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On Localism and the Persistent Power of the State

open access: yesAJIL Unbound, 2018
On June 1, 2017, President Trump declared that the United States would “cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris Accord and the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country.” The United States’ de facto ...
Cinnamon P. Carlarne
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From collaboration to contestation? Perceptions of legitimacy and effectiveness in post-Paris climate governance

open access: yesEarth System Governance, 2021
How do governance arrangements affect perceptions of legitimacy and effectiveness amongst non-state actors? This is a pertinent question as the roles of non-state actors have been strengthened in global climate governance.
Karin Bäckstrand   +2 more
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The Grand Strategy of Nonstate Actors: Theory and Implications

open access: yesJournal of Strategic Security, 2015
This article addresses the Realist assumption that only actors that are states can be considered to have a strategic culture. The primary issue raised is the question of the ability of non-state actors to have a strategic culture.
Garrett Pierman
doaj   +1 more source

Extraterritorial Law-Enforcement: Combating Non-State Actors

open access: yesTilburg Law Review, 2013
This is the text of a lecture, presented by Professor Yoram Dinstein at Tilburg University, outlining some key aspects of international humanitarian law as regards the principle of distinction; the principle of proportionality; direct participation in ...
Chris van Dam
doaj   +1 more source

Battalion tactical groups of the Russian Armed Forces in the altered physiognomy of modern conflicts [PDF]

open access: yesВојно дело, 2021
The altered setting of current conflicts, its hybridity and nonlinearity affect the justification of the assumption that operations in several domains will become a new method of conducting operations of the Russian Armed Forces. The Russian Armed Forces
Mitrović Miroslav, Bojanić Dragan
doaj   +1 more source

Soft Power and its Impact on Foreign Policy Decisions [PDF]

open access: yesAnalele Universităţii din Oradea. Relaţii Internaţionale şi Studii Europene, 2021
Discussions about the use of soft power and its influence on foreign affairs have developed a lot in recent years, especially due to the great complexity characterizing the international scene and relations.
Andreea-Dalina PETRAŞCA
doaj   +1 more source

Institutional accountability of nonstate actors in the UNFCCC: Exit, voice, and loyalty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
How are nonstate actors within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held to account? In this article, we introduce the concept of “institutional accountability” to complement the wider literature(s) on accountability in ...
Bäckstrand, Karin   +2 more
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Anti-government Non-state Armed Actors in the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine

open access: yesCzech Journal of International Relations, 2021
This article presents the main ANSA involved in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. It focusses on an analysis of the specific phenomenon of the opolchentsy - Narodnoe opolchenie Donbassa. The aim of this paper is to introduce and describe these actors and
Tomáš Šmíd, Alexandra Šmídová
doaj   +3 more sources

Introducing the Armed Nonstate Actor Rivalry Dataset (ANARD) [PDF]

open access: yesCivil Wars, 2021
While research on interstate rivalries is abundant, scholarship examining nonstate rivalries remains limited. To address this shortcoming, in this article we introduce the Armed Nonstate Actor Rivalry Dataset (ANARD) – a dataset which captures dyadic rivalries and militarised disputes among armed nonstate actors in the Middle East and North Africa ...
Stephen R. Powell, Adrian Florea
openaire   +1 more source

Rural Development Through Non-State Actors in Highlands of Pakistan

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2021
We explored the contribution and effectiveness of state and non-state institutions in rural development efforts in highlands (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [KPK] province) of Pakistan.
Muhammad Luqman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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