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The Political Economy of Mass Printing: Legitimacy and Technological Change in the Ottoman Empire

Cosgel, Metin; Miceli, Thomas; Rubin, Jared - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2010

New technologies have not always been greeted with full enthusiasm. Although the Ottomans were quick to adopt advancements in military technology, they waited almost three centuries to sanction printing in Ottoman Turkish (in Arabic characters). Printing spread relatively rapidly throughout...

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Lógicas de argumentación e instituciones internacionales

Fernando, Estrada - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This article presents the basics of argumentation theory. The relations of the argument with the concept of logical inference and an illustration of argument in international comparative policy analysis: the analysis of arguments in the invasion of Iraq

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War and the political zeitgeist: Evidence from the history of female suffrage

Hicks, Daniel L. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 31 (2013) C, pp. 60-81

Despite the upheaval associated with warfare, empirical evidence linking conflict with institutional development is … inclusion. Employing survival analysis, I find that during the 20th century, nations engaging in external conflict were more … than twice as likely to extend the franchise to women in the post-conflict period, even after controlling for other …

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Whistleblower or Troublemaker? How One Man Took on the Soviet Mafia

Harrison, Mark - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2009

The paper tells the story of a pensioner’s fight against a local mafia of Soviet party and government officials and farm managers in a remote rural locality in the 1950s. To Moscow, he was a whistleblower. To the leaders of his local community, he was a troublemaker. Working together, the...

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Referendum, Secession and Intermixed Tribal Structure in Western-Southern Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2011

the Dinka Ngok. The conflict was taken to international courts solutions were drawn in the presidency institution of Sudan …

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Kleptocracy, Totalitarianism and Corruption

Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2014

The present paper is part of unpublished book divided into three interrelated manuscripts that analyze the collapse of the Sudan. The theory introduced here is that the regime was built on kleptocratic framework. That enhanced a rapid transformation of the values' system of the country and...

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Hyenas and Lambs : The Implications of Impacts of South Sudan Secession

Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2011

The present paper analyzes the impacts of the Southern Sudan secession. It is concluded that the feasible and eminent secession of Southern Sudan, triggered similar process in Darfur region and feasibly other parts of the country. The two newly formed nations can get into a form of Union:...

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After the Storm of 2000 : Fiji's Troubled Path Toward Justice and Reconciliation

Chang, Kevin C - 2015

In the wake of Fiji's coup d'état of 2000, which unleashed an unprecedented level of violence and destruction to the country, the people of Fiji demanded a process of national reconciliation to heal the wounds of the past and build a more peaceful future. Fiji's troubled path to reconciliation...

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Civil Society Climate Cooperation

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2013

Climate cooperation increasingly looks like individuals reaching out beyond traditional interactions to expand new networks, work with others to spot patterns, and take initiative to learn new complex systems; adapt these shared insights into new solutions; develop empathy, patience, and...

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Why Was Keynes Not Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize After Writing ‘The Economic Consequences of the Peace’?

Jonung, Lars - 2021

John Maynard Keynes became world famous with the publication of The Economic Consequences of the Peace in 1919, a harsh critique of the Versailles peace treaty. As a consequence, Keynes was nominated by German professors in economics for the Nobel Peace Prize three years in a row, 1922, 1923 and...

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