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Reaching the Summit or a Plateau? The EU–New Zealand Relationship in the Indo‐Pacific
ABSTRACT This article examines New Zealand's perceptions of the European Union's Indo‐Pacific Strategy through interviews with government officials and foreign policy influencers. Despite viewing the EU positively as a like‐minded partner committed to the rule‐based international order, New Zealand respondents demonstrated limited understanding of the ...
Matthew Castle +4 more
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ABSTRACT As hybrid threats blur the line between war and peace and challenge conventional deterrence logics, states increasingly turn to concepts of resilience, civil preparedness and whole‐of‐society as elements of their security strategies. This raises the question of how civilian agency can be viewed as an element of deterrence and what the ...
Agata Mazurkiewicz, Heljä Ossa
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Tax Planning Under Pressure: The Impact of Carbon Emissions Management Post‐Paris Agreement
ABSTRACT We examine how the Paris Agreement affects corporate tax planning across a global data set. We find that emissions‐reducing firms are associated with higher levels of tax planning than nonemissions‐reducing firms. The effect is stronger for firms facing tighter cost pass‐through constraints, such as operating in more competitive markets, with ...
Aonan (Sistine) Sun +3 more
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ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between voluntary carbon assurance (VCA) and carbon management system quality (CMSQ). Using a sample representing more than 40 countries over the period 2011–2018, we show empirically that firms with superior CMSQ tend to adopt VCA to show their commitment to a green transition to a decarbonised business ...
Jibriel Elsayih +3 more
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Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal
Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
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The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad
Abstract The past decade has seen a marked shift as many previously liberal democratic states have backslidden, taking authoritarian turns. How should liberal actors respond to democratic backsliding by others? Although it might seem that it is vital for liberal actors to react robustly to avoid complicity or to maintain their liberal integrity, this ...
James Pattison
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Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war
Abstract War is often viewed as a bargaining problem. However, prior to bargaining, countries can vie for leverage by expending effort on diplomacy. This article presents a dynamic model of conflict where agenda‐setting power is endogenous to pre‐bargaining diplomatic competition.
Joseph J. Ruggiero
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court
Abstract Recently, scholars have increasingly examined the unique blending of Christian and political ideology known as Christian nationalism. During this period, the US Supreme Court has increasingly ruled in ways that favor Christian nationalism, and Court watchers have criticized several justices for showing bias toward Christianity at best and ...
Miles T. Armaly +3 more
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy
Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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