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CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris, Chryssanthi Petropoulou, Mara Zacharaki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Non‐Fundamental Loan Renegotiations

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior studies predominantly examine fundamental performance‐driven explanations of loan renegotiations. We contrast with this work by investigating the improvement in secondary loan market trading conditions as a non‐fundamental driver of loan renegotiation. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design around the LSTA 100 Index reconstitution,
AJ YUAN CHEN, MATTHEW A. PHILLIPS, REGINA WITTENBERG‐MOERMAN, TIANGE YE   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Appraisal and gender

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
AbstractWe test for gender differences in the real estate appraisal industry. We ask whether female appraisers evaluate different types of properties and whether they value the properties differently compared to their male counterparts. We largely do not find any statistically or economically significant differences between male and female appraisers ...
James N. Conklin, N. Edward Coulson, Moussa Diop, Ruchi Singh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Securitization Theory

, 2015
This dissertation constructs a theory of securitization, termed Social Securitization Theory (SST), grounded in the social and communicative interactions between central security policymakers and the external audiences responsible for authorizing and legitimizing security policy and action.
openaire   +2 more sources

A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
wiley   +1 more source

The securitization of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, Asia, and Oceania: Mixes of imbalanced securitizing narratives and measures [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

Stosunki Międzynarodowe
Governments across the world resorted to different forms of narratives and measures to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. This study observed the responses of six administrations (China, Sweden, UK, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and New Zealand) through the lenses of ...
Krzysztof Sliwinski, Dionysios Stivas
doaj   +1 more source

Universities as the Next Counterintelligence Battleground in Geopolitical Contests

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globally, universities are increasingly becoming the target of foreign national security actors, engaging in espionage, sabotage, foreign interference and intellectual property theft. Despite that, there has been no examination of the utilisation of counterintelligence approaches by universities to the threats they face from the subordination ...
Brendan Walker‐Munro, Sascha‐Dominik Dov Bachmann   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

China’s Ice Securitization

China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies
Given the scarce number of studies on China’s presence and intentions in Antarctica compared to other remote regions, such as the Arctic, this paper draws on securitization theory to demonstrate that, despite China’s discursive efforts to legitimize its ...
Asya Gasparyan, Paulo Afonso B. Duarte
doaj   +1 more source

Added Value or Strategic Irritant? Chinese Elite Perceptions of the EU's Indo‐Pacific Strategy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In September 2021, the European Union launched its Indo‐Pacific strategy, outlining its intention to strengthen its engagement in the region and add value to its partnerships there. The strategy, however, drew criticism from the Chinese side, particularly because it included Chinese Taiwan as a cooperating partner. To examine Chinese responses
Li Zhang, Ruoyu Ni, Wei Shen
wiley   +1 more source

Market–security tensions in UK–China academic engagement: perspectives from UK higher education

Asian Review of Political Economy
This paper examines the securitization of UK–China academic exchange in the context of intensifying geopolitical tensions and higher education marketization.
Chi Zhang
doaj   +1 more source