Nicolas Sarkozy's Role in the 2008 Georgia Conflict: The "United West" Confronting Russia by D. Mikhaylov

“…While Sarkozy's primary objective was to end the bloodshed promptly, his strategic goals also encompassed preventing Georgia from falling back into Russia's sphere of influence and demonstrating the EU's capacity to independently resolve crises in the post-Soviet region.Sarkozy successfully persuaded Moscow and Tbilisi to accept his mediation, known as the "good offices," to normalize the situation in South Ossetia. …”
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The growing U.S.-Chinese rivalry and foreign policy initiatives of the Biden administration in Latin Caribbean America by A. D. Trebukh

“…Latin Caribbean America (LCA) serves a vivid example, becoming the arena of competition (including in ideological terms) between the United States, which has traditionally considered the region its sphere of influence, and China, which is actively forging cooperation with the LCA countries in various fields. …”
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The Role of Iran’s «Soft Power» in Confronting Iranophobia by S. M. Mirmohammad Sadeghi, R. Hajimineh

“…Considering the public diplomacy and soft power of the Islamic Republic of Iran as a deliberate and conscious approach can be of great importance in the country's grand strategies that will strengthen national interests in the domestic sphere and influence them at regional and global levels. …”
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Semiotic insights on the socio-cultural influence of the San Sebastian Church architectural facade, Lumban, Laguna, Philippines by Ronald Allan S. delos Reyes, Jomel Paulo G. Ebron, Jhona N. Gamez, Christie C. Amores, Ma Rovilla C. Sudaprasert

“…The architectural styles found in the Philippines definitely belong to the Western sphere of influence. This might seem remarkable as the country is placed geographically at the most eastern flank of the SouthEast Asian region facing the center of the Far Eastern dominions. …”
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Economic behavior of agricultural land market subjects by V. I. Trofimova

“…The formation of rational land use in the agrarian sphere indicates influence of institutional factors – motives and interests of land owners that allow to ensure land distribution included in the market turnover between the most efficient users. …”
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Le tourisme émetteur chinois entre contrôle étatique et émancipation des individus : le cas des voyages de noce en France by Marine L’Hostis, Maxime Dejean

“…Conscientes de l’importance de ce marché au sein d’un secteur contribuant à près de 10 % du PIB mondial, les autorités du pays cherchent à instrumentaliser ces flux en partance du territoire pour accroitre la sphère d’influence de la Chine. Si cela fonctionne auprès de pays en voie de développement, souvent insulaires et/ou pour lesquels l’imaginaire touristique était encore à construire, les grandes destinations du tourisme international semblent moins donner prise à ce type d’instrumentalisation. …”
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Scale Development on the Effect of Social Media Influencers on Purchase Intention by Murat Selim Selvi, Şermin Önem

“…SMIs are present on most digital media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, and build their sphere of influence by sharing their experiences on a wide range of specific topics such as fitness, fashion, beauty, DIY, vacation, entertainment, etc. with their followers. …”
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Study on the Loess Immersion Test of Metro Line 2 in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China by Yuanjun Xu, Jiading Wang, Tianfeng Gu, Dengfei Zhang, Weiqian Ma

“…The shape of the sphere of influence after immersion resembles a trumpet, slightly protruding outwards from the paleosol. …”
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Interaction of Educational Communities of Higher Education in the University Scientific Area by D. Yu. Narkhov

“…The study of research practices revealed the need to formalize the status of the “personnel reserve of science”, the dissemination of innovative practices of large universities, the organization of a unified system of regional investment in student science, the inclusion of regions in the sphere of influence of world-class research and educational centers. …”
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Russia and NATO’s ‘Open Door’ Policy in the Post-Bipolar Period by P. Ye. Smirnov

“…The North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) was not dissolved after completing the mission it had been created for; moreover, it started taking on ever new responsibilities to keep the European allies in the U.S. sphere of influence. In this respect, the ongoing NATO enlargement — primarily by accession of the former Warsaw Treaty allies of the USSR — has become one of the key policy tools for Washington after the breakup of the bipolar system in Europe. …”
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Striving for an Alternative World Order: The Journey of Cuban Anti-Imperialism from History to Modernity by A. Z. Arabadzhyan

“…It begins by analyzing the historical context—Cuba’s struggle against colonial dependence on Spain and its subsequent incorporation into the U.S. sphere of influence—which shaped the foundations of its anti-imperialist thought. …”
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Proclamation of the All-Russian Empire – the Beginning of the Way to the Great Power Status by V. A. Artamonov

“…In 1719, the Russian military force was squeezed out of Central Europe – from Mecklenburg. The sphere of influence of Russia after the victorious Peace of Nystad in 1721 was established only in Northern and Eastern Europe – in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Swedish and Danish-Norwegian kingdom, partly in Prussia. …”
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INTRA-REGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF MUNICIPALITIES OF THE ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE VOIVODESHIP IN TERMS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN 2010 AND 2020 by Paweł Dziekański, Łukasz Popławski, Fabio Fragomeni

“…Municipalities within the sphere of influence of urban centres had favourable conditions for the development of entrepreneurship. …”
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Lattes/Lattara (Hérault), comptoir étrusque du littoral languedocien by Éric Gailledrat, Ariane Vacheret

“…The seaport of Lattara, located at the mouth of the Lez river on a narrow sandbank protruding into the lagoon, was a trading post widely open to Mediterranean trade which, throughout the Late Iron Age, was part of the economic sphere of influence of the Greek colony of Massilia. The space available on this peninsula, encompassing an area of about 3.5 ha, seems to have been completely occupied as early as the foundation of the site. …”
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Le réseau hydraulique à Pompéi (Italie) de l’époque des Samnites à Auguste (fin ive-fin ier s. av. J.-C.) by Federico Giletti

“…For their part, wells connected to the nerve centres of the urban road network and to the supply system of thermal buildings would seem to have been in decline, becoming supplementary to the supply provided by the aqueduct pressure system.The collection wells categorically and definitively fell into disuse through the complete obliteration of the reservoir or, if originally in the public sphere, through their assimilation into private property, or even through functional conversion to drains, favoured as it was by the dispersive capacities of the geological subsoil and the considerable depths of the pipe.While this is the information that can be deduced from the analyses conducted on the city of Pompeii’s earliest historical phases, the data that have emerged from the middle and late Samnite periods reveal a change in previous conditions and the adoption of new mechanisms.Between the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, the introduction of a new urban layout and Pompeii’s entry into Rome’s sphere of influence triggered an urbanistic mutation of the site inspired by the model of the Roman city.Roman-style hydraulic engineering in Pompeii also encouraged the choice of vaulted chamber cisterns, which were often introduced into the city as a complement to the previous storage structures.The chambered cistern type not only reduced the cost of excavating the lava bed, but also made for greater safety in open-air construction and enhanced the static capacity of the walls and cement cover to improve the structural qualities of the cisterns and considerably increase their storage capacity.In particular, the adoption of the sub-type of cistern with multiple, parallel chambers also made it possible, through the principal of the discharge of forces through the vaulted system, to terrace and amplify the spaces available for building.This is what research has shown in the urban construction of Pompeii, which in the course of the 2nd century BC was also focused near the height of the promontory, as attested above all along the southern lava ridge of Regio VIII. …”
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THE ROLE OF GLOBALIZATION IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS A COMPONENT OF THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ORDER by Yuliia Horenko

“…It is proved that globalization processes affect society, the essence and purpose of the State, and public administration as one of the most important spheres of influence in public-state relations, changing the already established and well-established system of norms and rules, and also forming relatively new rules in the new international order. …”
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On the fundamental social changes in Lithuania in the 19th and 20th centuries by Arūnas Vyšniauskas

“…Russian and Soviet reforms had their effect on Lithuanian social history, as Russia determined the social development of conquered Lithuania. The spheres of influence from Russia, Poland, and Germany met in Lithuania. …”
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Relocalisation de sources anciennes, textuelles et matérielles du XXe siècle : les « aires culturelles » de la vigne en Bourgogne en question by Guillaume Grillon, Jean-Pierre Garcia

“…With that relocation, some information collected on the field are discussed: the scale of representation of the distribution of the tools of the pre-phylloxera vineyard, the spheres of cultural influence built from André Lagrange’s maps with their technical, social or naturalist interpretation, the relevance of those spheres of influence as tools of cultural and historical reflection in ethnology, in archaeology and in linguistics.…”
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Imagined Libya: geopolitics of the margins by Luca Raineri

“…It is precisely Libya’s position at the periphery of rival geopolitical imaginaries and asserted spheres of influence that makes of it a crossroad of strategic vectors, a hotspot of collisions, and therefore a centre of concern.…”
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In The Context of Fan Culture and Virtual Influencer Concepts The First Digital Fan: Leothefan by Serkan Karatay

“…Additionally, social media has opened the door to the representation of techno-identities, where artificial intelligence-generated virtual characters can create their spheres of influence, manifest within the 'digital reality,' and reflect human passions. …”
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