and guard against reversals.’… The key to continuing Americas’ security successes is to recognize the pivotal importance of strength. United States military strength remains essential to ensure our survival, protect our interests abroad, and encourage
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US–México border states and the US military–industrial complex
A Global Space for expanding transnational capital
Juan Manuel Sandoval Palacios
Central American integration through infrastructure development
A case study of Costa Rican hydropower
Denielle M. Perry and Kate A. Berry
environmental regulations. As the relative strength of corporations increases, furthermore, the level of regulatory power by state governments or a coordinated international body may weaken commensurately (2003, p. 33). Hydropower development in Costa
Refugia Roundtable
Imagining Refugia: Thinking Outside the Current Refugee Regime
Nicholas Van Hear, Veronique Barbelet, Christina Bennett, and Helma Lutz
aid system. The problems inherent in such a state substitution model are well known—UNHCR has long faced similar challenges—and any of the potential perks outlined by Refugia (refugee bargaining power, strength in solidarity) fall well short of refugee
Migration and Citizenship in “Athens of Crisis”
An Interview with Vice Mayor Lefteris Papagiannakis
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Nina Papachristou
has taken a hit and is only just starting to recover. The conservative parties are gaining strength, but that’s not only a Greek trend, that’s a European trend. For me, the financial crisis is the underlining factor for everything in a sense, because
From proclamation to denial
Indigenous rights and political participation in Venezuela
Catherine Alès
) in Amazonas State, the electoral intentions of leaders outweigh the strength of autonomous indigenous organizations, which are diminished in comparison to the power of political and governmental organizations. This effect is strengthened especially as
Ecosystem integrity and policy coherence for development
Tools aimed at achieving balance as the basis for transformative development
Harlan Koff, Miguel Equihua Zamora, Carmen Maganda, and Octavio Pérez-Maqueo
standpoint when applied to specific development contexts, such as water basins or clearly defined ecosystems. While current uses of PCD as a policy tool highlight its strengths because they prioritize sustainable development over competing policy arenas and
EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
A new space for a study of novel forms of diplomacy
Zane Šime
communities that can lend their strengths to work toward novel solutions. Daryl Copeland generalizes that “scientists and diplomats have different training, and ways of thinking. Diplomats are risk averse, change resistant, practical, and focused on
Regional and sub-regional effects on development policies
The Benelux and the Nordic countries compared
Lauri Siitonen
European Union (EU) studies and development studies by testing the strengths of Europeanization and sub-regional identification in explaining development policies. It is also linked with the recent debates on European identities (Council of Europe 2013
Elisabetta Nadalutti
://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/atlas/programmes/2014-2020/slovenia/2014tc16rfcb036 . European Commission . ( 2008 ). Green paper on territorial cohesion: Turning territorial diversity into strength . Brussels . Retrieved from http
From philanthropy to impact investing
The case of Luxembourg
Shirlita Espinosa
on Filipinos Overseas, 2013 ), a call for solidarity to become “enablers of development” through giving is potentially a promise worth making. In particular, I present the specificities of Luxembourg and how its economic strengths as a financial hub