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    By the gun or by the bribe: Firm size, environmental governance and corruption among mining companies in Guatemala

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015
    This U4 Issue discusses the corruption risks faced by mining companies in Guatemala, with a particular focus on the risks faced by small, “junior” mining companies primarily engaged in exploration.
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    Arab countries between Winter and Spring: where democracy shock goes next!

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    In recent years while the centrality of democracy in almost every facet of economic and social life has been well-established, the attention has now shifted towards capturing and modelling the possible ways a change in democratic setting in one country can affect others in the neighborhood.
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    The Qatari conundrum: the changing face of West Asia's political landscape

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2013
    Qatar is creating a large footprint for itself in the West Asian political landscape. The Gulf state was previously known primarily for its oil and gas reserves, and compliance with US interests in the region. However, Qatar has in the recent past made significant efforts to assert regional pre-eminence through an aggressive foreign policy.
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    Conflict briefing notes: Conflict briefing no.13, May 2014

    Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, 2014
    The security situation in the North East worsened since December 2013, with April and May 2014 recording the highest casualty figures since the onset of the insurgency.
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    China-Japan-Korea: Tangled relationships

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2013
    Territorial disputes between China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea and between Japan and South Korea over the Takeshima/Dokdo islands in the Sea of Japan have, particularly in the second half of 2012, given rise to concerns about peace and security in North East Asia. Because China, Japan and South Korea
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    Student politics: a game-theoretic exploration

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Students in institutes of higher education often engage in campus-politics. Typically there are student-parties who electorally compete with each other to gain control of the union which is usually the apex student body dealing directly with the higher authorities on student-related and other academic issues.
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    Abyei: from a shared past to a contested future

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2011
    The Sudanese region of Abyei currently sits at the centre of a conflict between the north and south of what was Africa’s largest state. While analysts have described the situation in Abyei as “an intractable conflict”, this policy brief examines the current impasse, its historical context and the options available for breaking the deadlock and forestalling further conflict.
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    Managing election-related violence: elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2011
    Electoral violence has been defined as acts or threats of coercion, intimidation, or physical harm perpetrated to affect an electoral process, or that arises in thecontext of electoral competition
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    Pride, conflict and complexity: applying dynamical systems theory to understand local conflict in South Sudan

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2012
    South Sudan has experienced deadly conflict for much of the last five decades. While most attention has focused on South Sudan’s civil war with the now Republic of Sudan to the north, in reality, inter-related conflicts persist in multiple layers of society.
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    Consolidating SADC’s regional integration: the governance of the security sector

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2012
    The Southern African region faces the major challenge of combining the principles ofdemocracy and the creation of democratic institutions with the pragmatic decisions required in implementing reforms in the security sectors of Southern African Development Community (SADC) member countries.

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