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The Role of Infrastructure in International Relations: the Case of South Caucasus
Davtyan, Erik - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
The role of infrastructures has always been appreciated by the leading powers of the world while pursuing their own … fact that the evolution of the world society, the progress in high technologies, the diversification and intensification of … the impact of hard types of infrastructure on international relations in one of the most complicated regions of the world …
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How Rebellion Expands? From Periphery to Heartland
Nakao, Keisuke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
While the theoretical literature maintains that strategic coordination is one of the keys to successful rebellion, anti-governmental campaigns are not necessarily synchronized across rebel groups in observed civil wars. To resolve this discrepancy, we develop a dynamic and spatial model of...
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War and Individual Creativity: Tentative Evidence in Relation to Composers
BOROWIECKI, Karol Jan; O'HAGAN, John W. - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2011
The relationship between conflict and individual artistic output is ambiguous, both a priori and in terms of the evidence. To address this question in relation to composers, we employ a sample of 115 prominent classical composers born after 1800 and attempt to link their annual productivity with...
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The security challenges in conflict prone countries
Collier, Paul; Chauvet, Lisa; Hegre, Haavard - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
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The security challenges in conflict prone countries.
Collier, Paul; Chauvet, Lisa; Hegre, Haavard - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2009
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War and Creativity: Solving the War-Art Puzzle for Classical Music Composition
BOROWIECKI, Karol Jan - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2011
The relationship between conflict and artistic output is ambiguous. This paper proposes an explanation for the contradiction in research, which we term the war-art puzzle. We employ a global sample of 115 prominent classical composers born after 1800 and link their annual productivity with the...
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War Size Distribution: Empirical Regularities Behind the Conflicts
Rafael, González-Val - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper analyses the statistical distribution of war size. We find strong support for a Pareto-type distribution (power law) using data from different sources (COW and UCDP) and periods. A power law describes accurately the size distribution of all wars, but also the distribution of the...
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War Size Distribution: Empirical Regularities Behind the Conflicts
González-Val, Rafael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
This paper analyses the statistical distribution of war size. We find strong support for a Pareto-type distribution (power law) using data from different sources (COW and UCDP) and periods. A power law describesaccurately the size distribution of all wars, but also the distribution of the sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011162061
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The Delimitation of East China Sea Continental Shelf：Sino-Japanese Disputes from the Perspective of International Law
Fenglan, Zhu - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The East China Sea which covers a total area of 750,000 square kilometers is a semi-closed sea lying between the eastern coast of Chinas mainland and the Pacific Ocean, bounded on the west by China, on the east by the Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, and on the north by Jichu Island of...
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Dispute Settlement Provisions in International Investment Agreements: A Large Sample Survey
Pohl, Joachim; Mashigo, Kekeletso; Nohen, Alexis - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2012
Investor-State dispute settlement mechanisms (ISDS) are an important component of most International Investment Agreements (IIAs) and have significant influence on how disputes between States and investors are resolved.<p> This statistical survey of a large sample of 1,660 bilateral investment...</p>
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