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. Given India’s growing importance in the world arena, one would assume that Indian states will continue to have an increased …
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world that burning fossil fuels is a major cause for global warming. This article focuses, first, on the linkage between …€™s globalising world, especially with respect to energy security and climate change. The hypothesis of this article is that a … globalising world requires global governance. To create global governance mechanisms, we need leadership. Leadership, however …
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The research evaluates the progress towards security and stabilization in Afghanistan as the country transitions towards a complete US–NATO drawdown in December 2014. It argues that the country’s propensity for civil war is high given the weak state institutions, deep-seated ethnic...
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On account of multilateral and regional integration global governance is taking over hitherto unreached spaces of policy making including internal/domestic policies of nation-states. This is undertaken with the overriding objective of facilitating global accumulation of capital. Because of the...
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The practical impossibility of employing hard law at an international level has meant that softer codes of conduct have stepped in to fill the void. The Global Compact is the most ambitious of these codes, created with a desire to engage business in the project of international development and...
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In the wake of the global financial crisis, the G20 has become the most important forum of global governance and cooperation, largely replacing the once powerful G7. Against this background, this paper looks at G20 meetings at Ministerial and Leaders level to see whether they had an impact on...
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This paper discusses changes in the Chinese competition policy regime and analyses the key drivers of this process against the background of the Chinese choice for gradual and pragmatic structural reform.
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Significantly revised, April 2011The paper examines three related questions. How is the crisis affecting the governance of the IMF and the influence that developing countries have within the institution; what new policy space is available to developing countries; and what alternative financial...
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I broadly summarize the theoretical and recent empirical literatures on human development. Using Gray and Purser’s 1970-2010 database of human development index (HDI) components (income, life expectancy, literacy, gross enrolment ratios) for 135 countries, together with indicators of the...
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