and U.S.-Mexico Borders by Josiah Heyman, Natalia Ribas-Mateos

“…Borders require not just a political analysis, but also attention to capital. …”
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Tutti i colori del verde. Il ruolo del verde urbano nei processi di cittadinanza nella città di Bolzano by Roberta Raffaetà

“…Through an ethnographic approach (part of a interdisciplinary project), the article illustrates how the way in which people in Bolzano make sense and use the urban green is the result of historically stratified influences that are entangled to contemporary reinterpretations made on the basis of actual socio-political challenges. The ethnography suggests that plants and parks are not simply a background to human affairs, rather, these participate to human undertakings with their specific spacetime. …”
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La guerre et le canon by Michel Matly

“…It shows collective perceptions that are different according to countries and evolve over time, comparable to those identified by the conflict’s memory specialists using other sources such as political speeches, novels or films. This validates comics as pertinent sources for historians or sociologists, but also put our own representation of the war into perspective, as not more than the look of “here and today”. …”
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Self-Organized Criticality on Twitter: Phenomenological Theory and Empirical Investigation Based on Data Analysis Results by Andrey Dmitriev, Victor Dmitriev, Stepan Balybin

“…Typical examples of such events are political elections and protest movements. Inspired by this phenomenon, we built a phenomenological model that describes Twitter’s self-organization in a critical state. …”
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De la rue Copernic au Quai d’Orsay : regards croisés sur la prise en charge des réfugiés espagnols en France (1945-1960) by Mélanie Trédez-Lopez

“…On the basis of an archives research at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (ofpra), we will consider a cross-analysis of respective archives with a multifaceted approach: political, diplomatic, legal and administrative.This study also examines the French legal basis, the French-Spanish bilateral treaties (Jordana-Bérard Agreements) and the major international conventions on the protection of human rights.…”
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An Application of Subgroup Discovery Algorithm on the Case of Decentralization and Quality of Governance in EU by Lan Umek

“…The degree of decentralization is measured from a fiscal and political point of view, and the quality of governance by multiple indicators and citizen opinions. …”
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President Bolsonaro’s Promises and Actions on Corruption Control by Paul Lagunes, Gregory Michener, Fernanda Odilla, Breno Pires

“…However, it is worth cautioning that anticorruption as a rhetorical device has been a near-permanent feature of the Brazilian political landscape. In this article, we seek to compare Bolsonaro’s campaign promises with his early actions as president. …”
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”Kyrkan förvaltar, äger 460 000 hektar av skapelsen” by Laila Jannok Björnström, Julia Kuhlin

“…Reconciliation, according to this model, includes critical reflection, symbolic and material recognition, as well as political participation. The analysis shows that the Sámi representatives expressed that all elements were needed for reconciliation to be reached. …”
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The Illusion of Power or Relentless Reality? Ceremonial and Ritual Practices at the Court of Moscow in the Middle of the 17th Century through the Eyes of the Imperial Diplomats by Monika Konrádová, Rostisalv Smíšek

“…Furthermore, how there were reflected particular means of visualisation of the political status of the Habsburg representatives on the one hand and of the Russian head of state and his councellors and advisers on the other hand. …”
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Peculiarities of the influence of the electoral properties of candidates on voting behavior of voters by I. V. Groshev, A. V. Gorbenko, I. V. Antonenko, V. N. Voronin

“…The author’s defi tion of electoral candidate properties, including objective-personal and socio-political attributes through subjective reflection electorate gradually form a holistic perception of the candidate, thereby defining his image in the mind of the voter, which is the end product of the electoral impact of candidate properties for the target audience during campaigning has be given.…”
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Biopolitics in critical tourism theory: a radical critique of critique by Rodanthi Tzanelli

“…After a brief genealogical account of the concept in political philosophy, it follows its transposition and its thematic applications in tourism theory and practice. …”
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Utopie – ostalgie – nostalgie : aller-retour en ex-RDA by Marina Chauliac

“…The nostalgia of GDR from a political perspective represents another relationship with the past : it is not any more «nostalgia without memory», nor nostalgia as a reaction of all current inequality, but a «retrogressive Utopia», according to the terms of Jean Séguy, to be understood as a reversed form of a projection in future.…”
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