Africa occupies a paradoxical position in International Relations scholarship. Political turmoil and violent conflicts on the continent have fueled the discipline’s revamping since the 1990s. Yet: Africa remains construed as disconnected from modern History. Law and legal institutions in particular still conjure the image of a legal vacuum. Against...
Published in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012)
On the 13th of December 2022, a 5-year-old girl from Karnataka, India, tested positive for Zika virus. The first Zika virus was isolated from the serum of a rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest of Uganda in 1947. Zika virus was largely dormant for about 70 years before suddenly resurfacing across all of America, from Brazil to the Pacific Islands and i...
The People's Republic of China stands out with superlatives in numerous domains. With the world's second-largest population after India, it boasts the second-largest economy in terms of nominal GDP. Its status as the "world's workshop" reflects its flourishing industry, while its indisputable technological advancement is evident in fields such as a...
The paper presents the results of an analysis of the impact of economic equilibrium, the Human Development Index, the KOF Globalization Index and the Global Competitiveness Index on the sustainable development of manufacturing enterprises and their components in France, Germany, Italy and Poland from 2008 to 2021. We use the Ordinary Least Squares ...
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
En partant de ces matières premières qui sont le matériau de la vie quotidienne - à l’instar du cobalt et des terres rares, composants critiques de la révolution dite « digitale » et de la « transition énergétique » - mon programme de recherche et d’enseignement vise à revisiter la longue histoire d’extraction entre l’Afrique et l’économie monde co...
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Published in Frontiers in Communication
This paper offers an overview and theorization of digital glocalization that transcends past interpretations concerning the effects of ICT on techno-social relationships. It outlines a general theoretical framework that uses glocalization as a bridge between global and local. Digital glocalization might lead to the reconstruction of “place” using d...
Fondés en 1979 à l’initiative du Comité régional olympique etsportif de La Réunion, les Jeux des îles de l’océan Indien (JIOI)s’installent dans les décennies suivantes dans la myriade des“jeux régionaux.” Réplique micro-scalaire des Jeux olympiques, ilssont impactés par le phénomène de globalisation à l’échellemondiale – quand bien même ils se veul...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
This paper aims to survey language teaching MOOCs that promote intercultural competence (IC). Specifically, the survey aims to identify the keywords most relevant to MOOCs with IC components, the languages taught, the offering countries, and the embedded soft skills. The selection of keywords is important because they can indicate connection betwee...
