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Cooperation between international organizations: Demand, supply, and restraint
Regime complexity characterizes the international system, as many international organizations (IOs) overlap in membership and competencies at the...
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Improficiency and the Professionalization of Undisciplined Practices
This chapter’s author interrogates the spaces and knowledges of interdisciplinarity by exploring the relationship between alternative understandings...
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Local Scenes, National Industry, and Virtual Platforms: Overcoming Spatial Hierarchies in French and American Rap Music (2000–2015)
In France as in the US, music practices have long been structured by spatial hierarchies between cores and peripheries. Scholars have addressed this...
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Local Content Policies in the Energy Transition Era in Africa: A Case Study of the East African Oil and Gas Industry
In Sub-Saharan Africa, local content policies have been implemented since the 1970 s, but these policies have not been able to transplant the...
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In-depth Synopsis of Local Content Literature
The history of local content policies depicts the economic aspect of local content policies. But literature shows that local content policies have a...
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Hierarchical and Stratified Centralization: The Historical Context of Multilevel Environmental Governance in France
Historically, France has been a relatively centralized country, a tradition going back centuries. Despite political decentralization since the 1980s...
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Vicious Cycle: Cameroon(ization) and/or Foreign(ization) of the Indomitable Lions’ Head Coaching
The development of soccer and athletic talent in general depends on quality coaching. The importance of coaching practice has been studied for...
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Traditional Culture, the Creative City and Social Reproduction: the Fallas Case
The festive ritual has been interpreted as a way of generating sociability and social cohesion not only in traditional societies but also in modern...
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Success and Failure in Australian Indigenous Policy: Moral Dynamics and Rhetorical Registers
How are ideas of failure and success used in Australian Indigenous policy? This question came to me in 2007 when I heard a philanthropist, newly...
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Regional standards of membership and enlargement in the EU and ASEAN
For regional organizations (ROs) as geographically defined entities, questions of membership often raise moral questions about the very foundations...
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Exploring the physical risks and security mechanisms for Chinese companies operating under the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor Project
Since the commencement of the ChinaPakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Project, security measures for Chinese companies have been increased as a result...
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Local Content an Introduction
Local content policies have proliferated in several oil and gas countries, as a means of government intervention into the oil and gas industry. These...
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Peacebuilding Process in Some Selected Countries of South Asia
South Asia has witnessed several conflicts, civil wars, and full-fledged wars over the decades (South Asia is geographically defined here to include...
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Collective Identity in the Diaspora
Diaspora communities consist of various collective identities, ranging from ethnic, national, religious, etc., on which their diasporic identities...
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Reflections for Trans-Regional Mountain Tourism
This chapter offers a trans-regional synthesis of various aspects that emerged from the 12 countries and case study destinations from across Asia’s...
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Harmonisation of Regional Energy Regulations
In this chapter the author discusses the regulation of the energy markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as a means of promoting regional energy...
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The Shifting Forms of Continental Colonialism: An Introduction
Colonialism is not simply, or even mainly, an overseas phenomenon nor is it a thing of the past. Delving into these complexities this chapter...
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Democracy and Political Trust Before and After the Great Recession 2008: The European Union and the United Nations
The paper investigates the change in the impact of democracy on political trust in national and international institutions, the European Union (EU)...
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On Transport as a Cause of Conflict
The introductory chapter of the book undertakes to illustrate how the mobility of people and freight is a resource unequally distributed and the...