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Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
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MILITARYPOLITICAL RELATIONS IN THE TRIANGLE US — TURKEY — FRANCE: 2009–2012
Сравнительная политика, 2015 The article explores interaction in the U.S.-Turkey-France triangle on military and political issues related to the rejoining of NATO military organization by France in 2009. This analysis is important to clarify the level of NATO coherence, speed of the
V. A. Avatkov, A. O. Domanov
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The Power of Hegemon: the Role of Discourse
RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2020 This paper explores one of the central issues of current international discourse : how is world order sustained and maintained, is it shifting and changing, is it being reinvented and reimagined, or are we on the cusp of global disorder and competition ...
Piotr Dutkiewicz
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Employment descentralisation: polycentric compaction or sprawl? The case of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region 1986-1996 [PDF]
The Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR) has been repeatedly characterised as a polycentric-type urban system. The aim of this study is to corroborate this affirmation by making use of a methodology that enables the identifying of employment subcentres ...
Miguel Angel Garcia Lopez +1 more
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Polycentric climate governance – insights of a systematic literature review
, 2022 In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in polycentric governance among researchers and practitioners, from a variety of perspectives. In polycentric governance, multiple, overlapping decision-making units operate with a fair amount of ...
Kellner, Elke
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how a local environmental NGO in southern China transformed Guantouling Hill, once a prominent poaching hotspot along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, into a recognised model of community‐based biodiversity conservation.
Zheng Lin, Miao Chen
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Political Institutionalisation and Economic Specialisation in Polycentric Metropolitan Regions – The Case of the East-German ‘Saxony Triangle’ [PDF]
The rising attention of politicians as well as scientists in the EU to the large urban agglomerations as centres of economic growth is accompanied by political efforts to identify and to demarcate such agglomerations under the label ‘metropolitan regions’
Christoph Hornych, Peter Franz
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Plurality in transformative change: Three co‐created pathways toward nature‐positive Europe(s)
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The accelerating decline of biodiversity necessitates transformative change to protect nature and society, which requires innovative actions and governance strategies. This paper advances the conceptual understanding of transformative change by identifying patterns of change in three co‐created transformative pathways for a nature‐positive ...
Mara de Pater +14 more
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From Local Action to Global Influence: How Cities Shape Governance in a Polycentric World
Social SciencesMunicipal leadership has become increasingly central to addressing global challenges such as war-related displacement, migration governance, and climate change, reflecting a broader shift toward polycentric and networked forms of multilateralism.
Colleen Thouez, Raphaela Schweiger
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Implications of external validity for research on polycentric and complex adaptive systems [PDF]
Much recent research has examined the implications of policy analysis for complex adaptive social-ecological systems. System complexity comes from both the natural environment as well as complex institutional arrangements that humans use to manage and ...
Coleman, Eric A.
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