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Brasilien, Mexiko und LAC-Staaten: Inflation der strategischen Partner der EU in Lateinamerika?

Hess, Natalie M. - 2009

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Iran's oil wealth : treasure and trouble for the Shah's regime ; a context-sensitive analysis of the ambivalent impact of resource abundance

Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2009

The Iranian revolution still appears to be a puzzle for theoretical approaches linking political instability and … focus is on the violence that accompanied the events preceding the revolution, and also on the fact that this violence was … regime. -- Iran ; oil ; revolution ; resource curse ; rentier state theory ; context approach …

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Der "Obama-Effekt" auf die Klimapolitik der neuen regionalen Führungsmächte

Never, Babette - 2009

Die klimapolitische Position der USA hat sich seit der Übernahme des Präsidentenamtes durch Barack Obama grundlegend gewandelt. Dies betrifft sowohl innenpolitische Entwicklungen als auch den außenpolitischen Auftritt in zwischenstaatlichen und internationalen Klimaverhandlungen. Die...

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Global Security Governance : eine positive Bilanz der UN-Anstrengungen zur Kriminalitätsbekämpfung

Mattes, Hanspeter - 2009

Im Jahr 2010 jährt sich zum zehnten Mal die Verabschiedung der "United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime"; zugleich findet im April 2010 in Salvador/Brasilien der zwölfte UN-Kongress zur Verbrechensverhütung und zu Strafjustiz statt. Beide Ereignisse sind Anlass, die...

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Indian involvement in Afghanistan : stepping stone or stumbling block to regional hegemony?

Hanif, Melanie - 2009

Due to its geo-strategic location between the Central Asian, South Asian, and Middle Eastern security complexes, Afghanistan is often defined as an insulator state, and sometimes also as a connector. This in-between position has led to constant instability: ever since the creation of the Durrani...

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Empire, hegemony, and leadership : developing a research framework for the study of regional powers

Destradi, Sandra - 2008

Regional powers are often conceived of as "regional leading powers", states which adopt a cooperative and benevolent attitude in their international relations with their neighbors. The paper argues that regional powers can follow a much wider range of foreign policy strategies in their region....

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Asian economic integration and cooperation : challenges and ways forward for pan-Asian regionalism

Rai, Durgesh K. - 2010

As the Asian economies have grown larger and become more complex, they have also become more integrated at both the regional and the subregional level. Yet although economic integration has increased, regionalism in the sense of economic cooperation at both the pan-Asian and subregional levels...

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A regional power promoting democracy? : India’s involvement in Nepal (2005-2008)

Destradi, Sandra - 2010

According to the theory of "democratic peace" India, as the largest democracy in the world and as South Asia's predominant regional power, should be expected to promote democracy in neighboring countries. However, New Delhi lacks any official democracypromotion policy, and its past record on...

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Measuring geopolitical power in India : a review of the National Security Index (NSI)

Hwang, Karl - 2010

This review examines how India perceives its own rise to power by undertaking a detailed analysis of the Indian National Security Index (NSI) for the period from 2003 to 2008. Like other power formulas, the NSI includes various indicators of power, though it is uniquely Indian in that it...

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On the economics of regional powers : comparing China, India, Brazil, and South Africa

Kappel, Robert - 2010

As the conception of and debates on regional powers have been led by political science, this paper aims to contribute to the discussion from an economics perspective. Based on the discussion of different concepts of economic power - such as those of Schumpeter, Perroux, Predöhl, or Kindleberger...

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