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    Soft Power? The Means and Ends of Russian Influence

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2012
    Different countries possess soft power for different reasons. This is a summary of an event held at Chatham House on 31 March 2011. Participants from the EU and US considered the mechanisms that Russia has devised to influence and attract countries in the 'near-abroad', Western Europe and the US.
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    China and Africa’s natural resources: the challenges and implications for development and governance

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    China’s three decades of unbroken growth have transformed it from an economic backwater to the world’s third largest economy. This has fuelled an ever-expanding demand for energy and new markets.This paper proposes to analyse China’s growing engagement in Africa’s mineral sector and assess its impact on local governance.
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    Challenges to India’s ‘rise to power’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    India’s elevated position in the global community is underpinned by a booming economy, nuclear weapons status and veto power in several international institutions. But this rise to power is neither as sudden nor as secure as it appears. India has huge domestic challenges to overcome before it can be considered a global power.
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    New powers for global change?: Brazil as a regional player and an emerging global power: foreign policy strategies and the impact on the new international order

    Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2007
    Brazil is increasingly becoming an important player in world politics, both within the South American context and globally as one of the so-called BRICs. This essay examines the main lines of Brazilian foreign policy in the current presidency of Luís Inácio Lula da Silva.
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    Alternative paths to adjustment in Brazil

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Brazilian states have responded to economic stress in different ways. Some responded quickly introducing market-oriented reforms, while others delayed their adjustment and adopted market-governing strategies. The difference was largely a result of differences in the nature of the institutions (particularly budgeting institutions) where policies were made.
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    India: An integral part of new Asia

    Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, University of Singapore, 2004
    As East Asian economies emerge from the shadow of the 1997 crisis, there appears to be an increasing recognition that greater economic coordination and cooperation among major Asian countries is essential to manage globalisation challenges, and to enhance Asia’s role in the world affairs.
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    Improving the management of sustainable development: towards a new strategic framework for large developing countries: China, India, and Indonesia

    Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2002
    Based on the case study analyses of China, India, and Indonesia, this report introduces and examines some of the important issues related to developing a national strategy for sustainable development.
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    How stronger patent protection in India might affect the behavior of transnational pharmaceutical industries

    World Bank, 2000
    Paper asks: How will stronger patent rights in developing countries affect transnational corporations' behavior in and toward those countries? How will market structure and consumer welfare be affected by extending patent protection to products that could previously be freely imitated?

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