Geopolitical competition of great powers in the Arctic by E. S. Karsanova

“…It the author’s view, peaceful rivalry in the Arctic may not last long, given the lack of effective institutions to address security issues in the region and the fact that changes in the global balance of power also affect local disputes and grievances.…”
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Le vertige de la différenciation, tropisme de la pensée stratégique dans le champ du marketing et de la communication ? by Erik Bertin

“…The search for differentiation is central to the strategies and practices in the field of marketing and mass communication. Rivalry is structurally embedded, thus forcing imitation and differentiation into a binding circulatory relationship. …”
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Psychological Features of Police Officers’ Conflict Behavior: Gender Aspect by O. V. Platkovska

“…Women and men according to the “rivalry” scale have a low rate. The highest rate for women according to the method of “Diagnosis of Conflict Resolution Strategies" was on the “adaptation” scale. …”
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British Edition of the Monroe Doctrine versus ‘Com- munist Militarism’: Collisions between the USSR and the UK in Eastern Countries in the mid-1920s by E. Yu. Sergeev

“…This competition for influence over local rulers took a variety of forms: from information and propaganda campaigns to rivalry in the field of infrastructure and logistics projects. …”
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The Azerbaijani Factor in the Clash of the Iranian and Turkish ‘Crescents’: A ‘Geopolitical New Moon’ in the South Caucasus by Mirmehdi M. Aghazada

“…This paper is based on constructive realism, as religious, ideological, and ethnic factors play a special role in the rivalry between Iran and Türkiye in the South Caucasus and the Middle East, along with military, political, and economic factors. …”
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Towards Building New Partnership with Southeast Asia: Japan’s Initiatives and the Challenges Ahead by Mie OBA

“…Japan actively strives to promote regional order under the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) banner to address challenges, such as the escalation of great power rivalry, the increasingly complicated strategic environment due to the Russia–Ukraine war and the Gaza crisis, and the emergence of the “Global South”. …”
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De fureur et de sang by Léa Jaurégui, Jeanne Mathas

“…A focus on the practical use of blood and its metaphorical evocation offers the opportunity for a reinterpretation of the mutations, plurality and rivalry on the Western art scene of the 1970s through the prism of the questioning of gender and denunciations of latent and invisible discrimination. …”
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Les biens communs vécus, une finalité non utilitaire by François Flahault

“…In this essay, the author discusses the notion of « lived common goods. » Lived common goods must answer three criteria : non-rivalry, non-exclusion, and third, being several persons is the condition for these goods to be produced and experienced. …”
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Bouche en cœur, battement de cils et tête à l’envers : rencontres et flirts à Nouakchott (Mauritanie) by Céline Lesourd

“…The analysis of several mixed spaces that are available to the upper classes in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, show that women can be demanding with men and inverse roles: they require presents, attention, patience; they enjoy fuelling male rivalry and one-upmanship. These female manipulations must nonetheless follow certain codes; permanently wavering between private and public, there is a difference between what must be seen and what can be seen, between what can be told and what we must remain untold.…”
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La corrida, un imaginaire national genré au service de la régénération (Espagne, 1895-1923) by David Castro Devesa

“…To do so, this research explores these issues through three relevant examples : the success of a team of women bullfighters, the Noyas; the transsexuality of a bullfighter, the Reverte; and the famous rivalry between two bullfighters, Joselito and Belmonte. …”
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Seductive Snakes and Asexual Angels: Queer Undercurrents in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Desert Sands” by H.J.E. Champion

“…Harriet Prescott Spofford’s 1863 short story “Desert Sands” recounts, at first glance, the jealous rivalry between an artist’s two muses. Yet when one applies a thin layer of turpentine to the top layer of the canvas that makes up the narrative of “Desert Sands,” it becomes clear that there is another, much more unusual, image underneath. …”
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Territory and Governance: the Arab Republic of Egypt between Two Historical Political Actors by Sarah Tonsy

“…Following the 2011 uprising in Egypt, problems linked to state centralization and governance have been demonstrated by the renewal of the political rivalry between the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and Egyptian army. …”
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Evaluation of Vienna’s World Economic Position Based on Global and World City Rankings by Andrea Uszkai

“…Every city tries to reach the most favorable position and this rivalry has helped the birth of several city rankings. …”
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Defense policies selection method based on attack-defense signaling game model by Heng-wei ZHANG, Ding-kun YU, Ji-hong HAN, Jin-dong WANG, Tao LI

“…Currently defense policies selection based on game theory mostly applied either the complete information game model or the static game model.In order to be more in line with the reality of network attack and defense,at-tack-defense behavior was studied by dynamic rivalry and incomplete information.The attack-defense signaling game mode was built,the method to quantify policies was improved and an algorithm to obtain the perfect Bayesian equili-brium was proposed.On the basis of analyzing equilibrium,the algorithm for selecting the optimal defense policy was proposed.The simulation experiment demonstrates that the model and algorithms are feasible and effective.By the expe-rimental data,general rules on signaling attack-defense game are summarized,which can guide defenders of different types to make decisions.…”
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Hedging by the Gaya Confederacy of Korea: Historical Lessons for Contemporary East Asia? by Brendan M HOWE

“…He argues that, like the polities of the Gaya confederacy, contemporary second-tier states in the Asia-Pacific should cooperate closely, with the common objective of navigating the US–China rivalry. By ensuring their survival and prosperity, they can also contribute to the development of a geopolitical environment characterised by “co-existence”.…”
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Le Tigre, le Louvre et l’échange de connaissances archéologiques visuelles entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne aux alentours de 1850 by Mirjam Brusius

“…This essay will re-examine British-Franco relations in the history of archaeology in Mesopotamia against the backdrop of the use and exchange of images, which became the only and major records in a story of rivalry, dependence, loss of objects and control. …”
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Social Cohesion in Ola Rotimi’s Kurunmi: A Resonance of History, Culture and Law by Yemi Atanda

“…This is the kernel of historical narrative used by Ola Rotimi, in constructing his play, Kurunmi, to refect rivalry between the Ibadan warriors and those of Ijaye. …”
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La Donna del Lago de Rossini : première entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’opéra italien by Liliane Lascoux

“…His melodramma adapts Scott’s long poem The Lady of the Lake (1810), a true Scottish epic that describes King James V’s rivalry with both Borderers and Highlanders. The composer’s librettist, Andrea Leone Tottola, bases his dramatisation on a French translation of the poem, simplifies and rewrites the text, as is often customary when adapting literature for the stage, thus modifying characters and highlighting the poem’s love interest. …”
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Os paradigmas concorrenciais do setor de transporte aéreo: uma análise sobre as estratégias da companhia aérea Air France by Ana Paula Camilo Pereira

“…In that sense, it emphasizes the faces overlapped in the competition of airline sector, and with this we aim to demystify the intentionality of strategies that simulate a sector widely coated of rivalry between airlines companies. Thus, there are strategic actions of Air France some factors that define this market currently and represent the guiding elements of a competition organization that occurs around the standards imposed by the process of globalization.…”
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Retour sur un patrimoine parisien méconnu : les espaces de transmission du savoir à l’époque moderne (I). De la maison à l’amphithéâtre by Christian Hottin

“…Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the construction of these buildings had a dual character : on the one hand they demonstrated increasing technical perfection, but at the same time they were also expressions of the rivalry between the two corporations. Several of these places still exist today and deserve more attention for their architectural interest and for the traces they preserve of these institutional conflicts.…”
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