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Women’s discursive agency in transitional justice policy-making: A feminist institutionalist approach 转型司法决策中的女性话语主体:女性主义制度主义视角

IF 3 1区社会学

Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000360

Denisa Kostovicova, V. Popovski

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The Black Fantastic in International Relations 国际关系中的黑色幻想

IF 3 1区社会学

Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-30 DOI: 10.1017/S0260210523000323

Lester Spence

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Problematising entanglement fetishism in IR: On the possibility of being without being in relation IR中的纠缠拜物教问题:论没有关系的存在的可能性

IF 3 1区社会学

Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000372

Ignasi Torrent

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‘The nation has conquered the state’: Arendtian insights on the internal contradictions of the nation-state “民族征服了国家”：阿伦特对民族国家内部矛盾的洞见

IF 3 1区社会学

Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000384

Peter J. Verovšek

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Accommodating Nutopia: The nuclear ban treaty and the developmental interests of Global South countries 包容乌托邦:禁止核武器条约与全球南方国家的发展利益

IF 3 1区社会学

Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000396

Andrew Futter, O. Samuel

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Inscribing security: The case of Zelensky’s selfies 隐形安全：泽连斯基的自拍案例

IF 3 1区社会学

Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-10 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000359

Håvard Rustad Markussen

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Ontological security, myth, and existentialism 本体论安全、神话与存在主义

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Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000335

Xander Kirke, Brent J. Steele

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Dreams of atomic genocide: The bomb, racial violence, and fantasies of annihilation 原子弹灭绝的梦想:炸弹、种族暴力和毁灭的幻想

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Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000256

Benjamin Meiches

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Crossed pandemics: Racism, police violence, and Covid-19 in Brazil and the United States 交叉流行病：巴西和美国的种族主义、警察暴力和新冠肺炎

IF 3 1区社会学

Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-13 DOI: 10.1017/S0260210523000219

Marta Fernández, Pedro Paulo dos Santos Silva

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Pan-African gender governance: The politics of aspiration at the African Union 泛非性别治理：非洲联盟的愿望政治

IF 3 1区社会学

Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-05 DOI: 10.1017/S0260210523000293

Karmen Tornius

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