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Global Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksae002

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Crisis and Transformative Learning in Communities of Practice: Semi-Formal Learning in CSDP during COVID-19 实践社区中的危机与转型学习：COVID-19 期间 CSDP 中的半正规学习

Global Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksad078

N. Bremberg, Elsa Hedling

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Boundary Work, Overlapping Identities, and Liminality in Communities of Practice: Diplomacy within and beyond ASEAN 实践社区中的边界工作、重叠身份和极限性：东盟内外的外交

Global Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksad072

Aarie Glas, Stéphanie Martel

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“Just Theater!”—How Self-Legitimation Practices Can Backfire in International Organizations "戏剧而已！"--自我辩护做法如何在国际组织中适得其反

Global Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksae010

Ben Christian

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When the Background Looms Large over the Foreground: Medical Professionals, Diplomats, and Co-Managing SARS-CoV-2 当 "背景 "凌驾于 "前景 "之上时：医疗专业人员、外交官和共同管理 SARS-CoV-2

Global Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksae001

Markus Kornprobst, Stephanie Strobl

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An Emergent Community of Cyber Sovereignty: The Reproduction of Boundaries? 网络主权的新兴社区：边界的再现？

Global Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksad077

Guangyu Qiao-Franco

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Cultivating Communities of Practice: From Institutions to Practices 培养实践社区：从机构到实践

Global Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksad076

Federica Bicchi

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Correction to: Ontological Crisis and the Compartmentalization of Insecurities 更正：本体论危机与不安全感的分门别类

Global Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksae016

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The Empire Strikes Back: Comparing US and China’s Structural Power in Outer Space 帝国反击战中美在外层空间的结构性力量比较

Global Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksad067

Jean-Frédéric Morin, Eytan Tepper

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Textiling World Politics: Towards an extended epistemology, methodology, and ontology 世界政治文本化：走向扩展的认识论、方法论和本体论

Global Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksad059

Christine Andrä, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Amaya Querejazu, Victória M S Santos

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