Questioning Multilateralism: Conceptual Re-Evaluation and the Decline in the Western Multilateral Order by Tamer Kaşıkçı

“…This situation aggravates doubts about the future of the WMO and the development of alternative international order scenarios both in academic and political communities. This study aims to develop a theoretical conceptual basis for understanding the crisis in question. …”
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Cicatrius que cremen by Joan Pubill Brugués

“… Amb abundants fonts dels Archives Nationales de París, aquest text tracta, a partir del cas del Faisceau, la relació de l'emergència del feixisme francès i del veterà de guerra com un subjecte polític tenint en compte tres eixos. Primerament, que el projecte feixista forma part d'un espai contrarevolucionari que, des de la victòria del Cartel, va intentar organitzar políticament els excombatents. …”
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EU-Compatible State Measures and Member States Interests in Public Services: Lessons from the Case of Hungary by Tamás M. Horváth, Ildikó Bartha

“…The result shows that the market of public utility services has already been influenced by direct political considerations. Our findings indicate that these understandings for legitimate influence on EU market rules can also be derived from the legal framework itself. …”
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La cooperación Sur-Sur y el reto de su cuantificación, evaluación y valoración by Huitron, A.

“…It is an expression of the new role that emerging economies of the world embody in the ensemble of the International transactions and in the generation of dynamic poles of political and economic power. However, and even if for some experts of SSC it has consolidated as a cooperation mechanism, it still faces relevant challenges in order to recognize its potentials and its benefits. …”
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Investigating and Analyzing the Formation and Evolution of Songhor City in Islamic Periods by Mehran Motamedi, Zarin Fakhar

“…The results show that Songhor city is based on fundamental elements such as: the mosque, government building, monuments, traditional market, neighborhoods and city fence which during Islamic history are related to specific hierarchy in relation to social, economic needs. Religious, political and city fix they did. The presence of these elements in the city has made historical references to the city of Songhor with the names such as "Velayat and Fence", "Mahal", "Alkai" and "Qasaba".…”
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Informing immigrant voters: Chinese-language media in New Zealand election campaigns, 2008–2020 by Kate McMillan, Fiona Barker, Caleb Hoyle

“…We find a strong relationship between incumbency and the amount of coverage received by leaders and other candidates of major political parties, although the incumbency benefit is stronger for the centre-right than for the centre-left. …”
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Meritocracy in Public Sector Governance: Challenges And Policy Solutions in Ogan Komering Ulu by Septiana Dwiputrianti, Aditya Bima Hendra Utama, Teni Listiani, Abdul Rahman

“…Findings indicate that despite efforts to establish fair and competency-based management, several challenges persist, such as limited resources, political influence, and gaps in stakeholders' understanding. …”
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Current determinants of the national accounting system transformation in Iraq by K.S.A. Ahmed, A. K. Musaelyan, M. V. Krasnoplakhtich

“…Historically, Iraq’s accounting system has been shaped by cultural traditions, religion, economic development and political trends over a long period, from ancient times to the present. …”
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Strengths and weaknesses of European integration for the Republic of Serbia by Đurović Mihajlo, Božović Ivan, Dramićanin Sandra

“…European integration represents the process through which European states are connected through legal, social, political, industrial, economic, and cultural associations. …”
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Trend Analysis of Pakistan Railways Based on Industry Life Cycle Theory by Li Xuemei, Khalid Mehmood Alam, Shitong Wang

“…The main reasons behind the decline were underinvestment, political interference, and the rise of the same-sector competitor, the National Logistics Cell (NLC). …”
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Tendencies of Development of Foreign Investment in the World Market of Services of the Industrial Construction by E. N. Smirnov

“…It is caused by a complex of historical, economic, geographical, cultural and political factors and regularities. However progressive approaches of developed countries to forming of the national innovative systems (NIS) are also important from the point of view of their use for the solution of the same problems in Russia. …”
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Periconceptional Folate Deficiency and Implications in Neural Tube Defects by J. Safi, L. Joyeux, G. E. Chalouhi

“…Since strategies to modify women’s dietary habits and vitamin use have achieved little progress, scientific as well as political effort is mandatory in order to implement global preventive public health strategies aimed at improving the alimentation of women in reproductive age, especially folic acid supplementation. …”
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A Review of Toyin Falọla. Cultural Modernity in a Colonized World: The Writings of Chief Isaac Oluwole Delanọ. Pan-African University Press, 2020, 739 pages. Toyin Falọla and Micha... by Bọla Dauda

“…He was the first Administrative Secretary of the Ẹgbẹ Ọmọ Oduduwa, a cultural organization that became a political party in Nigeria at the dawn of Nigeria’s independence in the 1950s. …”
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L’Espagne et la bataille de l’opinion internationale. Agences de presse, tourisme et réseaux de propagande sous la dictature du général Primo de Rivera : le cas de l’Agence Plus Ul... by David Marcilhacy

“…In this respect, the dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera marked an unprecedented rise in the control of the media and political communication. Based on a study of the archives of the Spanish and French Ministries of Foreign Affairs, this paper will reflect on the propaganda networks developed abroad, in three directions: the strategies of influence deployed towards the foreign media, particularly through the role of embassies; the control of information flows through a national press agency created for this purpose –the Agence Plus Ultra; and the gradual diversification of propaganda vectors, particularly through the promotion of tourism. …”
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Does the Strasbourg European Court protect all human rights equally? by Javier Borego Borego

“…The author then develops his argument by utilizing the format of a play, metaphorically titled  'Abdi Ibrahim v Norway', as a case study illustrating the impact of Islam on Europe , political correctness and social unrest. …”
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FOUR CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING THE SOCIALLY MARGINAL IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY REFLECTED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT by I.C. Berg

“… The social dynamics of the world of early Christianity is characterised by the limit of upward mobility and social disparity between classes in terms of access to both material resources such as lands and funds and nonmaterial resources such as honour and political power. This phenomenon was endemic throughout the imperial Roman world, which was the immediate sociopolitical context of early Christianity. …”
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Anti-Russian Sanctions in Global Economic Warfare by A. S. Lebedev

“…The author puts forward a hypothesis according to which the real purpose of the anti-Russian sanctions imposed after the start of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine is not to change the foreign policy of the Russian Federation but to weaken the country as much as possible by causing economic damage to it and destabilizing the domestic political situation. Under these conditions, it is reasonable to consider sanctions as an "economic war," which raises the question of the goals of such a war, the choice of optimal methods for its conduct, and ways to minimize damage to the national economy. …”
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İnönü Muharebelerinin İç Kamuoyuna Yansımaları by İbrahim TAVUKÇU

“…The First Battle of İnönü started at a critical phase in which the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) was fighting a war of life and death against internal political and military opponents. The rebellion of Circassian Ethem and the Greek offensive developed together. …”
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Rating Agencies in Russia and their Influence on Subfederal Borrowing by O. I. Larina, N. V. Moryzhenkova

“…The article results in the conclusion that ratings of the international agencies are not always unbiased politically, not economically, which negatively affects the development of the debt market as a whole and the market of subfederal and municipal bonds, in particular. …”
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Сталинская премия по литературе. Институциональное измерение эстетики социалистического реализма (1940-1950-е годы)... by Dmitry Tsyganov

“…Using a wide range of factual material, it is shown that in the 1940s and early 1950s the institution of the prize in the minds of Stalinist functionaries also began to be perceived as one of the main instruments for structuring the world political space. Along with the analysis of archival materials of the Committee for the Stalin Prizes in Literature and Arts (Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, f. 2073) and materials of the Committee for the International Stalin Prizes (State Archive of the Russian Federation, f. 9522), we also draw on materials from the fonds of various organisations and bodies, as well as periodicals of those years, published memoirs, diary/memoirs and other materials available to us. …”
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