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Cmsi Archive Translation: A Study Of Maritime Strategic Thoughts Of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, And Jiang Zemin, Liu Zhongmin

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This article examines the foundational maritime thoughts of China's past leaders, illustrating a continuous strategic evolution that progressively expanded the navy's sphere of operations from "coastal defense" toward "near-seas defense"

Cmsi Archive Translation: Planning And Managing Maritime Affairs, Safeguarding Maritime Rights And Interests, And Building A Powerful Navy, Wu Shengli

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Former PLAN Commander Admiral Wu Shengli reflects on the First Sino-Japanese War as a catastrophic failure of "ocean consciousness," arguing that constructing a powerful navy commensurate with a great power is an indispensable requirement for national rejuvenation

Cmsi Archive Translation: An Analysis Of The Necessity And Feasibility Of Strengthening Construction Of A Far Seas Navy, Fang Xiaozhi

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Fang Xiaozhi analyzes the necessity and feasibility of building a far-seas navy to protect China's expanding global economic interests and secure vital sea lines of communication (SLOCs) and global maritime choke points

Cmsi Archive Translation: Science Of Military Strategy: Naval Strategy, Ams (Academy Of Military Science)

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This authoritative text provides a comprehensive timeline of PLAN strategy, formalizing the expansion from "near-seas defense" to "near-seas defense, far-seas protection" and explicitly defining the navy's modern peacetime and wartime missions

Cmsi Archive Translation: Promote The Transformation Of Naval Strategy, Safeguard Maritime Security, Zhang Xiaolin, Cao Yang

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This article details the 2015 Defense White Paper mandate for the navy to shift from "near seas defense" to a dual-layered strategy that integrates "near seas defense" with "far seas protection"

Cmsi Archive Translation: The Complexity Of The Maritime Military Struggle Calls For A Powerful Navy, Li Daguang, Ma Zheng

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The authors discuss how the increasing complexity of maritime military struggle and the urgent requirement to protect overseas citizens and property drive the need for a modern, powerful navy capable of winning informationalized local wars

Cmsi Archive Translation: On The Navy’S Strategic Positioning In The New Era, Shi Cangyong, Chen Yan

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This article outlines the navy's refined strategic positioning in the "New Era," specifically its mission to achieve “regional sea control and transoceanic projection” to safeguard core national interests within and beyond the first island chain

Cmsi Archive Translation: Excerpts From Introduction To Warship Technology And Design, Second Edition, Zhao Kaiwen, Ma Yunyi

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This compilation explores the industrial "how" of naval development, highlighting the shift toward modular and digitized construction and "mass customization" to produce specialized vessels with greater speed and agility

Cmsi Archive Translation: Plan Research Priorities: Outstanding Doctoral And Master’S Thesis Finalists, People's Navy

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This report identifies the PLAN’s specific research priorities—ranging from nuclear reactor characteristics to the operational use of nuclear submarines in carrier strike groups—through its outstanding academic thesis finalists

Cmsi Archive Translation: An Analysis Of China’S Maritime Development Strategy And Trends In Ship Development, Xie Wei, Lu Chao

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The authors analyze how strategic goals, such as the need to “break through” island chain limitations, dictate hardware development trends and the requirement for integrated far-seas support systems

Cmsi Archive Translation: Though The Path Is Long, We Will Get There If We Walk, Though The Task Is Difficult, We Will Succeed If We Try, Xing Wenge

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Xing Wenge emphasizes closing the capability gap with the U.S. Navy through “top-down design” and the development of network-centric equipment driven by real-combat requirements and systems engineering

Costs Of Ideologically Driven Conflicts A Case Of Nepal, Mukunda Raj Kattel

Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Conference

An armed conflict raged for a decade in Nepal between 1996 and 2006. It ended with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the parties to conflict: The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) (CPN-M) and the government of Nepal. Signed in November 2006, the CPA was in operation until 2015, when a constitution was adopted.

The CPN-M wanted to overthrow the Nepali State through a guerrilla warfare – which they called ‘people’s war’ – and establish a people’s republic. The government of the day designated the CPN-M as a terrorist organization and sought to defeat them militarily. The result was the …

#Reclaiming My Time: Structural Violence, Racial Trauma And The Case For A Transformative Healing Justice For Black Women Movement Actors, Shaneda L. Destine

Societies Without Borders

This research evaluates the intra-movement conflicts and political praxis of 30 black movement actors, ages 18-40 years old from September to December 2016, in the District of Columbia and Maryland in the United States (Crenshaw et al, 2015). Intersectional theory guides this research to outline the relationship of black women movement actors’ struggles within movement spaces and their approach to a transformative healing justice. Themes arise about intra-movement conflicts as well as the importance of self-care and political education. Evidence suggests a level of healing justice in some organizations, but less political education. Implications for social movement praxis are discussed.

Diminishing Global Power, Downgrading Human Rights: Making Sense Of American Foreign Policy Under Donald Trump, Timothy M. Gill

Societies Without Borders

President Donald Trump has generated much confusion concerning his foreign policy approach, and he has often displayed contradictory positions on an array of issues. Trump has, for example, praised authoritarian leaders in Eastern Europe, but condemned them in Latin America. The purpose of this paper is to make sense of Trump’s foreign policy approach, and its novelties and continuities, by putting his administration into comparative-historical focus alongside Bush II and Obama. I analyze their foreign policy approach by using Michael Mann’s IEMP model of power to draw out their distinctive qualities. Similar to Mann’s own analysis of Bush II, I …

Deportation As A Death Sentence: Equal Protection Violations In The Trump Administration's Termination Of Medical Deferred Action, Lauren Silk

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Cmsi Archive Translation: Sharpening Their Sword, On Course For Victory: An Account Of The Armament Department Of The East Sea Fleet Leveraging The Advantages Of The New System In Order To Improve Equipment Support Abilities, Chen Xiong, Chi Zumin, Liu Yuexiang, Wang Chunfeng, Dai Zongfeng, Yin Fei

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This article details reforms within the East Sea Fleet’s Armament Department to adapt to expanding naval missions. It highlights a transition from pure hardware maintenance to a "soft and hard" support model that integrates technical repairs with submariner training and psychological confidence in their equipment. The piece also explores the benefits of a "factory conglomerate" model for more efficient repairs and the normalization of civil-military integration for specialized technical support.

Ukraine V. The Russian Federation: Navigating Conflict Over Sovereignty Under Unclos, NilüFer Oral

International Law Studies

Following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, or according to Russia, its accession following a referendum, Ukraine brought several international cases against the Russian Federation, including two cases under Annex VII of UNCLOS: The Dispute Concerning Coastal State Rights in the Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and Kerch Strait in 2016 and The Detention of Three Ukrainian Naval Vessels in 2019. At the center of these disputes is the conflict between Ukraine and Russia over sovereignty of Crimea. Russia contested jurisdiction in all cases invoking different exceptions under UNCLOS, including the argument that the dispute concerns sovereignty over Crimea and …

The First Battle Of El Alamein, Nathan Landrum

Bound Away: The Liberty Journal of History

In June 1942, German and Italian forces under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel launched a successful offensive into British-held Egypt. This move not only threatened the Suez Canal, it presented the opportunity for Germany to seize the oil rich and strategically important Middle East. British and Commonwealth forces under General Sir Claude Auchinleck, however, halted Axis offensive at the First Battle of El Alamein (1-27 July 1942). This engagement proved decisive in the outcome of the North African campaign in World War II and ultimately the European Theater of Operations, as it shifted the balance of toward the Allies, enabling them …

Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti, The Death Penalty, And War, John Sniegocki

The Journal of Social Encounters

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Window Seat, Linda M. Pavonetti, Leah Van Belle, Danielle L. Diamond

Michigan Reading Journal

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Exploring The Silent Aspect Of Carbon Nanopores, Teresa J. Bandosz

Publications and Research

Recently, owing to the discovery of graphene, porous carbons experienced a revitalization in their explorations. However, nowadays, the focus is more on search for suitable energy advancing catalysts sensing, energy storage or thermal/light absorbing features than on separations. In many of these processes, adsorption, although not emphasized sufficiently, can be a significant step. It can just provide a surface accumulation of molecules used in other application-driving chemical or physical phenomena or can be even an additional mechanism adding to the efficiency of the overall performance. However, that aspect of confined molecules in pores and their involvement in the overall performance …

Women And Evolution Of Cultural Practices Among The Igbo Of Nigeria, Christian C. Opata, Apex A. Apeh, Asogwa S. Odoja, Alaku Emmanuel

Journal of International Women's Studies

Studies on Igbo women have ignored the part played by either fear of women or respect for them in the evolution of festivals and some customary practices. Embedded in this neglect is the non-recognition of their contribution to the development of their societies. However, evidence that some cultural practices evolved out of fear of women and respect for them by the men abounds as manifest in the evolution of some spirit being institutions, memorialisation of women’s war exploits, and veneration of kola nut. Anchored on extensive field investigation, the application of historical narrative and qualitative research method, this study traced …

The Globalization Of Hate: Are Domestic Terrorism Laws Sufficient To Quell New Threats From Alt-Right Lone-Wolf Extremists?, Jason J. Sullivan-Halpern

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

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Refusing To Concede The Election: Defending Democracy By Expanding The G7 Rapid Response Mechanism, Taylor Hayes

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

The past decade is rife with examples of actions by nefarious groups to improperly interfere in democratic elections around the world, and it is time that democratic nations band together to effectively combat these interference efforts. More than two dozen nations around the world have fallen victim to some form of election interference. The United States and its allies have traced many of these interference campaigns to state actors, particularly the Russian government.

In 2018, the Group of Seven (G7) announced the creation of a Rapid Response Mechanism (G7 RRM). The aim of the G7 RRM is to limit the …

Defeat But Not Ignominy: The New Orleans Afro-Creoles Behind Plessy V. Ferguson, Paul Kinny

Undergraduate Research (Journal)

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Race And Resistance On The Creation Of Mexican American Citizenship And The Chicano Identity, Luiz Francisco Guizzo Gutierrez Osorio

Undergraduate Research (Journal)

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Captains Of War, Louis Halewood, David Morgan-Owen

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

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The Facets Of Transitional Justice And 'Red Terror' Mass Trials Of Derg Officials In Post-1991 Ethiopia: Reassessing Its Achievements And Pitfalls, Kinkino Kia Legide

Journal of African Conflicts and Peace Studies

At the end of the state perpetrated largescale violence, two important puzzling questions need to be addressed by post-conflict states. The first one chiefly concern how to ensure accountability or fight impunity, and the second is concerned with how to transform a society wrecked by prolonged conflicts into a durable peace in a non-violent means (Jarstad & Sisk, 2008). One such effort to deal with these questions was implementation of a transitional justice measures which evolved to encompass broader themes in addition to criminal accountability and it has shown a considerable relevance and expansion since the end of Cold War. …

On American Demagoguery To National Security, Jennifer Brumfield

University of Cincinnati Law Review

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Signs Of Atonement: Eucharist And Mimetism In The Brazilian Church, Guilherme Ribeiro De Paula

Doctor of Ministry

The Evangelical Church in Brazil has grown in power in the last two decades. This new situation has revealed a church that seeks to change culture through power, resulting in violence and a dispute for cultural hegemony. This dissertation asserts that a contemplative practice of the Eucharist can produce renewed understandings of the atonement and can reorient the church toward a culture of reconciliation. Following the theoretical framework of René Girard, this thesis claims that we are the ones who need violence and sacrifice, not God. If we are not satisfied with the Eucharist, we will search for false atonements …