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Actors, activities, and forms of authority in the IPCC 政府间气候变化专门委员会的行动者、活动和权力形式

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Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000207

Hannah Hughes

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Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia 帝国权力、反帝国抵抗和国际等级制度的形成：20世纪30年代波斯的教训

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Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000190

Evaleila Pesaran

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Oh help! Oh no! The international politics of The Gruffalo: Children’s picturebooks and world politics 哦，救命！哦，不！格鲁法洛的国际政治：儿童绘本与世界政治

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Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-11 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000098

L. Jarvis, N. Robinson

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Rethinking international intervention through coeval engagement: Non-formal youth education and the politics of improvement 通过共同参与重新思考国际干预:非正规青年教育和改进的政治

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Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-11 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000104

K. Kušić

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Creating colonisable land: Cartography, ‘blank spaces’, and imaginaries of empire in nineteenth-century Germany 创造可殖民的土地：制图、“空白”和19世纪德国帝国的想象

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Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-22 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000050

Z. Çapan, F. dos Reis

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‘No one around to shut the dead eyes of the human race’: Sartre, Aron, and the limits of existentialism in the Nuclear Age “没有人能让人类的死亡之眼闭上”:萨特，阿隆，以及核时代存在主义的极限

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Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-20 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000086

Benjamin Zala

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Chelsea Manning, national security, and the cishetero/homonormative logics of protection 切尔西·曼宁、国家安全和保护的顺异/同源逻辑

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Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-16 DOI: 10.1017/S0260210523000037

Béatrice Châteauvert-Gagnon

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Towards democratic intelligence oversight: Limits, practices, struggles 走向民主情报监督:限制、实践、斗争

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Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-16 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000013

Ronja Kniep, Lina Ewert, Bernardino Léon Reyes, Félix Tréguer, E. Cluskey, Claudia Aradau

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RIS volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter RIS第49卷第2期封面和封面问题

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Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-10 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000062

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RIS volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter RIS第49卷第2期封面和封底

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Review of International Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-10 DOI: 10.1017/s0260210523000074

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