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Odious Debts or Odious Regimes [PDF]
Odious regimes have always been there. That there is no silver-bullet solution that will prevent odious regimes from arising, or stymie them once they do, is evident from the plethora of responses employed by the international community once a regime ...
Bolton, Patrick, Skeel, David
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Exploring a Systems Engineering Approach to Modelling Human Communication
ABSTRACT Communication is a crucial process for any successful purposeful human activity system as it mediates the information‐based relationships between a system's elements and parts, purpose(s) and boundaries. Human communication is more than just a process; it is a subsystem that interacts with other human activity systems, parts, elements and ...
Ryan Hekker +2 more
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Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front
Abstract Negotiating factional conflict is crucial to successful coordination: Political parties, rebel alliances, and authoritarian elites must all overcome internal disagreements to survive and achieve collective aims. Actors in these situations sometimes employ hardball tactics to block outcomes they dislike, but at the risk of causing coordination ...
Elaine Yao
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Constitutional Bait and Switch: Executive Reinterpretation of Arms Control Treaties [PDF]
A new constitutional crisis has been thrust upon the American body politic. The crisis arises from a dispute concerning the allocation of legal authority for the interpretation, and especially for the reinterpretation, of international agreements. Once a
Koplow, David A
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Network Games With Triadic Interactions
ABSTRACT We propose a model for network‐mediated interactions incorporating higher‐order relationships such as triadic interactions. The marginal utility of an individual's action depends explicitly on endogenous actions of multiple units. Conditions ensuring a unique Nash equilibrium are derived using a variational inequality approach. We estimate the
Wei Shi, Chunchao Wang, Pei Yu
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Abstract Art education research in mainland China has evolved considerably over the past decade, influenced by its socio‐cultural, educational and political contexts. This study examined the current methodological trends in this field, using Crotty's scaffolding framework for social research to dissect and critique methodological choices.
Ning Luo
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Housing and Real Estate Trends among Americans Retiring in Mexico's Coastal Communities [PDF]
For years, U.S. and Canadian retirees have flocked to Mexico as an alternative overseas retirement destination that was affordable, offered desirable weather and was close to their communities of origin in North America. These attributes have made Mexico
Anne McEnany, Richard Kiy
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Is There an Italian Conception of International Law [PDF]
In 1943, Angelo Piero Sereni wrote The Italian Conception of International Law, a book explicitly aimed at restoring Anglo-American respect for Italian international lawyers after the Fascist period.
Messineo, Francesco
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Cognitive Symbionts. Expanding the Scope of Cognitive Science With Fungi
Abstract It has been argued that fungi have cognitive capacities, and even conscious experiences. While these arguments risk ushering in unproductive disputes about how words like “mind,” “cognitive,” “sentient,” and “conscious” should be used, paying close attention to key properties of fungal life can also be uncontroversially productive for ...
Matteo Colombo
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ABSTRACT Objectives To systematically review the updated evidence for the clinical outcome of fixed implant prostheses treated with different combinations of implant placement and loading protocols in partially edentulous patients. Materials and Methods An electronic search was performed in Medline, Embase, and Central to identify studies of implants ...
German O. Gallucci +4 more
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