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🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨
Aras and Fazlioglu (2026) ask if middle powers use high-level diplomatic visits to reinforce democratic resilience. Using data on German Chancellor visits (1991-2023), they show how Germany strategically deploys 'symbolic capital'.
doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orag027
ALT Title: The Quiet Influence: Are Germany’s High-Level Visits for Democratic Durability? Abstract: While great powers often use diplomacy to ensure incumbent survival, this article asks whether democratic middle powers instead deploy high-level visits to foster democratic durability during times of internal turbulence. Analyzing a novel dataset of German Chancellor visits (1991–2023), we find that domestic instability acts as a strategic filter for engagement. Probit estimates demonstrate that instability significantly increases the likelihood of a visit when the host is a democracy, whereas instability in autocracies deters engagement. This indicates Germany strategically deploys “symbolic capital” to validate democratic resilience during turbulence. The analysis further reveals a partisan asymmetry: this responsiveness is driven primarily by Christian Democratic Union (CDU) governments and amplified following Germany’s post-2013 shift toward assertiveness.
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In this investigation, BusinessDay exposes how a company owned by a former campaigner for David Umahi received N60.1 billion solely from the Ministry of Works in two years, despite ongoing EFCC case.
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Happy Birthday to you. I wish you continued success, good health, and prosperity in this new chapter. Thank you for being an amazing friend. Have a wonderful celebration.
@ademide25_
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🇺🇸@SecretaryWright is unleashing President Trump’s energy addition agenda to lower electricity prices for the American people!
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WATCH: @SecretaryWright announces @ENERGY’s SPARK Initiative in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
The Speed to Power investments will expand grid capacity across 26 states, lower electricity costs, and strengthen reliability for millions of Americans.
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The Energy Department is investing in America’s electric grid — lowering energy costs for American households and businesses, increasing grid capacity, and strengthening reliability!
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The Energy Department is investing in America’s electric grid by supporting transmission upgrades!
This will lower electricity costs for approximately 100 MILLION Americans, improve grid reliability, and strengthen grid capacity. 🇺🇸
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University of Warwick Scholarship 2027 in UK – Fully Funded for International Students
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Degree: PhD
Deadline: 10 December 2026
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UK PhD folks: from 1 October the UKRI minimum stipend rises 4.9% to £21,805 (£23,805 in London).
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This song sounds like old TV nights, family living rooms and a Nigeria that feels so far away now. Some songs don’t just take you back, they bring the whole era with them 🎷 🎷 🎺 💥 💥 🔥🔥🔥
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From the archives.
Rosemary Atoo Joseph, a Nigerian Army war veteran and one of Nigeria’s pioneering female soldierss.Captured by Sierra-Leone rebels but released unharmed, amid fears of fierce reprisals from the Nigerian military.
In the late 1990s, she was among the Nigerian female soldiers to accompany ECOMOG troops into battle during the Sierra-Leone intervention.
Having joined the Nigerian army in 1993, Rosemary was deployed to Sierra-Leone, where she served as an ECOMOG field operative. She was part of the Nigerian led ECOMOG forces that fought their way into Freetown and captured the State House, helping restore President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's government.
During another mission, her unit was ambushed, and Rosemary was captured by rebels in the forest. She was eventually released unharmed after the rebels discovered she was Nigerian.
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I'm finishing a paper I wrote with my colleagues. I used LLM to help with the abstract, and to improve a few sentences (maybe 5-10 sentences in a 73 pages long paper) in order to increase readability. Pangram says the paper is 63% AI, and this is total BS. I have checked a poem written by Victor Hugo, and it flags as 100% AI! Serious question: what will happen if people/journals/entities start to use these AI detection tools to evaluate our work? Will people be wrongly accused of using AI to their papers? This needs an urgent discussion among academics!
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Hepatitis C used to mean cirrhosis, cancer, liver transplant.
Now it's 8–12 weeks of tablets and a cure rate over 95%.
Science did that.
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Osun Assembly Becomes First State Legislature To Approve State Police Bill
theyorubatimes.com/osun-asse…
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Before recovery partitions and automatic repair…
there was the Windows 95 startup floppy.
Your PC breaks.
Insert disk.
Restart.
Pray.
And if you saw:
A:>
Congratulations.
Your evening was now fully booked.
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Ọmọ Dokpesi yí wà Dokpesi candour...🎶🎶🎵
Media and Shipping mogul, late High Chief Raymond Dokpesi was one person who enjoyed King Sunny Ade's artistry to the tilt.
The Agenebode-born United graduate even had a track dedicated to him by the King of World Music, which happens to be one of my favourite tracks.
As KSA celebrates his 80th birthday today,enjoy this set he played during Dokpesi's 70th birthday celebration in late 2021 as captured by Goldmyne TV
Ọmọ Dokpesi yí wà candour
Ọmọ Dokpesi yí s'ọmọlúwabí...🎶 🎶 🎤
About a decade ago, @omotisa told me how it was in Chief Sikiru Ayinde Barrister's song that he first heard the word "plenipotentiary".
My first time of hearing candour was in the track by King Sunny Ade 4 👇🏽
