Export Credit Agencies and the Privilege of Wealth in Global Value Chain Participation
ABSTRACT Public export credit agencies (ECAs) facilitate global trade by offering insurance to protect against the risk of non‐payment, provided minimum local content was produced. With the rise of global value chains (GVCs), exports often contain limited national content, and some ECAs argue that ‘national interest’ is more important.
Michael Creighton +3 more
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Despite the eurozone crisis, and the ambivalent attitudes ofthe Turkish public, Turkey still stands to benefit from EUaccession.by Blo [PDF]
While the EU continues to work toward a solution to the eurozone crisis, Turkey has experienced a period of strong economic growth. Soli Özel argues that although Turkey’s interest in EU membership has declined in the wake of the crisis, the country ...
Ozel, Soli
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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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The ISCIP Analyst, Volume V, Issue 9 [PDF]
This repository item contains a single issue of The ISCIP Analyst, an analytical review journal published from 1996 to 2010 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and ...
Burk, Nicholas +9 more
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Abstract Alliances are typically understood as agreements intended to deter aggression from enemy states. By signaling an ally's commitment to a protégé state, a shared enemy may be deterred from attacking. In light of this signaling logic, secret alliances are puzzling.
Peter Bils, Bradley C. Smith
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The S-400 for Turkey The crisis in Turkish-American relations escalates. OSW Commentary Number 305, 12 June 2019 [PDF]
In late May and early June 2019, the contract for Turkey’s purchase of the Russian-made missile launchers which make up the S-400 long-range anti-aircraft missile system entered the final stage of its implementation.
Strachota, Krzysztof, Wilk, Andrzej
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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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THE EURASIAN REGION IN THE AREA OF RUSSO-TURKISH RIVALRY [PDF]
This study investigates the complexities and nuances of Russian-Turkish relations throughout the past century, particularly in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Grigor Arshakyan +2 more
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European Neighbourhood Policy:Strategy or Placebo?. CEPS Working Documents, No. 215, 1 November 2004 [PDF]
The EU now faces an existential dilemma in the apparent choice to be made between over-extending the enlargement process to the point of destroying its own governability, versus denying one of its founding values to be open to all European democracies ...
Emerson, Michael
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Broke Autocrats, Broken Elections: Trade Shocks and Electoral Fraud in Autocracies
ABSTRACT We argue that when terms‐of‐trade (ToT) shocks reduce resource rents, autocrats lose the fiscal capacity to sustain loyalty through patronage and increasingly rely on electoral manipulation as a survival strategy. We present a simple model in which rents finance patronage in normal times, while adverse shocks reduce the effectiveness of ...
Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
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