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"Norway is a Peace Nation" : Discursive Preconditions for the Norwegian Peace Engagement Policy
, 2008 Since the early 1990s, Norway has been involved in peace promotion efforts in conflicts literally all over the world. This thesis explores how this activist peace promotion has been made possible, and how it has been naturalized as an integrated part of ...
Skånland, Øystein Haga
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Do Economic and Financial Determinants Drive Sustainable Development? Evidence From Nordic Countries
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the relationships among productivity, financial development, financial globalization, economic freedom, and CO2 emissions in the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden over the period 2000–2022. The primary aim of the study is to assess how economic and financial indicators influence environmental ...
Nazli Demirtaş +3 more
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A Pivot to What? Asia-Pacific Foreign Policy under Trump [PDF]
, 2016 Despite the difficulty in making predictions about an incoming American administration even before the inaugural process has been completed, the first two months since the US elections in November 2016 have already generated a great deal of debate and ...
Lanteigne, Marc
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Five Lessons From a Decade of Sustainable Development Goals Policy Traction
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda deadline looms, the gap between political commitments and operational outcomes is widening. While previous studies offer fragmented diagnoses, holistic lessons derived from a decade of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation remain lacking. To address this gap, we examine 60 countries'
Volkan Göçoğlu +2 more
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Foreign policy of the European Union towards the South Caucasus in 1992-2014
, 2015 This assessment of European Union foreign policy towards the South Caucasus shows that while the EU has developed a coherent transport policy since 1992, paradoxically, it has had no corresponding coherent conflict resolution policy for this region.
Kereselidze, Nino
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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
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Russian foreign policy as an instrument for domestic mobilization [PDF]
, 2018 Despite numerous declarations, the Russian authorities have done very little about domestic reforms, such as economic modernization. By contrast, Russia’s external policy has been extremely active, and is extensively debated within Russia itself.
Busygina, Irina
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Who gets redeployed? Inventor characteristics and resource redeployment decisions
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary While the literature highlights the benefits of internally redeploying resources, there is less empirical guidance on which resources are most likely to be redeployed. We examine the relationship between inventor characteristics and redeployment decisions, motivated by the tension between costs and benefits of keeping a ...
Kyungsoo Kim, Isin Guler, Samina Karim
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The Role of Public Diplomacy in Norwegian Foreign Policy – Current Aspects
, 2015 Cílem této bakalářské práce je zhodnotit, jakou roli zaujímá veřejná diplomacie v norské zahraniční politice, a odpovědět na výzkumnou otázku, jak si přeje být Norsko, z pozice malého státu, vnímáno na mezinárodní scéně.
Drozd, Jiří
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Using Virtual Exchange for Teaching BELF Pragmatics: Developing an Online Negotiation Activity
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Teaching Business English (BE) is experiencing a paradigm shift to reflect the communicative needs of the global workplace. With the majority of interactions in English now taking place among multilingual speakers, there are increasing calls to integrate perspectives of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) into English language and ...
Miya Komori‐Glatz +1 more
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