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A paradox of plenty? : rent distribution and political stability in oil states

Basedau, Matthias; Lacher, Wolfram - 2006

Resource curse theory claims that resource abundance encourages violent conflict. A study of 37 oil-producing developing countries, however, reveals that oil states with very high levels of oil revenue are remarkably stable. An analysis of the ways in which governments spend oil revenues...

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Iran's oil wealth : treasure and trouble for the Shah's regime ; a context-sensitive analysis of the ambivalent impact of resource abundance

Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2009

The Iranian revolution still appears to be a puzzle for theoretical approaches linking political instability and … focus is on the violence that accompanied the events preceding the revolution, and also on the fact that this violence was … regime. -- Iran ; oil ; revolution ; resource curse ; rentier state theory ; context approach …

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Die regionalen Ambitionen Marokkos in Westafrika : Strategie - Aktivitäten - Erfolgsbilanz

Mattes, Hanspeter - 2016

Die historischen Beziehungen Marokkos zum subsaharischen Raum, insbesondere jedoch zu Westafrika, haben sich nach dem Tod von König Hassan II. 1999 unter der Herrschaft seines Sohnes König Mohamed VI. qualitativ verändert. Stand unter König Hassan II. die Außen‐ und damit auch die...

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Regional linkages and global policy alignment : the case of China-Southeast Asia relations

Abb, Pascal; Strüver, Georg - 2015

This paper uses the case of Sino-Southeast Asian relations to gain insights on China's ability to muster support for its global agenda. The analysis focuses on the regional-global nexus of interstate relations and explores the extent to which the quality of two states' regional relations...

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The ontological (in)security of similarity : Wahhabism versus Islamism in Saudi foreign policy

Darwich, May - 2014

identity risks in the wake of the Iranian revolution (1979) and the ascendance of the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt …

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Seeing from above : the geopolitics of satellite vision and North Korea

Shim, David - 2012

Satellite imagery plays an important role in contemporary geopolitics. Arguably the most well-known example is Colin Powell's (in)famous presentation to the UN Security Council in February 2003, during which he used satellite pictures to legitimate the invasion of Iraq. Satellite photographs...

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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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Drivers of strategic contestation in South America

Flemes, Daniel; Wehner, Leslie - 2012

The politics of contestation on the part of secondary regional powers such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela towards Brazil as the regional leader oscillate between competition and cooperation, inasmuch as the South American region has one regional power and is a zone of negative peace...

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When voicelessness meets speechlessness : struggling for equity in Chinese-Ghanaian employment relations

Giese, Karsten; Thiel, Alena - 2012

In this article Chinese-Ghanaian employment relations are analyzed using the concepts of foreignness, the psychological contract, equity, and cross-cultural communication. Based on a qualitative study conducted in Accra, Ghana, we discuss the labor market in general and introduce the conditions...

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

Nolte, Detlef - 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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