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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"fragile states"”.
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Toward Understanding the Nature of Leadership in Alleviating State Fragility
… sixty countries have been designated `Fragile States' by international development agencies. Home to two billion of the world's poorest people, these fragile states are characterized by violence, weak institutions and shattered economies. Not only do they pose a challenge to regional …
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Blood money: A grounded theory of corporate citizenship; Myanmar (Burma) as a case in point
… civil society action. Corporate engagement with fragile states, and other situations identified as contexts of conflict and/or weak governance, is the subject of scholarly and practitioner research by those with an interest in Corporate Citizenship. In this thesis I represent the corporation as a …
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Europeanization of Foreign Aid: Managing Post-9/11 Fragile, Conflict-Affected States
Since the turn of the millennium fragile, conflict-affected states (FCAS) have grown to constitute a significant issue within European discourse. The spill-over of their ‘complex political emergencies’ is destabilising, as epitomised by the 9/11 attacks. Bush’s ‘war on terrorism’ speech-act during …
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Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone and Mali
… into improving future peacekeeping operations in fragile states.</p>
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The Prospects of Institutional Transfer: A Within-Case Study of NATO Advisor Influence Across the Afghan Security Ministries and National Security Forces, 2009-2012
… that security sector reform (SSR) programs in fragile states lack an explicit theory of change that specifies how reform occurs. From this view, I theorize internationally led SSR as "guided institutional transfer," grounded in rationalist and social constructivist explanations of convergence, …
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Clausewitz inspired reflections on aid operations in turbulent environments: the case of Nepal 1999-2005/06
… poverty and contlict reduction efforts in fragile states and other turbulent environments.
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Insurgent armies : explaining military loyalty after rebel victory
… movements that win civil wars sometimes build states that control their military forces, but sometimes do not? Under what conditions do field commanders within these winning coalitions commit to centralized military hierarchies, or defect and maintain parallel armed networks? Despite the …
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AID Effectiveness in Post-Conflict Countries
… aid effectiveness and increasing concerns about fragile states, whereby post-conflict countries are especially significant as they are less likely to meet MDGs; and yet, post-conflict countries attract aid from the same pool of donor funding, with other non-conflict countries. The analysis in …
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Development of Precision, Field-Deployable, Opto-Mechanical Instrumentation: Accessibility as a Functional Requirement
… of a compact source of quantum squeezed vacuum states. Squeezed vacuum states are electromagnetic vacuum states with enhanced statistics that can be leveraged to improve the sensitivity of instruments beyond the quantum limit. They also constitute the stepping stone for the creation of highly …
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Firm level export dynamics and market access costs: evidence from Kenya
… through the number of firms willing to export to fragile states in Africa. An increase in a firm's size (or productivity) is found to be key mediation to market access costs, including destination fragility for the Kenyan firms. The results show that larger firms are less adversely affected by …