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The 2015-refugee crisis fully hit Greece after years of strict austerity, challenging notions of entitlement, the role of institutions, and overall assumptions on migration. This article examines Greek asylum and…
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…Brazil. It highlights the difficulties of the colonial elite in dealing administratively and politically with the two centres of power: Rio de Janeiro versus Lisbon, Pedro versus D. João VI….
…additional support to the idea that the current American-led international order may last longer than is often thought while allowing for changes in the distribution of power. Vítor Ramon Fernandes…
…from coming to power. In this article we will focus on Carl Schmitt’s contribution to international relations. But why talk about him now? Because we cannot fail to highlight –…
…not less important: the change of this group gave rise to the mutation of security and conflict issues in Colombia, namely, the markets of violence, the dispute over the power…
…manipulation of the religious dimension for political ends as a milestone of the process of africanization of power, due to religious and political syncretism typical of traditional African political systems,…
…the lenses of the Westphalian order. To the contrary, we are witnessing the (re)emergence of a spatial, power and functional heterogeneity beyond, between and within nation-states today. We can particularly…
Small states, despite their power deficits, are able to influence large states. This paper explores how Portugal appears to have selected strategies to modulate yet improve its relations with China…
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