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“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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The aim of this paper is to present the theoretical basis of public diplomacy and the characteristics of methods and areas of cross-border cooperation conducted by local governments in Podlaskie Voivodship. Report, in particular, draws attention to the civic and local government dimension of...
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Studies presented in this publication were aimed at provide data necessary for the conducting of local government and citizenship dimension of the enlarged Polish foreign policy in Podlaskie region. The main objective was to investigate the diagnosis, as the local government units,...
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The article reviews the elements of the Marshall Plan after World War II, and relates its positive features to economic challenges of the end of the 20th century.
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The paper is focused on the official Kazakhstani position towards Russia and its development over 1991-2000, i.e. the two post-Soviet decades. We draw upon speeches by the representatives of the state, most importantly by Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev, and the intergovernmental acts....
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In the era of multiplying and escalating risks, both at national and international level, security of individual –popularly known as human security- from pervasive threats and fears become an area of intellectual discourse and policy debate. This is especially significant after the end of cold...
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The scholarly terrain of this article charts a course from the making of Nehruvian consensus to the present times. In the true spirit of a social conciliator, Nehru created a system of governance that eschewed left and right extremism. It is this system that is popularly known as Nehruvian...
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Nigeria was incorporated in 1914 when Frederick Lugard(First Governor-General) amalgamated the two British … protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria and the Crown colony of Lagos into a single entity. The primary reason for … almalgamation was economic rather than political. It is therefore, a matter for great regret that this country(Nigeria)has suffered …
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The paper documents how Nigeria’s public financial system stacks up against international standards, the better to see … (PEFA) framework for analysing the Nigeria's systems and processes. The purpose is not to demonstrate that Nigeria falls … heart of the challenge. For, while the design of Nigeria’s PFM system clearly needs modernizing, even to operate it as once …
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This paper investigates the relationship between expected inflation and nominal interest rates in Nigeria and the … rate and nominal effective exchange rate variable in the context of a small open developing economy, such as, Nigeria. The … hypothesis does not hold but there is a strong Fisher effect in the case of Nigeria over the period under study (ii) consistency …
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