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Realpolitik
Encyclopedia entry on Guild Socialism and its main theorist
Solidarity under duress: Defending state vigilantism
Published online: 06 September 2021May European Union (EU) member states, in the pursuit of enforcing the norms of ‘EU justice’, unilaterally adopt harmful policies that are ordinarily impermissible in the course of voluntary cooperation amongst democratic states? Though conditions of permissible vigilantism are strict and only rarely met, there are some basic EU duties the compliance with which each individual member state is permitted to enforce unilaterally. Such measures are sometimes permissible even if European community law says otherwise: to the extent that European law prevents states from enforcing these duties, it lacks authority.This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - Wiley Transformative Agreement (2020-2023
Flavor Singlet Axial Coupling of the Proton - An Updated Analysis
We present a combined analysis of SESAM and TxL data for the flavor singlet
axial coupling G_A^1 of the proton, which is very helpful to stabilize the
disconnected signals at small quark masses.
From connected and disconnected contributions we use the tadpole improved
renormalization constant Z_A and obtain G_A^1=0.21(12).Comment: 3 pages, contribution to LATTICE99 (matrix elements
Prisoner voting for the final general election before release is a solution that balances concerns about democratic rights
Democratic Audit has recently featured analysis of prisoner voting rights from several leading experts. In the second of two new contributions to this debate – following Peter Ramsay’s earlier post – Chris Bennett and Daniel Viehoff argue that both sides of the debate can make strong claims to democratic principles. They make a new proposal that aims to balance these competing concerns
A Climate for Change in the UN Security Council? Member States' Approaches to the Climate-Security Nexus
This research report is the first to systematically engage with the growing political agenda of the climate-security nexus and to place a particular focus on the relationship between the state and the only international organ with a mandate to maintain international peace and security: the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Discussions that have been ongoing since 2007, scattered governmental positions and the difficulty of achieving an overview of the various understandings, topics, concerns and responses of the UNSC member states
in relation to the climate-security nexus all indicate a need to address this topic. This report therefore assesses and maps if and how the UNSC members acknowledge the linkages between climate change and security and how they position themselves with respect to these debates in the UNSC. With a large international network of interdisciplinary and country-specialized partner scientists, the analysis relies on an extensive spectrum of official primary sources from member state governments, various ministry strategies (such as those addressing security and climate change), UNSC documents and interdisciplinary academic literature on the climate-security nexus. It is located in the context of substantiated planetary climate emergencies and existential threats as well as urgent calls for action from the UN and member state representatives, scientific networks in Earth System Sciences and youth
protests. Based on broad empirical research findings, this report concludes that all 15 current UNSC member states acknowledge the climate-security nexus in complex, changing and partly country-dependent ways. The report formulates an outlook and recommendations for decision-makers and scholars with a particular focus on strengthening the science-policy interface and dialogue and emphasizing the urgent need for institutional, multilateral and scientifically informed change. It also illustrates how essential it is for the UNSC to recognize
and adapt institutional working methods to the interrelations of climate change and security and their effects as a cross-cutting issue
Disconnected Electromagnetic Form Factors
Preliminary results of a calculation of disconnected nucleon electromagnetic
factors factors on the lattice are presented. The implementation of the
numerical subtraction scheme is outlined. A comparison of results for electric
and magnetic disconnected form factors on two lattice sizes with those of the
Kentucky group is presented. Unlike previous results, the results found in this
calculation are consistent with zero in these sectors.Comment: Lattice 2000 (Hadronic Matrix Elements), 4 pages, 6 fig
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