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155404
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The 2017 general election was one which almost everybody lost. When she called it, Theresa May declared that the country was united, but the politicians divided. The election was intended to endorse that proposition. It did not. It showed that the country was just as divided as the House of Commons, if not more so—on generational lines (young versus old); along cultural or meritocratic lines (the exam-passing classes versus the rest), for it may be that education rather than class is now the main cleavage in British politics; and, above all, on the toxic issue of Europe. The election, far from settling the European issue, has reopened it.
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154876
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Of all the various ways that American participation in World War II contributed to Allied victory, the most critical, and in the end the most decisive, was American industrial productivity, and particularly shipbuilding. United States ship construction between 1941 and 1945 dramatically outstripped both its own allies and all of its foes combined. The United States was not only the “arsenal of democracy” (Franklin Roosevelt’s phrase) but also the Allies’ shipbuilder, and superiority in shipping is what allowed the Allies to win the Battle of the Atlantic, conduct the D-Day invasion, and mount a simultaneous offensive in the Pacific.
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168887
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This analysis uses case study methodology to further the understanding of the diversionary theory of war in specific cases. It employs a model consisting of five propositions that build upon existing qualitative research on diversionary war theory. The synthesised framework examines one possible case of American diversionary military actions: President Donald Trump´s decision to launch missile strikes against Syrian airfields on 7 April 2017. The study tests the descriptive accuracy and further develops the diversionary theory of war, in essence, generally suggesting that empirical support for the diversionary logic in this case is mixed.
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170437
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This survey contains materials reflecting the practice of Chinese private international law in 2017. First, the statistics of the foreign-related civil or commercial cases accepted and decided by Chinese courts is extracted from the reports of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC), released in 2018, most notably the Report on the Work of the SPC in 2017. Second, two judicial interpretations of the SPC that took effect in 2017 are translated, i.e., the Provisions of the SPC on Issues Concerning Report and Approval of Cases Requiring Judicial Review of Arbitration and the Provisions of the SPC on Several Issues Concerning Trial of Cases Requiring Judicial Review of Arbitration. These two instruments contain provisions reflecting a pro-arbitration tendency in Chinese courts. Another document, the Nanning Statement of the Second China-ASEAN Justice Forum, is also introduced. It contains a commitment to judicial assistance cooperation, especially improvement of mutual recognition and enforcement of judgments. Third, since China signed The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements in 2017, but has not yet ratified it, one case selected in this paper cites the Convention as a reference in its assessment of the exclusivity of the applicable choice of court clause. Fourth, three representative cases with regard to independent guarantee, letter of credit and financial loan contract are examined. These cases from the SPC shed light on the independence principle of the guarantee and the credit, as well as the strict compliance principle. Fifth, three typical cases decided by various Chinese courts during 2017 are introduced. These cases involve issues relating to the law applicable to construction contracts and land contracts, as well as property relationships between spouses. As for the application of international conventions, two separate cases involving the application of the CISG and the Montreal Convention are reviewed. Finally, the paper examines three cases with different or inconsistent practices regarding reciprocity and other issues, given recent increases in the recognition and enforcement of monetary judgments by Chinese courts. In this regard, a unified practice is required in Chinese courts.
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191465
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Although public reaction to disaster has been the subject of much research, reactions to acts of terrorism have been studied less, sustaining a common assumption that fear is the generic response. The present paper tests this assumption through a survey of reactions to the Manchester Arena bombing and London Bridge attack of 2017, and the findings suggest that an important likely additional modal citizen reaction to such events is one of anger at the perpetrators, holding important implications for public policy and security practice in the wake of such acts.
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158786
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