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Rendezvous in Space: Tech Diplomacy and the Commercial Space Era—A Study of Rendezvous and Docking Technologies and Space Exploration Co‐Operation Since the Cold War

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On‐orbit rendezvous and docking constitute one of the most technically challenging activities in the history of space activities. As space endeavours mature to crewed missions, space rendezous and docking technologies (RDT) emerge as an area of technological innovation critical to advances in future crewed space exploration.
Nikita Chiu, Markus Kornprobst
wiley   +1 more source

Majority Rule in a Stochastic Model of Bargaining [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we consider multilateral stochastic bargaining models with general agreement rules. For n-player games where in each period a player is randomly selected to allocate a stochastic level of surplus and qNONCOOPERATIVE BARGAINING; VOTING RULES;
Eraslan, H., Merlo, A.
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Public Trust in Global AI Governance Across Geopolitical Rivals

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global governance of artificial intelligence (AI) depends on coordination among national governments, international organizations, and non‐state actors. While existing research has mapped the institutional complexity of the emerging AI regime, public trust in the stakeholders involved remains underexplored.
Xiaojun Li
wiley   +1 more source

TRUST-ME: Trust-Based Resource Allocation and Server Selection in Multi-Access Edge Computing

open access: yesFuture Internet
Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has attracted the interest of the research and industrial community to support Internet of things (IoT) applications by enabling efficient data processing and minimizing latency.
Sean Tsikteris   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Capacity and Concessions: Bargaining Power in Multilateral Negotiations [PDF]

open access: yesMillennium: Journal of International Studies, 2005
Realism and liberalism disagree over the source of bargaining power in international relations. Realists believe that the success of a negotiator is a linear function of the capabilities that its home state possesses. Liberals stress the crucial importance of either the relative salience a country attaches to a contested issue or the importance ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Wages and Seniority When Coworkers Matter: Estimating a Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data [PDF]

open access: yes
We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact through a task­-assignment model, and wages are determined through multi­lateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to the workforce.
Ferrall, Christopher   +2 more
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Active Yet Cautious: How Middle States Navigate Status in the Universal Periodic Review

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how states positioned in the middle of the international status hierarchy behave in the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR). While the UPR was established as a cooperative mechanism to move away from confrontational naming and shaming, in practice it has become a reputational arena where states strategically ...
Chun‐Young Park
wiley   +1 more source

Are current debt relief initiatives an option for scaling up health financing in beneficiary countries?

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization
One central goal of the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and the more recent Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) is to free up additional resources for public spending on poverty reduction.
M Kaddar, E Furrer
doaj   +1 more source

Intensifying translocal precarity: The impact of COVID‐19 on smallholder farmers' commodity production and social reproduction in Cambodia

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Our paper argues that COVID‐19 deepened the translocal precarity of smallholder households, who already had to struggle with volatile commodity production and uncertain labour migration. Through the lens of translocal precarity, it reveals how the pandemic played out within a broader conjuncture of agrarian transformation, defined by ...
Rosa Yi, W. Nathan Green
wiley   +1 more source

The political economy of bilateralism and multilateralism: Institutional choice in international trade and taxation [PDF]

open access: yes
Trade relations are governed by the multilateral GATT, whereas the avoidance of international double taxation rests on a network of around 2000 bilateral treaties.
Rixen, Thomas, Rohlfing, Ingo
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