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Economic (asymmetrical) interdependence and territorial disputes

2019
This chapter will argue that China’s new leader, Xi Jinping, has a strategy to use his country’s economic centrality in Asia to promote its economic advantage to develop trans-border infrastructure especially in transportation, which will also benefit neighboring states, but which will also tighten China’s regional economic and security networks.
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Economic Background to the Coal Dispute

Economic Outlook, 1984
SummaryThis Briefing Paper attempts to explain the economic forces behind the decline of the coal industry. The main findings (presented in the order in which the argument is developed) are: Coal output has been declining throughout this century. This decline accelerated in the 1950s and 1960s when coal was faced with competition from oil. The decline
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Geographical Economics versus Economic Geography: Towards a Clarification of the Dispute

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2004
Geographical economics is a recent approach in economics aiming at introducing the ‘role of space’ into the mainstream of the discipline. Though interested in similar issues, economic geographers strongly criticise geographical economics. This paper puts such criticisms under scrutiny, taking Ron Martin's 1999 influential contribution as ...
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Dispute settlement in international economic law - lessons for strengthening international dispute settlement in non-economic areas

Journal of International Economic Law, 1999
This article begins with a discussion of negotiation theories and the need for a comprehensive theory of effective international adjudication and then examines why compulsory international adjudication is more widely accepted in international economic law and in related regional integration law than in non-economic areas of international law.
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Economic Dimensions of the Cyprus Dispute

1992
Most economic analysis relies heavily on the concepts of preferences, constraints and conventions (or rules of conduct) which govern the interaction of economic agents. Loosely speaking, the term preferences is used as shorthand for one’s aims. Firms are often assumed to maximize profits, consumers their utility, unions some function of the wage rate ...
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APPLYING ONLINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION MECHANISMS IN RESOLVING ECONOMIC DISPUTES

This article analyzes the online mechanisms of alternative dispute resolution methods for various economic disputes between entrepreneurs, specifically the use of online mediation and arbitration. It examines the origins and systems of these approaches, as well as their distinctive features.
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The Disputable Truth of Economic Greed

2009
When Herb Stein, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Nixon and Ford, wrote his celebrated Wall Street Journal article, Adam Smith did not wear an Adam Smith necktie,1 he was expressing an exacerbation with some of the more dogmatic proponents of the free market economy.
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Choosing Sides: Economic Interdependence and Interstate Disputes

The Journal of Politics, 2008
Recent work on economic interdependence and conflict has focused largely on explaining whether trading states fight each other while ignoring the possibility that trade has broader political implications on state behavior. In this study, I claim that states’ trade interests affect their decisions to militarily assist their partners in armed conflicts ...
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American corporate planning and international economic disputes

2000
The authors address questions in current business and policy literature regarding the structural linkages evolving in the globalization process. The authors conclude that the US administration and American firms have to be more responsive to the interests of the international community that are being vitally affected by the integrating effects of ...
Thomas L. Brewer, Stephen Young
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The Economics of the Australian Waterfront Dispute

The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 1998
AbstractIndustrial Relations returned to the forefront of the Australian public debate in 1998 with the dispute between the Federal Government and Patrick Stevedores on the one hand and the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) on the other. This article, which was written in April 1998 at the height of the dispute, concentrates on the economic issues ...
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