Revisiting the Migration-Development Nexus: A Gravity Model Approach [PDF]
This paper presents empirical estimates of a gravity model of bilateral migration that properly accounts for non-linearities and tackles causality issues through an instrumental variables approach. In contrast to the existing literature, which is limited
Cummins, Matthew +3 more
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The Truths of Torture: Victims’ Memories and State Histories in Indonesia [PDF]
, 2008 Page range: 31-50This essay discusses the mass arrests and the torture of Indonesian political prisoners conducted by the Suharto regime from 1965 through 1969; the analysis is based on interviews with prisoners and state records of their “confessions ...
Roosa, John
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Immunization in developing countries : its political and organizational determinants [PDF]
The authors use cross-national social, political, economic, and institutional data to explain why some countries have stronger immunization programs than others, as measured by diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) and measles vaccine coverage rates and the
Gauri, Varun, Khaleghian, Peyvand
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Operação Condor: A internacionalização do terror [PDF]
, 2014 La internacionalización del terrorismo de Estado implantado en el Cono Sur, entre los años ‘70 y ‘80, reunió los países de la región, para combatir el peligro del avance del comunismo internacional.
Marmontel Braga, Leonardo
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Inbar, Efraim. Outcast Countries in the World Community. Denver (Col.), Monograph Series in World Affairs, University of Denver, Coll. « Graduate School of International Studies », vol. 21, Book 2, 1985, 104 p. [PDF]
, 1987 Gosselin, Guy
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Disparitions, coercition et violence symbolique [PDF]
Nombre de pratiques coercitives1 ont déjà fait l'objet d'analyse sociologique et historique de qualité. Qu'il s'agisse des politiques de génocide2 ou qu'il s'agisse des exactions commises par les gouvernements à l'égard des minorités3.
Bigo, Didier
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Scientific necessity and political utility: A comparison of data on violent conflicts [PDF]
, 2001 Data making in the social sciences in general, data collection on interstate and intrastate violence in particular, is not only a necessity for the growth of knowledge but also potentially useful for practice.
Chojnacki, Sven, Eberwein, Wolf-Dieter
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The capacity and willingness to act: Two constitutive elements of strategy design [PDF]
, 1999 Given the amount of suffering in the world, do we have the capacity to provide the necessary humanitarian assistance? Assuming that this is the case: are both the governments and the populations willing to carry that burden in the future as they have ...
Chojnacki, Sven, Eberwein, Wolf-Dieter
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Since World War II there have been about fifty episodes of large-scale mass killings of civilians and massive forced displacements. They were usually meticulously planned and independent of military goals.
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Post-Zionist Perspectives on Contemporary Israel [PDF]
, 2005 Review essay of Baruch Kimmerling’s “The Invention and Decline of Israeliness”, Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler’s “The Global Political Economy of Israel” and Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled’s “Being Israeli”
Selby, Jan
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