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Rethinking ‘middle powers’ as a category of practice: stratification, ambiguity, and power 重新思考作为实践范畴的“中等强国”:分层、模糊性和权力

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-08-03 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000118

John de Bhal

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Is anyone a middle power? The case for historicization 有人是中等强国吗?历史化的理由

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-07-26 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000106

Jeffrey Robertson, A. Carr

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Strategic culture as a meaning-making system: towards a social semiotic account of multimodal cultural constraints in international relations 作为意义制造系统的战略文化：国际关系中多模式文化约束的社会符号学解释

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-07-26 DOI: 10.1017/s175297192300009x

Ivan Fomin

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The costs of recognition: global politics, religion, and the colonial history of South Asia 承认的代价：全球政治、宗教和南亚殖民历史

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-13 DOI: 10.1017/S1752971923000052

M. Birnbaum

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A combinatorial theory of institutional invention – ERRATUM 制度发明的组合理论——ERRATUM

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-05 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000088

Guillaume Beaumier, Marielle Papin, J. Morin

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Getting away with it? Kleptocracy, atrocities, and the morality of autocratic exile 侥幸逃脱?盗贼统治、暴行和专制流亡的道德

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-05-17 DOI: 10.1017/S1752971923000076

Shmuel Nili

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A combinatorial theory of institutional invention 制度发明的组合理论

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-05-09 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000064

Guillaume Beaumier, Marielle Papin, J. Morin

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Post-truth politics and neoliberal competition: the social sources of dogmatic cynicism 后真相政治与新自由主义竞争:教条式犬儒主义的社会根源

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-04-12 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000040

Sebastian Schindler

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Conceptualizing responsibility in world politics 世界政治中责任的概念化

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-04-11 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000039

Mitja Sienknecht, Antje Vetterlein

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INT volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Front matter INT第15卷第1期封面和封面

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International Theory Pub Date : 2023-02-06 DOI: 10.1017/s1752971923000027

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