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How large are optimal tariffs? What tariffs would prevail in a worldwide trade war? How costly would a breakdown of international trade policy cooperation be? And what is the scope for future multilateral trade negotiations? I address these and other questions using a unified framework which nests traditional, new trade, and political economy motives for protection. I find that optimal tariffs average 62 percent, world trade war tariffs average 63 percent, the government welfare losses from a breakdown of international trade policy cooperation average 2.9 percent, and the possible government welfare gains from future multilateral trade negotiations average 0.5 percent. (JEL F12, F13, O19)

Mystical powers of consciousness, including the direct vision of truth and management a reality, are believed to exist. Various directions of spiritual knowledge, including world religions, deal with these phenomena. Many people are persuaded that mystical events cannot be explained by scientific methods, that they contradict to science. Suggested by the present author Quantum Concept of Consciousness, or Extended Everett Concept, proves that mystical powers have their origin from what is known in quantum mechanics as quantum reality, and therefore are inherent part of science. Therefore, the "mystical" aspect in the sphere of consciousness is a common part of science and spiritual knowledge.

This article discusses representations of Los Angeles in science fiction films in the context of the aesthetic tradition of the sublime. The article argues that a Los Angeles science fiction sublime is achieved through representations that feature nature and culture hybrids, elaborate design and special effects (including the destruction of Los Angeles monuments), and detective narratives that provide labyrinthine investigations that challenge our understanding of identity, history, and being. Given that these tendencies have gained prominence only since 1980, the article considers postmodernism as an aesthetic category that can help us understand how Los Angeles spaces are integrated in the neoliberal world system.

This essay presents a close reading of testimonies of Jewish victim-narrators in the wake of the White Terror, the counter-revolutionary violence that terrorized Hungary in the years following the First World War. It takes a narrative perspective to this remarkable set of sources by looking at how the immediate experiences of violence were narrated and placed into a larger discourse of Jewish national belonging to the Hungarian nation. As such, it brings to light the voices of unknown historical actors in the specific context of post-war Jewish Hungary, as well as in the larger history of anti-Jewish violence in the European diaspora.

Air power came to Poland in the chaos that followed the First World War. The most outstanding feature of the establishment of the Polish Air Service was improvisation. A few dozen airmen constituted it on the basis of equipment and manpower available at war's end. Officials had greater success in crafting cadres and organizations than meeting material needs, as obtaining advanced equipment proved a difficult nut to crack. Nevertheless war surplus and equipment from foreign suppliers sustained the force for 18 months of action during the Polish-Soviet War. Although logistical difficulties often hobbled operations, during major campaigns air units gave Polish commanders an important advantage over opponents.

Melissa Cefkin's book Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter is the fifth volume in a six-volume series on studies in public and applied anthropology by Berghahn Publishing. Cefkin unearths the world of corporate ethnography by explaining how the field evolved from the larger field of anthropology. Through collecting a variety of corporate ethnography studies conducted at Intel, Microsoft, and others, Cefkin brings to life the work of corporate ethnographers as master puzzlers as she attempts to answer the questions: What are corporate ethnographers and under what conditions do they work? What value does ethnography bring to the understanding of complex business sector problems?

Abstract: Discussion of democracy promotion is usually isolated from that of geopolitics. It is seen as an affair between democratic countries on the one hand and governments or civil societies of autocratic and semi-autocratic states on the other. The recent crisis in Ukraine has demonstrated the inseparability of democracy promotion and power politics, especially in faultline regions where democratic and autocratic states and political cultures compete for influence. While a political choice in favor of democratic world and organizations like the European Union does not guarantee democratic consolidation, it positively correlates with the level of political freedom within a given country.

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This article investigates how the authors of two popular vampire canons, Stephenie Meyer and J. R. Ward, use extratextual spaces such as homepages and Insider Guides to communicate with their fans while simultaneously limiting these fans' possibilities for concrete involvement. It is argued that Meyer and Ward are engaged in a continuous battle for control over meaning, but that their interaction with their own narratives has close affinities with fannish practices in general. Of particular saliency is Ward's and Meyer's insistence on character autonomy, which increases the immediacy of their fictional worlds, but paradoxically weakens the authorial control they otherwise strive to maintain.

The three books under review can be classified as queer theory on Renaissance subjects: Jonathan Goldberg's Seeds of Things, Holly Dugan's Ephemeral History of Perfume, and Will Stockton's Playing Dirty. The three books are very different: Goldberg's book considers the importance of Lucretius both to contemporary critical theory and to Renaissance literature, Dugan's work is a cultural studies look at some of the significant scents of the Renaissance world, and Stockton's book is a literary analysis that makes consistent use of psychoanalytic theory of (chiefly) Renaissance texts. Taken together, these books show the continued vitality and breadth of Renaissance queer studies.

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This paper provides a close reading of Erwin Straus' "The Upright Posture" from a disability studies perspective. Straus argues that the upright posture dominates the human world. But he excludes those who dwell in it otherwise. By reviewing phenomenological disability literature, this paper asks what a disabled phenomenology would look like, one rooted in the problem of inclusion from the outset. Disabled phenomenology addresses 'subjectivity' critically, asking: what socio-material arrangements make subjectivity possible in the first place? This project is, I argue, equal parts political economy and existential phenomenology. I conclude with some suggestions for future research.

<i>Nowadays, the Hungarian Defence Forces (HDF) have several multinational tasks all over
the world. These are changing constantly due to the expansion of the different missions. In
the beginning, HDF personnal were participating individually (officers, NCOs), and later by
sub-level power in NATO and EU operations. The Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT)
mission in Afghanistan was the most successful operation of the HDF, which was terminated
in March 2013. Hungarian soldiers gained considerable experience in Iraq too, where they
served in a Transport Battalion under Polish command (Multinational Division). Based
on these facts, this article presents some Hungarian aspects of multinational operations.</i>

Despite the shifting ideologies of gender of the seventeenth century, the arrival of the first actresses caused deep social anxiety: theatre gave women a voice to air grievances and to contest, through their own bodies, traditional gender roles. This paper studies two of the best-known actresses, Nell Gwyn and Anne Bracegirdle, and the different public personae they created to negotiate their presence in this all—male world. In spite of their differing strategies, both women gained fame and profit in the male—dominated theatrical marketplace, confirming them as the ultimate "gender benders," who appropriated the male role of family's supporter and bread-winner.

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The present paper is an abridged version of another paper of mine titled "The Ethical Turn of Contemporary Western Philosophy, Semiotics, and Linguistics" delivered at the 11th World Congress of Semiotics in response to related essays by Augusto Ponzio, Susan Petrilli, John Deely, and others. A review of contemporary Western philosophy reveals a confluence and integration of scientism and humanism, a linguistic turn, and a formation of postmodernism (poststructuralism), all of which marks an ethical turn (or focus) in contemporary Western philosophy. As semiotics is based on philosophy, and linguistics is a branch of semiotics, this ethical turn in philosophy concurrently occurs in contemporary Western semiotics and linguistics.

British geostrategic considerations underwent an ad hoc metamorphosis during the decade following Great Britain's retreat from formal territorial empire (1957-67). This essay investigates the shifting roles envisioned by British policymakers for vestigial colonial holdings in the Arabian Peninsula, specifically the Colony of Aden and Protectorate of Aden. Throughout the decade in question, policies regarding the burgeoning Cold War, the decline of formal empire, and Britain's role in the world as an independent power and key partner of the United States became differentiated from initial postwar positions. Aden played a vital role in this decision making while providing a rough proxy of larger geopolitical trends.

In this opinion editorial, New Water Policy and Practice International Advisory Board member Prof Gabriele Bammer (National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Australia) draws inspiration from her work in developing Integration and Implementation Sciences, a new discipline providing concepts and methods for conducting research on complex, real‐world problems, and discusses the importance of documenting and communicating methods used in interdisciplinary research and in research implementation. Gabriele recognises that this is a key challenge of interdisciplinary research and proposes ways that contributors to New Water Policy and Practice Journal can help set the direction for interdisciplinary research.