Richard L. Kagan, Clio and the Crown: The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009; María del Carmen Saen de Casa... by Pineda, Victoria

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Instant, evénement et histoire: L’actualité du messianisme à partir de Walter Benjamin by Maria João Cantinho

“…That is the aim of this work: to show how the concept of messianism – above all, Benjamin’s messianism, as a indeniable source – is always in the middle of discussions about politics, history and philosophy, in the thinking of authors like Jacques Derrida, Gérard Bensussan and Emmanuel Levinas. …”
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Barbare et infidèle by Ilya Platov

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Degenerate Bodies: Max Nordau’s Degeneration and Émile Zola’s La Débâcle by Kit Yee Wong

“…The work depicts a sickly Napoleon III during the Franco- Prussian War (1870–71), whose illness is metonymised with France’s politics, history and nationhood. In portraying the human body as a site of morality and coupling it with notions of illness and cure, this article demonstrates the capacity of Zola’s literary-medical aesthetics to acknowledge the body’s wider cultural and sociological importance.…”
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Architecture of Indonesia's Checks and Balances by Ibnu Sina Chandranegara

“…Research on "checks and balances" in legal studies often raises high quality questions such as, is the checks and balances a doctrine, principle, or legal theory, or maybe precisely the formula of power in politics. History has been recorded that in any discussions regarding the formation of the constitutional separation, division and smelting power is something that is popular to be discussed before and even after becoming the constitution. …”
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Is Human Rights Protection Good for Trade in Africa: Evidence from Proximity to Democratically ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Neighbouring Countries by Jubril Animashaun, Chisom L. Ubabukoh

“…To address endogeneity concerns, we exploit the variation in democracy measurement among geographically proximate neighbours with similar political histories (i.e. an inverse distanceweighted average of democracy among ‘neighbours’).We find that human rights and democratic institutions increase trade in Africa. …”
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Cross-National Active Learning in Global Development Studies: De-Colonizing the Curriculum by Mary Jane Parmentier

“…For the discipline of global development, both are critically needed approaches to training students who are able to work across national contexts and effectively interact with communities of different political histories and cultures. Yet neither is necessarily straightforward. …”
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Is Human Rights Protection Good for Trade in Africa: Evidence from Proximity to Democratically ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Neighbouring Countries by Jubril Animashaun, Chisom L. Ubabukoh

“…To address endogeneity concerns, we exploit the variation in democracy measurement among geographically proximate neighbours with similar political histories (i.e. an inverse distanceweighted average of democracy among ‘neighbours’).We find that human rights and democratic institutions increase trade in Africa. …”
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Cultural Diversity Issues in Biodiversity Monitoring—Cases of Lithuania, Poland and Denmark by Małgorzata Grodzińska-Jurczak, Hanna Kobierska, Dirk S. Schmeller, Deivida Vandzinskaite

“…Here, we compare diversity in monitoring practices and public participation in countries with different political histories. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic studies conducted in Lithuania and Poland, as well as a rapid assessment in Denmark, we have focused on the historical, cultural and social determinants of the volunteers’ participation in biodiversity monitoring. …”
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The reasons behind the failure of Jahangir Khoja’s regime in Kashghar by A.T. Saduakassov, G.T. Zhumadilova

“…This essay is based on the synthesis of Russian and Persian ethnographical diary, political histories and secondary sources. Mainly, this study contributes to the religious history of Central Asian anticolonial movements. …”
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Cultural Revolution on the Border: Yunnan's 'Political Frontier Defence' by Michael Schoenhals

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Researcher perspectives on class size reduction. by Elizabeth Graue, Erica Rauscher

“…By extending our understanding of the class size reduction conversation beyond published literature to the perspectives of researchers who have studied the topic, we create a review that includes political histories of, contextual details about, and assumptions undergirding the conversation. …”
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‘Dans les pas de Nicole Loraux’. by Claudine Leduc

“…Involved in various fields of knowledge, they are sometimes inclined to segment her works: politics, history, theater, gender… This article is meant to entice the readers to size up the full scope of the writer's research so that her intellectual biography may be conceived as a whole.…”
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Interrogating provincial politics: the Leftist Movement in Punjab, c. 1914-1950 by Raza, M

“…Taken together, this thesis, aside from enhancing our understanding of the ‘Left’ itself, also contributes to regional studies in general and questions historiographical demarcations and the categories that are normatively employed in standard political histories. …”

Embracing Today’s Economic And Technological Reality What It Means For Design Professionals by YASEMIN INCE GUNEY

“…The First Industrial Revolution, for example, has been named as such since it indeed revolutionized everything related to daily living including art, culture, economy and politics. History has also shown that most cultural actors are reluctant to embrace advanced technology at first as they might see it as taking away something at the core of humanity. …”
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Kashmiri women in conflict: a feminist perspective by Sonia Zeeshan, Hanife Aliefendioğlu

“…Even though a great number of research works have been performed on Kashmir’s politics, history, philosophy, and religion, the struggles and challenges faced by women amid the conflict need to be further explored. …”
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Features of ethnic identity of Tatar virtual communities in the “Vkontakte” social network by Zufar A. Makhmutov, Gulnara F. Gabdrakhmanova

“…The categories of content analysis were: culture, news, religion, politics, history, economics, sports, humor, self-stereotypes, marriage and dating. …”
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Evaluating the WHO Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems by comparing mental health policies in four countries by Hamada Hamid, Karen Abanilla, Besa Bauta, Keng-Yen Huang

“…This paper demonstrates the utility and limitations of WHO-AIMS by applying the model to four countries with different cultures, political histories and public health policies: Iraq, Japan, the Philippines and The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. …”
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Shipping Canals in Transition by Carola Hein, Sabine Luning, Han Meyer, Stephen J. Ramos, Paul van de Laar

“…Shifting approaches to land/water relations must now be understood in longer political histories in which pre-existing alliances influence changes in infrastructure planning. …”
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JOKER SAYS: “PEACE TO YOU …I AM BORN TO KILL”. THE POLITICS OF NATIONAL TRAUMA AND CULTURAL MEMORY IN STANLEY KUBRICK’S FULL METAL JACKET by Raphaella Delores Gomez

“…Hollywood films have lent lens to introspect within the archives of political histories to unveil trauma. And with the cinematic effects of fictional depiction of war and human ignobility, they have also aided in inspiring a rise in national consciousness. …”
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