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Stable Isotope Analysis as a Tool to Prevent Illicit Wildlife Trade of Songbirds in Brazil

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Feather isotopes provide clear differences between wild and captive songbirds in Brazil. Combining multiple isotopes improved classification accuracy and revealed individuals falsely declared as captive‐bred. These results demonstrate the potential of isotope analysis to detect wildlife laundering in the bird trade.
Luiza Brasileiro, Fábio J. V. Costa, Paulo R. R. Ramos, Vladimir E. Costa, Gabriela B. Nardoto   +4 more
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Resenha

Meridiano 47, 2017
Resenha do livro: Moravcsik, Andrew; Milner, Helen V. (org.). Power, Interdependence and Nonstate Actors in World Politics. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Katiuscia Moreno Galhera Espósito
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Broke Autocrats, Broken Elections: Trade Shocks and Electoral Fraud in Autocracies

Economics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We argue that when terms‐of‐trade (ToT) shocks reduce resource rents, autocrats lose the fiscal capacity to sustain loyalty through patronage and increasingly rely on electoral manipulation as a survival strategy. We present a simple model in which rents finance patronage in normal times, while adverse shocks reduce the effectiveness of ...
Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
wiley   +1 more source

Rebels, Negligent Support, and State Accountability: Holding States Accountable for the Human Rights Violations of Non-State Actors [PDF]

, 2013
This Note discusses a crucial problem in the law of state accountability for human rights abuses. Specifically, it analyzes the difficulty of attaching liability when a state negligently supports a group that it should reasonably expect to commit human
Cronogue, Graham
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It Takes Two [PDF]

, 2009
Theories of conflict emphasize dyadic interaction, yet existing empirical studies of civil war focus largely on state attributes and pay little attention to nonstate antagonists.
Ayres, R. William, Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M., Buhaug, Halvard, Cederman, Lars-Erik, Chiozza, Giacomo, Christin, Thomas, Collier, Paul, Collier, Paul, Cox, David R., Cunningham, David E., Dale. A. Krane ., David E. Cunningham, Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede, Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede., Gurr, Ted. R., Heger, Lindsay, Hegre, Håvard, Hibbs, Douglas., Idean Salehyan, Kreutz, Joakim, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch., Most, Benjamin A., Nilsson, Desirée., Sharp, Gene., Svensson, Isak., Tilly, Charles., Toft, Monica., Werner, Suzanne   +28 more
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Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agroecological practices of ethnic minority farmers in Vietnam's northern uplands are being reshaped by intersecting pressures of land‐use reform, market integration, and state‐backed crop promotion. Among Hmong communities in the south of Lào Cai Province (former Yên Bái Province) cinnamon was once valued primarily for its medicinal ...
Mélie Monnerat, Sarah Turner
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Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society

Middle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
wiley   +1 more source

Devlet Desteğinin Saldırgan Devlet Dışı Aktörler Üzerindeki Etkisi: ABD Desteği ve Naip Savaş Örneği Olarak Suriye İç Savaşı

Gazi Akademik Bakış, 2021
States give direct, indirect, formal, and informal aid to violent non-state actors. Historical foreign aid examples suggest that foreign aid to violent non-state actors are free from the development degree and ideology of the state and the region in ...
Sinan DEMİRDÜZEN, Merve Suna ÖZEL ÖZCAN   +1 more
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Unexpected Encounters in Island Worlds: Interactions Between ROC/Taiwan Fishers and Chinese Diaspora Communities in the 20th‐Century Pacific

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Researchers have examined how the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) cultivated relations with Chinese diaspora communities to secure recognition of their government as the true homeland of the Chinese people. However, less attention has been paid to how accidental and contingent encounters between communities ...
Jess Marinaccio
wiley   +1 more source

Why U.S. Efforts to Promote the Rule of Law in Afghanistan Failed [PDF]

, 2017
Promoting the rule of law in Afghanistan has been a major U.S. foreign policy objective since the collapse of the Taliban regime in late 2001. Policymakers invested heavily in building a modern democratic state bound by the rule of law as a means to ...
Brown Frances Z., Campbell Meghan, Carothers Thomas, Chayes Sarah, Company Consulting Checchi, Company Consulting Checchi, Company Consulting Checchi, Fukuyama Francis, Geoffrey Swenson, Government Accountability Office U.S., International Crisis Group, Jones Seth G., Justice Ministry, Martins Mark, McChrystal Stanley, Mission Afghanistan U.S., SIGAR, SIGAR, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. State Department Office of the Inspector General, USAID, Wardak Ali, Wyler Liana S.   +23 more
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