Open innovation versus techno-nationalism by Kenneth A. Reinert

Collaboration between multinational enterprises (MNEs), as well as between MNEs and research institutions of various kinds, is an active area of international business research and, more importantly, practice. There is a good deal of evidence that these activities help to spur innovation even among large firms. Indeed, technological development is...
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Soft power and all the tools of statecraft by Dr. Geoff Heriot

No longer geographically remote from the principal theatres of great power confrontation, Australia is adapting to the uncomfortable possibility of being a ‘front line state’. Increasingly, foreign policy analysts call on the government to apply an ‘all tools of statecraft’ approach to the nation’s multi-dimensional threat environment, especially across the...
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Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation: Misunderstandings Jeopardizing the Future of the Industry

Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation: Misunderstandings Jeopardizing the Future of the Industry

When Will Natural Gas Prices Normalize, and How Will We Know When They Are Normal? By Sergei Komlev [This analysis of the current natural gas pricing crisis is an extension of the concepts presented by the author in Foundations of Natural Gas Formation – Misunderstandings Jeopardizing the Future of the...
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How Do We Avoid Becoming Numb to the Crisis in Afghanistan? by Christina Lux, Mohabbat Ahmadi, and Ignacio López-Calvo

How Do We Avoid Becoming Numb to the Crisis in Afghanistan? by Christina Lux, Mohabbat Ahmadi, and Ignacio López-Calvo

When we see body counts rise, the human capacity to respond often becomes frozen. “The more who die, the less we care,” as highlighted in a recent article published in Risk Analysis, which follows up on Paul Slovic’s earlier work on psychic numbing. We have all seen this happen with...
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Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine: Legal Chicanery on a World Stage by John Quigley

Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine: Legal Chicanery on a World Stage by John Quigley

Anyone who is knowledgeable about Britain and its role in Palestine after World War I knows that Britain was given the territory by Turkey under a peace treaty and that the League of Nations legalized Britain’s tenure, conferring a mandate on Britain to implement a national home for the Jewish...
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Contemporary Figure Skating: Dancing towards an Unhealthy Aesthetics

Contemporary Figure Skating: Dancing towards an Unhealthy Aesthetics

Dr Maryam Farahani – July 2022 Health and beauty classifications are controversial topics in humanities and sciences, but they are also inevitable concepts upon which people ponder in the path of self-discovery. In their edited volume, Narrative Art and the Politics of Health (Anthem, 2021), Neil Brooks and Sarah Blanchette...
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