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Environmental Activism in the Digital Age 数字时代的环境行动主义

Flux: International Relations Review Pub Date : 2021-11-05 DOI: 10.26443/firr.v11i1.52

Maëlle Jacqmarcq

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Political Discourse in the Maghreb: An Analysis of Amazigh Identity in Algeria and Morocco 马格里布的政治话语:阿尔及利亚和摩洛哥的阿马齐格认同分析

Flux: International Relations Review Pub Date : 2021-11-05 DOI: 10.26443/firr.v11i1.53

P. Macdonald

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Lebanon and Iraq: Two Distinct Demonstrations of Confessionalism’s Failure as a Means to Manage Ethnic and Religious Pluralism 黎巴嫩和伊拉克:作为管理种族和宗教多元主义的手段，忏悔主义失败的两个不同例证

Flux: International Relations Review Pub Date : 2021-11-05 DOI: 10.26443/firr.v11i2.74

Nouri Mohsen

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"The only thing one can do in America is emigrate”: South American Responses to the Venezuelan Migration Crisis “在美国唯一能做的就是移民”:南美对委内瑞拉移民危机的回应

Flux: International Relations Review Pub Date : 2020-07-29 DOI: 10.26443/firr.v10i1.30

Alanna Sereboff

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Russia’s Legitimizing Narrative for Annexation: Impetus or Pretext? 俄罗斯吞并的合法化叙事:动力还是借口?

Flux: International Relations Review Pub Date : 2020-07-29 DOI: 10.26443/firr.v10i1.24

Presian Dragiev

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The Arab League has No Bark and No Bite 阿拉伯联盟既不吠也不咬

Flux: International Relations Review Pub Date : 2020-07-29 DOI: 10.26443/firr.v10i1.28

E. Hedstrom

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Defending Human Rights Through Social Action: The Role of the Catholic Church in Latin America in the 1960s–1980s 通过社会行动捍卫人权:天主教会在1960 - 1980年代在拉丁美洲的作用

Flux: International Relations Review Pub Date : 2020-07-29 DOI: 10.26443/firr.v10i1.25

M. Evans

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The International Role in the Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa Following Violent Conflicts 暴力冲突后在撒哈拉以南非洲应对艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行病方面的国际作用

Flux: International Relations Review Pub Date : 2020-07-29 DOI: 10.26443/firr.v10i1.26

Evelyne Goulet, Jill Horowitz, Jordan Schiff

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Sport Diplomacy: Sport’s Impact as a Form of Soft Power on Peacebuilding and Nation-Building in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 体育外交:体育作为一种软实力形式对巴以冲突中和平建设和国家建设的影响

Flux: International Relations Review Pub Date : 2020-07-29 DOI: 10.26443/firr.v10i1.29

Ender McDuff

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Monetary Overextension: Why the Chinese Yuan will not become the next Global Currency 货币过度扩张:为什么人民币不会成为下一个全球货币

Flux: International Relations Review Pub Date : 2020-07-29 DOI: 10.26443/firr.v10i1.31

W. Wong

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