Regional Security through Synergistic Integration: A Euro-Mediterranean Regional Security Complex? Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 5, No. 13 June 2008 [PDF]
In this paper I argue that the recent Iraq war shows that there are, at least with respect to the Greater Middle East, no “quick fixes” for regional security, but that the painstaking process of political, economic and social development and ...
Boening, Astrid B.
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Green Ambiguity Shapes Sustainable Investing
ABSTRACT Green Exchange‐Traded Funds (ETFs) have experienced strong growth in recent years, reflecting increasing investor attention toward sustainability. However, these funds rely on a wide range of environmental metrics that are often weakly aligned, raising concerns about the meaning of greenness in sustainable investing.
Rita Laura D'Ecclesia +2 more
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Eastern European lessons for the southern Mediterranean [PDF]
The economic profiles of southern Mediterranean countries (SMCs) bear some resemblance to those of south-eastern European countries and some former Soviet republics at the beginning of their economic transition in 1990.
André Sapir, Georg Zachmann
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A real-time PCR method for quantification of the total and major variant strains of the Deformed wing virus [PDF]
Funding: ELB was supported by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership (http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk) [grant number BB/J01446X/1] and an Eastern Association Regional Studentship (EARS) and The ...
Bowman, Alan S. +3 more
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between industrial robotics adoption and ecological capacity, measured by biocapacity, using panel data from 50 countries over the period 2000–2024. We investigate the transmission mechanisms, non‐linearities, spatial spillovers, and heterogeneity characterizing this relationship.
Brahim Bergougui +1 more
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EU-Russia relations in the context of the eastern neighbourhood [PDF]
This report briefly examines EU-Russia relations in the context of the eastern neighbourhood. It contends that both the EU and Russia’s ambitions for the eastern region have evolved into two competing region-building projects underpinned by differing ...
Korosteleva, Elena
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ABSTRACT This study offers a forward‐looking assessment of sustainability indicator research in agribusiness by integrating bibliometric mapping with ARIMA‐based forecasting. Analysing 403 Scopus‐indexed articles, bibliographic‐coupling analysis identifies three contemporary thematic domains: Techno‐Managerial Sustainability, Systemic and ...
Marcelo Kratz Mendes +5 more
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Sustainability Orientation and Entrepreneurial Performance in Resource‐Constrained Contexts
ABSTRACT This study examines how sustainability orientation shapes entrepreneurial performance in bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (BoP) markets by theorizing responsible entrepreneurship as a central mechanism and BoP orientation as a contextual contingency. Using survey data from 283 small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana, we integrate perspectives
George Obeng Dankwah +5 more
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Eastern Partnership states benefit from free trade agreements with the EU, but gain little from similar agreements with Russia [PDF]
The Ukraine crisis illustrated the extent to which Eastern Partnership states can be torn between pursuing closer integration with the EU or with Russia.
Inmaculada, Martinez-Zarzoso
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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
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