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Institutional conflict settlement in divided societies : the role of subgroup identities in self-government arrangements

Juan, Alexander de - 2012

Institutions can contribute to regulating interethnic conflict; however, in many cases they fail to bring about lasting peace. The paper argues that their negligence of intraethnic factors accounts for some of this failure. Ethnic groups are often treated as unitary actors even though most...

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Democracy and human rights in the European-Asian dialogue : a clash of cooperation cultures?

Loewen, Howard - 2008

Whereas the European Union (EU) favors a formal, binding, output-oriented, and to some extent supranational approach to cooperation, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is based on informal, non-binding, process-oriented intergovernmental forms of cooperation. This article...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908164

Civilising globalism : transnational norm-building networks ; a research programm

Mückenberger, Ulrich - 2008

transnational actors within the transformation of the world economy and world polity. In contrast to these research activities, the … programme, the outcome of which will shed light on this new resource for the development of a democratised world polity …. -- networks ; norms ; world polity ; globalisation ; global civil society …

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Lessons to be learned: political party research and political party assistance

Erdmann, Gero - 2010

Generally speaking, the effects of international political party assistance are viewed nega-tively, or at least controversially. This study attributes some of the shortcomings of political party aid to the poor relationship between assistance providers and political science party research. They...

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Too many resources or too few? : What drives international conflicts?

Strüver, Georg - 2010

International conflicts over natural resources are frequently cited as the most prominent threat to global peace in the decades ahead. However, this subject has not yet been adequately tackled in the academic literature. This paper contributes to filling the gap by, first, proposing a four-class...

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Attitudes to chronic poverty in the "Global Village"

Barrientos, Armando - 2010

- und Industrieländern auf der Basis der dritten Runde des World Values Survey (1994-1998) untersucht. Die Ergebnisse …- und Industrieländern auf der Basis der dritten Runde des World Values Survey (1994-1998) untersucht. Die Ergebnisse …

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Inclusive institutions and the onset of internal conflict in resource-rich countries

Wegenast, Tim C. - 2010

Studien über die institutionellen Determinanten innerstaatlicher Gewalt legen nahe, dass die Präsenz multipler politischer Parteien das Konfliktpotential innerhalb der Länder reduziert. Es wird behauptet, dass Parteien oppositionelle Gruppierungen in eine institutionalisierte politische Arena...

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Why do some oil exporters experience civil war but others do not? : A qualitative comparative analysis of net oil-exporting countries

Basedau, Matthias - 2011

According to quantitative studies, oil is the only resource that is robustly linked to civil war onset. However, recent debates on the nexus of oil and civil war have neglected that there are a number of peaceful oil-rentier states, and few efforts have been spent to explain why some...

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Transition from democracy : loss of quality, hybridisation and breakdown of democracy

Erdmann, Gero - 2011

The paper points out that there is hardly any research for the reverse transition, the transition from democracy to non-democratic regimes for more than 30 years. For heuristical purposes, it provides basic data of the decline of democracy, which refers to loss of democratic quality, changes...

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Attitudes to chronic poverty in the "Global Village"

Barrientos, Armando; Neff, Daniel - 2010

- und Industrieländern auf der Basis der dritten Runde des World Values Survey (1994-1998) untersucht. Die Ergebnisse …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013438029