Summary The immunity (or vaccine) passport of the coronavirus pandemic, as a concept and object, is not unprecedented. This health identity document features history spanning over half-a-millennium appearing across diverse geopolitical sociocultural contexts. article presents documentary its heterogeneous material instantiations, uses effects divergent historical settings. It illuminates how ha...

This paper considers the underexamined racial and nationalistic components of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century neurasthenic discourse to propose that neurasthenia was as much a discourse of modern American identity as it was a discourse of disease. By closely reading the medical and general texts which helped to popularize it, and by scrutinizing the context of its vogue and suppose...

In this paper, the authors address three recent organizational crises that have occurred in China; the SK-II cosmetic incident, the Sharon Stone comment on the May 2008 earthquake in China, and the melamine milk contamination crisis. Each held significant notoriety due to the crises involving major companies and an assortment of negative outcomes. After presenting an overview of each case, the ...

The aim of the Department’s transformation strategy, introduced in last year’s report and updated in this chapter, is to ensure U.S. military preeminence well into the 21st century. Much about the future security environment is uncertain, such as the identity of the nation’s adversaries and the precise ways in which they will threaten U.S. interests. However, some aspects of the emerging threat...

Currency crises appear to spread regionally. In this paper we use Bayesian methodology on data from four waves of currency crises in the late twentieth century to examine the mechanism by which currency crises spread from one country to another. In particular, we examine whether trade linkages, “other” unquantifiable linkages proxied for by relative geographical distance, or macroeconomic and f...

Compassion shown towards victims often decreases as the number of individuals in need of aid increases, identifiability of the victims decreases, and the proportion of victims helped shrinks. Such “compassion fade” may hamper individual-level and collective responses to pressing large-scale crises. To date, research on compassion fade has focused on humanitarian challenges; thus, it remains unk...

nancial crises is one of the gravest threats to an open and liberal international economic order... Recent events in Turkey and Argentina demonstrate that financial crises with potentially profound consequences for economic and political stability are not a thing of the past. They also demonstrate the continued urgency of finding practical and concrete means to handle the crises that do occur.”...

The European Union has faced many crises, such as populism, xenophobia, economic and political challenges, to name a few. This resulted in some questioning whether the EU will survive. Herein, neo-institutionalist perspective on crises integration frames an original timely inquiry into role of new initiative – Education Area supporting these challenging times. relies thematic analysis relevant ...

We explain why correlation crises may occur in insurance and finance. These phenomena are not taken into account in Solvency II standard formula. We show the importance of taking them into account in internal models or partial internal models. Given the variety of scenarios that could lead to correlation crises and their different potential impacts, we support the idea that ORSA (Own Risk and S...