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Christian Mölling and Claudia Major : If the EU is to play a role as an actor in international peacebuilding, a peacebuilding strategy should be developed to guide the set-up of the EU External Action Service. The expertise of individuals already working in this realm within the EU bureaucracy needs to be drawn upon.
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Nikolina-Romana Milunovic: The reason for sub-Saharan Africa's poor economic performance is the weak system of public administration. Through generalized and unfitting reform movements, the international community has strengthened the status quo of underdevelopment in African LDCs.
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Jakobine Rosa Martha Janucek: Think tanks are beneficial to the fruitful development of international trade negotiations. They help those involved better understand national agendas, internal debate, and official positions. This was evident with regard to the recent DOHA round.
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Anush Hayrapetyan: International legal principles applied to the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict allow for the international recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. The conflict's resolution would promote the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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Catherine Mann: This dissertation was completed as part of an MSc in Global Governance and Ethics, and investigates the way that NGOs attempt to generate public support to create political pressure.
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Timor Sharan: This paper is a critique of recent Liberal Peace inquiries on international peacebuilding. It shows how the failure of the Bonn political settlement in Afghanistan produced negative outcomes that have come to shape the nature of statebuilding in the country.
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Nicole Gnesotto: The combined power of the two partners, together accounting for more than half of the world's wealth, and the interdependence of their economies in the current crisis necesitate closer Euro-American cooperation. The stage has theoretically been set for the renewal and further development of a strong partnership between Europe and the United States.
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Corina Ciambur: Using as a case study the EU-Mexico Global Agreement, this article will try to offer an answer to one of the most intense academic polemics in the field of international trade: the compatibility between regionalism and multilateralism.
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Somdeep Sen: This study argues that while it is true that there is a requirement for a non-western theoretical framework within the field of Security Studies, it is overly simplistic to claim the presence of a clear distinction between the western and the non-western social, political and cultural reality.
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Jared D. Stancombe: In the absence of a formal economy and political stability, Afghans have turned to growing highly profitable narcotics. This narcotics economy, focused around opium, whose derivatives heroin and morphine that are sold in global black markets, allow the insurgents to create economic relationships with actors inside the opium economy. These relationships allow the neo-Taliban insurgency to create localized "shadow governments" and capture political space.
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