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Psychology and Ethical Epistemology: An Ashʿarī Debate with Muʿtazilī Ethical Realism, 11th-12th C. (2021)
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Shihadeh, A. (2021). Psychology and Ethical Epistemology: An Ashʿarī Debate with Muʿtazilī Ethical Realism, 11th-12th C. Journal of Arabic and Islamic studies, 21, 81-102. https://doi.org/10.5617/jais.9573

This article examines a hitherto unstudied debate, turning on the epistemology of value judgements, between Ashʿarīs and Baṣran Muʿtazilīs of the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. Al-Ghazālī and al-Rāzī countered Muʿtazilī ethical realism, here de... Read More about Psychology and Ethical Epistemology: An Ashʿarī Debate with Muʿtazilī Ethical Realism, 11th-12th C..

Scholarship and Sports Diplomacy: the Case of Japan and the United Kingdom (2021)
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Rofe, J. S., & Postlethwaite, V. (2021). Scholarship and Sports Diplomacy: the Case of Japan and the United Kingdom. Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society, 3(2), 332-354. https://doi.org/10.1163/25891774-03020005

This article explores the scholarship regarding diplomatic processes and actors engaged in recent international sport events hosted by the United Kingdom and Japan. The article points to the range of actors involved, focusing on organizing committees... Read More about Scholarship and Sports Diplomacy: the Case of Japan and the United Kingdom.

Shamanism in Korean Cinema and Popular Culture: The Korean shaman narrative, shaman films, and women (2021)
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Lee, H. (2021). Shamanism in Korean Cinema and Popular Culture: The Korean shaman narrative, shaman films, and women. Chungang saron = 중앙사론 = Central History, 54, 191-221. https://doi.org/10.46823/cahs.2021.54.191

Shamanism has long played an important religious role in Korean popular culture. It continues to do so, despite Buddhism and Christianity being the major religions in modern Korea. Shamans and Shamanism continue to appear in a variety of ways in Kore... Read More about Shamanism in Korean Cinema and Popular Culture: The Korean shaman narrative, shaman films, and women.

The impact of higher leverage ratios on the South African economy (2021)
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Makrelov, K., Davies, R., & Harris, L. (2021). The impact of higher leverage ratios on the South African economy. Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 45(3), 184-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/03796205.2021.2016480

We employ a micro-founded, stock-flow consistent computable general equilibrium model to study the impact of increases of the leverage ratio on the South African economy. The model provides for a richer representation of institutional balance sheets... Read More about The impact of higher leverage ratios on the South African economy.

Landmine Clearance and Peacebuilding: Evidence from Somaliland (2021)
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Ikpe, E., & Njeri, S. (2021). Landmine Clearance and Peacebuilding: Evidence from Somaliland. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 17(1), 91-107. https://doi.org/10.1177/15423166211068324

The mine action sector has struggled to demonstrate the socioeconomic benefits of mine clearance. Previous academic studies have made important contributions but have been limited in offering in-depth discussions of causal pathways. This paper seeks... Read More about Landmine Clearance and Peacebuilding: Evidence from Somaliland.

Buddhist Discourses in Modern Suining (Sichuan): Local Discourses within Chinese and Regional Narrative (2021)
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Travagnin, S. (2021). Buddhist Discourses in Modern Suining (Sichuan): Local Discourses within Chinese and Regional Narrative. Asia major, 34(2), 127-179

Research on Buddhism in modern Sichuan has been limited mostly to a few case studies and places. However, the in-depth research undertaken here reveals a richer picture, involving several rural and urban centers, and overlapping monastic and lay netw... Read More about Buddhist Discourses in Modern Suining (Sichuan): Local Discourses within Chinese and Regional Narrative.

Climate Change and Fiscal Sustainability: Risks and Opportunities (2021)
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Agarwala, M., Burke, M., Klusak, P., Mohaddes, K., Volz, U., & Zenghelis, D. (2021). Climate Change and Fiscal Sustainability: Risks and Opportunities. National Institute Economic Review, 258, 28-46. https://doi.org/10.1017/nie.2021.37

Both the physical and transition-related impacts of climate change pose substantial macroeconomic risks. Yet, markets still lack credible estimates of how climate change will affect debt sustainability, sovereign creditworthiness and the public finan... Read More about Climate Change and Fiscal Sustainability: Risks and Opportunities.

Extra-linguistic knowledge and Pragmatics in the Interpretation of Korean Relative Clauses (2021)
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Yeon, J. (2021). Extra-linguistic knowledge and Pragmatics in the Interpretation of Korean Relative Clauses. 언어와 정보 사회 = Ene wa Cengpo sahoy (Language and Information Society), 44, 297-336. https://doi.org/10.29211/soli.2021.44..010

Yeon, Jaehoon (2021), “Extra-linguistic Knowledge and Pragmatics in the Interpretation of Korean Relative Clauses,” Language and Information Society 44. This paper explores how morpho-syntactic and semantic constraints interact with extra-linguistic... Read More about Extra-linguistic knowledge and Pragmatics in the Interpretation of Korean Relative Clauses.

How the Tigers Got Their Stripes: A Case Study of the LTTE’s Rise to Power (2021)
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Cronin-Furman, K., & Arulthas, M. (2024). How the Tigers Got Their Stripes: A Case Study of the LTTE’s Rise to Power. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 47(9), 1006-1025. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2021.2013753

Over the course of six months in 1986, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) eliminated their rival militant organizations, despite being significantly outgunned and outmanned by some of these groups. Relying primarily on contemporaneous accoun... Read More about How the Tigers Got Their Stripes: A Case Study of the LTTE’s Rise to Power.

Seeing Covid-19 Through a Subprime Crisis lens: How Structural and Institutional Racism Have Shaped 21st Century Crises in the U.K. and the U.S. (2021)
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Curry, F., Dymski, G., Lewis, T. J., & Szymborska, H. (2022). Seeing Covid-19 Through a Subprime Crisis lens: How Structural and Institutional Racism Have Shaped 21st Century Crises in the U.K. and the U.S. The Review of Black Political Economy, 49(1), 77-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/00346446211065174

This special issue aims to use historical examples to gain insight into the socio-economic impact of, and possibilities of recovery from, the Covid-19 pandemic for Black communities. We approach this question by comparing the impact of the pandemic o... Read More about Seeing Covid-19 Through a Subprime Crisis lens: How Structural and Institutional Racism Have Shaped 21st Century Crises in the U.K. and the U.S..

From Warriors to Mere Chicken Men, and Other Troubles: An Ordinary Language Survey of Notions of Resilience in Ngakarimojong (2021)
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Bimeny, P., Angolere, B. P., Nangiro, S., Sagal, I. A., & Emai, J. (2021). From Warriors to Mere Chicken Men, and Other Troubles: An Ordinary Language Survey of Notions of Resilience in Ngakarimojong. Civil Wars, 24(2-3), 254-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2015215

We examine some vernacular concepts that reflect Karamojong understanding and everyday experience of resilience following a devastating disarmament process, and what this means for resilience-driven humanitarian-development processes. We found that w... Read More about From Warriors to Mere Chicken Men, and Other Troubles: An Ordinary Language Survey of Notions of Resilience in Ngakarimojong.

Decolonizing History in "Myanmar": Bringing Rohingya Back into their own History (2021)
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Charney, M. W. (2021). Decolonizing History in "Myanmar": Bringing Rohingya Back into their own History. Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship = Si capʻ mraṅʻ nhaṁʻʹ, 1(3),

This article makes two main arguments. First, it argues that due to the imperial roots of Area Studies the views of many contemporary states and many scholars on the Rohingya, Rakhine, and Myanmar have been shaped by colonial perspectives. Second, it... Read More about Decolonizing History in "Myanmar": Bringing Rohingya Back into their own History.

‘Everything peasants do is illegal’: Colombian coca growers’ everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy (2021)
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Acero, C., & Thomson, F. (2022). ‘Everything peasants do is illegal’: Colombian coca growers’ everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy. Third World Quarterly, 43(11), 2674-2692. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1971517

For decades, Colombian governments have imposed a narrative linking illegal crops with statelessness and presenting ‘more state’ and specifically ‘more law enforcement’ as the solution to a swathe of problems in drug-producing regions. We draw on coc... Read More about ‘Everything peasants do is illegal’: Colombian coca growers’ everyday experiences of law enforcement and its impacts on state legitimacy.

State Ownership and Innovations: Lessons from the Mixed-Ownership Reforms of China’s Listed Companies (2021)
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Lo, D., Gao, L., & Lin, Y. (2022). State Ownership and Innovations: Lessons from the Mixed-Ownership Reforms of China’s Listed Companies. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 60, 302-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2021.12.002

Mixed-ownership reforms have been the mainstay of reforming China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in recent years. In relation to the broader context of the continuous slowdown in economic growth under the New Normal, the reshaping of the innovative... Read More about State Ownership and Innovations: Lessons from the Mixed-Ownership Reforms of China’s Listed Companies.