Hugo Chavez : le renouveau du populisme vénézuélien ? by Olivier Folz

“…To approach the problems of populism as a political phenomenon, we chose to take the Latin-American point of view in being interested in the particular case of Venezuela and its President Hugo Chavez. …”
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Piero Calamandrei et la Constitution de 1948 : Calamandrei le juriste contre Piero l’intellectuel by Frédéric Attal

“…This paper studies how Calamandrei stood for a presidential system, inspired of the American Constitution, while most of his political friends, from the Socialist and the Communist Parties supported a traditional parliamentary Constitution. …”
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¿Como una caña en el cañaveral? by Dante Barrientos Tecún, Marie-Christine Seguin

“…Paradoxically, while the sugar production becomes more important for agro-exportation, it “disappears” from literature which takes hold of different urban themes or those related to the political violence instead. However, in the most recent productions of Caribbean poems, an innovation appears in the treatment of this topic that, from the traditions, adapts itself to modern forms of transmission.…”
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Raça, cultura e pertencimento: a emergência da noção de diáspora africana by Cauê Gomes Flor

“…Since the end of the 19th century it was present in the United States, having an important role as a locus of belonging, contributing to the building of solidarities and political agendas of the black American social movements. …”
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International connections of the Ecuadorian Amazonian forest colonization process 1960-1970 by Pablo Campaña

“…During that period poor farmer organizations in several Latin American countries were demanding access to land held by traditional latifundia. …”
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U.S. strategy in Central Asia by V. N. Zemskov

“…In this connection, the author notes that successive governments of the USA, the American political and expert community, business circles traditionally in the last twenty years pay particular attention to this region, bringing to secure the U.S. presence in the region the concept of "Big Central Asia".…”
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CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND PECULIARITGIES OF THE 1987 CONSTITUTION by A. N. Pankov

“…Particular attention is paid to the principles and the specific characteristics of the current constitution of 1987, as well as the constitution of 1935, which was the first basic law, which laid the foundations of western constitutional model and the basic principles characteristic of the constitutions of democratic countries, including progressive for that time legal status of the individual, based on the "Bill of Rights" and directly borrowed from the American constitutional system. The question of the national state of one of the countries in South-East Asia is also analyzed which is of considerable scientific interest in terms of the perception of the Western model of democracy and attempts at planting on alien for these models of socio-economic and political framework. …”
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Exploring Lessons from Soviet Diplomacy and Western Allied Cooperation in World War II by V. O. Pechatnov

“…It also acknowledges dissenting voices in Anglo-American political spheres who advocated for a more equitable relationship with the USSR. …”
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The Crisis of US-centric Globalization: Causes, Trends and Scenarios of Development by A. A. Kasantzev, V. M. Sergeev

“…Traditionally the processes of globalization and the issues of world politics related to hegemony are studied separately in the scientific literature. …”
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Counterweight cities in South America as an answer to unitarian centralism: Santa Cruz, Guayaquil and Concepcion by Esteban Valenzuela-Van Treek, Claudia Vaca

“…This article introduces the concept of “counterweight cities” to describe towns that are able to generate an endogenous development process and promote decentralization in traditionally centralist states. This role is accompanied by the prevalence of federalist or autonomist thinking, supported in a local political organization able to inspire changes in the relationships between the different regions within the country. …”
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Baldwin, l’homotextualité et les identités plurielles : une rencontre à l’avant-garde by Jean-Paul Rocchi

“…On the one hand, focusing more particularly on the interplay of identifications between the individual and the American community in Giovanni’s Room and on the other hand between the reader and the writer in “Notes of a Native Son”, this essay explores Baldwin’s major themes such as memory, homotextuality, the writer’s political philosophy, his ethics of inclusion and his position as an outsider. …”
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Intrusion et exclusion dans les romans politiques de Trollope by Laurent Bury

“…The Victorian « sense of belonging » is studied in Anthony Trollope’s last two Political novels. The Prime Minister (1876) offers a perfect illustration of the traditional pattern Intrusion-Exclusion : a social climber tries to creep into the upper classes but his star soon pales, which eventually leads him to suicide. …”
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The EU Public Diplomacy in the United States under the D. Trump Administration: Challenges, Key Projects and Outcomes by A. N. Marchukov

“…Trump administration forced the EU to focus on non-traditional channels of interacting with the American audience. …”
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Space and territory from an anthropological perspective. The case of the Purhépechas of Nurío and Michoacán in Mexico by Álvaro Bello

“…To do this it attempts to review the traditional perspectives which link territory,political practice and ethnicity in indigenous contexts. …”
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Foreign policy of A.M. López Obrador: Declarations and reality by V. L. Jeifets

“…., relations with the United States and Latin American countries, particularly in the context of the Venezuelan and Bolivian crises, as well as the Central American migration crisis) and to weigh it up against traditional patterns of Mexico’s foreign policy behavior, as well as to assess its overall feasibility. …”
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Do not Just Blame the Gun: The Midwestern Insight into the Relationship between Gun Laws and Firearm Mortality by Martin Zilvar

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Latin America in the 21st Century: Regional Development Trajectories by D. A. Kuznetsov

“…The latter, stemming from traditional economic social and political differentiation and ideological polarization, in the modern context strengthens regional contradictions and creates new division lines. …”
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Role of the Arab League in Structuring the Arab Regional Space by E. S. Melkumyan

“…The gradual transition of the Arab League to the search for a political settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict was influenced by the emergence of a new balance of power in the Middle East region, as well as the gradual transformations of a new system of international relations.The further demarcation of the Arab countries that occurred after the mass protests in 2011 influenced the activities of the Arab League, which tried to maintain Arab unity by using the traditional tool – the unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict. …”
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Justification for Interference? The Role of the Monroe Doctrine in the Stigmatization and Legitimation of Intervention in the US Foreign Policy in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries by I. A. Istomin

“…It is shown that the appeal to national interests suitable for solving the problems of domestic political legitimization, turns out to be ineffective in justifying interventions in the eyes of the international community and therefore gives way to references to established traditions and historical narratives. …”
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