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Browsing Political Science and International Relations by Issue Date
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(Res Publica, 2012-06-09)Nicholas Vrousalis has aimed to recast an old objection to the will theory of rights by focusing on Hillel Steiner’s version of that theory. He has argued that Will Theorymust either be insensitive to the (values of the) ...
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(2013)In 2007, the Russian government instituted quotas for immigrant work permits that were consistently lower than actual labour demand. While low quotas are politically popular on the mass level, this article argues that low ...
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(2013)One aspect of the global “War on Terror” that has received limited coverage in the academic literature is the problem of detained persons as it relates to intelligence. This is a surprising oversight, given the number of ...
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Corporate Social Responsibility: A Promising Social Innovation or a Neoliberal Strategy in Disguise? (Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2014)Since the Lisbon Summit the European Union has become resolute in its intention to promote the uptake of corporate social responsibility among European companies. The recent financial crisis has provided further impetus ...
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(Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2014)In an attempt to analyse the socio-economic transformations of the European Union, an increasing number of scholars have resorted to Polanyi's double movement thesis. In doing so, some scholars, by looking at the evidence ...
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(SAGE, 2014)Do neoliberal economic reforms in Latin American democracies mobilize citizens to overcome their collective action problems and protest? A recent addition to the scholarship on this crucial question of the relationship ...
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(Eurostudia, vol. 10, n.1, 2015)This article investigates the effects of the Soviet social engineering project and forced secularization in Central Asia. Emphasis is placed on the ideological foundations of Marxism-Leninism, its stance on atheism, its ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2016)This thesis investigates the impact of transferred weapons’ military capabilities on recipients’ level of foreign policy cooperation. While previous research use financial data to assess the impact of transferred arms, ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2016)Does the revelation of covert actions affect a leader’s popularity? The primary purpose of this study is to investigate whether such effect exists and, if yes, to determine the extent to which it has an influence on the ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2016)This thesis focuses on coal-using power generation companies’ behavior under state policies and the outcomes of greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts (as a result of the Kyoto Protocol and COP 21) of two countries, ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2016)Several recent criminal cases against high-ranking Kazakhstani Ministry of Internal Affairs officials who had been charged with organizing drug dealing groups of 30 to 50 members within their departments have exposed ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2016)Recently we have observed cooperation between trade blocs as the European Union, the Andean Community, Mercosur, ASEAN and others. These actors have started to negotiate a possibility of trade agreements between each ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2016)Aiming at entering the top thirty most competitive economies in the world by 2050 Kazakhstan faces a problem of inadequate human capital. However, an objective demand for foreign skilled workers notwithstanding, Kazakhstan ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2016)Women’s participation in politics has increased across the globe in the last 50 years, and this trend is not limited to Western democracies. For example, post-Soviet Belarus and Kazakhstan, both presidential autocracies ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2016)Given the increasing use of targeted sanctions despite the ongoing debate on the effectiveness of targeted versus non-targeted sanctions in the existing literature, the aim of this thesis is to investigate when targeted ...
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(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2016)The objective of this thesis is to investigate the conditions under which states become foreign aid donors. While the number of aid donors has dramatically increased in recent years, we know little about when states ...
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(2016)The Surge in Iraq was one of the key foreign policy decisions of the past decade. Its success prompted a second surge into Afghanistan by a new president a few years later. The success of the Iraq surge has prompted work ...
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(CERIA Briefs n. 10, 2016-01)Since independence in 1991, Tajikistan’s authorities have been trying to promote a unifying ideology that could inspire the whole nation. Na-tional unity is particularly challenging in this country that has been wounded ...
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(World Development, 2016-01-01)Summary Economic crises generally lead to reductions in foreign aid. However, the widely held view that budgetary constraints caused by economic crises reduce aid is inaccurate because donor government outlays actually ...
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