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North Korea and the politics of visual representation

Shim, David - 2011

Within international discourses on security, North Korea is often associated with risk and danger, emanating … related to North Korea are approached and understood. Reflecting on the politics of visual representation means to examine the … think are typical examples of how North Korea is portrayed in the Western media and imagined in international politics …

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Power, governance, and ideas in Chile’s free trade agreement policy

Wehner, Leslie - 2009

Why is Chile following such a proactive FTA policy and at the same time promoting the benefits of these type of agreements to other Latin American countries? There is a pre-dominance of economic explanations to analyze why countries pursue an active FTA policy. Yet within an FTA policy,...

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Informal institutions in autocracies : analytical perspectives and the case of the Chinese Communist Party

Köllner, Patrick - 2013

Analyses of the shape and functioning of systems of political rule need to address informal institutions, which exist alongside and can relate to formal institutions in various ways. In this paper, I first discuss some analytical foundations of the study of such institutions. I then suggest that...

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Emerging middle powers' soft balancing strategy : state and perspectives of the IBSA dialogue forum

Flemes, Daniel - 2007

How can weaker states influence stronger ones? This article offers a case study of one recent exercise in coalition building among Southern middle powers, the "India, Brazil, South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum". The analysis outlines five major points: first, it argues that the three emerging...

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The Chinese meaning of just war and its impact on the foreign policy of the People's Republic of China

Godehardt, Nadine - 2008

The image of China's peaceful rise, which the Chinese government is keen to enforce in the world, stands in contrast to the view of China's ascent as a threat. China's economic and military growth is perceived as a potential threat to the (East) Asian security structure and as a challenge to the...

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EU-African economic relations : continuing dominance, traded for aid?

Kohnert, Dirk - 2008

Staaten, ist die gegenwärtige EU-Politik mitverantwortlich für die anhaltend schlechte Wirtschaftslage in vielen Ländern …

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Regionale Ordnungen in politischen Räumen : ein Beitrag zur Theorie regionaler Ordnungen

Godehardt, Nadine - 2010

Seit einiger Zeit stehen Regionen (wieder) auf der Agenda der Theoriediskussionen in den Internationalen Beziehungen. Es ist u.a. von einer "emerging regional architecture of world politics" die Rede und von der Zukunft eines "multiregional system of international relations" oder sogar einer...

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Is there a "Chinese School" of IR?

Noesselt, Nele - 2012

Research on Chinese International Relations (IR) theory has produced a variety of discourses, including post-positivist analyses, contributions by area specialists and China watchers, and articles by Chinese IR scholars. These strands, however, hardly overlap or communicate with each other. To...

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Security policies of India, Brazil and South Africa : regional security contexts as constraints for a common agenda

Flemes, Daniel - 2011

In the course of the last decade, the IBSA states (India, Brazil, South Africa) have increased their weight in the shifting global order, particularly in economic affairs. Can the same be said about the IBSA states' position in the international security hierarchy? After locating the IBSA...

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India and the civil war in Sri Lanka : on the failures of regional conflict management in South Asia

Destradi, Sandra - 2010

erklärt der Beitrag den überraschenden Wandel in Neu-Delhis Politik gegenüber Sri Lanka: 2007 begann Indien, die srilankische …

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