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Polish-Turkish relations from the eighteenth through the twentieth century
No full textThis interdisciplinary volume examines the longstanding and complex relations between Poland and Turkey from the 18th century to the present, exploring their cultural, diplomatic, political and economic dimensions.
Drawing on extensive archival research across Europe and the Middle East, it presents a polyphonic narrative that highlights both shared interests and moments of divergence between the two states. The book analyses key themes such as public and cultural diplomacy, transcultural identities, stateless diplomacy, economic cooperation and contemporary foreign policy. It traces how these relations evolved despite periods of geopolitical instability and asymmetries of power, offering new insights into Eastern European and Middle Eastern entanglements. By reassessing Polish–Turkish ties through a longue durée lens, the book contributes to current debates on EU–Turkey relations and the relevance of historical models of cooperation in shaping contemporary international engagements.
Rich in empirical material and combining historical, political and cultural analysis, the volume is essential reading for scholars and postgraduate students in international relations, Ottoman and East European history, political science and cultural diplomacy. Its fresh approach and innovative framework make it equally accessible to a broader audience, including policymakers, librarians and non-specialist readers interested in global history and regional connectivity
Conflict as text and as narrative universe
No full textThe article proposes an analysis of conflict as a network of antagonistic relations in its diachronic dimension, whose elements are expressed in narratives. The concept “conflict” is treated as an abstract category that lacks a concrete referent, even though certain facts, phenomena, or artifacts may be conceptualized as its manifestations. The argument demonstrates that when such conceptualizations take on a narrative character, the set of such narratives becomes a dynamic textual universe. The article also highlights the role of pragmatics in the reception of such narratives. They can be read at the denotative or the engaged (emic) level. The latter allows the reception of individual narratives (or even their recognizable attributes) as a gateway to a universe of content, in which, among other things, binary oppositions encode information about the structure of the social world
Heavy prussian blue analog with magnetic ordering above 400 K
No full textMolecule-based magnets hold promise for a variety of applications in information technologies owing to their chemical tunability. This feature can facilitate the integration of desired magnetic properties alongside additional functionalities within a single material. Although numerous cyanido-bridged assemblies are identified as multifunctional materials at cryogenic temperatures, achieving analogous behavior at room temperature remains a challenge. This study reports a cyanido-bridged compound, which shows ferrimagnetic ordering with a critical temperature exceeding 400 K. This breakthrough is achieved through the mechanochemical synthesis of vanadium(II)-hexacyanomolybdate(III) Prussian Blue Analog (PBA) under anhydrous conditions. The ferrimagnetic order is evidenced by SQUID (SQUID = superconducting quantum interference device) magnetometry and X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism (XMCD) spectroscopy. Both techniques unambiguously confirm the antiparallel alignment of vanadium and molybdenum magnetic moments. As a result, hexacyanomolybdate(III) is experimentally established as a viable precursor for the preparation of a new generation of high-temperature molecule-based magnets and multifunctional materials
Proton conductivity and magnetization photoswitching in CN-bridged molecules (M = Mo, W) based on carboxy-functionalized macrocyclic ligand
No full textAlba Amicorum from the second half of the 16th and the first half of the 17th century against the intellectual and artistic background of the late Renaissance culture on example of the friendship books from the former Prussian state library in Berlin, kept in the Jagiellonian Library
No full textAsymptotics of spin-spin correlators weighted by fermion number measurements with low rapidity threshold in the 2D Ising free-fermion QFT
No full textIn the work, we study the averaged number of massive fermions above a low rapidity threshold Y, underlying the form-factor expansions of the spin-spin two-point correlators at an Euclidean distance r, in the 2D Ising QFT at the free massive fermion point. Despite the on-shell freeness, the spin operators are still far away from being Gaussian, and create particles in the asymptotic states with complicated correlations. We show how the number observables can still be incorporated into the integrable Sinh-Gordon/Painleve-III framework and controlled by linear differential equations with two variables (r, Y). We show how the differential equations and the information of two crucial scaling functions arising in the r → 0, scaling limit, can be combined to fully determine the small-r asymptotics of the observables, in the λ-extended form. The scaling functions, on the other hand, are obtained by summing the exponential form-factor expansions directly, generalizing the traditional Ising connecting computations. We show carefully, how the singularities cancel in the physical value limit λ → 1 and how the power-corrections that collapse at this value can be resummed. In particular, we show for the physical λ-value, the scaling functions are related to integrated four-point functions in the Ising CFT and continue to control the asymptotics of the number-observables in the scaling limit up to
Societal cracks expressed through "la grieta" : political polarization and democratic fragility in Argentina
No full textThroughout 40 years of uninterrupted democracy, Argentina has managed to set a global example by bringing leaders of the junta before civilian courts and beginning the process of accounting for the crimes committed during the military dictatorship (1976–1983). These successes notwithstanding, quantitative data available in democracy indices hint at a range of challenges present in the last four decades in the South American state. Particularly striking was the economic collapse along with the national bankruptcy and socio-political crisis of 2001. One of its longstanding consequences coupled with the inability of the political elites to respond satisfactorily to the people’s demands is sociopolitical polarization. Commonly referred to as la grieta (the crack), it amounts to the clash between supporters and opponents of Kirchnerism - the dominant Peronist political movement, associated with the presidencies of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The chapter aims to scrutinize the ways polarization affects the quality of democracy by increasing its fragility. It will consider how polarization contributed to the victory of Javier Milei in the 2023 presidential race, challenge the hypothesis that this event could herald the collapse of ingrained divisions among political elites, and outline the long-lasting consequences for democratic support in Argentina