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African sovereign defaults and the common framework : divergent Chinese interests grant Western countries a "consumer surplus"

Bode, Eckhardt - 2024

China has become a major player in sovereign lending towards Africa during the past two decades but has recently been faced with increasing defaults. A new African debt crisis is looming. • Differences in the motives of sovereign lending between China and Western creditor countries contribute...

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African sovereign defaults and the common framework: Divergent Chinese interests grant Western countries a "consumer surplus"

Bode, Eckhardt - 2024

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Japan (and Western countries) immigration policies to the test of labour market indicators and demographic trends

Bruni, Michele - 2026

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is proposing very restrictive migration policies. This paper argues that, given Japan's past migration strategy, large-scale immigration will become unavoidable. By contrast, other countries facing similar structural labour shortages will be able to respond not only...

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Japan (and Western countries) Immigration Policies to the Test of Labour Market Indicators and Demographic Trends

Bruni, Michele - 2026

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Western TV and crimes against foreigners in East Germany

Fieles-Ahmad, Omar Martin; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2026

Following reunification, anti-foreigner crimes rose sharply in the former GDR. Using countylevel data for the early 1990s, we study if regional access to Western TV, i.e. non-socialist media, prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall had an impact on regional levels of serious antiforeigner crime...

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Western TV and crimes against foreigners in East Germany

Fieles-Ahmad, Omar Martin; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2026

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Beyond security : the trade implications of joining NATO

Jackson, Karen; Luck, Phillip; Shepotylo, Oleksandr - 2026

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 raised a critical question: do military alliances strengthen or fracture trade ties when war breaks out? This paper shows they strengthen them. Using monthly bilateral trade data through August 2025, we find that NATO members traded...

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Moving NATO burden sharing into the future : analyzing burden sharing in the post-cold war era

Runje, Leon; Kotarski, Kristijan - 2026

This paper examines the determinants of NATO military expenditure in the post-Cold War period from 1990 to 2019. It focuses on whether differences among NATO allies can be better explained by economic size, resource endowments, or broader indicators of national capability. Objectives: The study...

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Rare earths : seeking west's strategic responses to China's dominance

Boruta, Raigirdas - 2025

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Verteidigungsetat : neue Weltbank für Verteidigung

Werner, Said D. - 2025

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South Korea's ever-closer relations with NATO : intersecting and varying motives of South Korea's Moon Jae-in and Yoon Suk-yeol administrations

Ballbach, Eric J. - 2025

Driven by both political camps in Seoul, relations between South Korea and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have deepened significantly since their initiation in 2005. While this intensified relationship was shaped to a large extent by geopolitical developments and increasing...

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Supporting Ukraine militarily : why is the West divided?

Kanniainen, Vesa; Lehtonen, Juha-Matti - 2025

Following Russia’s attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Western countries have been providing military assistance to Ukraine. However, relative to GDP, the support from the small Baltic and Nordic countries has been greater than that of the larger European NATO countries. This article...

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Has the free-rider problem been improved in NATO? : evidence from a novel TVP-VAR-based connectedness approach

Duc Hong Vo; Minh Phuoc-Bao Tran - 2025

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"You don't pay your bills you get no protection" : a Trump effect on NATO members' military expenditures?

Founta, Konstantina; Kollias, Chrēstos; Tzeremes, … - 2025

Dispensing with the customary courteous diplomatic language, much of the 47th President's rhetoric concerning the other NATO Allies echoes the valid US criticism that many of them freeride on the US protective defence umbrella without contributing their fair share to the costs of NATO's...

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NATO after the 2025 Summit : strength, doubt, and the burden of leadership

Pchaladze, Tengiz - 2025

The NATO Hague Summit signalled renewed commitment to transatlantic security, with member states pledging historic increases in defence spending and a broader vision of resilience encompassing cyber, infrastructure, and societal domains. This shift signals more than adaptation; it suggests a...

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From peace dividend to defence dividend : dual-use, quantum and NATO targets

Murphy, Michael; Forrest, Tracey; Samson, Paul - 2025

Canada and other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are facing higher defence-spending targets in response to growing geopolitical tensions. NATO's 2025 Hague Summit Declaration requires member states to increase their defence spending to five percent of their GDP by 2035....

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Russia's naval build-up at Lake Ladoga : NATO must increase its long-range fire capabilities in the Baltic Sea region

Adrians, Helge - 2025

Russia apparently aims to be capable of attacking targets in the Baltic Sea region from Lake Ladoga, which is located north of Saint Petersburg and only 40 kilometres from the Finnish border. Since 2023, Russia has been evaluating the deployment of corvettes equipped with cruise missiles there....

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Alignment of necessity : Turkey's role in the future European security architecture

Adar, Sinem; Aksoy, Hürcan Aslı; Ålander, Minna; … - 2025

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine marked the start of a prolonged confrontation between Moscow and Europe - one that is fundamentally reshaping the parameters of European security. The return of Donald Trump to the White House and his stated intent to quickly end the war in Ukraine and put...

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European NATO fiscal space before and under the Russo-Ukrainian war

Kutasi, Gábor; Marton, Ádám; Waszkiewicz, Grzegorz - 2025

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Good-for-nothing entrepreneurs : capitalism and democratic decline in the West

Naudé, Wim - 2025

This paper focuses on the relationship between capitalism and the decline in democracy in the West over the past quarter-century. Using data from the V-Dem Institute, Freedom House, and the World Inequality Database, a strong correlation is found between inequality, the rise of tech...

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Is the west regressing into neofeudalism?

Hudson, Michael - 2025

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Hawks and Doves : financial market perception of Western support for Ukraine

Neuenkirch, Matthias; Repko, Maria; Weber, Enzo - 2025

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Hawks and doves : financial market perception of Western support for Ukraine

Neuenkirch, Matthias; Repko, Maria; Weber, Enzo - 2023

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Hawks and doves : financial market perception of Western support for Ukraine

Neuenkirch, Matthias; Repko, Maria; Weber, Enzo - 2023

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Hawks and Doves : financial market perception of Western support for Ukraine

Neuenkirch, Matthias; Repko, Maria; Weber, Enzo - 2023

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The motives for Chinese and Western countries' sovereign lending to Africa

Bode, Eckhardt - 2024

This paper is one of the first to show systematically that the motives for sovereign lending to African countries differed considerably between China and Western countries during the last two decades. While Chinese lending mainly served its own economic or geopolitical objectives, which is...

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The motives for Chinese and Western countries' sovereign lending to Africa

Bode, Eckhardt - 2024

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Perspective: the mirage of Europeanising industrial relations : what possibilities for East-West trade union cooperation?

Adamczyk, Sławomir; Surdykowska, Barbara - 2024

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How Russia is recruiting for the long war : covertly mobilising volunteers while preparing for a new round of compulsory mobilisation

Klein, Margarete - 2024

In its war of attrition against Ukraine, the Kremlin is counting on outnumbering the enemy over a long period in terms of both hardware and personnel. Following the unpopular partial mobilisation in autumn 2022, the recruitment of contract soldiers and volunteer fighters was stepped up...

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Regaining NATO's southern neighbours : the alliance should seize the opportunity to jointly reshape southern partnerships

Kinninmont, Jane; Werenfels, Isabelle - 2024

NATO’s 2023 summit in Vilnius was dominated by Russia’s war against Ukraine. The summit in Washington, D.C., in July 2024 will be influenced by an additional major conflict in NATO’s neighbourhood: the war in Gaza and the related heightened tensions in the Middle East. These have also...

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Losing on the home front? : battlefield casualties, media, and public support for foreign interventions

Fetzer, Thiemo; Souza, Pedro C. L.; Vanden Eynde, Oliver; … - 2024

How domestic constituents respond to signals of weakness in foreign wars remains an important question in international relations. This paper studies the impact of battlefield casualties and media coverage on public demand for war termination. To identify the effect of troop fatalities, we...

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Losing on the home front? : battlefield casualties, media, and public support for foreign interventions

Fetzer, Thiemo; Souza, Pedro C. L.; Vanden Eynde, Oliver; … - 2023

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Losing on the home front? : battlefield casualties, media, and public support for foreign interventions

Fetzer, Thiemo; Souza, Pedro C. L.; Vanden Eynde, Oliver; … - 2023

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Losing on the home front? : battlefield casualties, media, and public support for foreign interventions

Fetzer, Thiemo; Souza, Pedro C. L.; Vanden Eynde, Oliver; … - 2023

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Japan's economic warfare in the 1930s and early 1940s

Okazaki, Tetsuji; Okubo, Akira - 2024

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Degrade and deny : economic sanctions 2.0

Gillespie, James - 2024

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NATO's approach to multi-domain operations : from the perspective of the economics of alliances

Takabatake, Futoshi - 2024

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Pushback: the limits of power in Erdogan's Turkey

Lindgaard, Jakob - 2024

There is a widespread perception these years that strongmen around the world are winning, posing new geopolitical challenges and threats to the Western liberal order and security architecture. This DIIS Report takes a closer look at one of these strongmen, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The...

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Trump II and US nuclear assurances to NATO : policy options instead of alarmism

Horovitz, Liviu; Suh, Elisabeth - 2024

While a second Trump Presidency would be challenging for transatlantic ties, US nuclear assurances to its NATO allies in Europe would likely be the last casualty - not the first - of a fraying relationship. There is an intrinsic incompatibility between the United States completely abandoning its...

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From East to West : modernization in the Western and Northern territories of Poland (1944-1989)

Walerski, Konrad - 2024

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AI Ethics for the Global South : Perspectives, Practicalities, and India’s role

Vijayakumar, Anupama - 2024

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Quo vadis Kosovo? : high time to realign with the West

2024

As Europe and the United States head into key elections, the strained security situation in northern Kosovo and heightened tensions between Kosovo and Serbia are raising concerns about stability in the region. To restore its credibility, particularly in its pursuit of EU and NATO membership,...

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Quo vadis Kosovo? : high time to realign with the West

2024

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Political alliances and trade : Europe in a polarized world

Jackson, Karen; Shepotylo, Oleksandr - 2024

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Comment on a passage in "Why did the West extend the franchise? Democracy, inequality, and growth in historical perspective" by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Osborne, Martin J. - 2024 - Minor changes February 21, 2021 and June 4, 2024

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Talking about security in the era of high-tech and green-tech : China's empathy with Russia and the rare earths trade with the West

Sotiriou, Stylianos A. - 2026

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Cultural differences between the West and East Asia and their impacts on global economy

Kwan, Diana S.; Yu, Tony Fu-Lai - 2026

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Western Balkan foreign and security ties with external actors : an arena of geostrategic rivalry for the EU or a local power struggle?

Vulović, Marina - 2023

Even though the six Western Balkan countries (WB6) have close political ties with the EU, their alignment with the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) has increasingly come into focus since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. The EU should take a...

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Supporting Ukraine: more critical than ever

2023

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Repliation report: a comment on Gethin, Martínez-Toledano & Piketty (2022)

Gong, Da; Hammar, Olle - 2023

Gethin, Martínez-Toledano and Piketty (2022) analyze the long-run evolution of political cleavages using a new database on socioeconomic determinants of voting from approximately 300 elections in 21 Western democracies between 1948 and 2020. They find that, in the 1950s and 1960s, voting for...

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Kapitalismus in der Misstrauensfalle

Hüther, Michael - 2023

The war in Ukraine has not only dramatically changed Western perceptions of geopolitics, but also influenced risk assess-ments of economic interdependencies between Western economies and China. China has gradually emerged as an important, and in some cases indispensable, supplier to Western...

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Navigating Complexity : Globalization Narratives in China and the West

Roberts, Anthea; Lamp, Nicolas - 2023

Relations between China and the West appear to be caught in a downward spiral. In the West, there is a widespread perception that China has unduly benefited from economic globalization, while in China, there appears to be increasing concern that the West is seeking to contain China’s rise. In...

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Illegal Globalization is Russia’s Main 'Ally' against the West

Papava, Vladimer - 2023

Despite the best efforts of the West, the economic sanctions have failed to be as effective as expected, an unsurprising result if we take into account the fact that not all countries (for example, China, India, Israel, Turkey) have joined these sanctions, and those countries (this primarily...

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The Social Value of a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine : Willingness to Pay Estimates from Four Western Countries

Costa-Font, Joan; Rudisill, Caroline; Harrison, Sayward; … - 2023

SARS-CoV-2 vaccines give rise to positive externalities on population health, society and the economy in addition to protecting the health of vaccinated individuals. Hence, the social value of such a vaccine exceeds its market value. This paper estimates the willingness to pay (WTP) for a...

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The Ukrainian Crisis in the Multipolar World Order : NATO, Russia and China

Sahakyan, Mher - 2023

The crisis in Ukraine could escalate into war if Russia and the US and its NATO allies cannot resolve their longstanding standoff over the reach of the transatlantic alliance. Mher D Sahakyan, 2020/21 AsiaGlobal Fellow and co-editor of the book China and Eurasia Rethinking Cooperation and...

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East-West cooperation at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies : wiiw founding history

Mayrhofer, Petra - 2023

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In NATO we trust(?) : the Russian invasion of Ukraine and EU27 citizens' trust in NATO

Economou, Athina; Kollias, Chrēstos - 2023

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How the energy crises paved the way for a path dependence on unregulated financial markets in both the capitalist West and the socialist East

Selva, Simone - 2023

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Ensuring Ukraine's security : from ad hoc support to long-term security guarantees as NATO member

Klein, Margarete; Major, Claudia - 2023

Since February 2022, Ukraine has been defending itself against yet another Russian war of aggression. Now that immediate support - military, diplomatic, financial and humanitarian - for Ukraine has improved, the country’s long-term security needs to be addressed. Looking ahead, security...

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Divergence and club convergence in NATO

Kutuk, Yasin - 2024

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Divergence and Club Convergence In NATO

Kutuk, Yasin - 2023

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Chinas Abhängigkeit vom Westen bei Importen und Technologien

Gerards Iglesias, Simon; Matthes, Jürgen - 2023 - Stand: Februar 2023

Zwischen China und dem Westen bestehen gegenseitige Abhängigkeiten, die für beide Seiten das Potenzial haben, bei einem geopolitischen Konflikt hohe wirtschaftliche Kosten entstehen zu lassen. Sollte China tatsächlich eine Invasion Taiwans planen, wäre der Westen bei dann wahrscheinlichen...

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