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Edward Wilmot Blyden. The African Personality and Early Intellectual Work in the Gold Coast (Ghana)

Ahmed Bouchemal, Faiza Senouci · Ziane Achour University, Algeria
There is a commonly held view that African nationalism took shape out of contacts of African intellectuals with twentieth-century Pan-African leaders. Yet, this interpretation lacked concrete evidence, as many of these intellectuals owed their ideological formulation to Nineteenth-century teachings …
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Economic Strain and Adolescent Violence. Are extracurricular activities a conditioning effect?

Cassady Pitt, Brittani Walker · The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago,…
This article examines the extent to which participation in sports acts as a conditioning effect to the relationship between economic disadvantage and adolescent violent delinquency. Deriving hypotheses from general strain and social control theories, we use data from the National Longitudinal Study …
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China’s innovation-based approach in the fight of Covid-19. An estimation of China’s impact for global health to come

Josie Perkuhn · Institute Social Science Kiel University, Schleswig-Hol…
When the infectious coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 broke out it resulted in a global crisis. In the fight of Covid-19, China’s government relied on its strength to apply new technologies, i.e. for controlling and containment of the virus by tracing and tracking Chinese citizens. Relying on the tra…
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No Capitalism Without Nationalism

Zlatko Hadžidedić · Center for Nationalism Studies, Sarajevo, BiH
Most theories of nationalism labelled as ‘modernist’ tend to overlook the fact that the phenomenon to which they vaguely refer as ‘Modernity’ is defined by a single, very precise and consistent socio-economic system, that of capitalism. However, this fact makes nationalism and capitalism, rather tha…
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The Eagles Belt: The Unsuspected Stage of the Great Power Competition

Emanuel Pietrobon · InsideOver,Il Giornale, Osservatorio Globalizzazione, O…
The Balkans are one of the main stages of the so-called Cold War 2.0 between the United States and the Russo-Chinese axis, but, to a greater extent, they are also an important battlefront of the broader great power competition, a hegemonic confrontation fought by a number of European and non-Europea…
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A Pioneer of Women’s Liberation

Jerca Legan · Femmes​ Sans​ Frontières​ Foundation,​ Slovenia
Gabrielle ​Bonheur ​“Coco”​Chanel” ​is ​a ​creative ​icon​ who ​has ​freed​ the​‘new’​woman​ from​ the​ millennium​ of​ dictated​ dress​ codes,​ stereotypical​ behaviors​ and​ clichéd​ sexual​ and​ status​ simplification.​ The​ little​ black​ dress​ has​ become​ synonymous​ of​ sophistication,​ to​…
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From the concept of Environmental Reason To a Global Ethics project

António Dos Santos · University of Lisbon, Portugal
The contribution of the environmental philosophy to the XX and XXI centuries philosophy renovation and their capacity to be applied to all aspects of social life is the core of this essay.The history of philosophy on the West is focused on the human condition, the environmental philosophy …
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Geopolitics in the Western Balkans: linkages, leverages and gatekeepers

Enika Abazi · Director of the Paris Peace Research Institute, France …
With the end of the Cold War, Western Balkans countries have embraced the perspective of integration into the Euro-Atlantic structures, with the exception of Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina regarding accession in NATO. The return of international system from hegemonic to competitive followed by the am…
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The significance and influence of religions and confessions on the formation of nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Antonio Pehar · Herzegovina University, BiH
The article deals with the religious and confessional identity of the population in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time of Ottoman and then the Austro-Hungarian authorities, and it is trying to define the elements of nationality in their identity. The reasons for initiating the rounding-up of three n…
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Book of Changes: Cosmological and Anthropological Metaphors in Chinese Philosophy

İlknur Sertdemir · University of Ankara, Turkey
Ancient Chinese history holds a quality which has syncretized traditional thought with its cultural wealth unified of mystical and mythological figures in the background. Such that classical documents, which had begun to be written before Common Era, has directly influenced the political regime, edu…
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Ajdukiewicz and the Notion of Conceptual Apparatus

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
The Polish philosopher Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz adopted the notion of “conceptual apparatus”, which is very similar to the idea of “conceptual scheme” put forward by Donald Davidson, Willard V. Quine, Nicholas Rescher and others. Ajdukiewicz’s theses are, in this regard, very important a…
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Introductory Remarks on Ideology and Sociology

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The main contention of this paper is that the eventual decline of ideology would pave the way to personalism and piece-meal policy-making. In this respect, sociology should analyze the process of social evolution while the ideological goals tend to concentrate on the middle-range and distant future.