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Violent non-state actors' patterns of power: The case of Hezbollah [PDF]
Journal of Regional SecurityConventional International Relations emphasises the role of states as the primary actors, with control being the ultimate form of power. However, in today's interconnected and intricate global landscape, non-state actors, particularly violent non-state ...
Jaber Boushra
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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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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 +1 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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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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Localizing a Right to Night: Norm framing and grafting in subnational dark skies governance
Earth System GovernanceEfforts to comprehensively protect dark skies and address artificial light at night (ALAN) are complicated by differing contexts, motivations, and community values. Acknowledging this diversity, we examine how emergent global and nonstate ALAN governance
Valerie Xiong, J. Michael Angstadt
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Remaking State Power Through a Paraquat Ban in Malaysia
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the state in its ability to enact environmental regulations. Specifically, this study investigates how Malaysian state actors changed, shifted and betrayed various, oftentimes competing interests to ban paraquat, an acutely toxic herbicide.
Caitlyn Sears
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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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Professionalization of a nonstate actor [PDF]
, 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.
Patrick Finnegan, Finnegan, Patrick
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Citizenship, Dispossession and Demands for Justice in the Global South
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACTIn this introduction to the Special Issue we frame a “dispossession‐citizenship nexus” that generates fresh insights on citizenship dynamics in the Global South. We focus on rural and peri‐urban areas where all citizens are not granted the same bundle of rights and specific categories of citizens are particularly exposed to dispossession of ...
Tania Murray Li +4 more
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