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Since 1989, international efforts to end protracted conflicts in Africa, Latin America, and Asia have included sustained investments in the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) of combatants from the warring parties. Yet, while policy analysts have debated the organizational...
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process of autonomous recovery in which states achieve a lasting peace, a systematic reduction in violence, and post-war … great powers, but also from the disorder, violence, and oppression wrought by governments (or occurring in the absence of … underlying assumptions that have escaped serious consideration: the idea the countries cannot recover from conflict on their own …
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“Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse” finds that an energy resource curse plagues many EU supplier states. This in turn directly affects Europe’s energy supply security and threatens to engulf Europe in unwanted hostilities at home and abroad. The study addresses seven...
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‘Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition’ – but dismiss our ‘precise calibration of the oil/war nexus’ as ‘perfunctory.’ This dismissal …
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2012 at Bhurban, Pakistan. The conference brought together chief justices, senior members of the judiciary, and other legal … the adoption of a 14-point Bhurban Declaration establishing green benches across Pakistan and calling for subregional …
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and corruption not only remain, they have become the primary development challenges of the 21st century. In particular …-occupation with conventional war between and within countries. In other words, risks are evolving with new threats to stability … institutions and governance to provide citizen security, justice and jobs is crucial to break cycles of violence while stimulating …
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Recent work has suggested the foreign-led reconstruction effort carried out in Afghanistan and Iraq can mitigate … violence because it helps win the “hearts and minds” of local people. For the case of Afghanistan, we show there is no evidence … from 2005 to 2009, we find no discernible effect of the reconstruction effort on violence. In light of the absence of …
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This paper applies an alternative model to analyze criminal behaviour by countries based on real option models. Criminal options incorporate a richer framework than traditional cost-benefit models and allow examining the optimal timing of a crime as criminals have the possibility but not the...
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Can we predict when and where violence will break out within cases of genocide? Given often weak political will to … contemplating intervention. I develop a theoretical model to help identify areas vulnerable to violence during genocide. I argue … strength of society’s cohesion below. Violence will be delayed in areas where political and military resistance to the center …
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that customs unions and common markets (deep RTAs) do reduce the probability of war between members. Partial scope and free … trade agreements (shallow RTAs) however have no effect on war probabilities. Accordingly, international insecurity has a …
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