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New Multipolarity in Contemporary European Union’s Foreign Policy Discourse

open access: yesСибСкрипт
Amid the ongoing qualitative transformation of the international system, the leaders of the European Union go beyond day-to-day political agenda, attempting to describe the emerging global geopolitical landscape.
Lyudmila O. Igumnova
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The Role of the Institutes of Paradiplomacy in Regionalization of Sverdlovsk Region *

open access: yesДискурс Пи, 2018
The processes of regionalization within the country always cause an ambiguous assessment. Regional diplomacy (paradiplomacy) plays an important role in the formation of the region's actorness and identity. The purpose of the article is to analyze how
E.B. Mikhailenko, T.V. Verbitskaya
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Between EU actorness and aid effectiveness: the logics of EU aid to sub-Saharan Africa

open access: yes, 2013
This article argues that, by acting autonomously and cohesively, the European Union (EU) was able to shape the global agenda on foreign aid throughout the 2000s, particularly on the issue of donor complementarity and division of labour.
Carbone, M.
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Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Climate‐Friendly Food Production: The Role of Production Method Information and Social Norms

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether information about production methods and social norms can increase consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for food produced using climate‐friendly farming methods. A randomized survey experiment was conducted with 1568 respondents across Denmark, Lithuania, and Spain, who were assigned to one of four ...
Kassa Tarekegn Erekalo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complex, changeable, or just complicated : a relational approach to EU actorness in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue [PDF]

open access: yes
For thirty years, the European Union (EU) has positioned itself as an indispensable actor in the Western Balkans; providing financial aid, investment, and policy guidance to the region. In particular, the EU has taken an active role in seeking to mediate
MESAROVICH, Alexander
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Resilience and the world order: the EU and the RIC states. [PDF]

open access: yesInt Polit (Hague), 2021
Nitoiu C, Pasatoiu F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Actors as teachers [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 2006
Jade, McCutcheon, John, Galland
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Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Phased Actor

open access: yesCoRR
Policy gradient methods in actor-critic reinforcement learning (RL) have become perhaps the most promising approaches to solving continuous optimal control problems. However, the trial-and-error nature of RL and the inherent randomness associated with solution approximations cause variations in the learned optimal values and policies.
Ruofan Wu, Junmin Zhong, Jennie Si
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The EU as an Actor: The Study of Recognition as a Dimension of EU Actorness

open access: yes, 2011
This article explores one of the key dimensions of EU actorness – external recognition. First, it analyzes the four fundamental dimensions of EU actorness (recognition, legitimacy, framing, and attractiveness) and shows in what ways recognition is linked
Šimon, Ondřej, Kratochvíl, Petr
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EU actorness and effectiveness under political pressure at the Copenhagen climate change negotiations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper analyses the extent of European Union (EU) actorness and effectiveness at the fifteenth United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Groen, Lisanne, Niemann, Arne
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