Abstract Liberal intervention actors often understand Russian engagements in Africa through a great power vacuum logic. This logic sees influence as resulting from Russia filling where other (notably liberal) interveners downscale. article unpacks that and explores its consequences effects. On the one hand, is central to representations of an entirely external ‘other’, which contribute constitu...

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Background and Study Aim: Esophageal variceal bleeding is a major medical emergency and one of the most important indications for hospital admission and for blood transfusion. However, the safest and the effective blood transfusion strategy is controversial. Here, we studied the safety and the effectiveness of the restrictive versus liberal transfusion strategies in patients with esophageal var...

At the core of republican thought, on Philip Pettit’s account, lies the conception of freedom as non-domination as opposed to freedom as non-interference in the liberal sense. I revisit the distinction between liberal and republican freedom and argue that republican freedom incorporates a particular rule-oflaw requirement, whereas liberal freedom does not. Liberals may also endorse such a requi...

The author discusses the theory of liberal nationalism of the prominent Canadian political theorist Will Kymlicka. According to Kymlicka, liberal nationalism is a necessary ingredient of developed liberal democracy, because social justice, deliberative democracy and individual freedom are most efficiently achieved within national political units. Kymlicka defines his theory as liberal culturali...

Stephen T. Davis Claremont McKenna College I My job at this conference is to assess the liberal arts at the present moment in time. I will take that to mean the liberal arts as they are taught and learned at colleges and universities in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. To tip my hand, I am going to argue that small liberal arts colleges, and especially those like ...