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Repression and punishment in North Korea: survey evidence of prison camp experiences

Noland, Marcus; Haggard, Stephan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

violence. This repression appears to work; despite substantial cynicism about the North Korean system, refugees do not report …

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Political attitudes under repression: evidence from North Korean refugees

Noland, Marcus; Haggard, Stephan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

repression? This paper addresses these questions by examining the political attitudes of North Korean refugees. Unsurprisingly …; this exercise indicates that that the null hypothesis that the refugees accurately represent the views of the resident …

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Emotions and International Conflicts: Sociological, Evolutionary and Rational Views

Khalil, Elias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In March 2005, riots erupted in South Korea against Japan for claiming sovereignty over some rocky uninhabited islets (0.23 km2). Five weeks earlier, riots did not erupt in South Korea when North Korea proved that it has nuclear weapons. How can we explain moral outrage in one case, when the...

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An Empirical Study of Peace Tourism Trends between Politicaly Divided North and South Korea: Past, P{resent and Future

Shin, Youngsun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

On April 13-15, 2000 South and North Korean leaders met in Pyongyang for a meeting of peace ending over fifty years of hostilities. According to this meeting, South and North Korea were believed to be among the economies most directly affected by the world peace process. This had a large effect...

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The transition to Post-industrial BMI values among US children

Komlos, John; Breitfelder, Ariane; Sunder, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Background: The trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated very convincingly because of the absence …. Methods: We use five regression models to estimate the BMI trends of non-Hispanic US-born black and white children and …

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The political economy of North Korea: implications for denuclearization and proliferation

Haggard, Stephan; Noland, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Despite North Korea’s turn away from economic reform and the constraints of the second nuclear crisis, the country has in fact become more economically open. But it has emphasized closer economic relations with China and other trading partners that show little interest in political...

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Immigration to the European Union - Challenges and Opportunities for a Europe of 25+

Genchev, Vassil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The rising numbers of people willing to risk their lives in illegally crossing land, air or sea borders into the European Union has brought this aspect of migration into the limelight in the last few years. There is a lot more to be discussed in this context, except for the obvious shock and...

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Conflicts and refugees in developing countries

Sesay, Fatmata Lovetta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

dissertation is to investigate whether refugees and conflict help to explain Africa and other developing regions’ rate of economic … historical ones. In this work, the flow of refugees and the prevalence conflict in developing countries is introduced as key … developing world. The poorest countries have provided asylum and shelter for almost three quarter of the world’s refugees over …

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Towards an Administration without Frontiers. An analysis on the instruments and mechanisms of cooperation in the field of migration from Romanian view

Matei, Ani; Cocosatu, Madalina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

As a consequence of Romania’s accession to the European Union, a better organization of the public administration was necessary, in order to cope with the new challenges. Thus, Romania, as a country at the external border of the Union, entered a new period which implies the efficient security...

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Surveying HIV/AIDS Incidence in Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The present paper introduces results of an analysis conducted on data collected from Khartoum state for the yea 2009. It aims to apply statistical models for the HIV/AIDS data in Khartoum state centers of testing blood and counseling. AIDS is recognized as an emerging disease only in the early...

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