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Hooray for global justice? : emerging democracies in a multipolar world

Culp, Julian; Plagemann, Johannes - 2013

synthesizing empirical and normative modes of inquiry. It examines the transformation of sovereignty exercised by emerging … democracies and shows that - in stark contrast to emerging democracies' foreign policy rhetoric - the "softening" of sovereignty … has become the norm. The present paper assesses this softening of sovereignty on the basis of a "democratic …

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International alignment between interests and ideology : the case of China's partnership diplomacy

Strüver, Georg - 2016

This paper examines the determinants of alignment in bilateral partnerships. While it was impossible to think about international cooperation without referring to the term "alliances" during much of the Cold War period, strategic partnerships have taken a central place in many states' diplomatic...

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State-building, war and violence : evidence from Latin America

Kurtenbach, Sabine - 2011

In European history, war has played a major role in state-building and the state monopoly on violence. But war is a very specific form of organized political violence, and it is decreasing on a global scale. Other patterns of armed violence now dominate, ones that seem to undermine...