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the best concept for a security research for this reason, although many authors are insisting on their concept being the … best one. This paper deals with these matters presenting an academic concept of in/security in the context of a revise of …Security as an objectively existing quality which can be discussed in innumerable ways, but it may hardly be ignored …
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In a world continuously beset by conflict and violence, the positive study of international security and defense has … revolutionary effects of globalization and its new challenges to world security and stability. The challenges to security now come … of this phenomenal evolution of the world's strategic situation and challenges to its safety. Here I give one perspective …
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Previous research shows that collective action to avoid a catastrophic threshold, such as a climate "tipping point", is unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of crossing the threshold but that collective action collapses if the location of the threshold is uncertain. Theory suggests that...
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Previous research shows that collective action to avoid a catastrophic threshold, such as a climate “tipping point,” is unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of crossing the threshold but that collective action collapses if the location of the threshold is uncertain. Theory suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315630
What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They are all examples of global risks that can cross geographical and generational boundaries and whose mismanagement can reverse gains in development and jeopardize the well-being of...
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What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They are all examples of global risks that can cross geographical and generational boundaries and whose mismanagement can reverse gains in development and jeopardize the well-being of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044864
This paper analyses public policy choices in the security economy from an economic perspective. It discusses the role … of public goods for national and global security and identifies the importance of the first- and second-order indirect … effects of insecurity on economic activity, which include the behavioural responses of agents and the government to security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260823
This paper analyses public policy choices in the security economy from an economic perspective. It discusses the role … of public goods for national and global security and identifies the importance of the first- and second-order indirect … effects of insecurity on economic activity, which include the behavioural responses of agents and the government to security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963827
This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...
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Motivated by recent examples of collective effort on the war on terror, we examine the incentives that retaliation may produce for the endogenous formation of an international counterterror coalition. We show that there are quite reasonable circumstances under which any nation that is a target...
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