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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,504 Views
14 Pages

2 August 2022

Thirty years after the seminal UN conference on environment and development, where the global agenda for sustainable development was agreed upon by the international community, uncountable initiatives in public policy, business and civil society have...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,851 Views
13 Pages

31 August 2016

Many of the elements that have traditionally supported state level normative self-organization, most notably territory, are being actively undermined by rising sea levels, flooding, desertification, amongst other climate change effects. As more and m...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,098 Views
29 Pages

4 October 2024

This article explores how decentralized Web3 is reshaping Internet governance by enabling the emergence of new forms of nation-statehood and redefining traditional concepts of state sovereignty. Based on fieldwork conducted in Silicon Valley since Au...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,284 Views
21 Pages

10 January 2022

Legal feminist theories have troubled dominant conceptions of statehood, revealing the threat of the ‘Other’ as integral to the hegemonic masculinity of powerful states. In this paper I provide a critical gendered discourse analysis of th...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,141 Views
15 Pages

7 February 2019

Humanitarian and development organizations working in conflict-affected settings have a particular responsibility to do no harm and contribute to the wellbeing of the population without bias. The highly complex, politicized realities of work in confl...

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  • Open Access
82 Citations
17,741 Views
22 Pages

Challenges and Strategies in Place-Based Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Sustainability: Learning from Experiences in the Global South

  • Bárbara Ayala-Orozco,
  • Julieta A. Rosell,
  • Juliana Merçon,
  • Isabel Bueno,
  • Gerardo Alatorre-Frenk,
  • Alfonso Langle-Flores and
  • Anaid Lobato

8 September 2018

Addressing complex environmental problems requires the collaboration of stakeholders with divergent perspectives, a goal that is challenged by diverse factors. Challenges hindering multi-stakeholder collaboration (MSC) for sustainability have previou...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,060 Views
17 Pages

11 September 2023

The definition and analysis of disadvantaged neighborhoods have been rethought in recent years, with the goal of trying to surpass the monolithic identification of all marginal neighborhoods and move towards an analysis of the social, urban, and nati...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,222 Views
21 Pages

30 May 2023

Complexity theory provides a path toward understanding the development of ancient Andean societal progress from early settlements to later high population states. The use of modern hydraulic engineering methods to develop an understanding of the tech...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,312 Views
27 Pages

7 March 2023

The article first focuses on the significance of the Cathedral of Sts. Vitus, Wenceslas, and Adalbert to the Czech religious, national, and state identity. The importance of the cathedral is given primarily by its location (Prague Castle), as well as...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
11,352 Views
17 Pages

12 July 2021

The failures of governance and statehood in Nigeria breed an anarchical or disruptive system in the state and provide a platform for youth violence and justification for disruptive behaviour against the state systems and structures. Contributing to t...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
17,714 Views
17 Pages

19 August 2019

Christian activism in the Arab–Israeli conflict and theological reflections on the Middle East have evolved around Palestinian liberation theology as a theological–political doctrine that scrutinizes Zionism, the existence of Israel and i...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,427 Views
18 Pages

13 April 2021

This paper offers a contextualized analysis of the way in which three Islamic constitutions—in Egypt (2014/2019), Tunisia (2014), and Yemen (2015)—came to a similar self-declaration of a “civil state” (dawla madaniyya), following the Arab uprisings....

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
12,124 Views
13 Pages

17 March 2022

This article highlights the positive relations between the Jewish and the Kurdish nations, maintained mainly by Kurdistani Jews until their displacement to Israel in the mid-20th century. These positive relations have been transmitted through their o...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,440 Views
17 Pages

16 February 2020

In Germany, a grave labor shortage in the nursing and elderly care sectors has prompted the response of recruiting skilled nursing staff from abroad in recent years. This article analyzes these recruitment practices as forms of “migration manag...

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  • Open Access
3,227 Views
21 Pages

23 January 2024

The Republic of Lithuania was one of several young nation-states that re-established or proclaimed their statehood in the aftermath of the First World War, following the dissolution of empires in Europe. The quest for cultural identity and attempts a...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,372 Views
14 Pages

12 March 2021

The essence of the Catholic Church implemented in the modern world is of crucial importance for the understanding its mission towards the state, especially when developing appropriate civil attitudes. One sources of cognition is the historical reflec...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,904 Views
14 Pages

27 July 2020

Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has become a key issue of increasing concern in the world. Led by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), recent developments focused on the role of port states as the principal ac...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,597 Views
9 Pages

15 September 2017

Since 2011, the Arab world has entered a period of political turbulence accompanied by widespread growth of protest activity. The events that were metaphorically called the “Arab Spring” referring to the “Spring of Nations” of 1848, affected virtuall...

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  • Open Access
1,671 Views
17 Pages

In this article, I consider the narratives framing Italian-language accounts of ecclesiastical censorship in early modern Italy and its impact on the modern Italian state. I set out Adriano Prosperi, Vittorio Frajese and Gigliola Fragnito’s int...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,335 Views
21 Pages

10 October 2022

Regenerating cities must blend modernization and heritage. Both urban morphology and Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) highlight historical processes and may assist in regeneration. Using Chongqing as the study example may further understand mountain ci...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,950 Views
18 Pages

18 November 2021

This article shall ask how Hamas, as a non-state actor, negotiated legitimacy with the clans in a fragmented and factionalized tribal society in the Gaza Strip from 2007–2011. An important factor that shapes the extent of power of rebels and non-stat...