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‘The Skills. . . had to be Used Simply Because They Were There’: Instrumental Rationality in the Military Domain “技能。必须简单地使用，因为它们在那里”：军事领域的工具理性

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Millennium - Journal of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-30 DOI: 10.1177/03058298231185965

Yagil Levy

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Why is There No History of Fascist International Thought? 为什么没有法西斯国际思想史？

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Millennium - Journal of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-14 DOI: 10.1177/03058298231177363

Kye J. Allen

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Why Matter Matters: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Relevance of New Materialism 物质为什么重要：与冲突相关的性暴力与新唯物主义的相关性

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Millennium - Journal of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-03 DOI: 10.1177/03058298231185953

J. Clark

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The Ottoman International System: Power Projection, Interconnectedness, and the Autonomy of Frontier Polities 奥斯曼国际体系：权力投射、相互联系与边疆政治自治

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Millennium - Journal of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-03 DOI: 10.1177/03058298231185974

A. Balcı, Tuncay Kardaş

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A People’s Sea: Palestine and Popular Thalassopolitics in the Mediterranean Sea 《人民之海:巴勒斯坦与地中海政治》

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Millennium - Journal of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/03058298231175523

Nikolas Kosmatopoulos

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The Meanings of Internationalism: A Collective Discussion on Pan-African, Early Soviet, Islamic Socialist and Kurdish Internationalisms Across the 20th Century 国际主义的意义——20世纪泛非、前苏联、伊斯兰社会主义和库尔德国际主义的集体讨论

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Millennium - Journal of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.1177/03058298231175700

Dilar Dirik, M. Younis, M. Chehonadskih, Layli Uddin, Miri Davidson

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Elimination Games: The Global Rise of Military Reality TV and the Shaping of the Citizen Subject 消除游戏:军事真人秀电视的全球崛起与公民主体的塑造

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Millennium - Journal of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.1177/03058298231175980

S. Kaempf, R. Stahl

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Technification and Securitisation: The Mechanism of ‘Rendering Technical’ in Polish Nuclear Energy Politics 技术化与证券化:波兰核能政治中的“技术渲染”机制

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Millennium - Journal of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1177/03058298231175522

Trine Villumsen Berling, Izabela Surwillo

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Decentring the Western Gaze in International Relations: Addressing Epistemic Exclusions in Syllabi in the United States and Canada 国际关系中的西方凝视：解决美国和加拿大教学大纲中的认识论排斥

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Millennium - Journal of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1177/03058298231171615

Maïka Sondarjee

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The Worldmaking of Mobile Vernacular Capitalists: Tracing Entanglements Between Race, Caste and Capital 流动的本土资本家的世界观:追踪种族、种姓和资本之间的纠缠

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Millennium - Journal of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1177/03058298231174250

S. Dilawri

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