• I. Introduction
• 1. EU-Africa relations in the twenty-first century: evolution and explanations - Maurizio Carbone II. Actors and contexts
• 2. The European Union as an actor in Africa: internal coherence and external legitimacy - Fredrik Soederbaum
• 3. The EU's Africa policy between the US and China: interests, altruism, and cooperation - Gorm Rye Olsen
• 4. Locating the EU's strategic behaviour in Sub-Saharan Africa: an emerging strategic culture? - Richard G. Whitman and Toni Haastrup
• 5. Africa's place in international relations: domestic politics, global linkages - Ian Taylor
• 6. African regionalism: external influences and continental shaping forces - Mary Farrell III. Policies and partnerships
• 7. Foreign aid, coordination, and ownership in EU-Africa relations - Maurizio Carbone
• 8. EU human rights and democracy promotion in Africa: normative power or realist interests? - Gordon Crawford
• 9. Economic Partnership Agreements and Africa: losing friends and failing to influence - Christopher Stevens
• 10. Unfulfilled expectations? The EU's agricultural and fisheries policies and Africa - Alan Matthews
• 11. Out of Africa: the energy-development nexus - Amelia Hadfield
• 12. Climate change and the EU-Africa Strategy: coherence, leadership, and the 'greening' of development - Simon Lightfoot
• 13. The EU-Africa migration partnership: the limits of the EU's external dimension of migration in Africa - Tine Van Criekinge
• 14. Work in progress: the social dimension of EU-Africa relations - Jan Orbie IV. Conclusion
• 15. European policies, African impact and international order: (re)evaluating the EU-Africa relationship - Michael Smith Index
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The European Union in Africa: Incoherent policies, asymmetrical partnership, declining relevance? provides a comprehensive analysis of EU-Africa relations since the beginning of the twenty-first century and includes contributions from leading experts in the field of EU external relations. It seeks to explain how the relationship evolved through discussion of a number of different policies and agreements, ranging from established areas such as aid, agriculture, trade and security, to new areas such as migration, climate change, energy and social policies. This book successfully challenges a number of widely-held assumptions on the role of the EU in Africa, and at the same time sheds light on the role and identity of the EU in the international arena. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in the field of EU external relations as well as practitioners of international development. -- .
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The Chinese and U.S. economies have been locked in an uncomfortable embrace since the late 1970s. Although the relationship initially arose out of mutual benefits, in recent years it has taken on the trappings of an unstable codependence, with the two largest economies in the world losing their sense of self, increasing the risk of their turning on one another in a destructive fashion. In Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China Stephen Roach, senior fellow at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, lays bare the pitfalls of the current China-U.S. economic relationship. He highlights the conflicts at the center of current tensions, including disputes over trade policies and intellectual property rights, sharp contrasts in leadership styles, the role of the Internet, the recent dispute over cyberhacking, and more. A firsthand witness to the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, Roach likely knows more about the U.S.-China economic relationship than any other Westerner. Here he discusses: * Why America saving too little and China saving too much creates mounting problems for both* How China is planning to re-boot its economic growth model by moving from an external export-led model to one of internal consumerism with a new focus on service industries* How America, shows a disturbing lack of strategy, preferring a short-term reactive approach over a more coherent Chinese-style planning framework* The way out: what America could do to turn its own economic fate around and position itself for a healthy economic and political relationship with China In the wake of the 2008 crisis, both unbalanced economies face urgent and mutually beneficial rebalancings. Unbalanced concludes with a recipe for resolving the escalating tensions of codependence. Roach argues that the Next China offers much for the Next America-and vice versa.
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• 1. Empirical Puzzle, Arguments and Research Design
• 2. Brazil: Context and Trade Liberalization
• 3. Brazil: Dispute Settlement and Conclusions
• 4. India: Context and Trade Liberalization
• 5. India: Dispute Settlement and Conclusions
• 6. Conclusions, Revised Framework and Implications.
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As emerging powers deepen their involvement in world trade and global governance, it is crucial to explore the what and the why of their strategic choices vis-a-vis the World Trade Organization. This book does just that, examining the trade policy decisions of two emerging power states, Brazil and India, since 2001. In this timely work, Laura Carsten Mahrenbach develops a broad-based analytical framework which addresses trade policy within EP states, in their regions and on the global level. The findings underline the importance of examining domestic factors when trying to understand strategic decisions by emerging powers. They also have important implications for our understanding of the role of emerging power states in global (trade) governance.
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• Paths to peace and prosperity / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
• The political economy of warfare / Edward L. Glaeser
• Globalization and insecurity: reviewing some basic issues / Michelle R. Garfinkel, Stergios Skaperdas, Constantinos Syropoulos
• Investing in regimes with stationary or roving bandits / Kai A. Konrad
• A gravity model of globalization, democracy, and transnational terrorism / S. Brock Blomberg, B. Peter Rosendorff
• The factionalization of terror groups / Ethan Bueno de Mesquita
• Urban structure in a climate of terror / Stephen Sheppard
• War in Iraq versus containment / Steven J. Davis, Kevin M. Murphy, Robert H. Topel
• Using household data to study the economic consequences of violent conflict: the case of Rwanda / Marijke Verpoorten.

Guns and Butter examines the causes and consequences of war from a political economy perspective, taking as its premise that a consideration of the incentives and constraints faced by individuals and groups is paramount in understanding conflict decision making. The chapter authors -- leading economists and political scientists -- believe that this perspective offers deeper insights into war and peace choices than the standard state-centric approach. Their contributions offer both theoretical and empirical support for the political economy perspective on conflict. Several broad themes cut across the chapters: war as an equilibrium phenomenon rather than an exogenous process; the interaction of politics, economics, and institutions and its effect on the frequency and severity of conflicts; the cost of fighting; and the often innovative character of conflict. Topics addressed include theoretical aspects of the ways in which domestic politics affects the decision to go to war; globalization and its effect on the net supply of terrorism; open markets and the likelihood of war and domestic insecurity; the costs of going to war in Iraq as compared to the costs of containment; the economic effects of the Rwandan genocide at a household level; and the evolving industrial organization of terrorist groups. ContributorsBrock Blomberg, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Steven J. Davis, Michelle R. Garfinkel Edward Glaeser, Gregory D. Hess, Kai Konrad, Kevin M. Murphy, Peter Rosendorff, Stephen Sheppard, Stergios Skaperdas, Constantinos Syropoulos, Robert H. Topel, Marijke Verpoorten.
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• Why are religious terrorists so lethal? Hezbollah
• The Taliban
• Hamas
• The lethality of religious radicals
• What motivates terrorists? The afterlife and other myths
• Terrorist organizations, why so few?
• Internal economies and organizational efficiency
• What's coming?
• The defection constraint
• Origins of the Taliban
• trade routes and defection
• Coordinated assault
• Terrorism and defection: Hamas
• The Jewish underground: terrorists who overreached
• Hezbollah and suicide attacks
• The Mahdi army in Iraq
• Sects, prohibitions, and mutual aid: the organizational secrets of religious radicals
• Prohibitions and sacrifices: the benign puzzles
• Where are the dads?
• Mutual aid
• Prohibitions and clubs
• Evidence
• Fertility
• Pronatalist prohibitions
• Radical Islam and fertility
• Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice: Subsidized sacrifice
• Madrassas
• Subsidized prohibitions and fertility
• How many radical Islamists?
• The Hamas model: why religious radicals are such effective terrorists: The "Hamas model"
• Origins of the model
• Hamas
• Social Service provision by the Taliban, Hezbollah, and al-Sadr
• Why religious radicals are such lethal terrorists
• Terrorist clubs
• Evidence
• When terrorists fail
• Clubs and violence without religion
• Gratuitous cruelty
• Objections
• Why suicide attacks?
• Rebels, insurgents, and terrorists
• Suicide attacks
• Evidence
• Coreligionists are soft targets
• Clubs
• Alternative explanations
• The future of suicide attacks
• Constructive counterterrorism: How terrorist clubs succeed
• Constructive counterterrorism
• What's wrong with the old-fashioned methods?
• Where to start?
• The Malayan Precedent
• Religious radicals and violence in the modern world: Radical Christians, benign and violent
• The supernatural and credibility
• Markets and denominations
• Jewish and Muslim denominations
• What's wrong with religion in government? Competition and pluralism
• Not about us
• What's our role?
• Analytical Appendix: The defection constraint
• Clubs, loyalty, and outside options
• Suicide attacks vs. hard targets
• Protecting hard targets by improving outside options.

Applying fresh tools from economics to explain puzzling behaviors of religious radicals: Muslim, Christian, and Jewish; violent and benign.
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How do radical religious sects run such deadly terrorist organizations? Hezbollah, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban all began as religious groups dedicated to piety and charity. Yet once they turned to violence, they became horribly potent, executing campaigns of terrorism deadlier than those of their secular rivals. In Radical, Religious, and Violent, Eli Berman approaches the question using the economics of organizations. He first dispels some myths: radical religious terrorists are not generally motivated by the promise of rewards in the afterlife (including the infamous seventy-two virgins) or even by religious ideas in general. He argues that these terrorists (even suicide terrorists) are best understood as rational altruists seeking to help their own communities. Yet despite the vast pool of potential recruits -- young altruists who feel their communities are repressed or endangered -- there are less than a dozen highly lethal terrorist organizations in the world capable of sustained and coordinated violence that threatens governments and makes hundreds of millions of civilians hesitate before boarding an airplane. What's special about these organizations, and why are most of their followers religious radicals? Drawing on parallel research on radical religious Jews, Christians, and Muslims, Berman shows that the most lethal terrorist groups have a common characteristic: their leaders have found a way to control defection. Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Taliban, for example, built loyalty and cohesion by means of mutual aid, weeding out "free riders" and producing a cadre of members they could rely on. The secret of their deadly effectiveness lies in their resilience and cohesion when incentives to defect are strong.These insights suggest that provision of basic social services by competent governments adds a critical, nonviolent component to counterterrorism strategies. It undermines the violent potential of radical religious organizations without disturbing free religious practice, being drawn into theological debates with Jihadists, or endangering civilians.
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• 1. Strategic aspects of fighting in alliances / Kai A. Konrad
• 2. Fiscal equalization and political conflict / Maria Cubel
• 3. Natural resources, social conflict, and poverty trap / Davide Fiaschi
• 4. A game of thrones : power structure and the stability of regimes / Ruixue Jia and Pingham Liang
• 5. The probability of a military rule in Africa, 1970 to 2007 / Raul Caruso, Jacopo Costa, and Robert Ricciuti
• 6. Sociopolitical conflict and economic performance in Bolivia / Jose Luis Evia, Roberto Laserna, and Stergios Skaperdas
• 7. Occupational choices and insurgency in Afghanistan's provinces / Vincenzo Bove and Leandro Elia
• 8. Social unrest in the wake of IMF structural adjustment programs / Caleb Stroup and Ben Zissimos
• 9. Social preferences of ex-combatants : survey and experimental evidence from postwar Tajikistan / Alessandra Cassar, Pauline Grosjean, and Sam Whitt.

Economists offer a rational-choice perspective on conflict, using approaches that range from the game theoretic to the experimental. Modern economics has largely ignored the issue of outright conflict as an alternative way of allocating goods, assuming instead the existence of well-defined property rights enforced by an undefined third party. And yet even in ostensibly peaceful market transactions, conflict exists as an outside option, sometimes constraining the outcomes reached through voluntary agreement. In this volume, economists offer a crucial rational-choice perspective on conflict, using methodological approaches that range from the game theoretic to the experimental. Several chapters use the recently developed contest success function to model conflict, examining such topics as alliance formation, regional conflicts under fiscal federalism, coups d'etat in developing countries, and the correlation between conflict and economic growth in Bolivia. Other chapters consider subjects that include the link between occupational choices and antigovernment activity in Afghanistan, social unrest and the IMF's Structural Adjustment Program, and the effect of Tajikistan's civil war on ex-combatants' capacity for trust and cooperation. Taken together, these contributions show that economics needs a theory of conflict to understand both outright conflict and transactions in the shadow of conflict. But beyond this, they show that the study of conflict also needs the rigorous, methodology-based perspectives of economics. Contributors Vincenzo Bove, Raul Caruso, Alessandra Cassar, Jacopo Costa, Maria Cubel, Leandro Elia, Jose Luis Evia, Davide Fiaschi, Pauline Grosjean, Ruixue Jia, Kai A. Konrad, Roberto Laserna, Pinghan Liang, Roberto Ricciuti, Stergios Skaperdas, Caleb Stroup, Karl Warneryd, Sam Whitt, Ben Zissimos.
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• Preface and Acknowledgments Financial Governance and the State Forging Financial Governance Extending Financial Governance Financial Governance and the Great Freeze Global Politics and Financial Governance Power and Governance in the Global Financial System Conclusion: Global Governance and National Responsibility Guide to Further Reading Select Chronology of Financial Crises and Collapses.
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The financial crisis prompted many to ask how financial systems from America and Iceland to Russia and Hungary could have been so misgoverned that their near collapse plunged the entire world into recession. Randall Germain assesses what needs to be done, and by whom, to avoid a repitition of what he calls the 'great freeze'.
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• Introduction Policy Framing Analysis Biotechnology: the Creation of a Policy Field Policy Reframing The Transformation of the Policy Conflict The Framing of EU Biotechnology Conclusion Literature.
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Falk Daviter explores how the framing of policy issues on the EU agenda affects policy choices. Tracing the political decision making process in the field of EU biotechnology over more than twenty years, this book explains the seemingly erratic policy dynamics that characterise this highly contested area of EU policy-making. It argues that the key to understanding which political interests and ideas find expression in EU policy-making is to focus on the framing of the issues at stake. Policy Framing in the European Union introduces the conceptual and theoretical tenets of policy framing analysis and shows how this analytical lens can offer a unique perspective on current issues in the study of EU politics and policy-making.
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• Is it Africa's turn?
• Forum: Robert H. Bates ; Ken Banks ; Olu Ajakaiye ; Rosamond Naylor ; David N. Weil ; Jeremy M. Weinstein ; Smita Singh ; Paul Collier ; Rachel Glennerster
• Real progress.

Signs of hope in sub-Saharan Africa: modest but steady economic growth and the spread of democracy.
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Signs of hope in sub-Saharan Africa: modest but steady economic growth and the spread of democracy. By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While "economic miracles" in China and India raised hundreds of millions from extreme poverty, Africa seemed to have been overtaken by violent conflict and mass destitution, and ranked lowest in the world in just about every economic and social indicator. Working in Busia, a small Kenyan border town, economist Edward Miguel began to notice something different starting in 1997: modest but steady economic progress, with new construction projects, flower markets, shops, and ubiquitous cell phones. In Africa's Turn? Miguel tracks a decade of comparably hopeful economic trends throughout sub-Saharan Africa and suggests that we may be seeing a turnaround. He bases his hopes on a range of recent changes: democracy is finally taking root in many countries; China's successes have fueled large-scale investment in Africa; and rising commodity prices have helped as well. Miguel warns, though, that the growth is fragile. Violence and climate change could derail it quickly, and he argues for specific international assistance when drought and civil strife loom. Responding to Miguel, nine experts gauge his optimism. Some question the progress of democracy in Africa or are more skeptical about China's constructive impact, while others think that Miguel has underestimated the threats represented by climate change and population growth. But most agree that something new is happening, and that policy innovations in health, education, agriculture, and government accountability are the key to Africa's future. Contributors Olu Ajakaiye, Ken Banks, Robert Bates, Paul Collier, Rachel Glennerster, Rosamond Naylor, Smita Singh, David N. Weil, and Jeremy M. Weinstein.
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• Acknowledgments; Contributors; Part I. Introduction;
• Chapter 1. Introduction to "The Region and Trade: New Analytical Directions"; 1.1. Preliminaries; 1.2. Theory; 1.2.1. North-South trade; 1.2.2. Regional trade; 1.2.3. Free trade areas; 1.3. Empirics; 1.3.1. Spatial connectivity of states; 1.3.2. Protection of manufacturing; 1.3.3. Freight movement and emissions; 1.3.4. An island economy; 1.3.5. Trade in knowledge; 1.4. Theory and Empirics; 1.4.1. Cities and trade; 1.4.2. Infrastructure and exports in Turkey; 1.4.3. Services and regional specialization in India; 1.5. Conclusions

• 2.4.3.1. Subsidy to high quality producers2.4.4. Subsidy to the southern export sector; 2.5. Conclusion; References; Appendix; 2.A1. Consumer Preferences and Market Segmentation; 2.A2. Subsidy to High Quality Producers;
• Chapter 3. Regional Trade in a Three Country Model; 3.1. Trade in the 2 × 2 Model; 3.2. Trade in the 2 × 3 Model; 3.3. Trade with More Countries and Goods; 3.4. Conclusion; References;
• Chapter 4. Voluntary Formation of Free Trade Area in a Third Country Market Model; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Model; 4.2.1. The third and second stage of the game

• 4.2.2. The first stage of the game4.3. Concluding Remarks; References; Part III. Empirics;
• Chapter 5. Exploring the Spatial Connectivity of US States, 1993-2007; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Literature Review; 5.3. Data and Methods; 5.3.1. Commodity flow survey (CFS) data; 5.3.2. Exploratory spatial data analysis of interstate commodity flows; 5.3.2.1. Gini index of concentration in the interstate trade system; 5.3.2.2. Flow matrix factor analysis: Identification of traderegions of interstate trade; 5.4. Analysis Results: Spatial Patterns of US Interstate Commodity Flows

• 5.4.1. "Spatial focusing" in interstate trade system5.4.2. Identification of US interstate trade regions; 5.4.2.1. Regional stability of commodity flow patterns; 5.5. Conclusion; References;
• Chapter 6. Manufacturing Fetishism: The Neo-Mercantilist Preoccupation with Protecting Manufacturing; 6.1. Manufacturing Fetishism Thrives; 6.2. The Economist Debate; 6.3. Our Study; 6.4. Data; 6.4.1. World Bank: WDIs; 6.4.2. World Bank: WGIs; 6.4.3. World Bank: Trade restriction indices 2009; 6.5. Manufacturing Analysis; 6.5.1. Is a higher manufacturing share a marker for a higher living standard?

Although international trade has been much studied by both economists and regional scientists, the nature, causes, and the consequences of interregional trade, i.e., trade between regions within countries has received far less attention. In addition, given recent advances in new economic geography on the theoretical front and in the development of both input-output and computable general equilibrium models on the empirical front, the important subject of interregional trade is now open to study using these theoretical and empirical methodologies. Given this state of affairs, this book aims to present chapters written by a carefully selected group of experts in the field and thereby shed valuable light on key outstanding questions concerning the region and trade. These questions include, but are not limited to, the role of external economies in shaping the pattern of interregional trade, the role of natural resources versus traditional factors of production such as labor and capital in driving interregional trade, the relationship between transport and interregional trade, "high value" interregional trade in services, and the role of interregional trade estimation in the construction of a multi-regional, input-output system.
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• Preface-- What is the Role of Agricultural Trade in Promoting Global Food Security?-- Corporate Social Responsibility, Trade Liberalization & Global Welfare-- The State as a Determinant of the Pattern of Agricultural Trade-- Trade Liberalization & the Structure of Manufacturing Exports in Australia-- Bibliography-- Index.
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This book provides research on the global policies, benefits and economic risks of trade liberalisation. The purpose of the first chapter is to examine the role of agricultural trade in promoting global food security. The second chapter discusses corporate social responsibility, trade liberalisation and global welfare. Chapter three sheds light on the role of the state in determining international competitiveness of agricultural commodities and the pattern of agricultural trade. The final chapter of this book studies the impact of trade liberalisation on the Australian manufacturing sector.
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• List of Figures and Credits ix Preface xi Series Editors' Preface xiv Acknowledgements xv
• 1 What We Saw and Why We Started this Project 1
• 2 Global Aspirations: Theorising the New Zealand Designer Fashion Industry 19
• 3 Policy for a New Economy: 'After Neoliberalism' and the Designer Fashion Industry 43 with Richard Le Heron and Nick Lewis
• 4 Cultivating Urbanity: Fashion in a Not-so-global City 69 with Alison Goodrum
• 5 Gendering the 'Virtuous Circle': Production, Mediation and Consumption in the Cultural Economy 99
• 6 Creating Global Subjects: The Pedagogy of Fashionability 125
• 7 Lifestyle or Workstyle? Female Entrepreneurs in New Zealand Designer Fashion 153
• 8 Conclusion: An Unlikely Success Story? 179 Index 191.
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Drastic changes in the career aspirations of women in the developed world have resulted in a new, globalised market for off-the-peg designer clothes created by independent artisans. This book reports on a phenomenon that seems to exemplify the twin imperatives of globalisation and female emancipation. A major conceptual contribution to the literatures on globalisation, fashion and gender, analysing the ways in which women's entry into the labour force over the past thirty years in the developed world has underpinned new forms of aestheticised production and consumption as well as the growth of 'work-style' businesses A vital contribution to the burgeoning literature on culture and creative industries which often ignores the significant roles taken by women as entrepreneurs and designers rather than mere consumers Introduces fashion scholars and economic geographers to a paradigmatic example of the new designer fashion industries emerging in a range of countries not traditionally associated with fashion Takes a fresh perspective on an industry in which Third World garment workers have been the subject of exhaustive analysis but first world women have been largely ignored.
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• List of Figures PART I Introduction - Impressions: Stretching the Limits of Representations
• 1. Ambiguities, Approximations, Abstractions
• 2. The Participant Witness
• 3. Reflections on Photojournalism PART II
• 4. The Aftermath: Visions of Rwanda Portfolio
• 1: Rafiki Ubaldo, Temples of Memory
• 5. Visual Interventions in Rio de Janeiro's Culture of Violence
• 6. On Combatants and (Other) Victims Portfolio
• 2: Manuel Botelho, Aerogramas para 2010
• 7. WHY - ARE - WE - SO - INVOLVED? Unfinished Business Notes.
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This unique study offers a political analysis of the relationship between visual representations and the politics of violence both nationally and internationally. It emphasizes the spectator and his or her own involvement in, responsibility for, and potential responses to the conditions depicted in given images. Through a series of case studies which engage with visual representations of the politics of violence, such as the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the visualization of colonial memory, it analyzes the relationship between visibility and political agency and elaborates the extent to which people who have normally been subjects of the image production of others can become agents of their own image. This book's comprehensive analysis of different genres including photography, graphic novels, comics and paintings introduces a new research agenda for the emerging field of visual peace.
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• Preface-- The FAPRI Global Modeling System & Outlook Process-- Interactions Between Energy Markets & Agriculture in the U.S.: A Stochastic Approach-- Impacts of the Korea-U.S. FTA: Application of the Korea Agricultural Simulation Model-- Combining Stochastic Modeling Techniques with Scenario Thinking for Strategic & Policy Decisions in Agriculture-- Agricultural Policy Change in the EU: Analyzing the Impact at Member State & Aggregate EU Levels-- FAPRI-UK Modeling: Regional Responses to European Policy Initiatives-- Biofuel Effects on Markets & Indirect Effects on Land Use & Food-- The FAPRI Approach: A Few Key Principles-- Factor Content of Agricultural Trade-- Trades like Chicken? Three Representations of Chicken Trade for Policy & Market Analysis-- Do Retail Coffee Prices Raise Faster than They Fall? Asymmetric Price Transmission in France, Germany & the United States-- Optimal Agricultural Policy & PSE Measurement: An Assesment & Application to Norway-- Competitiveness of Egypt in the EU Market for Fruits & Vegetables-- Index.
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This book present and discusses various topics in the study of international agricultural trade and development. Topics discussed include interactions between energy markets and agriculture in the U.S.; impacts of the Korea-U.S. FTA; combining stochastic modelling techniques with scenario thinking for strategic and policy decisions in agriculture; biofuel effects on markets and indirect effects in land use and food; factor content on agricultural trade and optimal agricultural policy and PSE measurement.
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• Towards an applied theory of violence prevention
• Reporting and warning about deadly possibilities
• Organizing against ethnoreligious violence in Ahmedabad
• Overcoming gang violence in Chicago
• Counteracting ethnoreligious violence in Sri Lanka
• Crowdsourcing during post-election violence in Kenya
• Foisting tribal violence in East Africa
• Comparing the approaches
• How to intervene effectively
• What to do when violence prevention is unlikely to work
• Concerns about misallocation of resources
• Future directions and recommendations.

How technology and community organizing can combine to help prevent violence, with examples from Chicago to Sri Lanka. Tunisian and Egyptian protestors famously made use of social media to rally supporters and disseminate information as the "Arab Spring" began to unfold in 2010. Less well known, but with just as much potential to bring about social change, are ongoing local efforts to use social media and other forms of technology to prevent deadly outbreaks of violence. In The Technology of Nonviolence, Joseph Bock describes and documents technology-enhanced efforts to stop violence before it happens in Africa, Asia, and the United States. Once peacekeeping was the purview of international observers, but today local citizens take violence prevention into their own hands. These local approaches often involve technology-including the use of digital mapping, crowdsourcing, and mathematical pattern recognition to identify likely locations of violence-but, as Bock shows, technological advances are of little value unless they are used by a trained cadre of community organizers. After covering general concepts in violence prevention and describing technological approaches to tracking conflict and cooperation, Bock offers five case studies that range from "low-tech" interventions to prevent ethnic and religious violence in Ahmedebad, India, to an anti-gang initiative in Chicago that uses Second Life to train its "violence interrupters." There is solid evidence of success, Bock concludes, but there is much to be discovered, developed, and, most important, implemented.
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• The history of oil and international affairs
• The illiberal political economy of oil
• Oil, American diplomacy, and weak institutions
• Oil and international security
• Oil and US grand strategy.

An argument that America's addiction to crude oil has driven a foreign policy of intervention and exploitation hidden behind a facade of liberal internationalism. The United States is addicted to crude oil. In this book, Andrew Price-Smith argues that this addiction has distorted the conduct of American foreign policy in profound and malign ways, resulting in interventionism, exploitation, and other illiberal behaviors that hide behind a facade of liberal internationalism. The symbiotic relationship between the state and the oil industry has produced deviations from rational foreign energy policy, including interventions in Iraq and elsewhere that have been (at the very least) counterproductive or (at worst) completely antithetical to national interests. Liberal internationalism casts the United States as a benign hegemon, guaranteeing security to its allies during the Cold War and helping to establish collaborative international institutions. Price-Smith argues for a reformulation of liberal internationalism (which he terms shadow liberalism) that takes into account the dark side of American foreign policy. Price-Smith contends that the "free market" in international oil is largely a myth, rendered problematic by energy statism and the rise of national oil companies. He illustrates the destabilizing effect of oil in the Persian Gulf, and describes the United States' grand energy strategy, particularly in the Persian Gulf, as illiberal at its core, focused on the projection of power and on periodic bouts of violence. Washington's perennial oscillation between liberal phases of institution building and provision of public goods and illiberal bellicosity, Price-Smith argues, represents the shadow liberalism that is at the core of US foreign policy.
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• Introduction / Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis
• Toward a theory of cosmopolitan commons / Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis
• Part I: Valorizing nature
• The good miracle: building a European airspace commons, 1919-1939 / Eda Kranakis
• Negotiating the radio spectrum: the incessant labor of maintaining space for European broadcasting / Nina Wormbs
• Conflict and cooperation: negotiating a cosmopolitan hydropower commons in the Karelian Isthmus / Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro
• Part II: Protecting humans and nature
• Predicting the weather: an information commons for Europe and the world / Paul N. Edwards
• Breeding Europe: crop diversity, gene banks, and commoners / Tiago Saraiva
• Under a common acid sky: negotiating transboundary air pollution in Europe / Arne Kaijser
• Part III: Putting it all together: temporal layering and iInterlinking of cosmopolitan commons in nature's spaces
• Changing technology, changing commons: freight, fish and oil in the North Sea / Håkon With Andersen
• One touch of nature makes the whole world kin: ships, fish, phenol and the Rhine, 1815-2000 / Nil Disco
• Conclusions / Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis.

With the advent of modernity, the sharing of resources and infrastructures rapidly expanded beyond local communities into regional, national, and even transnational space -- nowhere as visibly as in Europe, with its small-scale political divisions. This volume views these shared resource spaces as the seedbeds of a new generation of technology-rich bureaucratic and transnational commons. Drawing on the theory of cosmopolitanism, which seeks to model the dynamics of an increasingly interdependent world, and on the tradition of commons scholarship inspired by the late Elinor Ostrom, the book develops a new theory of "cosmopolitan commons" that provides a framework for merging the study of technology with such issues as risk, moral order, and sustainability at levels beyond the nation-state. After laying out the theoretical framework, the book presents case studies that explore the empirical nuances: airspace as transport commons, radio broadcasting, hydropower, weather forecasting and genetic diversity as information commons, transboundary air pollution, and two "capstone" studies of interlinked, temporally layered commons: one on overlapping commons within the North Sea for freight, fishing, and fossil fuels; and one on commons for transport, salmon fishing, and clean water in the Rhine. Contributors:Hakon With Andersen, Nil Disco, Paul N. Edwards, Arne Kaijser, Eda Kranakis, Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Tiago Saraiva, Nina Wormbs.
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