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In a behavioral model of civil conflict, foreign military intervention alters the resources available to warring groups … significantly associated with civil conflict in the presence of foreign military intervention of non-humanitarian and non … conflict, model specifications, and data time spans, and to controlling for other types of foreign military interventions …
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The article addresses some of the international law issues raised by the UN-authorized 2011 military intervention of NATO and its allies in Libya. It tackles, inter alia, the general position of international law towards internal civil strife and rebellion; the role of the UN Security Council in...
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An anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising began in northern China in 1899, dubbed the “Boxer Rebellion” by the … foreign powers that subsequently invaded China. In the courseof events, troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance began to arrive in …
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Coalition offensive operations in Iraq seek to disrupt insurgents and their networks, but may also act as a recruitment tool for the insurgency. We use data from Coalition press releases and casualty reports to assess the total impact of these operations. We find that two additional offensive...
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This paper describes the energy sector in the Mediterranean and MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries. It first analyses the production of energy by fossil and renewable sources and discusses the increasing demand in the area and its consequences. It describes the policy frameworks to...
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The first decade of the new millennium saw the European Union deploy ninesecurity missions to the African continent, quoting the European Security andDefence Policy. Unlike the numerous United Nations security missions thatEuropean states had previously contributed to, these were part of a grand...
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We analyse the impact of instability caused by Arab Spring on co-movements and volatility spillovers of aggregated Financial Stress Indices for eight MENA countries. Using a dynamic frequency connectedness framework, we find that stress transmission between markets is higher at low frequencies...
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This paper describes the energy sector in the Mediterranean and MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries. It first analyses the production of energy by fossil and renewable sources and discusses the increasing demand in the area and its consequences. It describes the policy frameworks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009632900
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