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The hero figure in Business and Cinema
Fournout, Olivier - HAL - 2012
Textbooks and manuals on management suggest that managers are heroes who deal with difficult problems of collective adaptation and change. American films are similarly built on the premise of a hero confronted with extremely difficult situations. What if this hero figure promoted for so long in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550433
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WAEA Keynote Address Behavioral Environmental Economics: Money Pumps & Nudges
Shogren, Jason F. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 37 (2012) 3
create better environmental policy. We examine the role of money pumps in environmental policy, and whether policymakers can … use nudges to "supercharge" incentives. We summarize insight that has emerged from both camps in the areas of conflict/cooperation …
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Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute
Polachek, Solomon W.; Seiglie, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared "peace is the natural effect of trade," a number of economists and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to peace. Employing resources wisely to produce one commodity rather than employing them inefficiently...
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Liberal peace and shared resources – A fair-weather phenomenon?
Kalbhenn, Anna - In: Journal of Peace Research 48 (2011) 6, pp. 715-735
shared resource: relying on liberal arguments, joint democracy is expected to facilitate trust and thus cooperation over … and political interlinkages may encourage cooperation over shared rivers. Previous work suggests that these factors might … be a ‘fair-weather’ phenomenon, that is, that they play a role only for problems that are easy to solve. In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654067
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Ethnic Fears and Global Engagement: The International Spread and Management of Ethnic Conflict
Lake, David A.; Rothchild, Donald - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, … - 1996
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Energy and Security in Northeast Asia: Supply and Demand, Conflict and
Fesharaki, Fereidun; Banaszak, Sarah; WU, Kang; … - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, … - 1998
The economic crises in Thailand, South Korea, Indonesia, and Japan have focused attention on the region's economic problems as well as its well-documented success. One potential problem is satiating these economies' increasing demand for energy. This problem has been made even more pressing by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010538568
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Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue II: Conference Papers
Young-Koo, Cha; Kang, Choi; JI, Guoxing; Mack, Andrew; … - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, … - 1994
These papers were prepared as background papers for the May 1994 meeting of hte NEACD in Tokyo. They neither represent a consensus of the participants nor a summary of any part of the discussions at any of the meetings. They are presented here in the hopes that other readers outside of the NEACD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010538577
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The United States and Japan in Asia: Conference Papers
Romberg, Alan D.; Nakanishi, Hiroshi; Endo, Seiji; … - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, … - 1994
The paper includes brief policy memos commissioned for the March 1994 IGCC conference, "The United States and Japan in Asia." Issue areas included politics and security, economics, science, technology, and the environment, and humna rights.
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Preventive Diplomacy and Ethnic Conflict: Possible, Difficult, Necessary
Jentleson, Bruce - Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, … - 1996
The track record of "preventive diplomacy" in the first years of the post-Cold War era is not particularly encouraging. Croatia, Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya, Tajikistan, “Kurdistanâ€â€”the list goes on to include over 90 armed conflicts since the fall of the...
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The Institutional Design of Riparian Treaties: The Role of River Issues
Tir, Jaroslav; Stinnett, Douglas M. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 55 (2011) 4, pp. 606-631
International agreements governing rivers vary considerably in whether they contain institutional provisions for joint monitoring, conflict resolution, enforcement, and/or the delegation of authority to intergovernmental organizations. This article develops an explanation for why some river...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294402