The authors conducted a research on the records management activities in the United Nations (UN) through an investigation of the UN website and a field research at the Archives and Records Management Section (ARMS) at the UN Headquarters in New York in September 2006. This research aimed to...

This dissertation investigates whether and why social structure influences cooperative organizational strategic decision making in an international relations context, and in particular, similar voting in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The economic and institutional embeddedness of...

The great bulk of the J. Reuben Clark Jr. papers were inventoried in 1967. This register is only of the Clark papers that have come to the library since that time. ; Historical note; This addendum contains a variety of papers that cover the full life span of Mr. Clark. However, the great bulk of...

Anger and optimism are coexisting themes related to the growing liberalization of international trade and the resultant transforming forces of globalization. While international trade and globalization offer the world community many benefits, there also appear to be negative consequences,...

Microcredit, or small, short-term loans to the very poor, can help to bring about wholesale changes not only in personal income and the local marketplace, but also by adding meaning to life, building self-esteem and encouraging social integration. The cash advance is only the vehicle. The...

At the end of World War II, the United States emerged as a world leader, putting into place international institutions based on its own liberal economic philosophy. Since then, the world has witnessed an increasing interconnectedness among states, with economic relationships continually blurring...

The dissertation, Repression and Network Science: Tools in Fight againstTerrorism, explores what determines post‐terror repression in democracies andwhat alternative tools network science may ultimately reveal to for compellingauthorities to rely on repression less. To do this three papers...