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Aplicación de la Teoría Situacional de los Públicos al primer proceso de voto en el exterior para Costa Rica: Lecciones para las relaciones públicas internacionales y la diplomacia pública [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Using information gathered from 40 interviews with Costa Ricans who live abroad (some who decided to vote in the newly granted external voting right and others who did not vote in the Costa Rican National Elections of 2014), the variables that impacted ...
Bravo, Vanessa
core   +1 more source

Scheduling Bodyguards

open access: yesNaval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Security agencies around the world use bodyguards to protect government officials and public figures. In this paper, we consider a two‐person zero‐sum game between a defender who allocates such bodyguards to protect several targets and an attacker who chooses one target to attack.
Loe Schlicher, Kyle Y. Lin, Moshe Kress
wiley   +1 more source

Developing Diplomats: Comparing Form and Culture Across Diplomatic Services, PRP 194 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This study is a detailed and focused effort to broaden how we understand and conceptualize the recruitment, training, and development of professional diplomats in the twenty-first century.
Hutchings, Robert, Suri, Jeremi
core   +1 more source

Reconsidering Volume‐Based Drug Procurement Policy: The Consequences of Manufacturers' Optimal Production Planning and Breach Strategies

open access: yesNaval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impacts of Volume‐Based Procurement (VBP) policies on pharmaceutical supply chains, with a focus on the strategic behaviors of manufacturers. VBP aims to reduce costs and stabilize supplies by centralizing procurement through competition based on volumes and prices.
Nani Zhou, Tong Wang, Guohua Wan
wiley   +1 more source

The EU Public Diplomacy in Latin America: State of Affairs, Challenges and Prospects [PDF]

open access: yesСовременная Европа
The article addresses the public diplomacy of the EU in Latin America in the context of the geopolitical confrontation between Brussels and Moscow, as well as the growing influence of China in the region.
Georgy I. Kutyrev   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Localization Through Coordination? Implementing the Humanitarian‐Development‐Peace Nexus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a global concept and initiative, the Humanitarian‐Development‐Peace Nexus (HDPN) aims to improve integration across the traditionally siloed humanitarian, development, and security sectors, while foregrounding the involvement of local actors.
Marie‐Eve Desrosiers   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public Diplomacy as an Instrument for Obtaining Foreign Policy Goals of the USA in Central Asia

open access: yesМеждународная аналитика, 2018
The article deals with the features of public diplomacy resource’ application in US foreign policy in Central Asia. The author claims that American public diplomacy which has been actively working in the region since the collapse of the USSR appears to ...
B. Bahriev
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Public Administration Education on Individual Policy Capacity of Federal Civil Servants in Ethiopia

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, policy capacity has garnered increasing attention from scholars in the Global North. However, there has been limited focus on policy capacity in developing countries, particularly in Africa. While various factors, such as experience, the nature of policy tasks, and educational background, can influence the policy capacity of
Kiflie Worku Angaw   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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