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The years-long negotiations on an international mechanism for loss and damage (L&D) associated with climate change impacts got to a milestone during the nineteenth session of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP-19), held in Warsaw in November 2013. The COP established the Warsaw...
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frameworks and language of "development" to advance arguments and policies that restrict the rights of LGBTIQ+ people and seek to … development goals. These movements convene at the global level, including through UN institutions, and in so doing, anti … disseminate anti-gender messages in a range of global development spaces, including the UN system. These efforts are shrouded in …
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Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural resources, and in particular oil, are an important source of civil war. Allegedly, resource rents attract rent seekers, which destabilize society. However, there is a large literature...
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We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries. A country is vulnerable to attack if there is some fully-allied group of countries that can defeat that country and its (remaining) allies based on a function of their...
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Population movements will help people facing the impact of climate change. However, the resulting large scale displacements may also produce security risks for receiving areas. The objective of this paper is to empirically estimate if the inflows of climate-induced migrants increase the risk of...
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In recent years, there has been rapid development of the literature linking climate change and armed conflicts …
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