Was Nigeria’s offering of Asylum status to President Charles Taylor of Liberia a diplomatic blunder? A foreign policy case review by Ngara, Christopher Ochanja

“…To sustain the country’s pedigree of diplomatic excellence in resolving the Liberian crisis, Nigeria should rally ECOWAS countries to deepen economic integration, achieve self-reliance and make the sub-region less vulnerable to manipulation by Western powers.…”
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The People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (NKID) of the USSR in the City of Kuibyshev (1941-1943) by S. I. Chernyavsky

“…Due to the opposition of the Western powers, domestic diplomacy failed to create a collective security system to prevent the aggression of Germany, Italy and Japan. …”
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The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations by Enguerran Macia, Jeremy Allouche, Moustapha Basimbé. Sagna, Amadou Hamath. Diallo, Gilles Boëtsch, Aliou Guisse, Pape Sarr, Jean-Daniel Cesaro, Priscilla Duboz

“…Our analysis shows that by controlling the temporality of the Great Green Wall program through this Accelerator, Western powers dominate the Sahelian states, making the Accelerator part of a neo-colonial approach. …”
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RUSSIAN AND ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHES: RELATIONS IN THE 1980s by Georgij O. Borkoniuk

“…The Syrian government, officially positioning its political path as a path of socialist orientation, needed help of the USSR. Confronting the Western powers in the Middle East, the Soviet Union, for its part, regarded Syria led by President Hafez al-Assad as an ally. …”
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清末水军建设的挑战及李鸿章海防思想：以《筹议海防折》为例 = Challenges in the construction of the navy during the late Qing Dynasty and Li Hongzhang's coastal defense ideology: using the "Memorial on Maritime... by 侯泓宇 Hou, Hongyu

“…After the defeats in the two Opium Wars and in the face of Japan's rise and the challenges posed by Western powers, the late Qing government was forced to sign numerous unequal treaties, ceding territories and paying reparations. …”
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Çin Siyasi Düşüncesi ve Siyasi Tarihi Bağlamında Çinli Siyasi Elitler by Tuğrul Keskin

“…The text then addresses the challenges posed by the Opium Wars and increased interactions with Western powers, which led to reformist movements and the rise of new political elites. …”
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Asianization of the Persian Gulf: Political–Economic Factors Affecting the Asianist Approach of the GCC Countries by Fariborz Arghavani Pirsalami, Ali Dehghan

“…The new policy reflects a discernible shift in discourse and a departure from purely Western perspectives, heralding a transition to emerging economic and political views within the Asian super-region, while maintaining relations with Western powers, such as the United States. The present study aimed to examine the political–economic factors accelerating the Asianization of the GCC members and steering them towards new Asian partners. …”
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Investigation of Negative and Positive Effects of Pandemics on the Political: With a Focus on the COVID–19 Pandemic232 by Bahram Akhavan Kazemi, Hosein Mohseni

“…The cholera pandemic not only caused a decline in population and state power as well as an increase in protests in countries such as India, but also disturb the power of empires and the sense of security of Western powers and put their vulnerability at risk. It also created tensions over whether global communications would remain open or closed. …”
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Expansionism Policy of the Chinese Government in Central Asia Based on Soft Power by Hamid Hakim, Emad Helalat

“…China's bitter historical experience in dealing with Western powers and enduring the era of humiliation, as well as the ideological components stemming from the Communist revolution, shaped its foreign policy during Mao's era with a strong hardware-oriented approach to power and a focus on win-lose dynamics. …”
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Operation Method of Energy Storage System Replacing Governor for Frequency Regulation of Synchronous Generator without Reserve by Nam-Du Nguyen-Hoang, Wooyoung Shin, Choongman Lee, In-Young Chung, Dongha Kim, Young-Ha Hwang, Juyoung Youn, Jwayoung Maeng, Minhan Yoon, Kyeon Hur, Jae Woong Shim

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Power grid modelling for GRID compliance study by Shah Dev Dikul

“…Simulations for grid compliance of the generator considering Western Power Australia and German grid codes were performed using MATLAB/SIMULINK. …”
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Forecasting for Battery Storage: Choosing the Error Metric by Colin Singleton, Peter Grindrod

“…We describe our approach to the Western Power Distribution (WPD) Presumed Open Data (POD) 6 MWh battery storage capacity forecasting competition, in which we finished second. …”
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Forecasting for battery storage: choosing the error metric by Singleton, C, Grindrod, P

“…We describe our approach to the Western Power Distribution (WPD) Presumed Open Data (POD) 6 MWh battery storage capacity forecasting competition, in which we finished second. …”

China’s Pro-Russian Neutrality Position in the Ukraine Crisis as Part of Its “Hybrid” Confrontation with the West by Vitaly KOZYREV

“…While refraining from a direct support of the Kremlin, China has demonstrated throughout this conflict a “pro-Russian neutrality” declaring a “no limits partnership” with Moscow which might result in a new bipolar confrontation between the West and the non-Western power centre with China and Russia on top of it. …”
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The Shiite as the Heretic Other? The Nuanced Discourse of Shiite Islam as a Variant of Central European Orientalism by Márton Iványi

“…The general autonomy of Central European authors from a Western power agenda as postulated by the mainstream critique of Orientalism is well known. …”
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The Lure of the Tropics and the Colonial Emporium: The Study of Book Illustration and Newspaper Advertisement in Colonial North Borneo by Mohd Pakri, Mohamad Rashidi, Simon, Peter Hull, Abdul Rahim, Anis

“…Many historians use “Gold, God, and Glory” to describe the motives generating the overseas exploration, expansion, and conquests of the Western power over the East. In this paper, we intent to revisit those shorthands, the 3 G’s above, in rather different ways: the first part of the title of this paper, ‘The Lure of the Tropics and the Colonial Emporium” could be used to summarise similar colonising motives of the West. …”
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Legacy media outlets also stand in dock over Gaza: How RNZ, ABC and other Western media failed to challenge Israeli war narratives by Mick Hall

“…Failure to adequately create awareness of Israeli crimes also raises questions over whether state-funded public broadcasters are fulfilling the informational needs of democratic citizenship and serving the public interest, or whether they are serving the interests of a Western power elite. …”
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Postcolonial multiculturalism in K.S.Maniam’s in a far country by Mohd Kasim, Ain Fatihah, Mani, Manimangai

“…Multiculturalism can be understood as a colonial legacy, left by the incursion of the Western power in Malaya. Contributing to the cultural diversity of Malaya, colonization changed Malaya into a multicultural country. …”
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Women’s Role in Violence and UN Women, Peace, and Security Agenda by Çağlayan Başer

“…These reasons encompass assessing: 1) women’s contributions to armed organizations, 2) their exclusion from post-conflict rehabilitation programs, 3) the limited visibility of human rights violations by women and the underrepresentation of male civilians as victims, and 4) “saving vulnerable women” rhetoric as a justification for Western power involvement. Then, I examine gender inequality as a fundamental cause enabling these factors, underscoring the need to regard gender inequality and traditional gender norms as central security concerns.…”
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Orientalism and gender: the portrayal of the oriental women in frederick millingen’s wild life among the koords by Gharbi Mustafa

“…Said explains how Western writings represent the East as an inferior, the Other which, justifies the European Western power over the East. The depiction of the harem as exotic oriental women is a long-familiar trope found in various Orientalist writings. …”
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