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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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‘Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition’ – but dismiss our ‘precise calibration of the oil/war nexus’ as ‘perfunctory.’ This dismissal …
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and corruption not only remain, they have become the primary development challenges of the 21st century. In particular …-occupation with conventional war between and within countries. In other words, risks are evolving with new threats to stability … institutions and governance to provide citizen security, justice and jobs is crucial to break cycles of violence while stimulating …
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This paper applies an alternative model to analyze criminal behaviour by countries based on real option models. Criminal options incorporate a richer framework than traditional cost-benefit models and allow examining the optimal timing of a crime as criminals have the possibility but not the...
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The aid attribution is the classical form of cooperation among countries. International institutions are used to impose some conditions to ensure the effectiveness of the impact of the financial assistance, which we called conditionality. The conditionality of aid is not a stable notion, it...
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Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...
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There is an adage about wealth and democracy that says “the more well-to-do a nation, the greater the chances it will sustain democracy.” Accordingly, one would expect that nations rich in natural resources, and particularly those with large deposits of oil – a clear absolute advantage –...
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The holding of early parliamentary elections in Togo on October 14, 2007, most likely the first free and fair Togolese elections since decades, are considered internationally as a litmus test of despotic African regimes’ propensity to change towards democratization and economic prosperity....
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Lanka and Nepal. All the variables are found to be integrated of the same order in the case of Pakistan, India and Nepal …The study analyzed financial market integration in the five countries of South Asia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri …
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economic development of developing countries in the new world economy. The author argues that the answer to this question … depends on the development objective of the country and the role envisaged for international trade. If the role of … sake of integration, the industrial policy is irrelevant. By contrast, if development is the ultimate objective of their …
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