... Investment andPolitical Risk 09 MIGA | 27 judges that capacity as poor) and on informal mitigation mechanisms, such as engaging host governments and local communities, to evaluate and manage political ... Re), Christina Deischl and Petra Hansen (Munich Re) World Investment andPolitical Risk 09 MIGA | | World Investment andPolitical Risk 09 MIGA Selected Abbreviations ATI African Trade Insurance ... concerns | World Investment andPolitical Risk 09 MIGA over breach of contract, expropriation and related political risks Some forms of political violence, such as terrorism and civil unrest, are not...
... continued till the long and terrible wars of Henry VIII andElizabeth broke the power of the independent chiefs and of the Celtic clans, and gave Ireland, for the first time, a political unity It ... American armies, and under the influence of American example public opinion in Historical andPolitical Essays, by William 30 Ireland rapidly advanced The great Volunteer movement of 1778 and ... subjects, social, political, and even scientific, as well as moral and religious, with an original and most independent judgment; and he raised greatly the moral standard of love of truth and the intellectual...
... inherently political Benjamin may help us to expand our understanding of what the political stands for, where it occurs, and how it works For Benjamin, a conspiracy that did not focus on texts and materiality ... Stillman, Randall Cohn, Brooks Kirchgassner, and quite a few others Finally I want to thank my wonderful family: my husband, Carlos, my children, Jacques and Rocio, and Nina, Kathryn, Elic and Mark, ... our political, social, and economic order for the foreseeable future and then some We may resist and we may endure; is that enough for the Left today? Overall, when we think about the Left and...
... offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu to travel directly to the mainland and permitted some direct shipping between the offshore islands and China The mini-three links were later expanded in June ... trips between the offshore islands and Fujian Province, including 144,234 from the offshore islands to the mainland, and 8,200 from the mainland to the offshore islands as of February 29, 2004 ... between the offshore islands and the mainland Some 1,540 trips have been made carrying passengers from Kinmen and Matsu to the port cities of Xiamen and Fuzhou in Fujian Province, and about 1,000 trips...
... understanding of water and sanitation as private goods was problematised, and the collective action problems and socio -political choices inherent in the supply of goods such as water and sanitation ... incapable, and aid and tax transfers will naturally decline over time; fragmented and individualistic business approaches, on the other hand, are seen as having the capacity both to attract finance and ... and the political level had the power to make or break the projects Field evidence from Vietnam and India In this section, I first discuss the findings presented by Reis and Mollinga (2009) and...
... corruption, what are effects of corruption on economic andpolitical development in Armenia and in different nations And according to this findings and the experience of other countries that have succeeded ... preconditioned by the free and fair elections, politically educated people, and honest leader WHAT IS THE CORRUPTION As one of the oldest and most perplexing phenomenon in human society, political corruption ... appoint and dismiss the Chief Prosecutor but also can appoint and dismiss all judges and presidents of all courts Ministry of Justice as a part of the executive branch has the right to control and...
... Behind this claim stands a large and growing, if more nuanced, academic literature in political science and related disciplines According to many social scientists, the key to understanding the link ... costs and benefits of staging a coup, net of the “normal” costs of coups.12 On the one hand, control of political power implies control of the rents; thus, leaving political power in the hands ... American Political Science Association (2008), for the best dissertation in political economy completed in the previous two years Dunning’s research interests lie in comparative politics, political...
... History in Manchester, Dr Angela Raspin (and later Ms Sue Donnelly) at the British Library of Politicaland Economic Science, and Christine Woodland and her staff at the University of Warwick's ... receipts and nominal national income, 1949±1964 Income after all taxes and bene®ts as a percentage of original income for 1965 and 1970 for the poor, unskilled manual and skilled manual workers, and ... Ideology and Politics (London, 1983), pp 233±4 This is the theme of Andrew Cox's Adversary Politics and Land The Con¯ict over Land and Property Policy in Post-war Britain (Cambridge, 1984) A good...
... History in Manchester, Dr Angela Raspin (and later Ms Sue Donnelly) at the British Library of Politicaland Economic Science, and Christine Woodland and her staff at the University of Warwick's ... receipts and nominal national income, 1949±1964 Income after all taxes and bene®ts as a percentage of original income for 1965 and 1970 for the poor, unskilled manual and skilled manual workers, and ... Ideology and Politics (London, 1983), pp 233±4 This is the theme of Andrew Cox's Adversary Politics and Land The Con¯ict over Land and Property Policy in Post-war Britain (Cambridge, 1984) A good...
... economic inequality will solidify longstanding disparities in political voice and influence, and perhaps exacerbate such disparities” (Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy 2004, 662) The real ... include Jacobs and Page (2005), Griffin and Newman (2005), and Gilens (2004) secondarily on a variety of other resources and behaviors that might mediate the relationship between income andpolitical ... officials and their staffs provides potentially important signals regarding both the content and the intensity of constituents’ political views (Verba, Schlozman, and Brady 1995) And political...
... politicaland social pyramid with a stratum of very wealthy landowners and industrialists at the top, medium and small landholders in the middle, and landless tenant farmers, wage labourers and ... socioeconomic andpolitical order on the one hand, and the reality on the other, we need to begin with a simple outline of the Tokugawa social andpolitical structure and the assumptions and objectives ... rotation and confiscation of fiefs, strategic placement of daimyo allies, marriages and adoptions to cement political links, and ¯ bestowal of honours and material rewards for meritorious service and...
... (2) and (4)), got smaller and smaller As a result, as ∂i illustrated in Figure 2, the optimal interest rates for both finance and industry got both closer and lower That is both finance and industry ... economies (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, The Czech Republic, Korea, Mexico, Peru, Poland, South Africa and Thailand) Finland and Spain stopped using inflation targeting when they relinquished monetary ... nine are industrialized countries (Australia, Canada, Finland, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) and ten are semi-industrialized or transitional economies...
... Incentives Political Control and Military Effectiveness Command and Control Leadership Intelligence and Information Potential Offsets to Politicization Centralized Command Structures ... Middle East RAND PROJECT AIR FORCE RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF), a division of the RAND Corporation, is the U.S Air Force’s federally funded research and development center for studies and analyses ... readiness, and support of current and future aerospace forces Research is conducted in four programs: Aerospace Force Development; Manpower, Personnel, and Training; Resource Management; and Strategy and...
... moral analysis and critique Political scientists have sought to understand and explain the causes of terrorism and to assess effective countermeasures Psychologists have tried to understand the personal ... become chapter 6, “The Media andPolitical Violence,” and to John Hospers and Anita Silvers for the special issue of the Monist in which a paper titled “Violence, Terrorism, and Moral Inquiry,” which ... terrorism is wrong : morality andpolitical violence / Virginia Held p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-0-19-532959-9 Terrorism—Moral and ethical aspects Political violence I...
... in moral universalism andpolitical rationalism (and is comparatively less Political Philosophy, Social Theory, and Critical Republicanism populist and participatory), and in contrast to neo-Roman ... discrimination on the one hand, and economic disadvantage and social and geographical segregation on the other I shall argue, generally, that minority demands must be evaluated and responded to against ... CONTENTS Political Philosophy, Social Theory, and Critical Republicanism PART 1: ÉGALITÉ AND REPUBLICAN NEUTRALITY Official Republicanism, Equality, and the Hijab Tolerant Secularism and the Critique...
... important today for his political philosophy and some of his other work is largely forgotten Hume is important across the theory of mind and epistemology and all of moral andpolitical philosophy ... of the problems that moral andpolitical theory must address in chapter That account naturally joins moral andpolitical philosophy in one theory, because moral andpolitical problems differ strategically ... ‘beneficence and humanity, friendship and gratitude, natural affection and public spirit, or whatever proceeds from a tender sympathy with others, and a generous concern for our kind and species’...
... and thin concepts: a judgement involving thick concepts contains more empirical information than a judgement involving thin concepts and thick judgements offer a fusion of empirical content and ... Wiggins’s and McDowell’s overall project and with the two analogies they used to illuminate their alternative view: between values and secondary properties, and between moral reasons and mathematical ... ‘Morality and Conflict’, in Morality and Conflict (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983), 140–70; ‘Morality and Convention’, in Amartya Sen and Bernard Williams (eds.), Utilitarianism and...
... embryonic stem cells is one in which both scientific andpolitical advances move quickly, and stem cell research and its political, scientific, and ethical climate are changing rapidly It is because ... heart and great vessels; pigment cells of the skin and internal organs; and bone, cartilage, and connective tissue of the face and neck (Le Douarin and Dupin 2003) The migrating cells include multipotential ... self-renewal capability, and multipotency, were first isolated from embryonic and adult mice (Reynolds and Weiss 1996), and their origin during development (Temple 2001) and distribution in the...