18 research outputs found
The Friendcraft of Middle Powers:how the Netherlands & Denmark supported the War on Terror and how this affected their friendship with the US
While friendship scholarship in the humanities and social sciences has risen exponentially inthe last decade, it focuses almost exclusively on the alliances of great powers. This articleintroduces a new research agenda by drawing upon scholarship that suggests middle powersbehave differently, arguing that middle powers pursue international friendship different thangreat powers. This example is illustrated by comparing how the Netherlands and Denmark,both considered traditional examples of middle powers and of atlanticist states, supported the US during the War on Terror, and how this affected their relationship with the U
Activity of comets: Gas Transport in the Near-Surface Porous Layers of a Cometary Nucleus
The gas transport through non-volatile random porous media is investigated
numerically. We extend our previous research of the transport of molecules
inside the uppermost layer of a cometary surface (Skorov and Rickmann, 1995;
Skorov et al. 2001). We assess the validity of the simplified capillary model
and its assumptions to simulate the gas flux trough the porous dust mantle as
it has been applied in cometary physics. A new microphysical computational
model for molecular transport in random porous media formed by packed spheres
is presented. The main transport characteristics such as the mean free path
distribution and the permeability are calculated for a wide range of model
parameters and compared with those obtained by more idealized models. The focus
in this comparison is on limitations inherent in the capillary model. Finally a
practical way is suggested to adjust the algebraic Clausing formula taking into
consideration the nonlinear dependence of permeability on layer porosity. The
retrieved dependence allows us to accurately calculate the permeability of
layers whose thickness and porosity vary in the range of values expected for
the near-surface regions of a cometary nucleus.Comment: 25 pages, 9 figure
Power between Habitus and Reflexivity – Introducing Margaret Archer to the Power Debate
This article introduces Margaret Archer’s research on reflexivity to the power debate, alongside Pierre Bourdieu’s already influential concept of habitus. Both offer significant insights on social conditioning in late modernity. However, their tendency to the extreme of social determinism and voluntarism must be avoided. To do so, this article adopts Haugaard’s family resemblance concept of power, describing habitus and reflexivity as an important new binary of power instead of a conceptual zero-sum game. This strengthens the explanatory role of agency, central to the three dimensions of power, without losing sight of constitutive, structural power. It also helps overcome the habitus-reflexivity dichotomy in social theory and provides a starting point to evaluate Archer’s work from a power perspective