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In the context of massive environmental problems in Southeast Asia, the countries in the region have decided - at least in some instances - to create regimes to solve these problems jointly. This empirical observation is surprising, given the Southeast Asian countries' general reluctance to regional cooperation, the governance and budgetary constraints that are typical for developing countries and the huge heterogeneity of the involved countries in terms of environmental vulnerability, economic capacity and hegemonic power. This book analyzes the creation and effectiveness of two environmental regimes, one on transboundary haze pollution and a second on resource management of the Mekong. It will be shown that regime creation is extremely problematic and strategies to overcome conflicting actor constellations are mostly lacking.

International relations. Foreign policy --- internationale betrekkingen

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Nested Games of External Democracy Promotion develops a game theoretic model that explains how an external actor influences the strategic interaction between an authoritarian regime and a democratic opposition. In a multiple arena approach, the confrontation between regime and opposition on the domestic level is nested inside a game on the international level, at which the regime is simultaneously entangled with a democracy promotion actor. As a case study, the book formally reconstructs how United States democracy assistance influenced the Polish liberalization process between 1980 and 1989. The process tracing of its causal mechanisms is extensive and builds on data previously not recorded. With regard to Cold War history, new light is brought into U.S. American policies and strategies behind the Iron Curtain.

International relations. Foreign policy --- Politics --- politiek --- internationale betrekkingen

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Onzekerheid is het overheersende kenmerk van de wereldpolitiek. We worden overspoeld onder eindeloze brokken nieuws. CNN en Internet brachten de wereld in onze huiskamer, maar daarmee ook de complexiteit van een onnoemelijk aantal lokale situaties. Maar de hoeveelheid beschikbare informatie verbergt dikwijls het onvermogen om al die feiten te ordenen in ons hoofd, om ze te interpreteren. De wereld is in de afgelopen vijftien jaar ingrijpend veranderd. De oude wereldorde, gebouwd rond de machtsstrijd tussen twee grootmachten, ruimde baan voor een ogenschijnlijk wanordelijke wereld, waarin vertrouwde ijkpunten verdwenen zijn. Waar wanorde heerst, zijn gevoelens van onveiligheid en wantrouwen, van polarisering en een wij-tegen-zij discours nooit veraf. Het is misschien zelfs vandaag nog niet heel duidelijk waarneembaar, maar onder de horizon van de dagelijkse berichtgeving wordt toch stilaan de bedding duidelijk waarbinnen de wereldpolitiek in de komende decennia zal stromen. Doorheen het complexe machtsspel, waarin geopolitiek, mondialisering en waarden in elkaar verstrengeld zijn, kunnen de bouwstenen gedetecteerd worden van de wereldorde-in-opbouw. Maar zal die wereld stabiel zijn - en ook legitiem? Met een blik op het verleden werpt dit handboek bij de colleges 'Actuele Vraagstukken in de internationale politiek' een blik op de toekomst van de wereldpolitiek. Rik Coolsaet doceert internationale politiek aan de Vakgroep Politieke Wetenschappen van de Universiteit Gent.

Internationale politiek ; 1990 --- -International relations. Foreign policy --- internationale politiek --- International relations. Foreign policy --- International relations. --- World politics --- -International relations. --- International relations

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In the 21st century, the populations of the world's nations will display large and long-lived changes in age structure. Many of these began with fertility change and are amplified by declining mortality and by migration within and between nations. Demography will matter in this century not by force of numbers, but by the pressures of waves of age structural change. Many developing countries are in relatively early stages of fertility decline and will experience age waves for two or more generations. These waves create shifting flows of people into the key age groups, greatly complicating the task of managing development, from building human capabilities and creating jobs to growing industry, infrastructure and institutions. In this book, distinguished scientists examine key demographic, social, economic, and policy aspects of age structural change in developing economies. This book provides a joint examination of dimensions of age structural change that have often been considered in isolation from each other (for example, education, job creation, land use, health); it uses case studies to examine policy consequences and options and develops qualitative and formal methods to analyze the dynamics and consequences of age structural change.

Social sciences (general) --- Sociology --- International relations. Foreign policy --- sociologie --- sociale wetenschappen --- internationale betrekkingen --- methodologieën

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The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), held in Johannesburg, South Africa, was the fourth major conference on the environment and sustainable development in a period of thirty years.The conference came at a moment when most of the indicators of sustainable development in industrialised countries reached historical depths, in particular, biodiversity indicators and sustainable patterns of production and consumption. A credible and objective evaluation of globalisation's costs and benefits is proving to be difficult. Poverty remains the world's most serious problem in attaining sustainable development. This book provides an overview of the most important issues as they are dealt with in the WSSD's Plan of Implementation. It addresses the science behind the discussions on poverty, production and consumption patterns, water, energy, Small Island Developing States, sustainability issues in Central/Eastern Europe and Latin America, and the role of the financial world in the sustainable development of education, science and research. The book offers a unique framework to follow up and evaluate the progressing international discussion on sustainable development. It is essential background reading for all those interested and involved in this discussion: policy-makers, researchers, students and experts.

International relations. Foreign policy --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- milieubeleid --- internationale betrekkingen --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- milieubeheer