MULTIMODAL HUMOUR ON OVERPOPULATION IN JOEL PETT’S ENVIRONMENTAL CARTOONS by Živilė Nemickienė, Dovilė Urbonienė, Julija Zabielinaitė

“…Cartoonists’ skill to reveal important problems, to influence and construct public opinion has become a great power. This study examines humour as a social instrument and focuses on the expression of humour, or irony in particular, in famous American cartoonist Joel Pett’s overpopulation cartoons. …”
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Reimagining the New World Order Post-Covid-19 by Maqsood Hussain

“…The paper concludes with some policy insights for the US foreign policy as to how the rise of China can be tamed and accommodated in the existing order without involving the use of coercion or risking a great-power war. …”
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Random Frequency Division Multiplexing by Chanzi Liu, Jianjian Wu, Qingfeng Zhou

“…We take full account of the great power of deep neural networks (DNN) to detect the signal as it is an underdetermined equation. …”
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Peter I and the Birth of the Russian Empire: Political Leadership and Military Successes in Comparative Perspective by A. Dimitrov, G, Durev

“…These achievements are substantiated to correlate with Russian rise as a great power directly. After the Peace of Nystad, the geopolitical interests of the Tsardom were finally met, with the territorial dominium of the Empire being outlined for a century ahead.Furthermore, the territorial expansion was accompanied by the exercise of the “imperium” as a political authority exclusive to the Russian monarchs. …”
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Developing Sino- Israeli Relations in the Post-Cold War Era: Analyzing Desecuritization Scenarios for Iran by A. P. Fariborz, J. S. Seyed, A. Hossein

“…The importance of the economic component in the foreign policy of both countries, China's efforts to achieve the status of a great power, and Israel's strategies to improve its global image and regional position have brought the two countries' relations into a form of comprehensive cooperation in the post-Cold War era. …”
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JAPANS’S CHINA STRATEGY by A. A. Kireeva

“…Japan has to a significant degree accommodated China’s rise by facilitating the successful implementation of its grand strategy, seen as the restoration of a great power status that China lost in the 19th century opium wars. …”
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RUSSIA AND EAST ASIA: NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES by A. A. Kireeva

“…Strategic importance of the region is shaped by East Asia's increasing role in world politics and economy as well as by its appeal for Russia's modernization agenda. Russia's great power status rests upon the effectiveness of its East Asian policy and development model of Siberia and the Russian Far East. …”
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Military Deterrence vs Foreign Interference? Record of the Cold War by I. A. Istomin

“…Therefore, they create escalation risks when threatening a great power. Interference exacerbates confrontation even between adversaries that perceived each other as malign beforehand. …”
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China’s peacekeeping activities within the UN: Features, challenges, and prospects by Qian Li

“…In recent years, China has been vigorously strengthening its international authority, consistently building its image as a responsible great power. One of the vivid manifestations of these efforts has been China’s active involvement in peacekeeping activities under the auspices of the United Nations. …”
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International Hierarchy and Functional Differentiation of States: Results of an Expert Survey by A. D. Nesmashnyi, V. M. Zhornist, I. A. Safranchuk

“…Firstly, we categorize 26 countries as belonging to one of the power status categories (small power, middle power, great power, superpower) as of autumn 2021 based on the survey results. …”
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History Politics of Belarus: Peripeteias of Evolution by A. M. Ponamareva

“…Amidst the sharp escalation of great-power rivalry on the world stage, almost all spheres of public life are facing increasing politicization and even securitization. …”
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Securitization of China in the NATO discourse in the late 2010s— early 2020s: Towards a global collective identity by Yu. Yu. Melnikova

“…The shift in the perception of the PRC in the NATO’s official discourse took place in the second half of the 2010s — early 2020s and stemmed from the apparent difficulties in asserting the global identity of the alliance and the growing great-power rivalry in the international arena. From this perspective, increasing efforts to securitize the PRC could be ascribed to the continuous evolution of the alliance’s collective identity and the desire of its leaders to close ranks in the face of new strategic challenges. …”
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China’s Political Reforms in the Early 21^st Century by Nguyen Xuan Сuong

“…Implementation process of "The Chinese dream" also means aspiration to tops of economy, policy, military science, technologies in the world, to a taking them, reflecting process of formation of the new great power which will succeed the USA. Political reforms with the purpose to achieve "The Chinese dream" have to be connected with peaceful development, make a contribution to development and progress of mankind, successful development, joint with all neighboring countries, and differently China will repeat history of crash and decline of civilizations and great powers.…”
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A War Tactician: K̲h̲ālid b. al-Walīd by Hüseyin Gökalp

“…He managed to fight against two great power of the day at the same time in an unusual way. …”
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CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: STRATEGIC GOALS AND TACTIC ACTIONS by O. A. Kolobov

“…The article also reveals specific causes and consequences of the strategic interest of the great powers towards the Middle East. Later the author explains the possibilities of a new approach to the region on the part of modern Russia and presents the analysis of archival materials shedding light on the actions of the great powers in relation to the Middle East in retrospect and in the near future. …”
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Soviet Diplomatic Efforts to Prevent Hungary’s Alignment with Germany in World War II (1939– 1941) by V. F. Pryakhin

“…The history of Soviet-Hungarian interactions from the establishment of diplomatic relations until Hungary joined World War II alongside the Axis powers offers valuable insights into the dynamics between small and great powers, as well as the efforts of small European states, particularly Hungary, to navigate their national interests in foreign policy amidst Nazi Germany's encroachments. …”
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AMERICA IN THE WORLD AFTER HEGEMONY by A. Y. Borisov

“…One literature explores the rise and decline of the great powers and the international orders that they establish and dominate. …”
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Romanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu in the Capitals of the Little Entente: Belgrade (1936) and Prague (1937) by Marusia Cîrstea

“…Within this international context, Romanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu (1934-1937) sought to establish bilateral contacts – with the great powers of Europe, but mainly with the members of the Little Entente – meant to both strengthen bilateral relations and clarify the states’ perspective on the events in progress. …”
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Comment l’île Maurice est-elle devenue Covid free ? by Nathalie Bernardie-Tahir

“…The objective of this reflection is to understand how this Indian Ocean Small Island Developing State (SIDS) has succeeded, where the great powers of the north have so far failed. While SIDS are often represented as vulnerable places, one's can consider, on the contrary, that the relative island remotness and small size of Mauritius combined with a strong state interventionism have been major assets in the spatial control of the pandemic and its containment.…”
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Adalékok a határ mentiség újraértelmezéséhez Magyarországon (Additives for the Reinterpretation of Cross-Border Character in Hungary) by Béla Baranyi

“…As a result of the bargaining of great powers, the newly de¬veloped national states became the main barrier to the extension of interregional relations in Central Europe and mainly in Hungary. …”
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