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The Unintended Consequences of German Deterrence
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Germany's evolving deterrence posture boils down to continued participation in NATO nuclear sharing and an ambitious conventional rearmament program. Due to its non‐nuclear status and a result of decades of underinvestment, Germany prioritizes modern conventional weapons.
Ulrich Kühn
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Reaching the Summit or a Plateau? The EU–New Zealand Relationship in the Indo‐Pacific
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines New Zealand's perceptions of the European Union's Indo‐Pacific Strategy through interviews with government officials and foreign policy influencers. Despite viewing the EU positively as a like‐minded partner committed to the rule‐based international order, New Zealand respondents demonstrated limited understanding of the ...
Matthew Castle +4 more
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The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment in Authoritarian Regimes [PDF]
, 2013 Existing scholarship does not account for why foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows have been increasing to many authoritarian countries in recent decades, with some authoritarian developing countries attracting levels of FDI similar to those in ...
Bastiaens, Ida
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The Effect of Tax Treaties on Multinational Firms: New Evidence from Microdata [PDF]
This paper uses affiliate level data from Swedish multinationals to examine the impact of tax treaties on both overall affiliate sales and the composition of those sales. In line with previous results, we find little evidence for an effect of treaties on
Tekin-Koru, Ayca +2 more
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The Continuity and Rupture of the ‘New Washington Consensus’: From Biden to Trump 2.0
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The ‘New Washington Consensus’ (NWC) represents a major intellectual shift in the US approach to global economic governance. However, the NWC has never been subject to systematic academic critique. With Trump's return to the White House ushering in a new era of US trade policy, the NWC is widely considered to be politically irrelevant in the ...
Ming Du
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Double‐Edged Bandwagon Effects in International Law—Rationalist and Behavioral Explanations
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines bandwagon effects in international law by integrating rationalist and behavioral perspectives. While the diffusion of treaties and norms has often been understood as a progressive process leading to broader participation and compliance, states also imitate negative examples, resulting in treaty withdrawals, non‐compliance,
Anne van Aaken
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The Boom and Bust of Donor Development Regimes
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Across the Global North, support for international development is weakening. This raises an important question: Under what conditions does international solidarity become politically sustainable? This article addresses that question through a historical case study of the Netherlands, one of the strongest donor countries of the post‐war era and
Dirk‐Jan Koch
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Do bilateral investment treaties increase foreign direct investment to developing countries? [PDF]
Foreign investors are often skeptical toward the quality of the domestic institutions and the enforceability of the law in developing countries. Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) guarantee certain standards of treatment that can be enforced via ...
Laura Spess, Eric Neumayer
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MFN Provisions in Bilateral Investment Treaties of South Asian Countries: An Analysis
, 2021 A number of Bilateral Investment Treaties have been signed with South Asian countries (BITs). MFN clauses were added in these treaties, and they were construed extremely broadly, allowing investors to borrow favorable dispute settlement measures from ...
Shuvo, Md Atekul Islam Nur
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Cuban bilateral investment treaties. Actuality and perspectives for local development
Cooperativismo y Desarrollo, 2023 Bilateral investment treaties signed by the Cuban State contain a set of substantive and procedural standards of mandatory compliance for the contracting parties.
Yanitza Zaldivar Rodríguez
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