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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"J Political Science"”.
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The Political Economy of Private Credit Money Accommodation
Private credit money forms are debt instruments that co-exist alongside publicly provided forms of money and emerge de-centrally out of the lending activities of banks or non-bank financial institutions. In normal times, they are easily convertible into higher-ranking forms of public or commodity …
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The politics of regional policy in Japan
… Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science.
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Professional against the state : French electronics policy in historical perspective
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1996.
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Advisory boards and responsible government in Canada
Abstract not available.
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The making of a rule of law in Europe : the European Court and the national judiciaries
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1996.
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An illusion of power; military conscription as a dilemma of liberal democracy in Great Britain, the United States, and France.
… Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1973
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International Cooperation in Arms Control: Building Security Regimes to Contain Missile Proliferation
… supply-side technology barriers to build more politically robust nonproliferation institutions that would counter technological advances and tackle emerging issues on the missile nonproliferation agenda.
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Governance reconsidered: The redistribution of authority in the European arena
… central state and above it, due to a variety of political, economic and social factors that both converge and work at cross purposes to drive the process. The result of this process of redistribution is a complex, dynamic system of governance in which networks of interdependent, autonomous actors …
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Evolving Threat Narratives: The Case of China's Transition from Foe to Friend during Rapprochement
This research endeavor attempts to better understand the nature of American threat narratives, how narratives evolve, what drives the change, and finally, what it all means for perceptions of threat to the US. The purpose of this study is to understand the implications of bias on evolving threat …
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The U.S. global AIDS response : norms, interests and the duty to treat
… role for norms and norm entrepreneurs in shaping political decisions. Neither the influence of important economic interests nor the national security interest of the United States can adequately explain the transformation in U.S. global AIDS policy. Instead, an emerging norm around the duty to …
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COMMUNIST STATES IN THE IMF AND IBRD: CONFLICT AND COOPERATION
… to lend to members. Despite this restriction, political criteria such as regime type and foreign policy orientation with respect to the East-West conflict have entered into Bank and Fund lending behavior. Political criteria do not, however, dominate decisions to lend in either organization; …
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The Soldier and the Citizen: Examining the U.S. Military’s Non-partisan Norms
… help ensure the military does not use its latent political power to influence domestic politics or become aligned with a political party. Despite the importance of these norms, we have a limited understanding of them and how they influence U.S. military servicemembers’ political attitudes and …
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Tragic challenges and the moral hazard of humanitarian intervention : how and why ethnic groups provoke genocidal retaliation
This dissertation explores the causes of, and possible remedies for, extremely violent ethnic conflict. It starts from a robust yet under-explored finding in the literature: Most groups that fall victim to genocidal violence actually trigger their own demise by launching armed secessions or …
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Nuclear bargaining : using carrots and sticks in nuclear counter-proliferation
… they enhance the power and interests of domestic political factions in the target state that support compliance with the sender's nuclear demands. I argue that positive inducements are typically a more effective tool of foreign policy than negative sanctions. Also, the difference in the …
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The Universal Grammar of the Laws of War: A Theory of Moral Discourse and International Norms
In contemporary political science, many international relations scholars presume that normative restrictions on military violence in world politics are an outgrowth of Western liberal modernity. Indeed, humanitarian norms such as the Geneva Conventions are comparatively recent in world politics, …