Global Renaissance Research Articles

Linear furoxan assemblies incorporating nitrobifuroxan scaffold: En route to new high-performance energetic materials

Energetic materials science is undergoing a global renaissance aiming to reach an ideal combination between reliable synthetic strategies, high performance and acceptable molecular stabilities. In this work, design and synthesis of novel energetic non-hydrogen furoxan assemblies has been successfully realized. Fine tunability of molecular composition in a series of furoxan-based materials was achieved by the variation of a number of heterocyclic rings and employing N-oxide regioisomerism strategy. Using this approach, advanced energetic regioisomeric azo-bridged bifuroxan assemblies 6 and 7 as well as 3,4′-dinitro-3′,4-bifuroxan 8 with the excellent overall performance were synthesized. Calculations of Hirshfeld surfaces and molecular electrostatic potentials were conducted to better understand the relationship between the molecular structure and mechanical sensitivity in the synthesized series of energetic materials. It was found, that the supramolecular aggregation of 3,4′-dinitro-3′,4-bifuroxan 8 molecules in crystal is more anisotropic that is commonly believed to be more favorable pattern for the low sensitive substances. All target materials have high densities (1.88–1.95 g cm−3), acceptable thermal stabilities (up to 165 °C), high enthalpies of formation (1.6–2.4 kJ g−1) and positive oxygen balance to CO (up to + 25%). As a result, these compounds exhibit high detonation velocities (9.1–9.5 km s−1), excellent heats of explosion (6.6–7.2 kJ g−1) and combustion performance (Isp = 269–281 s). Therefore, these furoxan-based advanced energetic materials unveil new opportunities in search of next-generation functional organic materials for various applications.

Jahangir's China and Other Toys: Mughal Collecting and the Early East India Company

AbstractDuring the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there arose in Europe a new demand for curiosities. While private collectors sought out exotic curiosities for their own cabinets, public botanical gardens also opened their doors. This essay turns to English attitudes towards Mughal collecting during the early seventeenth century. As active participants in what is now described as the ‘Global Renaissance’ Jahangir, the women in his household including Nur Jahan, as well as Mughal courtiers and officials also sought out curious objects from around the world. This essay examines the accounts of early East India Company factors and ambassadors, especially those by William Hawkins and Sir Thomas Roe, to show how in English records Mughal collecting became associated with eastern greed at a time when the Company itself was profiting from the marketplace of the strange. Drawing on travel accounts, letters, as well as Company court minutes on the one hand, and Mughal sources such as Humayun Nama, Akbar Nama, and Tuzk‐i‐Jahangiri, this essay will explore the rich culture of Mughal collecting. It will show how the Company made note of the Mughal emperor's collections, tried to supply him new curiosities, and, at the same time, saw the Mughal desire for curiosities as an impediment to English trading activities in India.

JyotsnaSingh, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500–1700, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2021. 528 pp. £150.00. ISBN 978‐1‐119‐62626‐8 (hb).

Renaissance StudiesEarly View Book Review Jyotsna Singh, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500–1700, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2021. 528 pp. £150.00. ISBN 978-1-119-62626-8 (hb). Lubaaba Al-Azami, Corresponding Author Lubaaba Al-Azami lubaaba@memorients.com University of Liverpool & Medieval and Early Modern OrientsSearch for more papers by this author Lubaaba Al-Azami, Corresponding Author Lubaaba Al-Azami lubaaba@memorients.com University of Liverpool & Medieval and Early Modern OrientsSearch for more papers by this author First published: 11 January 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12851Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation

Paul Romer, charter cities and lessons from historical big infrastructure?

This paper looks in detail at an innovative idea for new city governance promulgated by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer, that of charter cities. The main methodological conundrum in evaluating Romer's model is that there is no existing charter city to which he or others can use to demonstrate the developmental success or otherwise of the concept. This paper uses two innovative case studies to test Romer's idea. These case studies are the Suez Canal Company and the Panama Canal Company. These two companies received charters, were tasked with building cities (and infrastructure), were given long-term leases over land, and had sovereign guarantors – the two canals were in effect Romer-esque Charter City projects. This paper uses these case studies to examine issues related to the operation of a sovereign guarantee, financing new city construction, and the distributional consequences of new cities. The global renaissance in big infrastructure construction, much of which is being done under charter-like rules, gives the idea of charter cities a striking contemporary relevance.

Su Fang Ng. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance.

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Volume 51 (2021)

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Su Fang Ng. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 432. $125.00 (cloth).

Su Fang Ng. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 432. $125.00 (cloth). - Volume 60 Issue 2

Leander in the Ottoman Mediterranean: The Homoerotics of Abduction in the Global Renaissance

AbstractThis essay revisits Leander’s abduction in the Hellespont with a focus on the geopolitical significations in Marlowe’s Hero and Leander. The imagery of the abducted boy, often recast as the...

Ayurveda education in India: Addressing the human resource barriers to optimize the delivery

Ayurveda currently is passing through a phase of global renaissance. Its growing popularity however is not matching with quality driven human resource development to meet the growing expectations. Teachers holding the responsibility of inspiring the newer generation for their adherence to quality are often de-motivated for various reasons and eventually fail to deliver optimally. Although promoting Ayurveda by increasing its visibility is a priority approach in policy and planning, much is desired to be done on the fronts of its actual delivery. Not much is done to ensure the quality driven human resource development in Ayurveda, accounting for a major cause of its dismal show on the fronts like education, practice and research. Ayurveda in India in general is still striving to achieve the minimal standards in these key functioning areas. Uncertain career opportunities, poor recruitment and discriminatory promotional policies, erratic salary structures, meager opportunities for early and mid-career advancements and negligible resources for in job skill enhancements are prominent reasons of de-motivation among Ayurveda teachers. An identity crisis of being unfit in the larger community of higher or medical education further adds to the misery as the advantages given to these communities are not generally shared with Ayurveda teachers. The outcome of an education imparted by a demotivated teacher can have its far reaching and diverse effects on the society. A poor performance of Ayurveda in the country of its origin has its roots in the inappropriate handling of its key functionaries like teachers. Ayurveda teachers playing the role of service providers and educators can create the foundation of quality driven education and health care in Ayurveda, if they themselves are harnessed well for their potential. The teachers are essentially the spine of any step related to qualitative benchmarking of Ayurveda and hence their miseries and misappropriations are needed to be accounted and addressed. Ayurveda teachers also deserve to be nurtured well to bloom to their fullest potential so to serve Ayurveda with all their strength and capacity.

Transcending the Digital Divide: Paving Itinerary for Conducive Digital Economy

In recent years, due to dynamic evolution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the increasing importance of ICT diffusion in the process of economic growth, there exists the need for a broad and systematic comparison of the ICT framework development of countries around the globe. The Information Age that is upon us holds out the promise of a new world of shared prosperity, a global renaissance. At the same time, it also holds out the danger of economic exploitation, societal devastation and a new era of imperialism and colonialism. It can be spurned if we can bridge the economic and development gap, the information and knowledge gap and the great divide within.A key element to extending the information revolution is identification, development and utilization of information assets. Information and knowledge is the new fuel of the economy. In this information economy, economic development means harnessing the information and knowledge assets of a community to help local businesses succeed in the new environment.

Review: Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires: Encounters and Confluences, edited by Mohammad Gharipour

Mohammad Gharipour, ed. Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires: Encounters and Confluences University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017, 272 pp., 55 color and 67 b/w illus. $94.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780271077796 This edited volume from Mohammad Gharipour presents research on cross-cultural influences in garden design between Renaissance-era Europe and three Islamic empires: Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman. It begins with a prologue by D. Fairchild Ruggles that summarizes relevant work on Islamic garden traditions, including themes of poetry and metaphor, form and typology, agricultural production, environmental concerns, and gardens as agents for cultural production. The book concludes with an epilogue in which Anatole Tchikine asks whether the term “global Renaissance” allows for new perspectives on the study and comparative understanding of gardens produced by European and Islamic rulers. Between prologue and epilogue are eight essays. In comparison to Renaissance gardens of Italy, France, England, and Portugal, two of the essays explore Ottoman gardens, four look at Mughal gardens, one examines the Safavid gardens established by Shah Abbas in and around the city of Isfahan, and another considers varied gardens of Islamic geography. The book's first essay, “Embracing the Other: Venetian Garden Design, Early Modern Travelers, and the Islamic Landscape,” by Christopher Pastore, documents the travel of several Venetians who went east from the later fifteenth through the late seventeenth centuries. Pastore discusses their observations of multiple cultures and sites in Egypt, Syria, the Indian subcontinent, Ethiopia, the Arabian desert, Baghdad, the Ottoman and early Safavid Empires, and Al-Andalus. Venetians embraced novel garden ideas derived from these cultures and applied them to the designs of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century estates in the Veneto, alongside their borrowings from the classical villa tradition. The essay includes references and plans showing how Venetian gardens were expanded and updated through the use of novel hydraulics and vegetation, and how they were influenced by illustrations of landscapes encountered by those traveling abroad. Pastore argues that Venetian gardens served as experimental nodes of transformation and change, and as …

What's Feminist about Feminist Foreign Policy? Sweden's and Canada's Foreign Policy Agendas

AbstractAcross politics and public discourse, feminism is experiencing a global renaissance. Yet feminist academic work is divided over the burgeoning use of the term, particularly in reference to economic and international development policy. For some, feminism has been co-opted for neoliberal economic ends; for others, it remains a critical force across the globe. This article explores the nascent feminist foreign policies of Sweden and Canada. Employing a discourse analysis of both states’ policy documents, it asks what the term “feminist” meant in preliminary attempts at constructing a feminist foreign policy. It argues that although both use the term “feminist,” they understand the term very differently, with Sweden centering it in domestic and international commitments to change, while Canada places greater emphasis on the private sector. This suggests that this policy agenda is still developing its central concepts, and is thus ripe for intervention on the part of policymakers and civil society organizations.

ФАКТОРЫ И УСЛОВИЯ РАЗВИТИЯ ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЬСКОЙ КООПЕРАЦИИ

The article considers the conditions and factors of development of Russian consumer cooperation against the background of global cooperative development Renaissance. It is stated that this form of cooperative organization can make a significant contribution to the implementation of the UN sustainable development Goals. The conditions and growth factors of Russian consumer societies are analyzed taking into account a deep axiological and concrete historical context. For the research of the object set in the article, the data of the original sociological material are used. For the objectivity of the described prerequisites for the development of Russian consumer cooperation, the facts of the most successful international experience in stimulating the cooperative initiative of the population are given. The conclusions summarizing the author's research state that the modern state policy of Russia in the sphere of cooperation needs a significant restructuring.

Глобальный промышленный ренессанс и новая промышленная политика России: экономическое и политическое измерения

Глобальный промышленный ренессанс и новая промышленная политика России: экономическое и политическое измерения

Ближний Восток в условиях “негативной неопределенности”

The article deals with political, social and economic trends in the Middle East, with a special emphasis on the issue of uncertainty. This uncertainty which is not new for the international relations has been a permanent feature of the region for decades. Certain regional trends tend to acquire a global dimension. The traditional domination of a foreign policy agenda over domestic one in the Middle East countries can be easily discerned in the global powers&rsquo; policies nowadays. A number of global trends either do not work in the Middle East, or turn into their opposite. Thus, the regionalism does not manifest itself in enhanced cooperation or integration. Paradoxically, the integrity of the region is accentuated by conflicts; the latter are getting easily and quickly internationalized with regional states and non-state actors becoming active players and beneficiaries. The revival of ideology is another example of regional trends that can contradict or precede global developments. While the role of ideologies has been downgrading at the global level, the issues of civilizational and political choice have been in the center of public discourse in the Middle East since the Arab Spring. A global renaissance of ideology inspired by the world crisis cannot be ruled out. Political developments in the Middle East are currently even less predictable than they were in the past. Regional states are facing traditional economic challenges, such as low growth rates, high external debt, budget deficits and a single-commodity export dependence, and at the same time new systemic factors, e.g. global warming and increasing water scarcity, along with such &ldquo;black swans&rdquo; as coronavirus and energy market meltdown. Currently, the problems that were prevalent mostly in the Middle East are spreading all over the world shaping global trends. Elements of de-regionalization, deepening inter-state rivalries, conflicts, poor governance, protests that have been characteristic for the Middle East scene can be found all over the world which is now also suffering from the growing uncertainty.

Art History, Boundary Crossing, Making Worlds

Art History, Boundary Crossing, Making Worlds

‘Does the British flag mean nothing to us?’ British Democratic Traditions and Aboriginal Rights Claims in Interwar Australia

The connection between Aboriginal people and the British Crown is well established. Less understood is their appreciation of, and reliance on, British democratic traditions in their politics. Drawing on the archive of Aboriginal activist, William Cooper, this article explores the way he used the language and practices associated with British democracy to advance his political claims in interwar Australia. With Protestant Christianity, Britishness represented a cluster of values and attributes which Cooper claimed as the Aborigines’ own. In drawing on an ‘imperial ideology of democracy’, he was part of a global black political renaissance characteristic of the times demanding justice, freedom and representation.

Oceanic Epic: The Translations of the Lusiads in the Global Renaissance

The inclusion of the medieval Portuguese chivalric romance "The Twelve of England" into Luís Vaz de Camões's Os Lusíadas (1572) links Vasco da Gama's voyage to India and subsequent Portuguese expansionism to specific historical moments of national foundation narrated in the epic. This essay argues that Magriço (Álvaro Gonçalves Coutinho), the protagonist of "The Twelve of England," embodies a larger theme in the epic of national belatedness that is integral to the poem's engagement with the temporalities of empire and cultural inheritance. But the Lusiads's utility as a cultural artifact celebrating the rise of new forms of knowledge and power also provides the conceptual basis for its symbolic appropriation by Portugal's imperial rivals, Spain and England. The essay concludes by examining representations of Camões in twentieth-century Brazilian folhetos ("leaflets"), or literatura de cordel, to show how the Lusiads's anxieties about textual survival and generativeness provide a discursive frame for Camões's later textual incarnations.

En diálogo con un mundo antiguo: las pinturas de las casas coloniales de Tunja en el marco de un Renacimiento global

A través de un análisis comparativo —entre estrategias narrativas producidas en un mismo contexto; entre contextos distintos pero cuyos procesos de construcción cultural dependen de una reformulación de la visualidad en la modernidad temprana; y entre medios y dispositivos visuales que producen, pero también reorganizan el conocimiento— este artículo propone una nueva interpretación de las célebres pinturas murales de las casas tunjanas de finales del siglo XVI y la primera parte del siglo XVII, en el marco de un Renacimiento global. En este proceso, se reconsideran los conceptos que han sido utilizados en interpretaciones anteriores, tales como originalidad, identidad y exotismo, matizando así el enfoque tradicional de los estudios iconográficos que han predominado en la interpretación de estos murales. Dicha perspectiva permite salirse del paradigma binario en el que suelen inscribirse las interpretaciones del uso de las fuentes grabadas; así, se redimensiona el problema de las fuentes y de las relaciones habitualmente establecidas entre texto e imagen. Finalmente, se contextualizan dichas pinturas en su entorno específico, pero en un marco global, que a su vez redistribuye el modelo de centro y periferia.