"NEO-OTTOMANISM" IN THE REGIONAL POLICY OF TURKEY by E. T. Mehdiyev

“…Mediation is used in regional conflicts Turkish leadership as an instrument of "soft power", with which Ankara aims to increase its international and regional credibility. …”
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Discourse of Europe in Political Dialogue between the EU and the South Caucasus Countries by A. S. Ayvazyan

“…The concept of ‘normative power’ implies that values should take precedence over narrow political interests and designates the ability of international actors to establish global norms and to encourage other actors to prioritize these values in foreign and domestic policies. …”
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Chinese Economic Diplomacy before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic by E. I. Safronova

“…Incentive economic diplomacy also serves as an important tool for strengthening the soft-power potential of the PRC in the international arena, especially in developing countries. …”
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Russian-Greek Political and Ecclesiastical Relations in 20-30s of the 19th Century by E. P. Kudryavtseva

“…After the Greek uprising, main powers in the Western Europe had no doubt that Russia would support the rebels. …”
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Soviet and British diplomacy at international conferences on the eve of the formation of the USSR by E. Yu. Sergeev

“…In the case of Soviet Russia, the latter implied the need to break international isolation and economic blockade which pushed Soviet leaders to intensify efforts to restore economic and political ties with the Western states after the Civil War and intervention. …”
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US foreign policy in the 21st century and the question of morality in international relations in theory and practice by Nikolić Danijela, Rašković-Talović Violeta

“…The author's intention is to prove that energy and economic wars, which imply economic and political sanctions, are set in motion with the aim of destroying the economic potential of opposing economies and states that oppose certain geopolitical interests of the great powers. …”
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La régulation des goûts by Christian Barrère

“…Firms play on tastes to increase the value of their capital but encounter many other actors (the State, the consumers and their communities) in a world of competing powers and counter-powers.…”
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L’eau à Siğilmāsa (Maroc) : témoins écrits et matériels pour une hydro-histoire du Tāfīlālt (VIIIe-XVe siècles) by Thomas Soubira

“…This management of water necessarily implies strong social interactions. Some written sources show in particular that, in the urban landscape, the major hydraulic works participate to the strategy of political powers that very often enjoy the the benefit of the development and this, in order to establish their legitimacy and attract the inhabitants. …”
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Les Oromo à la conquête du trône du roi des rois (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) by Dimitri Toubkis

“…Above all they did not represent an Oromo party struggling for power against other groups. They were political forces implied in different court parties.…”
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Screening Drone Warfare by Delphine Letort

“…While war films contribute to the construction of collective memory, few of them address the changes implied by drone warfare. Drone operators work from remote places and share only one space: the screen that conveys drone images. …”
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Would-be places for displaced Afghans – The UNHCR, landless returnees and the enforcement of the national order by Giulia Scalettaris

“…The difficulty experienced in founding these settlements reveals the power relations at work in the way landless Afghan returnees are made ‘dwellers of the world’, and brings into question the role and capacity of an international agency to challenge those relations.…”
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L’étude des pyrrhiques d’amphithéâtre sous l’empire : l’apport de l’iconographie by Anne Berlan-Gallant

“…However, their performance in the arena, first in Rome then in the provinces, implied the choice of mythological themes that had already been disseminated through vectors accessible to all, such as the theatre or the decoration of everyday objects. …”
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Possible cosmic rays origin of periodic components in gamma-background signals by A. D. Skorbun

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization after Enlargement: New Challenges and Prospects by D. V. Efremenko

“…In 2018–2019 the SCO powers, together and separately, have made a decisive contribution to the settlement of inter-Afghanistan conflict when the US and NATO troops had been withdrawn from Afghanistan. …”
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MULTIMODAL HUMOUR ON OVERPOPULATION IN JOEL PETT’S ENVIRONMENTAL CARTOONS by Živilė Nemickienė, Dovilė Urbonienė, Julija Zabielinaitė

“…Cartoonists’ skill to reveal important problems, to influence and construct public opinion has become a great power. This study examines humour as a social instrument and focuses on the expression of humour, or irony in particular, in famous American cartoonist Joel Pett’s overpopulation cartoons. …”
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Optimization of Vacuum Microwave-Mediated Extraction of Syringoside and Oleuropein from Twigs of Syringa oblata by Xiangping Liu, Xuemin Jing, Guoliang Li

“…The optimal extraction conditions were an ethanol volume fraction of 40%, a liquid-solid ratio of 17 mL/g, 1 h of soaking time, −0.08 MPa of vacuum, a microwave irradiation power of 524 W, and a microwave irradiation time of 8 min. …”
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From Quantum Unstable Systems to the Decaying Dark Energy: Cosmological Implications by Aleksander Stachowski, Marek Szydłowski, Krzysztof Urbanowski

“…We consider a cosmology with decaying metastable dark energy and assume that a decay process of this metastable dark energy is a quantum decay process. Such an assumption implies among others that the evolution of the Universe is irreversible and violates the time reversal symmetry. …”
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I Can Only Imagine: The Aborted Korean Ministry (1566–1571) of Father Gaspar Vilela, as Recounted by His Letter of 3 November 1571—An Illustration of Jesuit Attitudes on Notions of... by Hayoung Wong

“…This analysis’s foundation rests on Jesuit assumptions regarding the conception of an imagined Korea, a construct that Vilela discerned upon with a confidence that emanated from his awareness of the Jesuit order’s political power. The notion of an imagined Korea arguably drew from a creativity implied by the missionary imagination, an idea evidenced in thinking processes of perspective, positive/negative consubstantiality, radical self-assessment, and reduction advocated by anthropologists increasingly willing to engage with theology. …”
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The Board President’s Role in Controlling the Decision-making Process in Voluntary Sports Organizations by Jorge Alexandre Pereira Soares

“…The qualitative nature of the study implied a participant’s observation during board meetings (with a total of 35 sports directors - 3 professionals and 32 volunteers), as well as interviewing the six board presidents of the sports associations that are part of the study. …”
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Normalizar: discurso, legislación y educación sexual by Germán Torres

“…Formed after lively debate, this law implied the activation of a series of discursive procedures of power and normalization that enabled the birth of the official curriculum for sex education. …”
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