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The wave of jihadist insurgency in West Africa : global ideology, local context, individual motivations
Ibrahim, Ibrahim Yahaya - 2017
The recent rise of jihadist movements in West Africa, including Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its affiliates in the Sahel-Saharan region, has puzzled many observers. The easy spread of the jihadist ideology, the jihadist movements’ success in...
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Making the most of tourism in Indonesia to promote sustainable regional development
Ollivaud, Patrice; Haxton, Peter - 2019
Tourism has boomed in Indonesia in recent years and is already one of the main sources of foreign-currency earnings …. Indonesia has rich and diverse natural assets, whose tourism potential remains underutilised. The government has an ambitious … through infrastructure programmes to improve connectivity, which is a longstanding challenge for tourism as well as for …
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The future of small and medium-sized enterprises in European tourism faces with globalization
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One-In, X-Out : regulatory offsetting in selected OECD countries
Trnka, Daniel; Thuerer, Yola - 2019
Governments are increasingly trying to limit the costs of regulatory compliance. One of the approaches that has been gaining ground in the last five years is the “one-in, x-out rule”, or the offsetting of regulatory costs stemming from new regulations by reducing the existing regulatory...
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The contribution of transgovernmental networks of regulators to international regulatory co-operation
Abbott, Kenneth W.; Kauffmann, Céline; Lee, Jeong-Rim - 2018
This study takes stock of the membership, governance structure, operational mode and regulatory power of trans-governmental networks of regulators (TGNs). It contributes to a greater OECD project aimed at building greater understanding of the benefits and pitfalls of various approaches to...
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The unstable foundations of political stability in Chad
Eizenga, Daniel - 2018
Chad has emerged as an important counter-terrorism partner in the Lake Chad Basin and the broader Sahel-Sahara region due to its recent political stability and military contribution to security efforts in these troubled zones. However, a closer look at developments in domestic politics, notably...
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TOSSD : tracking peace and security expenditures in support of the SDGs
Bejraoui, Aussama; Gaveau, Valérie; Benn, Julia - 2019
This Working Paper presents the main findings and recommendations of the pilot study carried out on the treatment of peace and security expenditures in the statistical measure of total official support for sustainable development (TOSSD). The pilot study explored the relevance of including...
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Wars and conflicts in the Sahara-Sahel
Walther, Olivier J. - 2017
The Sahel and the Sahara are faced with exceptional political instability involving a combination of rebellions, jihadist insurgencies, coups d’état, protest movements and illegal trafficking. The backdrop to this accumulated violence is a globalised security environment, which blurs the...
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The contribution of mutual recognition to international regulatory co-operation
Brito, Anabela Correia de; Kauffmann, Céline; … - 2016
This study takes stock of the institutional setting, operational modalities, strengths and weaknesses of various forms of mutual recognition when used in different sector and country contexts. It aims to build a greater understanding of the benefits and pitfalls of one of the 11 mechanisms of...
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Contemporary civil-military relations in the Sahel
Elischer, Sebastian - 2019
The paper examines the evolution and the contemporary state of civil-military relations in the francophone Sahel (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal). In a first step, the paper traces the emergence of excessive political influence of the armed forces (praetorianism) in the...
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