Identifying the Fields and Mechanisms of Value Co-creation in Foreign Language Institutions Using Fuzzy DEMATEL Ranking Approach (Case Study: Tehran, Iran) by Seyed Mohammad Sobhani, Morteza Soltani, Mohammad Reza Fathi

“…Results: The findings expressed that value co-creation has five main Fields and 27 Mechanisms (The five main fields' subsets) in Foreign Language Institutions that can substantially contribute to the management board pursuing mutual satisfaction and sense of engagement leading to effective performance in this market of intense and cut-throat rivalry. Conclusion: The findings can be used as a basis for strengthening mechanisms of value co-creation in foreign language institutions.…”
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Strategic Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Deterrence in Russia’s National Security Policy by A. A. Kokoshin

“…In the present context of a sharp aggravation of interstate rivalry and escalation of traditional and new threats, the importance of policy, forces and means of strategic deterrence in ensuring Russia’s national security cannot be overstated. …”
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Projects of the Franco-Swedish Alliance against the Russian State in 1572–1575 by S. M. Ryabov

“…By the mid-1570s, conditions were increasingly favorable for Russia and France to pursue shared interests, highlighting the potential for cooperative engagement over outright rivalry.…”
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Crime and misdeeds amongst certain members of Ragusan communities in medieval Serbia (1400-1459) by Marković Nikola A.

“…The motives of these crimes were usually financial gain or personal reasons such as rivalry. These cases were archived in the Ragusan archive because an independent judiciary was a privilege granted by charters of Serbian rulers. …”
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“POLONIZATION AND “SOVIETIZATION” OF WESTERN BYELORUSSIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ASSIMILATION AND INTEGRATION POLICIES by N. A. Markelov

“…One of the main features of the emerging ethnic conflict in the Polish-Byelorussian borderland in the first half of the XX century, which had significantly influenced its development was the rivalry between two different cultural centers “west-oriented” Warsaw and Moscow as part of a greater “Russian World”. …”
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Strategic triangle ‘Russia — India — China’: Structure and problems of interaction by Xu Zhu

“…At the same time, unlike the Sino-American-Soviet ‘strategic triangle’, it is the logic of cooperation, rather than rivalry, which generally prevails within the framework of the RIC.However, the RIC ‘triangle’ can also be described as an inherently inconsistent system. …”
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History Politics of Belarus: Peripeteias of Evolution by A. M. Ponamareva

“…Amidst the sharp escalation of great-power rivalry on the world stage, almost all spheres of public life are facing increasing politicization and even securitization. …”
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International political aspects of OPEC+ activities in the context of energy diplomacy of Russia and Saudi Arabia before and after the start of the special military operation by A. Yu. Gasparyan, T. A. Melkonyan

“…The growing interstate rivalry sweeps more and more areas of international relations, including energy issues. …”
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Russia-China Relations: An Asymmetrical Partnership? by Sergei Lukonin

“…The scope of cooperation between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China in the scientific and technological sectors is narrowing, although additional incentives for expansion have emerged amid the heightened USChinese strategic rivalry and the crisis between Russia and the West. …”
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Humanitarian aid under sanctions: From the problem statement to the search for solutions by L. D. Oganisyan L.D.

“…In the context of a sharp aggravation of interstate rivalry, an increase in natural disasters and the emergence of new epidemiological challenges, the problem of timely provision of humanitarian assistance to the population of the most affected countries and regions becomes especially acute. …”
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Securitization of China in the NATO discourse in the late 2010s— early 2020s: Towards a global collective identity by Yu. Yu. Melnikova

“…The shift in the perception of the PRC in the NATO’s official discourse took place in the second half of the 2010s — early 2020s and stemmed from the apparent difficulties in asserting the global identity of the alliance and the growing great-power rivalry in the international arena. From this perspective, increasing efforts to securitize the PRC could be ascribed to the continuous evolution of the alliance’s collective identity and the desire of its leaders to close ranks in the face of new strategic challenges. …”
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International Business and the Crisis of Globalization by A. Yu. Borisov

“…The old Marxist dogma and economic determinism that «economics dictates politics» is not valid anymore under the new conditions of strengthening geopolitical rivalry of major world powers and their fighting for supremacy in international politics without due regard for specific business gains or losses. …”
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Official Development Assistance in Japan's Strategy in Central Asia by O. A. Dobrinskaya

“…It is also influenced by external factors, such as US-Japan military alliance and Japan’s geopolitical rivalry with China. At the same time, much of Japan’s efforts are directed at liberal goals such as promoting democracy in the region with Japan being a role model for democratization, supporting modernization and market economy. …”
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Military security in the Arctic: New threats to Russia by V. N. Konyshev, A. A. Sergunin

“…This region has been rapidly losing the status of a ‘zone for peace and cooperation’, turning into an arena of increasingly intense interstate rivalry. The accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO became a landmark event in the evolution of the military and political situation in the Arctic. …”
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Ideea de bine comun și criza sistemelor simbolice de interpretare a lumii în Țiganiada lui Ioan Budai-Deleanu by Mianda Cioba

“…What kind of individuals requires the city in order to prosper, which attributes of human nature – those are very old questions we can retrieve beginning with the medieval dispute between poetry and philosophy, especially in the early European modernity’s complex rivalry between artes and disciplinae, between orators and jurists. …”
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The Belt and Road Initiative and the AIIB: Potential Impact on the Economic Architecture of Asia by Ya. V. Leksyutina

“…The second wave in the development of economic processes in Asia (from 2010 to 2017) was characterized by a ‘soft’ rivalry between the US and China for setting the priority model of economic integration in the region (Trans-Pacific Economic Partnership vs. …”
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Venezuela: Political Confrontation and the World Community by Z. W. Iwanowski, D. M. Rozental

“…The new political landscape has also affected the architecture of integration associations, which failed to develop a unified position toward the Bolivarian regime.Furthermore, in a current heightened state of international tensions Venezuela has turned into a theatre of international rivalry and conflict involving all the key subjects of world politics. …”
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Soviet and British diplomacy at international conferences on the eve of the formation of the USSR by E. Yu. Sergeev

“…As for the outcomes of the diplomatic rivalry between Moscow and London, the author concludes that these conferences provided the parties with an invaluable opportunity to discuss the key issues of bilateral relations and European big politics and can rightfully be considered an important step in the development of the post-war international relations from confrontation to constructive interaction.…”
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E.V. From ‘Greater’ to ‘Global Britain’: The New and the Old in the Foreign Policy of the United Kingdom by E. V. Khakhalkina

“…The author notes that the idea of ‘Greater Britain’, aiming to create a sort of federation that would bring together the metropole and the dominions, emerged as a response to growing centrifugal tendencies within the British Empire and intensification of colonial rivalry between the great powers. The second section outlines the conceptual core of the ‘Global Britain’, which involves expanding the scope of the UK foreign policy opportunities after leaving the European Union by establishing a more active interaction with countries and regions that were once part of the empire. …”
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