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Climate Delegates' Views on the Dynamic Incentive Mechanism Under the Paris Agreement
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Paris Agreement establishes a bottom‐up global action plan with the aim of limiting global warming to well below 2°C above preindustrial levels, where countries should pledge Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of the highest possible ambition. The design of the agreement gives national authorities the freedom to decide on their own
Donia Mahabadi, Artem Korzhenevych
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the large reappraisal of the EU's security and economic interests in Central Asia, its foreign policy impact has remained weak. This article develops a constructivist, multi‐level framework to examine how European and Chinese approaches to decarbonization are translated into policy in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Morena Skalamera
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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 +4 more
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HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH AS ACTORS: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND PROSPECTS OF INTEGRATION IN THE WORLD ORDER
Сравнительная политика, 2018 The article is devoted to the problem of non-state entities in a changing nature of world politics. Hamas and Hezbollah are seen as major non-governmental actors in the Middle East with great potential to infl uence regional political processes including
Vladimir M. Morozov, Aysha B. Khachirova
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Using the capabilities approach to achieve people‐centered conservation
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Top‐down interventions carried out by state and nonstate institutions to conserve biodiversity and improve the lives of forest‐proximate people (FPP) in the Global South tend to reflect economistic understandings of human well‐being. More progressive and people‐centered conservation projects are guided by normative visions of how the world ...
Arthur Rodrigues +4 more
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Professionalization of a Nonstate Actor: A Case Study of the Provisional IRA [PDF]
Armed Forces & Society, 2017 Can nonstate militants professionalize? That is the core question of this piece. Discussions of professionalism have spread to the state military from civilian professions such as education, medicine, and law. This piece examines whether nonstate actors exhibit the same fundamental processes found within these state-based organizations.
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Complexity, Lethality, and the Perverse Imagination: Modelling Nonstate Actors' Means of Attack. [PDF]
Stud Confl Terror, 2023 Del Pozo B.
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Corporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue We investigate whether a quasi‐official minority shareholder, the China Securities Investor Services Center (CSISC), affects firms' investor relations management when it actively exercises its shareholder rights in listed firms. Research Findings/Insights We employ a machine learning–based algorithm to estimate response
Karel Hrazdil, Jiyuan Li, Xiang Zhang
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The Guiding Principles and armed non-State actors
Forced Migration Review, 2018 Millions of internally displaced persons live in areas controlled by armed non-State actors. Direct humanitarian engagement with these actors is required in order to help them improve their understanding of and compliance with the Guiding Principles on ...
Carla Ruta +2 more
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Bioethics and the World Order: A Curious Coincidence Between Chinese and African Approaches
Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The post‐1945 world order is standardly pictured as a Westphalian system, in which each state is equal under the law with sovereign authority over its territories. This paper argues that the Westphalian system is changing and examines the implications for bioethics. We show that cross‐border health, economic, ecologic, and sociopolitical risks
Nancy S. Jecker +2 more
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