the diffusion of ideas and customs. During a 2013 visit to Kazakhstan, where he oversaw infrastructure deals and loans worth in excess of $30 billion, President Xi proposed the creation of a new Silk Road Economic Belt that would extend westward into
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Nicole Hudgins
contends, however, that the anthropomorphic language of ruins was also linked to the determination in France to restore national infrastructure and private property to “normalcy”—that is, to prewar order and appearance. Unable to reverse the human
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Juan M. del Nido
nation for white-collar, free-market-oriented professionals embracing “harmonious social and labor relationships” (23). This required spectacular investments in infrastructures of knowledge, banking, and tertiary sector economies. University courses and
Powerlessness and Unfairness
A Letter to Jan Zielonka
Henri Vogt
country's infrastructure is generally in good shape and new digital public services truly make citizens’ lives easier. People's sense of security and interpersonal trust have remained very high; there is less street violence than at any point in time since
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- Critical Commentary
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The “Moral Effect” of Legalized Lawlessness
Violence in Britain’s Twentieth-Century Empire
Caroline Elkins
, where they destroyed vast swaths of Palestine’s infrastructure. As Britain scrambled to reassemble a new leadership cadre to take charge and crush the rebellion once and for all, a lone intelligence officer, Captain Orde Wingate, stepped forward with an
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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Mark S. Micale
, competitive world. Pakistan obtained nuclear capability in 1998, and North Korea did so in the past few years, bringing the number of nations so equipped to nine. Iran developed an extensive nuclear infrastructure that is now being monitored closely. Since
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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From Exoticism to Authenticity
Textbooks during French Colonization and the Modern Literature of Global Tourism
Claudine Moïse
conditions of exploitation, thanks to their limitless resources, infrastructures, and labor force, and therefore hold promises of increase in wealth. It is proven that the official discourse considers the colonies only as a reservoir of goods, to be used only
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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Sandbags, Strikes, and Scandals
Public Disorder and Problematic Policing in Occupied Roubaix during World War I
James E. Connolly
German rules and faced harsh punishments for infractions. In general, locals experienced widespread penury, hunger, and hardship. 9 One specificity was that the Germans desired to utilize Roubaix’s strong industrial infrastructure—numbering eighty
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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Heidi Hakkarainen
vast extension of transportation and communication infrastructures in the 1840s. More texts traveled at a new speed and with a wider readership. 66 However, instead of taking the road of naïve sentimentality, the German-language public debates of the
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Free from State Violence or Free to Comply?
A Revised Typology of Coercion and Repression in Liberal Democracies
Barbora Capinska
, although the protests resulted in cancellation of the airport project, the hegemony of the dominant discourses on economic progress, infrastructure expansion and, somewhat paradoxically, non-violent conflict resolution was reinforced and the realization of
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Jun 2016
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