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This paper assesses the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa using hitherto unexplored variables in the literature. The previously missing dimension of nation building is integrated and the hypothesis of state fragility being a function of rent seeking and/or lobbying by de...
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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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About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...
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the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) than in non-conflict regions, and that sexual violence and economic …-affected zones than elsewhere in the DRC; (ii) the impact of sexual violence in conflict-affected regions is 55 times greater than on …This paper estimates the effect of conflict and conflict-related vulnerability factors, namely sexual violence and …
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effectiveness of aid on conflict. Using proxies for the evolution of conflict we show that over the course of the conflict aid … aid to countries experiencing a conflict. We also show that the evolution of conflict significantly affects economic …
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Scholars and policymakers have devoted much attention to issues of third party intervention in conflict. The present … paper considers a conflict that draws two countervailing outside interveners. As in the realist perspective, the outside … escalatory conflict intervention. The paper also studies conditions required for the United Nations, or some such supra …
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data randomized on levels of conflict and propensity of migration from 312 rural households in 22 Liberian villages from …
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In this paper, we first briefly review the recent literature on climate change, resource scarcity and conflict. This is … then followed by introducing an agent based computational model based on the theory of production and conflict which is …, differentiates between conflict subjects, takes into account bounded rationality, non-linearity and feedback loops, and is enriched …
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We examine the impact of civil war on democratization. Using a theoretical bargaining model, we hypothesize that prolonged violence, war termination, the presence of natural resources, and international intervention influence democratization. We test these hypotheses using an unbalanced panel...
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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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