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The Collaborative Management of Sustained Unsustainability: On the Performance of Participatory Forms of Environmental Governance [PDF]

, 2019
n modern democratic consumer societies, decentralized, participative, and consensus-oriented forms of multi-stakeholder governance are supplementing, and often replacing, conventional forms of state-centered environmental government.
Blühdorn, Ingolfur, Deflorian, Michael
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Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
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Qatar emerges as an authoritarian middle power through strategic specialization and defensive activism in the global system

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This study investigates Qatar’s foreign policy through the conceptual lens of emerging middle power behavior, framing it as authoritarian niche diplomacy. Eschewing traditional metrics of power, Qatar has carved out strategic influence through functional
Mordechai Chaziza, Carmela Lutmar
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An anatomy of worldmaking: Sukarno and anticolonialism from post‐Bandung Indonesia

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyzes the anticolonial worldmaking of postcolonial Indonesia's first president Sukarno, during Guided Democracy (1959–1965). Using worldmaking as a conceptual interface, the article offers three interconnected interventions.
Say Jye Quah
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Innovation diplomacy caught between the two opposing logics of cooperation and competition: Case study on EU-China S&T cooperation in the field of solar PV. EL-CSID Working Paper Issue 2018/15 • April 2018 [PDF]

, 2018
The purpose of this study is to test this question on the basis of a highly interesting illustrative case. It concerns the domain of the solar photovoltaics (solar PV) and the competition between the EU and China in this field.
Gehrt, Daniel
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Nation branding and development : poverty panacea or business as usual? [PDF]

, 2016
According to nation branding consultants, problems of underdevelopment and global inequality are, to a significant extent, a product of the negative images peddled by charities and the broader development industry.
Browning, Christopher S.
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Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How can defense alliances reap the efficiency gains of working together when coordination and opportunism costs are high? Although specializing as part of a collective comes with economic and functional benefits, states must bargain over the distribution of those gains and ensure the costs of collective action are minimized.
J. Andrés Gannon
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FOREIGN POLICY OF THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA: ANALYSIS OF THE FEATURES AND EMPHASIS OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSES. Part 1

Епістемологічні дослідження у філософії, соціальних і політичних науках
Taking into account that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is one of the leading Middle Eastern political players and a contender for an ambitious global actor, and keeping in mind the facts of the diverse involvement of this state in solving the problems ...
Марія КАРМАЗІНА, Іван АБЛАЗОВ   +1 more
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FEUTURE EU 28 Country Report. Estonia [PDF]

, 2017
Relations between Estonia and Turkey received renewed impetus after 2004, when Estonia joined the European Union (EU) (while Turkey was in the process of securing the official candidate status) and NATO, of which Turkey has been a member since 1952 ...
Braghiroli, Stefano, Vilson, Maili
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A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
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