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Economic Sanctions and The Sanctions Paradox: A Post-Sample Validation of Daniel Drezner’s Conflict Expectations Model
Hillebrand, Evan; Bervoets, Jeremy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
target will concede or resist. The model explained quite well the amount of concessions demanded by Russia in the 1990s and … the degree of compliance by the 14 new states. Russia is still using economic leverage to reap economic advantage and … political influence over its former constituent republics. In this paper we examine the pressures exerted by Russia in the 2000s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258585
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How Blackwater Takes Uncle Sam for a Ride - and Why He Likes It
Fahn, Matthias; Hadjer, Tahmina Sadat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have been gaining increasing media and scholarly attention particularly due to their indispensable role in the wars in Afghanistan 2001 and Iraq 2003. Nevertheless, theoretical insights into the agency problems inherent when hiring PMSCs and how to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210875
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International hostility and aggressiveness on the soccer pitch Evidence from European Championships and World Cups for the period 2000-2012
Caruso, Raul; Di Domizio, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Some Researchers consider soccer matches as the stylization of a war in other battlefields. Such approach was largely used to interpret the violent phenomena related to the soccer environment, while less attention has been paid to the «potential» role of political and economic interactions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260622
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Impact of Selectivity and Neutrality of trade Policy Incentives on Industrialization of Developing Countries; Implications for NAMA Negotiations
Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Abstract This author sheds some light on the theoretical arguments on the use of selectivity and uniformity of trade policy in trade and industrialization for targeting industries and firms and provides a brief historical review of practices of developed countries and East Asian countries with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014719
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A game theoretical analysis of economic sanction
Shidiqi, khalifany ash; Pradiptyo, rimawan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Economic sanction has been widely used and increasingly a popular tool in maintaining peace and political stability in … the world. The use of economic sanction, as opposed to the use of military power, to punish target countries have been … sender country(s) in enforcing economic sanction, however, it did not change the probability of the target country(s) in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647290
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The impact of employment in Israel on the Palestinian labor force (2005–08)
Etkes, Haggay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study provides circumstantial evidence for the impact of permits for employment in Israel on the Palestinian labor force in the West Bank during the late Intifada period and its aftermath (2005–2008). The study utilizes a unique dataset that merges data from the Palestinian Labor Force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369626
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International Economic Sanctions Are Not Zero-Sum Games: There Are Only Losers
Dadkhah, Kamran; Zangeneh, Hamid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
Ostensibly, the US sanctions have been enacted to bring pressure on Iran to abandon her support of terrorism and subversion of the region, efforts to produce weapons of mass destruction, and opposition to the Arab-Israeli peace process. But it is said that domestic politics, particularly, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695064
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New Wars on the Balkans - Business as Usual
Genchev, Vassil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The monopoly over the exercise of violence is the main defining element of states according to the Weberian ideal-type taxonomy. (Weber 1991, in Jung, 78) However, the ability to wield effective control over a fixed territory and to use physical force, extract taxes and operate a system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835668
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Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse
Schubert, Samuel R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
“Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse” finds that an energy resource curse plagues many EU supplier states. This in turn directly affects Europe’s energy supply security and threatens to engulf Europe in unwanted hostilities at home and abroad. The study addresses seven...
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Continuing Conflict and Stalemate: A Note
Caruso, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This note is about the possibility of a stalemate in a continuing conflict. Following the prevailing economic literature on the topic, under some assumptions, the outcome of a conflict can be described in two ways: (i) a predetermined split of a contested output; (ii) a winner-take-all contest...
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