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The European Perspective on the Energy Developments in Eastern Mediterranean and South East Europe
The gas developments in Eastern Mediterranean facilitate discussions on potential regional cooperation, but as well as on strengthening political...
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Japan’s ODA to Develo** Countries in the Health Sector: Overall Trend and Future Prospects
This chapter identifies the overall trends in Japan’s official development assistance (ODA) policies for the health sector in develo** countries...
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Foreign Policies of Vietnam and India: Articulating Convergences
This chapter highlights the bilateral engagement with a focus on their strategies to manage big power relations. While India’s engagement increased...
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Multilateral Engagement: Envisioning a Peaceful, Cooperative Multilateral Architecture
This chapter posits a disorderly world, marked by a near stalling of the global economy unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic, with concomitant...
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Influence Methods
This chapter more closely examines the methods policy institutes use to exert influence. Think tanks express ideas in many ways, but the packaging...
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China as Socializer
This chapter analyzes the consolidation of China’s 21st-century-style postmodern global power identity associated with the construction of a new,...
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Introduction
The introduction presents key problems in terms of how agricultural markets are treated in policy discussions, what movements are demanding in terms...
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Canada and International Order
Canadian governments have played a role in the design and maintenance of international order since the 1940s. As we enter the 2020s, international...
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The Causes of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War
After examining Russia’s dominant role in the making of nationalities and their political borders along with its current policy of maintaining its...
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Toleration and Tolerance in a Global Context
Although toleration is often seen as a modern and quintessential liberal value that is distinctly Western in origin, scholars are increasingly...
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Stunted Food Security: Time for Universal Entitlements
One of every four of the world’s undernourished populations reside in India. From the legacy of famines in British India to the continued reports of...
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A Paradigm Shift in Global Governance
In this chapter we analyze the paradigm shift in anticorruption strategies on the part of the international community. First we observe the growing...
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Global Energy Governance
This chapter presents the dominant characteristics underlying global energy production patterns and the global energy governance architecture. After...
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The Reluctant Modernizer: Gender Equality in Unified Germany
In 2021, Angela Merkel stepped down after 16 years as German chancellor, marking the longest post-war tenure of a woman in a political leadership...
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Grand Strategy and Policy Planning
What is grand strategy, who designs it, what is its purpose, and how is it practiced?
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Dissemination of Japanese Quality Control in Brazil
Until the 1980s, Brazilian industrialization was oriented toward the domestic market. Although competitive pressure was weak, exporting companies and...
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Quality Management and Sustainable Development in Local Communes – Evidence from Poland
Sustainable development is usually investigated from a global or national rather than a regional or local perspective. However, it is local communes...
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Energy Governance in Ireland
Ireland is committed to significant decarbonization of the energy system by mid-century, including an aggregate reduction in CO2 emissions from...
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How Does Fighting Change Jihadists?
This chapter analyzes how fighting for IS changed jihadists, as socialization to apocalyptic ideas could override, for example, an initial desire to...
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Peacemaking from Within: Adaptive Mediation of Direct Dialogue in Mozambique’s New Peace Process (2013–2019)
Mozambique has faced several cycles of violent conflict and decades of peace negotiations resulting in three main peace agreements: the 1992 General...