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Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

THE ACHILLES HEEL OF THE SOVIET SOLDIER

open access: yesScientia Militaria, 2012
In the 1930s democratic people watched with growing incredulity as the world's political systems broke up: the Depression gave rise to disintegration, disintegration led to anarchy, and anarchy to war.
J.D. Bredenkamp
doaj   +1 more source

Political Violence in Nigeria and Its Implication for National Development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Political violence is a major impediment to Nigeria's national development. With the restoration to democratic rule in May 1999, high expectations were raised that the new democratic dispensation would resolve the risk of Nigeria's political violence ...
Ibok, Anweting Kevin, Ogar, Ogar Anthony
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Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
wiley   +1 more source

Thirty years of “Peace”: reconsidering the Kantian tradition in Foreign Relations

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis, 2016
The article considers the researcher’s ideas evolving the reconsideration of neo-Kantian approaches to theorizing in foreign relations regarding the effects of globalization upon the international peace in particular.
Mykhaylenko Maksym Valeriyovych
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DEMOCRATISATION OF FOREIGN POLICY IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

open access: yesInternational Studies Journal
Research Problem The political elite has significantly shaped Nigeria's foreign policy, especially during the prolonged military rule. However, since its return to democracy in 1999, there has been no correlation between democratic growth and foreign
GUY GOYEI FINEMAN   +1 more
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War and endogenous democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century occurred during or in the aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of international ...
Ticchi, Davide, Vindigni, Andrea
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Acerca de una educación para la paz, los derechos humanos y el desarme: desafío pedagógico de nuestro tiempo = Education for peace, human rights and disarmament: pedagogical challenge of our time

open access: yesEducação, 2013
In the education field of the present time in Latin America education for peace and human rights towards truth and justice is an ethic commitment, a social need and a non-questionable theme.
Cabezudo, Alicia
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Approaching Perpetual Peace: Kant’s Defence of a League of States and his Ideal of a World Federation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
There exists a standard view of Kant’s position on global order and this view informs much of current Kantian political theory. This standard view is that Kant advocates a voluntary league of states and rejects the ideal of a federative state of states ...
Kleingeld, Pauline
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Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source

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