Écart et souveraineté dans les essais de Ralph Waldo Emerson by Mathieu Duplay

“…Secondly, and more importantly, because to be aware of the dangerous and necessary distance between me and myself is to understand that a part of myself has always already been consigned to a position beyond the sphere of articulated speech, in a pre‑subjective Outside exposed to sovereign appropriation. While this component of the mind is utterly powerless (that is to say defenceless against the claims staked by competing interlocutors), it is not without force, if by this one means the privilege of the indispensable. …”
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Sword of Heaven : Political Theology in Measure for Measure by Richard Wilson

“…Yet, textual research has established Measure for Measure beyond question as a ‘posthumous collaboration’, and ensured we can never go back to the sovereign Shakespeare. It was Middleton’s tampering with Shakespeare’s text that transformed it from a drama of demonic substitution, focused on the ‘outward-sainted deputy’ [3.1.93] into an allegory of divine sovereignty, idealizing the monarch as a deus ex machina. …”
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Imagining alternative futures through the lens of food in the Afghan and Tajik Pamir mountains by Frederik J.W. Van Oudenhoven, L. Jamila Haider

“…This crisis of imagination partly springs from a narrow reading of history, which obscures much of the wealth of the Pamirs and its people, including elements crucial to their ability to develop in a sovereign manner. This paper explores a different development narrative, which emerges when the history of today’s Pamirs, its landscape, agriculture, diversity, and culture are understood, not in terms of empires, humanitarian threats or markets, but through the lens of food. …”
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“O melhor e mais obediente filho” by Tiago Viúla de Faria

“…For two decades, his father, King João I – already a seasoned sovereign – had come to rely on the firstborn to assist him in the everyday management of royal administration, justice, and certain economic matters. …”
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Lithuania's Attempts of the 1920 Summer to Recover its Lands Occupied by the Poles by Vytautas Lesčius

“…Under the peace treaty of July 12th, 1920, concluded with Soviet Russia, Lithuania was recognized as an independent and sovereign state, and its borders were delineated.   …”
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Peter The Great's Foreign Policy in the Assessments of Russian Conservatives of the 19th Century by E. V. Linkova

“…Peter I «in his relations with foreign powers...was guided solely by the consciousness of our national benefits and needs, while strictly protecting the honor and dignity of the sovereign and the state». The conservatives criticized the emperor's 19th century heirs for what they saw as abandonment of national interests in favor of pan-European ones.…”
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Determinants of Short- and Long-Term Commercial Lending Rates in Peru, 2010–2022 by Sergio Bravo Orellana

“…It is also observed that the issuance of sovereign bonds is a robust tool in determining the long-term rate due to its facilitation of credit access. …”
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REVISITING THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR: THE ROLE OF THE IBIBIO IN THE COLLAPSE OF BIAFRA, 1967-1970 by GODWIN STEPHEN EMAH, PETER FOLORUNSHO ADEBAYO

“…The study revealed that the Ibibio sabotaged the efforts of the Biafrans and annihilated their dream of becoming a sovereign nation by giving supportive hands to the federal troops which aided their victory. …”
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A Short History of the Formation of Hungarian Legal Terminology by József Szabadfalvi

“… After the founding of the sovereign Hungarian feudal state, Latin became the ›official‹ language of state affairs, legislation, and legal literacy for centuries. …”
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Political Tool of “Immoral Rituals” and Resilience of Buddhism in Chosŏn Korea by Nam-lin Hur

“…Based on an analysis of four episodes in which Buddhist prayer rituals were denounced as immoral rituals, the article suggests that the Confucians tried to construct a new collective identity of distinction and privilege, to keep in check the royal family and, by extension, the sovereign, to control the female body, and, in collaboration with the king, to suppress people’s discontent with governance. …”
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University proceedings. Volga region. Social sciences by L.V. Rozhkova, O.V. Sal'nikova

“…Youth believe that the key criteria for multipolarity are the sovereign equality of countries and cooperation with balance of interests. …”

Banking and Fiscal Unions in the EU: What is More Relevant? by A. N. Tsibulina

“…At the same time sovereign debt crises in a number of member-states, on the one hand, showed lack of an effective EU-wide system of control over a fiscal discipline and, on the other hand raised questions about lack of any system of fiscal transfers to countries hit by a negative shock. …”
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Synergistically complex social well-being: The trust factor by S. A. Kravchenko

“…For its sociological diagnostics, humanistically oriented interdisciplinarity is proposed, organically including both new theories of chaos, complexity and nonlinearity, and humanistic concepts of the sovereign national sociology.…”
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The Institutionalization of Political Humor as a Form of Reflection by S. S. Melnikov

“…For the individual as sovereign entity political humor became a sort of social and psychological compensation. …”
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Consuetudo Legis: Writing Down Customs in the Roman Empire (2nd–5th Century CE) by Soazick Kerneis

“…Of course, it would be presumptuous to transpose our modern categories and to consider laws as impersonal and general rules issued from sovereign powers, and customs as spontaneously generated uses that have been accepted by the social groups concerned. …”
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The USSR Victory in World War II and the Emergence of the Independent Republic of Indonesia by L. M. Efimova

“…The present article which is a result of the study of newly available documents from several recently opened Soviet archives shows the Soviet backing of Indonesia in the UN, its diplomatic recognition, in strengthening of Indonesian status as a sovereign state on the international arena as a whole.…”
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Revisiting governmentality in surf tourism governance: a diverse ecologies approach by Tara Ruttenberg, J. Peter Brosius

“…Understanding governmentality as an “art of governance” creating and influencing human behavior, a handful of scholarly discussions have thus far engaged with Foucault's fourfold categories of neoliberal, sovereign, disciplinary, and (to a much lesser extent) truth governmentalities to interpret surf tourism governance in select locations. …”
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Affect and subjectivity of child welfare policy workers in Chile by Javiera Garcia-Meneses, Giazú Enciso-Domínguez

“…Due to its focus on pre-conscious and sensory factors, the study of affect has enabled understanding the production of subjectivity overcoming rational models of subjectivity that (re)produce an ideal of the sovereign neoliberal subject. This article seeks to affectively analyze the labor subjectivity of workers in the Chilean child protection program. …”
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Commentary on “Social protection and the International Monetary Fund: promise versus performance” by Alexander Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs by James Pfeiffer

“…Conclusion The Universal Social Protection approach described by Kentikelenis and Stubbs provides a focal point for these demands to confront this latest and worst episode of sovereign debt crisis already undermining global health progress.…”
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Kais Saied's reconfiguration of Tunisia’s political system: Hegemonic ambitions to no avail? – A critical approach by Julius Dihstelhoff, Mounir Mrad

“…They argue that a preliminary culmination and expression of this 'hegemonic crisis' can be perceived as the Schmittian momentum of a «sovereign dictatorship» (Schmitt, 1921-23/1928), and the latter should be especially considered in conjunction with a historical long-term perspective on hegemonic crisis to assess Saied's assumption of power. …”
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