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Trust the hand that protects you : does UN peacekeeping harm post-conflict governments' legitimacy?
Di Salvatore, Jessica - 2022
Rebuilding state legitimacy is a thorny challenge in the aftermath of civil wars. The international community has … security affects citizens' trust towards formal institutions-that is, government and police. The empirical analysis focuses on … legitimacy of the institutions they are expected to assist. …
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Mothers at peace : post-conflict fertility and United Nations peacekeeping
Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Elia, Leandro; … - 2022
peacekeepers have lower fertility rates in the deployment period. Furthermore, peacekeeping improves child health and fosters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013441742
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The economic impact of peacekeeping. Evidence from South Sudan
Caruso, Raul; Khadka, Prabin B.; Petrarca, Ilaria; … - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2012
This paper investigates the effect of the deployment of United Nations Blue Helmets on economic activity in South Sudan with a special focus on agricultural production Since UN troops are predicted to improve security, in particular, we expect a positive relationship between deployment of UN...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098959
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Peacekeeping: a Strategic Approach
Blouin, Max - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2012
This paper presents a theoretical model of conflict between two players, with intervention by a peacekeeping force … remaining inactive, depending on circumstances. This departs from previous models, in which peacekeeping was no more than a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570022
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Comparative Analysis of the Performance of EU and AU Peacekeeping Missions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - 2023
Africa is plagued by some of the most brutal and violent conflicts in the world. Peacekeeping missions play a crucial … Union (EU) and the African Union (AU) are involved in peacekeeping operations in the region. The AU conducts peacekeeping … the Joint Africa-EU Strategy. The EU has conducted peacekeeping missions under its Common Security and Defence Policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637396
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Sustainable Agreements on Stochastic River Flow
Houba, Harold; Ansink, Erik - 2013
Many water allocation agreements in transboundary river basins are inherently unstable. Due to stochastic river flow, agreements may be broken in case of drought. The objective of this paper is to analyze whether water allocation agreements can be self-enforcing, or sustainable. We do so using...
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UN Interventions: The Role of Geography
Duque, Juan Carlos; Jetter, Michael; Sosa, Santiago - 2014
This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three Western permanent UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a UN military intervention decreases by 4 percent. We are able to rule out several alternative...
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Foreign influence and domestic policy: a survey
Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Hauk, Esther - 2019
In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy choices generate external economic and political costs, foreign state and non-state actors have an interest in inflencing policy actions in other sovereign countries to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018258
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Rally around the EU flag! Supra-nationalism in the light of Islamist terrorism
Nowak, Anna - 2019
Terror attacks are known to increase support for the attacked nation state and strengthen ingroup affiliations among citizens. Even though there is evidence that a terror attack can affect people all over the world, up to now no study has considered whether these nation-specific effects work on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140656
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Self-Enforcing Agreements under Unequal Nationally Determined Contributions
Silva, Emilson C.D. - 2016
For a large global economy with normal goods, and an unequal world income distribution, we consider the endogenous formation and stability of an international environmental agreement (IEA) under nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Nations share green R&D efforts and enjoy R&D spillovers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431243