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Polyarchies, Competitive Oligarchies, or Inclusive Hegemonies? 23 Global Intergovernmental Organizations Compared

Lopes, Dawisson Belém - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2015

In this paper, I assume that global intergovernmental organizations (GIGOs) function as “enablers” of interstate liberal politics by way of their multilateral institutional frame-works. To support this view, I recall and adapt the classical concept of “polyarchy,” coined in the early...

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State-Building, War and Violence: Evidence from Latin America

Kurtenbach, Sabine - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2011

In European history, war has played a major role in state‐building and the state monopoly on violence. But war is a … these states. Evidence from Latin American history shows that the specific patterns of the termination of both war and … critical juncture for state‐building. While military victories in war, the subordination of competing armed actors and the …

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Where Minds Meet: The “Professionalization” of Cross-Strait Academic Exchange

Schucher, Günter - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2009

In international relations, transnational academic exchange or, more generally, cultural ex-change is usually seen as a function of the quality of bilateral relations. As a variety of public diplomacy intended to win the “hearts and minds” of intellectuals in another country, the development...

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Macht und Machthierarchien in den internationalen Beziehungen: Ein Analysekonzept für die Forschung über regionale Führungsmächte

Nolte, Detlef - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2006

Much of recent international relations literature argues conflicts to achieve or to frustrate regional dominance will become more virulent in the future. In this context we examine different approaches in international relations theory regarding the role and importance which they attribute to...

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Potencias regionales en la política internacional: conceptos y enfoques de análisis

Nolte, Detlef - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2006

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Emerging Middle Powers’ Soft Balancing Strategy: State and Perspectives of the IBSA Dialogue Forum

Flemes, Daniel - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 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...

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From Military Instruments of Dictatorship to Political Instruments of Democracy: Regimes of Exception in Bolivia 2000?2010

Wright, Claire; Landivar, Ana Soliz - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2013

survived the transitions to democracy in Latin America. Focusing on the case of Bolivia, the research is based on relevant laws …

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A Democratic Rentier State? Taxation, Aid Dependency, and Political Representation in Benin

Piccolino, Giulia - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2014

Drawing on the history of statebuilding in Western Europe, fiscal sociology has proposed the existence of a mutually reinforcing effect between the emergence of representative government and effective taxation. This paper looks at the case of Benin, a low-income West African country that...

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Democracy and Human Rights in the European-Asian Dialogue: A Clash of Cooperation Cultures?

Loewen, Howard - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

cooperation norms or cultures can account for interregional cooperation problems in the areas of democracy and human rights within … the institutional context: while disagreements over the question of democracy and human rights between the EU and ASEAN … the agenda, as the recurrent disputes over Myanmar’s participation and the nonintervention norm favored by the Asian side …

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Inclusive Institutions and the Onset of Internal Conflict in Resource-rich Countries

Wegenast, Tim - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2010

The literature on institutional determinants of intra-state violence commonly asserts that the presence of multiple political parties reduces the conflict potential within countries; by co-opting oppositional groups into an institutionalized political arena, dissidents would prefer...

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