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Varieties of Democracy Aid Approaches: The Role of Donors' Domestic Ideology
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT After the end of the Cold War, DAC donors increased their efforts of democracy promotion in developing countries. Among other instruments, DAC donors increasingly use democracy aid to improve democracy abroad. However, DAC donors differ in their allocation and delivery strategy of democracy aid.
Jean‐Baptiste Puginier
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Sultan Qaboos University Journal for Science, 2017 There is a lack of data on the generation and composition of waste in rural areas worldwide. The present study analyzed the composition of solid waste in Al Jabal Al Akhdar, a rural mountain region in the Sultanate of Oman, which is presently ...
Abdullah I. Al-Mahrouqi, Reginald Victor
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Public International Law and Human Rights Violations by Private Military and Security Companies / [PDF]
, 2017 This book explores the human rights consequences of the new mercenarism, as channeled through so-called private military and security companies (PMSCs), and offers an overview of the evolution and status quo of both non-legal (soft law and self ...
Torroja Mateu, Helena, +1 more
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Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many employees experience a career plateau (CP) with potentially negative consequences. Previous research has established the effects of CPs on well‐being, whereas the potential boundary conditions of these effects and the resulting crossover effects for life partners have been largely neglected.
Rebekka S. Steiner +2 more
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Failure in Motion: A Framework for Capability Erosion and Institutional Dysfunction
Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on the literature on capability erosion and institutional dysfunction (ID), this study develops a conceptual framework that sheds new light on how the interaction between capability erosion and ID creates conditions for business failure across borders. By articulating two dimensions of heterogeneous capability and resource erosion (i.e.
Joseph Amankwah‐Amoah +1 more
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The legitemacy issue of private military companies
, 2021 Özel askeri şirketler ile ilgili yapılan çalışmalarda askeri hizmetlerin üçüncü kaynaklardan sağlanması yöntemiyle farklı yüklenicilere devredilmesi gibi çağımızın güvenlik ortamını dönüştüren faktörler incelenmiştir.
Arslan, Mustafa, Kırmızıgül, Niyazi
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Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A key challenge in public procurement management is balancing equity and efficiency in government procurement. Based on longitudinal data on more than 120,000 US federal service and construction contracts awarded between 2008 and 2018 across over 500 federal agencies, we examine how agency‐level dynamic capabilities shape the performance of ...
Matilde Cappelletti +3 more
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Private Military and Security Companies
Russia in Global Affairs, 2019 When state armed forces are deployed in the context of armed conflict situations or crisis management operations it has become fairly common that they are accompanied and supported by employees of private business entities, often referred to as Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs).
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Andalas Journal of International Studies, 2019 This article targets an understanding related to the phenomenon of the rise of the Private Military Company which has strengthened its relations with the State in various conflicts in the world in the era of globalization - especially after the terrorist
Frieska Haridha +2 more
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On Private Military Companies and Hybrid Warfare
, 2021 This paper analyses how the growing role of Private Military Companies PMCs has flown largely under the radar of the international community, even as dangerous legal loopholes and ambiguities come to light. From a strategic point of view, PMCs in general
De Castro, Norman
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