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Why the UN Arms Trade Treaty will be Good for Exporters
Alisa DiCaprio The global arms trade is a lucrative business. In 2010, total arms transfers were estimated at US$40 billion. Despite the global...
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Beyond the Notion of Security CommunityAfrican regional organizations’ increasing activity in security policy is usually approached through the concept of a ‘security community’, which can only partially clarify their difficult situation. A multilevel governance model is suggested as a...
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Entrepreneurship, Sovereignty, and Violent Social ConflictJurgen Brauer and Robert Haywood The role of the sovereign state in driving and resolving violent social conflict remains central to studies of peace...
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Regionalization in Southern AfricaThis state of the art paper reviews literature published up to the end of 1994 on economic, security and environmental regionalization in southern Africa. In the field of economic regionalization a distinction is made between three main integration...
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Lessons of Experience in International Democracy SupportThe so-called ‘Arab spring’ in North Africa and the Middle East in early 2011 took many political commentators by surprise. It challenged international democracy support to learn from its own limitations while potentially offering exciting new...
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To Be or Not To Be?Part of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the South
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The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and DevelopmentThis book is dedicated to the implications of the New Regionalism for global security and development. The fourth volume in the five-volume New Regionalism Series, it features contributions from the UNU/WIDER project on New Regionalism. Earlier...
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The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and DevelopmentThis book is dedicated to the implications of the New Regionalism for global security and development. The fourth volume in the five-volume New Regionalism Series, it features contributions from the UNU/WIDER project on New Regionalism. Earlier...
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Beyond the Notion of Security CommunityPart of Journal Special Issue Conflict and Peace-building
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Seeking asylum from nowhere— how origin shapes the context of receptionAfghanistan is the world’s newest nowhere, a predicament that will shape the evacuation and resettlement prospects for millions of people for the...
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Regionalization in East Asia-Pacific?This is a state-of-the-art report prepared within the UNU/WIDER project The New Regionalism and the International System - Implications for Development and Security, covering East and Southeast Asia. The report constitutes an initial inventory study...
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Multilateral Military ResponsesPart of Book The Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies
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Israel, Palestine and JordanPart of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development
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The Logic of Regional Security in the Post-Cold War WorldPart of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development
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Global InsecurityThe first half of the 1990s was a period of great optimism about humanitarian intervention. In the aftermath of the Cold War, it was hoped that the international community could begin to act cohesively in defence of fundamental international...
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Regionalism and World Order After the Cold WarPart of Book Globalism and the New Regionalism
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Global InsecurityThe first half of the 1990s was a period of great optimism about humanitarian intervention. In the aftermath of the Cold War, it was hoped that the international community could begin to act cohesively in defence of fundamental international...
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The Changing Global Composition of Armed Forces and Military TechnologyPart of Book Global Insecurity
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Lessons of Experience in International Democracy SupportThe view that democracy can be good for development has held sway in influential international development policy circles for over two decades now. And over that time considerable efforts have been made internationally to give direct encouragement...
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