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PRIVATIZATION OF SECURITY IN THE 20TH CENTURY. FROM MERCENARIES TO PRIVATE MILITARY CORPORATIONS
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2018 The present paper aims to emphasize the context of the privatization of security in the 20th century and to show the differences between these newly created corporations and the old mercenaries.
Ramona Ioana GOGA
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Who Cares About Carbon Performance Strategy? Ownership Structure as a Driver for Carbon Performance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research aims to highlight the empirical, theoretical, and corporate governance arguments employed in the academic literature that examines ownership structure as a determinant of carbon performance—a key element in contemporary climate governance frameworks.
Thicia Stela Lima Sampaio +2 more
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STATE, LEGITIMATE VIOLENCE AND ACTIVITIES OF PRIVATE MILITARY-SECURITY COMPANIES IN THE MODERN WORLD
Сравнительная политика, 2015 State, legitimate violence and activities of private military-security companies in the modern world.
D. O. Novikova
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Post‐disaster contexts generate large volumes of damaged building stock with significant, yet often unquantified, circularity potential. Through the lens of strategic management, the circular economy emerges as a transformative pathway to strengthen systemic resilience by reducing dependencies on external resources and mitigating supply chain ...
Tetiana Shevchenko +4 more
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Quiet activism as feminist practice
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we discuss how women combat silencing in the face of violence and increased political turmoil through quiet activism in their day‐to‐day lives. Centering lengthy conversations with Arab women across London and notes from an ongoing collaboration with a feminist activist based in the US, we examine how wearable rhetorical ...
Vicky Panossian, Catherine A. Evans
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Knowledge sourcing, geopolitics, and FDI: An empirical analysis on the US green and digital sectors
Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how foreign direct investment (FDI) shapes firms' sourcing of knowledge in the digital and green domains under rising geopolitical frictions. We assemble a firm–country dyadic panel (2013–2020) linking US patent backward citations to firms' FDI, enriched with bilateral geopolitical distance and host‐country
Alberto Maria Radici
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Current Trends in Regulating the Legal Status of Private Military and Security Companies
Journal of Danubian Studies and Research, 2021 The presence of employees of private military and security companies in the grey zones and in military operations is a reality. The legal regulation of the status of these companies, the types and essence of the services provided, as well as the legal ...
Cauia Alexandr, Zacon Corina
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Geopolitics and global strategy: Making money under anarchy
Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Multinational firms conduct cross‐border trade and investment in a world of anarchy, where nation‐states must secure their survival in the absence of a world government. We develop a geopolitical‐economic order (GEO) framework to argue that the extent of geopolitical competition incentivizes states to create one of two types ...
Daniel J. Blake +2 more
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How to Regulate Private Military Companies?
Czech Journal of International Relations, 2009 This article presents a review of the currently debated options for regulations of activities of private military companies (PMCs). This topic is a matter of pondering in the foreign literature.
Oldřich Bureš
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When governments act as strategists: Geopolitical turmoil and global strategy theory
Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary The resurgence of geopolitical rivalry is challenging core assumptions of global strategy theory. Long‐standing views that economic interdependence is inherently beneficial, governments act as rule setters, multinational enterprises operate autonomously, and market and political strategy are separate no longer capture today's ...
Ari Van Assche, Thomas Lindner
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