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Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
wiley   +1 more source

A CROSS-JURISDICTIONAL COMPARISON OF MSME INSOLVENCY FRAMEWORKS IN INDONESIA AND SINGAPORE

Indonesia Private Law Review
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are central to Indonesia’s economy but remain highly vulnerable during financial crises, partly due to the absence of a dedicated insolvency regime under Law No. 37 of 2004.
Recca Ayu Hapsari, Tata Wijayanta, Irna Nurhayati, Stanislav Vladimirov Mladenov   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

The rise in personal bankruptcies: the Eighth Federal Reserve District and beyond [PDF]

Personal bankruptcy filings in the United States increased, per capita, nearly 350 percent between 1980 and 2005. This paper first addresses the changes in economic and institutional factors that have occurred over the past 100 years, many of which have ...
Thomas A. Garrett
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Conceptualizing moral migration: how disillusionment and the transnational right motivate migration to Russia Conceptualiser la migration morale : comment les désillusions et la droite transnationale motivent l’émigration vers la Russie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
wiley   +1 more source

CIVIL LAW LIABILITY OF BANKRUPTCY TRUSTEE AND THE STATE IN BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS

Pravo, 2012
A bankruptcy trustee shall be liable with his personal assets for the damage caused with intent or out of gross negligence to the participants in the bankruptcy proceedings, while the burden of proof of such a quilt shall rest on the injured party.
Vladimir Kozar
doaj  

Bankruptcy Law and Entrepreneurship [PDF]

Entrepreneurs, catalysts for innovation in the economy, are increasingly the object of policymakers’ attention. Recent initiatives both in the UK and at EU level have sought to promote entrepreneurship by reducing the harshness of the consequences of ...
Douglas Cumming, John Armour
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

MAINTAINING RENTAL HOUSING AS AN ASSET: Exploring Institutional Investors in Sweden’s Rental Market

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Institutional investors have asserted significant power over rental markets across the transatlantic. However, their stronghold has been contested after rising interest rates in 2022. In this article I address the situated dimensions of the assetization of the built environment by examining the establishment of residential property investors ...
Jennie Gustafsson
wiley   +1 more source

(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trust is both a prerequisite and a product of insurance, as insurance contracts are built on and create trust relations that enable a risk‐averse perspective towards the future. At the same time, insurer‐policyholder relationships are characterised by a persistent distrust, rooted in insurance economics and industry reputation. In this article,
Maiju Tanninen, Gert Meyers
wiley   +1 more source