The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a “Eurasian political‚ economic‚ and military organization which was founded in 2001 in Shanghai by the leaders of China‚ Kazakhstan‚ Kyrgyzstan‚ Russia‚ Tajikistan‚ and Uzbekistan”(Lukin‚ 2014‚ p.3). The SCO is a significant player in the political arena (Shabad‚ 2014). Its goal is to strengthen stability and security on the territory of the six member States (Giustozzi‚ 2008). Moreover‚ it is an important tool of Russian foreign policy‚ consequently
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Jervis: Cooperation under the security dilemma This summary needs formatting (i.e. "wikification"). Can you help us improve it? (Formatting help.) Please volunteer. Jervis. 1978. Cooperation under the security dilemma. World Politics 30: 167-214. [mostly from handout] PUZZLE Anarchy and the security dilemma make cooperation seemingly impossible. Why would states cooperate anyway? Presumably‚ there must be some mechanism which allows states to bind themselves (and partners) not to "defect
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Overview of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation: Found in 1989‚ Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is one of the latest organizations that have been establishment mainly for the purpose of promoting and facilitating free trade in different countries belonging to the Asia-Pacific region. The organization that started with twelve members has been growing and demonstrating several benefits in different areas. The main goal or aim of the entity is to facilitate the economic growth of its member
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CONTENT 1. What is microfinance? 2. NORAD’s principles and focus 3. Microfinance and Norwegian development cooperation 4. Principles for building pro-poor financial systems Annex 1: Microfinance and poverty reduction Annex 2: Microfinance market niches and approaches Annex 3: Background papers 1. What is microfinance? Microfinance can be defined as provision of a broad range of client-responsive financial services
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Alexander Clackson Word Count: 2900 What are the main obstacles to cooperation? The world we live in always seems to contain wars and conflicts. Just by looking back over 100 years‚ the history is filled with major wars like the two World Wars‚ the constant scare of escalation of threat during the Cold War and more recently The Afghan and Iraq War. Despite the fact that people always talk about the need for peace‚ the world is instead filled with fear and constant security threats. Since the First
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Bullying and the Holocaust: Competition versus Cooperation When an animal is faced with starvation it often turns to cannibalism and may attack and kill a weaker animal of the same species. The German Nazis followed this system of competition versus cooperation. The Nazis felt they had no other choice to survive than to kill millions of Jews‚ Gypsies‚ and disabled people. After the Holocaust‚ researchers uncovered many journals kept by those who were persecuted. Here is a short
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Interest based‚ principle-centered negotiation in my opinion is the correct approach in the case between the customer service rep Tina and the customer Maria. My first though after reading the situation was to put myself into the shoes of both Tina and Maria. While Tina has a job where she is to uphold the thirty day return policy‚ her job in no way is to insult the customer‚ this insult as well as the entire situation was witnessed by Joe. I believe in all honesty that Joe must handle this situation
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The European Union POS 405 ( ASEAN & The EU ( Mirror Images of Cooperation? By: Bryan Noyes Ever since the Cold War‚ the leaders and foreign ministers of Southeast Asia knew they had to have a united front against the new-age threats to their existence. The ideal of combined interests in the region for peace and prosperity nearly collided at the same time as the transition of the European Economic Community 1973. ASEAN would experience the same trials and errors as the successful
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Shanghai Cooperation Organization is not an anti-Western alliance The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)‚ after more than a decade since its inception‚ merits increasing attentions from the world and meanwhile different explanations of the objective and main agenda of this organization are heatedly debated and evaluated. One of them is the sensational argument that it is an anti-Western alliance which reflects a reasonable suspicion given China and Russia’s leading role in it. However‚ it
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RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FOR DEVELOPMENT SYLLABUS Professor: Lucía Ferreiro Prado. Phd on International Relations Email: lucia.ferreiro@uem.es Course Description Human Rights and International Cooperation Development is a basic survey that will introduce you to a wide array of areas in the field of cooperation for development and‚ to a lesser extent‚ Human Rights. The first part of the course is comprised of three sections devoted to International Cooperation for Development and will
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