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How Signifying Practices Constitute Food (In)security: The Case of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Shim, David - 2010
Ernährungssituation in Nordkorea verharmlosen. Es wird auch nicht behauptet, dass Hunger, Unterernährung oder Mangelernährung nicht … Nordkorea. Humanitäre Hilfe umfasst bestimmte Bedeutung generierende Praktiken wie z.B. Untersuchungen der Ernährungssicherheit …
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North Korea and the Politics of Visual Representation
Shim, David; Nabers, Dirk - 2011
Within international discourses on security, North Korea is often associated with risk and danger, emanating paradoxically from what can be called its strengths - particularly military strength, as embodied by its missile and nuclear programs - and its weaknesses - such as its ever-present...
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Lazzarato's 'political entrepreneur' revisited: the case of Noko Jeans
Palmås, Karl - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 1 (2012), pp. 1-5
This article revisits Maurizio Lazzarato's 1994 text on the strategies of the political entrepreneur in the context of Noko Jeans, a recent Sweden-based venture to produce jeans in North Korea, while simultaneously influencing the political regime in the country. After a brief introduction to...
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North Korea: Fading Totalitarianism in the Hermit Kingdom
Katzeff Silberstein, Benjamin - 2010
North Korea is perceived by many as one of the most totalitarian societies of modern time. But in the wake of the economic collapse of the 1990s, North Korean totalitarianism has grappled with new conditions. This paper examines how the country's totalitarian character has been upheld through...
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Seeing from Above: The Geopolitics of Satellite Vision and North Korea
Shim, David - 2012
Satellite imagery plays an important role in contemporary geopolitics. Arguably the most well-known example is Colin Powell's (in)famous presentation to the UN Security Council in February 2003, during which he used satellite pictures to legitimate the invasion of Iraq. Satellite photographs...
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Defense Spending and Economic Growth:A Theoretical Manifestation for Empirical Studies
Yetkiner, I. Hakan - 2012
Defense literature is still in need of a theoretical framework in the neoclassical sense, in regard to empirical research on the relationship between defense spending and economic growth. In this respect, Dunne, Smith and Willenbockel (2005), although not without technical problems, represented...
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Krieg und Wiederaufbau im Irak
Brück, Tilman; Schubert, Sven - In: DIW Wochenbericht 70 (2003) 18, pp. 291-297
Der Irakkrieg wurde militärisch wesentlich schneller entschieden als von vielen befürchtet. Die gesamtwirtschaftlichen Kosten des Krieges sind dennoch bedeutend. So ist die jährliche Belastung des US-Haushalts durch die Militärausgaben für den Irakkrieg - gemessen am Bruttoinlandsprodukt -...
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NATO defense spending in 2023: Implications one year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Dorn, Florian; Potrafke, Niklas; Schlepper, Marcel - 2023
War is raging close to NATO's Eastern border. Russia has attacked Ukraine and threatens those states that in the past …
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Eine erste Schätzung der wirtschaftlichen Kosten der deutschen Beteiligung am Krieg in Afghanistan
Brück, Tilman; de Groot, Olaf J.; Schneider, Friedrich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 21, pp. 2-11
In diesem Beitrag werden die bisherigen sowie die zukünftigen Gesamtkosten der Beteiligung Deutschlands am Krieg in … am Krieg in Afghanistan berücksichtigt. In einem realistischen Szenario, in dem Deutschland noch einige Jahre in … Afghanistan präsent bleibt, schätzen wir die Gesamtkosten der deutschen Beteiligung am Krieg in Afghanistan auf 26 bis 47 …
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Ten years of Kaesong Industrial Complex: A brief history of the last economic cooperation project of the Korean peninsula
Wrobel, Ralph M. - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 14 (2014) 2, pp. 125-147
After fife month the special economic zone Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) in North Korea was reopened again on 16 September 2013. By this way, it is the last remaining centrepiece of North-South economic cooperation on the Korean peninsula. Established during the period of "Sunshine policy"...
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