İsrail’in Batı Şeria’daki Yerleşimci Politikası ve ABD’nin Filistin Sorununa İlişkin Barış Girişimleri: İki Devletli Çözüm Hâlâ Mümkün Mü? by Özge ÖZKOÇ

“…In the last two decades, while the Israeli occupation in the West Bank has been deepening step by step, it has become impossible for the Palestinian Authority to establish a sovereign state in the region. Despite this fact, after the collapse of the Oslo peace process, all US-centered peace attempts emphasized the two-state solution. …”
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Sociological approach to the study of Russia’s image in the Indonesian media by V. L Muzykant, Panca Syurkani

“…Another image of Russia implies the same accent on the presence of countries experiencing free rapid development as confirming that the contemporary world is no longer under the influence of just one country or one pole, because every country has the same sovereign rights. Thus, Russia’s position as presented in the Indonesian media certainly finds the approval and support of the Indonesian society.…”
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Sacrul și profanul în modernitatea occidentală. Ocultism, vrăjitorie și mode culturale by Dragoș DRAGOMAN

“…Breaking down both religious superstition and the opposition to political centralization managed to offer a new image of the world, that of the absolute sovereign in Heaven and on earth. The joint collapse of the religious faith and of the supreme monarch left the room for a desecrated, hostile and absurd universe, with no sense for living. …”
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Legislative power in the Republic of Poland by M. I. Marchuk

“…The peculiarities of the legal status of the Sejm and the Senate as the chambers of political representation of the sovereign Polish nation have been analyzed. It has been emphasized that certain competencies of legislative power in the Polish power system are intended to compensate for the strong positions of the executive branch, due to the assignment of the President of the Republic of Poland to it. …”
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Application and prospect of blockchain in Metaverse by Xiaoling SONG, Yong LIU, Jingnan DONG, Yongfei HUANG

“…The metaverse is a new ecology that seamlessly integrates the virtual digital world and the real physical world, and has recently attracted widespread attention from all walks of life.With the maturity of various new IT technologies such as blockchain technology, artificial intelligence technology, VR/AR and sensing technology, mobile communication technology and ubiquitous computing technology, the further development of the Metaverse is possible.At present, research on the Metaverse mainly involves industrial projects, infrastructure, key technologies, privacy and security, etc.Although blockchain technology is covered in these studies, the specific points about the advantages of blockchain applied to the Metaverse are still lacked.Blockchain technology can not only provide an open and free decentralized environment for the Metaverse, but also act as a fair and reasonable digital asset distribution mechanism.The digital identity and digital asset management in the Metaverse empowered by blockchain was studied.The development process and characteristics of the Metaverse were analyzed.And the core technologies and challenges faced by the development of the Metaverse were discussed.Meanwhile, the key technologies of the blockchain were studied, and the feasibility of applying the blockchain to the Metaverse was analyzed from two aspects: the essential characteristics of the blockchain and the advantages of other technology integration.The Metaverse ecosystem architecture was further proposed, and the blockchain-based self-sovereign identity management model, blockchain-NFT workflow and its application in the Metaverse were analyzed in detail.Furthermore, combining the latest research progress of blockchain and the Metaverse, it was pointed out that the application of blockchain to the Metaverse will be from four aspects: infrastructure, communication and computing resource management mechanisms, regulation and privacy protection, and blockchain scalability and interoperability.Then the related challenges ahead and future research directions were presented at last.…”
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The Ukrainian crisis and the question of sovereignty and territorial integrity by Jovanović Nevena

“…The article aims to indicate and emphasize that the key international actors who (in)directly participate in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine have different approaches when it comes to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, that is, when it comes to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Serbia, forgetting on respecting the principle of sovereign equality of states. In other words, since the outbreak of the armed conflict in Ukraine in February 2022, we have witnessed that member states of the international community, guided by their own national interests, can take different positions regarding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a particular state, as a result of differently formulated policies.…”
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Internationalization of Higher Education in Russia: in Search for Development by E. V. Nikitenko

“…The university is still not perceived as a sovereign economic entity. The market capacity factor is poorly taken into account. …”
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Mongolia’s assertive and pragmatic role in India’s Connect Central Asia Policy: Current trajectory and Future Ahead by Subhash Kumar, Souvik Chatterjee

“…Geographically landlocked and situated in the Eurasian intersection, Mongolia has the lowest population density of any sovereign country on the planet. Sandwiched among Russia and China Mongolia's harsh environment limit its economic interests. …”
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A Comparative Survey of Centralised and Decentralised Identity Management Systems: Analysing Scalability, Security, and Feasibility by Aviral Goel, Yogachandran Rahulamathavan

“…This review paper performs a comparison of popular decentralised identity management (DIM) protocols, such as self-sovereign identity (SSI), against traditional centralised approaches such as LDAP and SAML. …”
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The governing system of the Vatican City State under the Fundamental Law of the Vatican City State of 2023 by Agnieszka Romanko

“…This issue required an in-depth analysis due to the fact that the Vatican City State, despite being an absolute monarchy in which the Sovereign enjoys full power, has specialised bodies equipped with legislative, executive and judicial functions, which they always exercise on behalf of the Pope. …”
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The Electoral History of the Post-Soviet Crimea: from UkSSR to Russia by A. A. Tokarev

“…Sevastopol always has particular identity and special administrative status of the city, regardless of the sovereign center title (Moscow or Kyiv). That`s why we give the data for Sevastopol in addition to the Crimea for each vote. …”
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The Evolution of the NATO-Russia Relations by V. I. Batyuk

“…The author shows that after the collapse of the bipolar world, and the Russian Federation’s emergence on the international scene as a sovereign state, Moscow did not exclude the possibility of establishing partnership and even allied relations with the North Atlantic Alliance. …”
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Title and power of the ruler of Lithuania during the end of the fourteenth up to the middle of the fifteenth century by Loreta Skurvydaitė

“…When the conflict for the Vytautas heritage started, the position of the Lithuanian ruler towards the sovereign rule as well as the title became very complicated. …”
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Violent crime motivated by war-related hate: concepts, signs, development trends by V. V. Sokurenko

“…The article substantiates the need to study violent crime motivated by hatred related to the war as a separate criminological category in view of the ongoing armed conflict on the territory of Ukraine, the annexation of part of its territories and open calls by the Russian authorities to destroy the Ukrainian nation, incite hatred to everything that identifies Ukraine as a sovereign independent state. The analysis of the transformations of violent crime based on hatred related to the war as a socio-legal phenomenon of modern society shows that the social price of its existence in our society is too high. …”
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Left-wing populism in Spain by I. L. Prokhorenko

“…In particular, the paper shows that the fragmentation of traditional political systems and the impacts of the sovereign debt crisis per se do not provide a sufficient explanation for the growing demand for populist rhetoric and charismatic leaders, but rather they have exposed certain structural economic and social imbalances. …”
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Gouvernance de l’orpaillage dans le domaine de chasse de Bili-Uéré : entre application de la règlementation nationale et nécessités locales de survie dans la Province du Bas-Uélé e... by Justin Kyale Koy, Gloire Ganza Bamulezi, Matthieu Mamiki Kebongobongo, Serge Alebadwa Mombenga, Antoine Tabu, Jean-Claude Kalala, Camille Welepele, Theodore Tréfon, Elie Lamarre

“…This coexistence is due to the local socio-economic needs of the stakeholders, abandoned by the State in its sovereign functions. The actors involved in the governance of gold panning have thus developed systems of relationships around the issues linked to this activity. …”
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A new publication on the history of Tuva (about the book by Z. Y. Dorzhu and O. Y. Irgit Рolitical repressions in the Tuva People’s Republic (1921–1944) – Novosibirsk, 2023) by S. A. Papkov

“…This analytical review focuses on the work of Tuvinian researchers on the causes and consequences of political purges in Tuva during the existence of the Republic as a formally sovereign state. The authors of the book consistently reconstruct the main cycle of socio-political events in the region, figuring out how the experience and practices of revolutionary Russia passed on to Tuvinian soil. …”
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The definition of the state value in terms of functional quintessence by S. G. Pevko

“…It has been concluded that the State is a sovereign, political and territorial organisation of society, on the territory of which there are authorities, legal system and taxation system, as well as other additional elements. …”
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La forteresse de Sadr, une lecture géo-historique au temps des croisés by Corinne Feïss-Jehel, Jean-Michel Mouton, Claudine Piaton, Pierre-Jérôme Jehel, Jeannine Le Rhun

“…At the heart of the Sinai desert lies the Sadr fortress, today called Qal-at al-Gindi, is the most authentic archeological legacy left in the Middle East by the famous Kurdish sovereign Saladin (1174-1193). This military edifice was built in the context of the crusades. …”
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Forecasting Latin America’s Country Risk Scores by Means of a Dynamic Diffusion Model by R. Cervelló-Royo, J.-C. Cortés, A. Sánchez-Sánchez, F.-J. Santonja, R.-J. Villanueva

“…Global financial crisis and changes in sovereign debts ratings have affected the Latin American financial markets and their economies. …”
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