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Autonomous Recovery and International Intervention in Comparative Perspective
Weinstein, Jeremy - 2005
There is growing recognition that significant threats to collective security emerge not only from competition among … process of autonomous recovery in which states achieve a lasting peace, a systematic reduction in violence, and post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162683
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Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse
Schubert, Samuel R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
states. This in turn directly affects Europe’s energy supply security and threatens to engulf Europe in unwanted hostilities … of dividend programs, the link between corruption and security of energy supplies, additional possible actions of the … supply security, poor transparency, and inequality, and proves that a low level of economic diversification is a reliable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835694
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Do Immigrants and Their Children Free Ride More Than Natives?
Osili, Una Okonkwo; Xie, Jia - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 28-34
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999839
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Disentangling the Determinants of Successful Demobilization and Reintegration
Weinstein, Jeremy; Humphreys, Macartan - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162624
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The Global War on Terror and U.S. Development Assistance: USAID allocation by country, 1998-2005
Moss, Todd; Roodman, David; Standley, Scott - 2005
The launch of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) soon after September 11, 2001 has been predicted to fundamentally alter U.S. foreign aid programs. In particular, there is a common expectation that development assistance will be used to support strategic allies in the GWOT, perhaps at the expense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005509591
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Fixing Failed States: an unconventional agenda based on lessons learned from the afghan fiasco
MICHAILOF, Serge - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2010
For more than forty years, developing countries have experienced a series of wars and armed conflicts. These have essentially been internal conflicts like in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Colombia, although they have had a strong tendency to involve neighboring countries.Many of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747716
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Fixing Failed States: an unconventional agenda based on lessons learned from the afghan fiasco
MICHAILOF, Serge - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2010
For more than forty years, developing countries have experienced a series of wars and armed conflicts. These have essentially been internal conflicts like in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Colombia, although they have had a strong tendency to involve neighboring countries.Many of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747742
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A Role for the G-20 in Addressing Climate Change?
Houser, Trevor - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2010
Following the chaotic Copenhagen conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), policymakers and pundits have discussed the G-20 as an alternative forum for advancing climate change diplomacy. This paper assesses the risks and rewards of tackling climate change in the G-20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752825
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Conflict and Development—Lessons from South Asia
Ghani, Ejaz; Iyer, Lakshmi - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2010) 31, pp. 1-8
South Asia is the second most violent place on earth after Iraq. Conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan have attracted global attention. Parts of India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal have experienced long-running conflict. Conflicts result in death, misery, social trauma, destruction of infrastructure,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008837656
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The Challenge of Reconstructing “Failed” States What lessons can be learned from the mistakes made by the international aid community in Afghanistan?
MICHAILOF, Serge - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2011
For more than forty years, developing countries have experienced a series of wars and armed conflicts. These have essentially been internal conflicts like in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Colombia, although they have had astrong tendency to involve neighboring countries. Many such conflicts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074849