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The authors turn to the large family of institutions that came into existence in post-Soviet Eurasia (and, in some ways, beyond it) over the last two decades. The researchers review their current state, agenda, real and perceived mandate, and their respective achievements and constraints. The...
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Guinea-Bissau endured a major conflict in 1998 and has suffered from persistent political instability since … result of the conflict, as well as a lack of improvement since then, at least for those in poverty who are highly vulnerable …. The data suggest an increase in the lack of security after the conflict and no clear sign of improvement. The population …
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military conflict in Former Yugoslavia, which raged throughout the 1990s and has serious implications to this day, has often …
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This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict. The second instrument is assumed to capture positive investments in ‘conflict … for the measurement and evaluation of conflict and …
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This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … option of choosing a second instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict. The second instrument is assumed to capture a … complex bundle of Conflict Management Procedures (CMPs). Through comparative statics, different scenarios are studied. A …
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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 … stake. By contrast, in reality many disputes do not have a clear or a definite outcome. A stalemate can end the conflict …
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estimates that GDP per capita today could have been more than 40 percent higher if there had been no conflict in 1998. In turn …, one in three persons living in poverty today might not be poor had it not been for the conflict. …
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The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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inherent to a healthy commercial demeanor, in case of conflict, determines the studying of alternative settlement procedures …
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Ever since becoming a member state of the European Union, Romania had to adapt its internal laws so that the citizens of other EU member states, or those of other entities for which this right is acknowledged by Law 17/2014, stateless persons residing in these states and legal persons...
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