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Zen and the Art of Librarianship (2019)
Journal Article
Barrett, T. (2019). Zen and the Art of Librarianship. Journal of Chan Buddhism: East Asian and Global Perspectives, 1, 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1163/25897179-12340002

This paper explores widely held misconceptions about the publishing of East Asian religious books, bibliographies and canons connected to a tradition that appears to foreswear books altogether – Zen Buddhism in China and Japan. Zen and East Asian Bud... Read More about Zen and the Art of Librarianship.

Parallel Worlds: Cold War Division Space (2019)
Book Chapter
Newton, S. (2019). Parallel Worlds: Cold War Division Space. In M. Craven, S. Pahuja, G. Simpson, & A. Saunders (Eds.), International Law and the Cold War (117-136). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615525.006

The Cold War brought into the world and the world of inter-state relations a novel kind of space, Division Space – really, a novel mode of spatialisation altogether. The double Germanies, the double Vietnams, the double Koreas, the double Berlins, an... Read More about Parallel Worlds: Cold War Division Space.

The Relationship between Humanitarian Disarmament and General and Complete Disarmament (2019)
Book Chapter
Plesch, D., & Miletic, K. (2019). The Relationship between Humanitarian Disarmament and General and Complete Disarmament. In M. B. Bolton, T. Benjamin-Britton, & S. Njeri (Eds.), Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament (199-224). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27611-9_7

While the current interpretation of humanitarian disarmament focuses only on the prohibition of certain types of weapons that are indiscriminate in their effects or cause unacceptable harm such as nuclear weapons, landmines, blinding laser weapons an... Read More about The Relationship between Humanitarian Disarmament and General and Complete Disarmament.

Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law (2019)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2019). Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law. In M. Craven, S. Pahuja, & S. Gerry (Eds.), International Law and the Cold War (447-466). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615525.020

Against a great deal of contemporary Cold War scholarship, this chapter argues that Pakistan’s complex relations with the United States—as well as with the Soviet Union, China, India and Afghanistan—place it firmly at the centre of global Cold War po... Read More about Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law.

Using Chinese Character Formation Graphs to Test Proposals in Chinese Historical Phonology (2019)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W., & List, J.-M. (2019). Using Chinese Character Formation Graphs to Test Proposals in Chinese Historical Phonology. Bulletin of Chinese linguistics, 12(2), 186-200. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-01202008

This paper proposes the use of network techniques in the exploration of Old Chinese phonology as reflected in the phonophoric determinatives of xiéshēng 諧聲 characters. We use the approach to examine five specific proposals in Chinese historical pho... Read More about Using Chinese Character Formation Graphs to Test Proposals in Chinese Historical Phonology.

The prefix g- and -o- ablaut in Tibetan present verb stems (2019)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2019). The prefix g- and -o- ablaut in Tibetan present verb stems. Bulletin of Chinese linguistics, 12(2), 229-236. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-01202001

The prevailing internal reconstruction of the Classical Tibetan verbal system accounts for all ablaut phenomena as innovations triggered by erstwhile segmental affixes. The traditional account cannot be correct, because the paradigms of nine verbs sh... Read More about The prefix g- and -o- ablaut in Tibetan present verb stems.

The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity (2019)
Journal Article
Birch, J., & Singleton, M. (2019). The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity. Journal of yoga studies, 2(1), 3-70. https://doi.org/10.34000/JoYS.2019.V2.002

The Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati is a Sanskrit text on the practice of Haṭhayoga, probably composed in the eighteenth century in Maharashtra. This article discusses, among other things, the dating, authorship, sectarian affiliation, and unique features of... Read More about The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity.

Women, Children, and Slaves in Rabbinic Law (2019)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2019). Women, Children, and Slaves in Rabbinic Law. In P. Barmash (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law (489-503). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199392667.013.13

Rabbinic law on women, children, and slaves developed on the basis of biblical law and in the context of the Greco-Roman and Sasanian cultural environments in which Palestinian and Babylonian rabbis lived. The discussions were innovative in their ada... Read More about Women, Children, and Slaves in Rabbinic Law.

Pushing the Boundaries: Can We “Decolonize” Security Studies? (2019)
Journal Article
Adamson, F. (2020). Pushing the Boundaries: Can We “Decolonize” Security Studies?. Journal of Global Security Studies, 5(1), 129-135. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogz057

This essay reflects on the approaches to inclusion and exclusion put forward in this special issue and suggests a more radical alternative: the project of “decolonizing” the field of security studies. Drawing on work in decolonial thought and critica... Read More about Pushing the Boundaries: Can We “Decolonize” Security Studies?.

The Accusative-Initial Sentence in YOS 10 omen texts (2019)
Journal Article
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2019). The Accusative-Initial Sentence in YOS 10 omen texts. Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 113(1), 139-150. https://doi.org/10.3917/assy.113.0139

Word-order in Akkadian is generally described as SOV, and although other word-orders than SOV are visible in texts when they are examined individually, trends over an entire corpus remain difficult to establish. Buccellati (1996: 396) recommended tha... Read More about The Accusative-Initial Sentence in YOS 10 omen texts.

Mesopotamische Tonsysteme und Tonschriften (2019)
Book Chapter
Mirelman, S. (2019). Mesopotamische Tonsysteme und Tonschriften. In F. Leitmeir, D. Shehata, & O. Wiener (Eds.), MUS-IC-ON! Klang und Archäologie vergangener Musikkulturen. Begleitband zur Ausstellung im Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität Würzburg 10. Dezember 2019 bis 12. Juli 2020 (83-90). Würzburg University Press. https://doi.org/10.25972/WUP-978-3-95826-123-5

International Law and the Cold War (2019)
Book
Craven, M., Pahuja, S., & Simpson, G. (Eds.). (2019). International Law and the Cold War. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615525

International Law and the Cold War is the first book dedicated to examining the relationship between the Cold War and International Law. The authors adopt a variety of creative approaches - in relation to events and fields such as nuclear war, enviro... Read More about International Law and the Cold War.