Unpacking China's Digital Ascent in the Global South: The Case of Huawei in North Africa
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite frequent concerns in Western policy and media circles about the risks of using Chinese telecommunications suppliers, firms like Huawei have encountered little resistance from governments or citizens in the Global South. Empirical research explaining this acceptance remains limited.
Tin Hinane El Kadi
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Typologies of Party Finance Systems: A Comparative Study of How Countries Regulate Party Finance and Their Institutional Foundations. [PDF]
Elect Law J, 2019 Wiltse DL, La Raja RJ, Apollonio DE.
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid shifting geopolitical tensions, the notion of “research security” has become an increasingly prominent concern in science policy. This paper analyzes how research security is framed and operationalized in Germany and the United States using discourse analysis and securitization theory.
Nicolas V. Rüffin +3 more
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Parliamentarizing war: explaining legislative votes on Canadian military deployments. [PDF]
Int Relat (David Davies Mem Inst Int Stud)Lagassé P, Massie J.
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Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
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Political institutions and their historical dynamics. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2012 Sandberg M, Lundberg P.
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Second Attempt at America First: Donald Trump and the Survival of International Organizations
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The second Trump administration poses an existential challenge to many international organizations (IOs), putting them at risk of no longer being able to perform their core functions. Compared to the first term, the scope of America First is much wider and the speed much faster.
Hylke Dijkstra
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Development Lending and Debt Discipline: The Political Economy of External Finance in Brazil
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Brazil's External Financing Commission (COFIEX), a centralized body that approves all public‐sector external borrowing and exemplifies efforts in middle‐income democracies to reconcile fiscal restraint with the demands of strategic public investment.
Benjamin Vidmar, Felipe Krause
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Uptake of evidence in policy development: the case of user fees for health care in public health facilities in Uganda. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv Res, 2014 Nabyonga-Orem J +5 more
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South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
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