Top-down and bottom-up water management: A diachronic model of changing water management strategies at Angkor, Cambodia
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101166
Abstract: Abstract The Greater Angkor region, in northwestern Cambodia, was home to several successive capitals of the Khmer Empire (9th to 15th centuries CE). During this time, the Khmer developed an extensive agricultural and water management… read more here.
Keywords: water; top bottom; water management; state sponsored ... See more keywords
The New Scientific Policy: The Early Soviet Project of “State-Sponsored Evolutionism”
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DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2016.1227393
Abstract: The aim of the present paper is to show that the fundamental transformation of Russian society that had been realized by the Soviet government since the early twenties included not only the reforms of scientific… read more here.
Keywords: state; early soviet; policy; sponsored evolutionism ... See more keywords
Shuang Chen. State-Sponsored Inequality: The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China
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DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2018.1487730
Abstract: Thus, when one studies the Chinese economy, it cannot be a simple calculation of dollars vs the renminbi/yuan. One needs to look at how Chinese domestic politics, foreign policy and financial sectors are interacting. The… read more here.
Keywords: chen state; sponsored inequality; inequality banner; shuang chen ... See more keywords
State as patriarch and biblical discipline: theorising state sponsored violence in Zimbabwe
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DOI: 10.1080/14725843.2020.1813549
Abstract: Although political violence has characterized the Zimbabwe body politic from colonial times, state-sponsored political violence escalated from the time of the violent land reform in the early 2000s... read more here.
Keywords: state; violence; patriarch biblical; zimbabwe ... See more keywords
Steps-to-War Theory and Interstate Wars in the Middle East: Is State-Sponsored Terrorism Another Escalating Step?
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DOI: 10.1177/0021909620970573
Abstract: I employ Steps-to-War theory to analyze interstate wars in the Middle East by adding an additional escalating step: state sponsorship of non-state actors. Remarkably, however, the present scholarship completely overlooks a comprehensive assessment of the… read more here.
Keywords: state; sponsored terrorism; steps war; state sponsored ... See more keywords
International trade and cyber conflict: Decomposing the effect of trade on state-sponsored cyber attacks
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DOI: 10.1177/0022343320964549
Abstract: A state’s decision to engage in cyber operations has important implications for its trade. Successful cyber espionage could yield valuable trade secrets that could boost domestic production and spur economic growth. On the other hand,… read more here.
Keywords: trade cyber; cyber attacks; cyber; trade ... See more keywords
Book Review: Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
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DOI: 10.1177/1478929917709714
Abstract: The solution lies in an internationally agreed definition. Anthony Richards addresses the definitional problem but ‘from an academic perspective’ (p. v). In this endeavour, instead of defining terrorism either as a derogatory label or as… read more here.
Keywords: state; sponsored terrorism; definition; terrorism ... See more keywords