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Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world, said President George W. Bush in his February 1, 2006 State of the Union Address, delivered before a Joint Session of...
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This paper highlights how globalization is interlinked with new and unprecedented psychological dynamics that call for novel solutions at all levels - macro, meso and micro levels, and in all fields of public policy. This paper is a central program paper of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies,...
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This text is a chapter that highlights how human rights ideals together with globalization profoundly impinge on relationships, both globally and locally. This chapter calls attention to how certain psychological phenomena, such as dynamics of humiliation, gain significance, and thus have to be...
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nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …
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How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the … legacies of armed conflict and the differences between those who stayed in their communities of origin during the conflict …
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We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …km-by10km grid cell-level data on conflict in a spatial regression discontinuity design framework, we show that areas … conflict management, led to a sharp surge in attacks against state targets in frontier areas. We show that the surge in …
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between extreme temperature days and conflict. We show that the occurrence of conflict events increases with extreme maximum … temperature days, whereas days with extreme minimum temperature decrease the occurrence of conflict. Because climate change makes … conflict, actors involved and population affected, indicating complex distributional consequences. …
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We provide new evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. To do so, we combine … of opium profitability on conflict in Afghanistan. District level results indicate a conflict-reducing effect over the …
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sector agents than are feasible in econometric or algebraic investigations and employs a new central bank cooperation-conflict … policy ; exchange rate shocks ; central bank cooperation ; central bank conflict …
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We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 … countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries …, while they decrease this probability in offshore-rich countries. We use a simple model of conflict to illustrate how these …
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