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Institutionalized Corruption and the Kleptocratic State

Charap, Joshua; Harm, Christian - 1999

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...

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Institutionalized Corruption and the Kleptocratic State

Charap, Joshua - 2006

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Burden Sharing, Burden Shifting, and Strategy in the Nordic States

Becker, Jordan - 2018

-methods approach, I find that among the Nordic states, NATO membership appears to mitigate such tendencies, and that supranational …

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Accidental Rivals? EU Fiscal Rules, NATO, and Transatlantic Burden-Sharing

Becker, Jordan - 2017

political economy scholarship offers plausible explanations for transatlantic imbalances in military expenditures. However, NATO … stringent fiscal rules dampen the kind of defense spending NATO and EU strategists seek: governments respond to increasing … important transatlantic strategic initiatives, namely NATO's Wales pledge on defense investment …

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Sovereign Debt Crises as Threats to the Peace : Restructuring Under Chapter VII of the UN Charter?

Goldmann, Matthias - 2012

Recently, a growing amount of data suggests that there is an intricate relationship between sovereign debt and civil unrest. This article proposes that the powers of the UN Security Council, and in particular its experience with the imposition of sanctions, should be used in order to restructure...

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The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act : Time to End the Corporate Welfare

Rhee, Robert J. - 2015

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, inflicted enormous losses on the insurance industry and businesses. In the wake of the disruptions occurring in the insurance market at the time, the government enacted the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to create a “temporary” federal...

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Our Federalism Is Not Europe’s : It's Becoming Argentina’s

Greve, Michael - 2012

In some ways, a 2012 symposium on “Dilemmas of State Debt” may seem a bit behind the news curve. At the end of 2010, municipal bond markets were in a deep funk. Analysts predicted that countless municipalities and perhaps one or more of the United States might default on their debt...

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The Modern Business of War

Ugarteche, Oscar - 2015

Historically, it has been argued that war has been a solution to economic problems. In the Keynesian guns or butter curve, guns reactivated failing economies while consolidating their political power. This logic is the opposite of Bastiat’s (1850) broken window fallacy that argues that money...

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Soft Power, Strategic Security, and International Philanthropy

Jenkins, Garry - 2007

This Article examines a variety of regulatory rules, administrative responses, and legislative actions designed to prevent nonprofit organizations from unwittingly providing support to terrorist groups around the world. A combination of executive orders, legislation, and Treasury guidelines is...

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Defence Planning in the Fog of Peace : The Transatlantic Currency Conversion Conundrum

Becker, Jordan; Bell, Robert - 2019

Resource allocation to and within defense budgets is grand strategy. NATO and the EU coordinate defense planning and … encourage fair burden-sharing among their members. We analyse the effect of agreed planning processes, namely the ‘NATO Defence …

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