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Nothing New Under the Sun: Augustine and Cicero’s Visions of How Human Nature Relates to Justice, Virtue, Biblical Wisdom, and the State
Full text linkSocial issues today stand at the forefront of civil discourse, global injustice abounds, and the average citizen seems to be more invested in molding a better future than ever before. In the 2020 presidential election, nearly two-thirds of America voted, a percentage that has not been reached since 1900.[1] In recent years, social media has become a primary avenue for rallying support and spreading ideas that range from domestic policy to new notions of justice. Yet, where passionate debate has erupted, levels of polarization and division have risen as well. Where one finds genuine concern for the state of American culture and its current trajectory, one must also wade through a plethora of proposed solutions and grapple with the gridlock that comes with navigating between them. There is a better way forward than this cultural moment’s trek towards a new, vague semblance of justice that struggles to unite a nation divided on what its foundational values ought to be.[2
“If People Really Knew, the War Would Be Stopped Tomorrow : How the Press, the British State, and the Public Interacted During World War I
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Jus Gentium, Natural Law, and Grotius’ Treatise: The Impact of International Law’s Classical Heritage on Today’s Enforcement Dilemma
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Europe and Asia’s Melded Future: A Critique of The Dawn of Eurasia
Full text linkThis book review examines political scientist Bruno Maçães’ The Dawn of Eurasia, which presents the emergent Eurasia, China and Russia’s role in shaping it, and what preceded this shift. His book delves into the background that shows the pairing of Europe and Asia to be key in understanding today’s political landscape. Maçães writes that the world has stepped into globalization’s second stage, which is unsteady due to the heightening juxtaposition of different nations that muddle the geopolitics of Europe and Asia. He goes on to argue that this new moment has made a shift in power feasible and appealing to Russia and China, who continue to rise as the key poles in Eurasia. Their rise makes a pivot away from the current Western model possible as the globe turns towards an East and West pairing in which neither is dominant. Eurasia raises new questions for international relations that center on geopolitics as it relates to political and economic integration, because in the new order, dominance and reciprocity must be used in tandem if the West is to keep up. Ultimately, Maçães argues that the current artificial separation between Europe and Asia cannot hold in a globalized world,” and while his argument that the two continents will become one unit in the next twenty years is convincing, his assertion that it will most likely adopt a new set of universal values crafted by Russia and China is unconvincing given their human rights records, current governments, and human nature in general
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Has America Departed from the Founders’ Vision Out of Necessity or Greed?: A Historical Inspection of the Executive Branch
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Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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