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Internet filtering in China is a pervasive and well-reported phenomenon and, as arguably the most extensive filtering regime in the world today, has been studied by a number of authors. Existing studies, however, have considered both the filtering infrastructure and the nation itself as largely homogeneous in this respect. This article investigates variation in filtering across China through direct access to internet services across the country. This is achieved through use of the Domain Name Service (DNS), which provides a mapping between human-readable names and machine-routable internet addresses, and is thus a critical component of internet-based communications. Manipulation of DNS is a common mechanism used by states and institutions to hamper access to internet services that have been deemed undesirable. Our experiments support the hypothesis that, despite typically being considered a monolithic entity, the Chinese filtering approach is better understood as a decentralized and semi-privatized operation in which low-level filtering decisions are left to local authorities and organizations. This article provides a first step in understanding how filtering affects populations at a fine-grained level, and moves towards a more subtle understanding of internet filtering than those based on the broad criterion of nationality. The techniques employed in this work, while here applied to geographic criteria, provide an approach by which filtering can be analysed according to a range of social, economic and political factors in order to more fully understand the role that internet filtering plays in China, and around the world.

Anglo-German relations since 1949 have been a curious mixture of harmony and tension. This paper looks at the reasons both for cooperation and conflict and some of the ways in which German perceptions of Britain have changed since 1949. Attitudes to security, economic integration and political identity produced a complex pattern, where each side at times had unrealistic expectations of the other. Recently published documents from the Auswärtiges Amt for 1963-64 give an insight into the "official mind" of German foreign policy at a critical moment. (German Politics / FUB)

THIS ARTICLE, DRAWING ON THE WORK OF BARRY BUZAN, CREATES A BRITISH ISLES SECURITY COMPLEX. SIX PATTERNS OF ENMINTY AND AMITY ARE IDENTIFIED AS MAKING UP THIS COMPLEX: NORTHERN IRELAND PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS; NORTHERN IRELAND PROTESTANTS AND MAINLAND BRITAIN; NORTHERN IRELAND PROTESTANTS AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND; NORTHERN IRELAND CATHOLICS AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND; AND MAINLAND BRITAIN AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. APPLYING THE NOTION OF A SECURITY COMPLEX TO ANGLO-IRISH AGREEMENT NOT ONLY REVEALS ISSUES AND AREAS THAT CREATE OR EXABERBATE CONFLICT, BUT ALSO THAT AMITY IN ONE AREA OF THE COMPLEX CAN PRODUC ENMITY IN ANOTHER AREA. A SECURITY COMPLEX APPROACH ALLOWS FOR THE SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF CHANGE AND DEMONSTRATES THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL AND INTERDEPENDENT NATURE OF CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND.

"Athena to Barbie explores the vexed nature of being a woman. It maps the four corners of impossible choice a female faces because of the female body--her body as spiritual space (Mary), as political space (Athena), as erotic space (Venus), and as materialist space (Barbie). The book tracks the difficulty women face in understanding themselves as someone who has, but is not only, a body. The question of identity is particularly fraught and complicated when it comes to women--because the ability to bear children is a double-edged sword. Across time (including right now), having a womb has shaped how women are viewed and treated in negative ways, and women's childbearing abilities have been used to stereotype, oppress, and constrain them. Pregnancy is powerful, but the possibility of pregnancy comes with impossible pressures and choices. This book takes on the task of reconciliation--how women can understand themselves in light of their bodies--through an intense dive into history, art, literature, theology, and, particularly, philosophy."--

Law is an adversarial business--it can be difficult to find ways of successfully practicing while also providing balance and well-being to your clients and yourself. Law practice can focus on a more holistic, humanistic, solution-based approach to resolving legal problems, an approach that many clients want and need