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Vaccines between war and market International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Anna Balestra, Raul Caruso
This short paper presents a theoretical analysis that is intended to throw light on some issues related to the supply of vaccines in a context where producer countries are involved in armed conflic...
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Pandemics, health diplomacy, and peacebuilding1 International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Wonjae Hwang, Scott Gates, Sang-Hwan Lee
The articles in this special issue address such questions as: How do states approach global health issues? How have they utilized health diplomacy and for what purposes? What are the principal chal...
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Clientelism, partisanship, and ideology International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Düzgün Arslantaş, Şenol Arslantaş
This paper aims to highlight the role of clientelism in the Justice and Development Party's (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi) electoral dominance in Turkish politics. Based on intensive fieldwork in Ist...
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Soft Power in emerging economies: A partial least squares – structural equation modeling exploratory analysis of the effects on outward foreign direct investment International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Ricardo E. Buitrago R., James Rajasekar, Jorge Alcaraz
This article discusses the linkage between Soft Power institutional conditions and their effects on inward foreign direct investment (IFDI) as a mediator of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI)...
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Donor motivation in the era of the COVID-19 crisis: Focusing on South Korean health diplomacy and response aid to COVID-19 International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Youngwan Kim, Sang-Hwan Lee, Young Jun Cho
COVID-19 has brought an unprecedented global economic burden. The widely held view is that, during times of economic crisis, there are reduced flows of foreign aid due to budgetary constraints. Alt...
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Health aid for states with dissimilar foreign policy preferences, a tool for peace? International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Wonjae Hwang, Jeeseon Hwang
Due to its exigency and humanitarian nature, health aid is less political and thus less vulnerable to domestic and international criticism than other types of foreign aid. Ironically, this makes he...
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The unexpected consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on maritime crime: Evidence from Indonesia and Nigeria* International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Aaron Gold, Anup Phayal, Brandon Prins
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating. Job losses, negative growth rates, and increased poverty have all followed rising infection rates. The economic costs have been...
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ASEAN, COVID-19 and Myanmar crisis: Dealing with critical juncture International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2023-01-12 I Gede Wahyu Wicaksana, Demas Nauvarian, Putu Shangrina Pramudia
Explaining how international institutions develop is the significant contribution of historical institutionalism (HI) to the study of contemporary world politics. HI offers two important concepts, ...
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Quick immersions and the study of Middle East politics International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Deborah L Wheeler
This study uses “quick immersions” in Middle East politics to investigate the role that a short, yet immersive fieldwork stay can play in generating social scientific and pedagogic insights. Using ...
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Investigating the moderating impact of crime and corruption on the economic growth of Bangladesh: Fresh insights International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Zhang Yu, Muhammad Umer Quddoos, Syed Abdul Rehman Khan, Muhammad Munir Ahmad, Laeeq Razzak Janjua, Muhammad Sajid Amin, Abdul Haseeb
This study investigates the moderating role of the corruption index with the impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI), unemployment, corruption, and crime rate on economic growth in Bangladesh fr...
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Contestation and participation: Concepts, measurement, and inference International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Vanessa Alexandra Boese, Matthew Charles Wilson
Contestation and participation are commonly viewed as two main constituent dimensions of electoral democracy. How exactly have these two dimensions been conceptualized and measured in the literatur...
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Prediction of debt crisis in Southern African Development Community (SADC) International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Crispen Chirume
Debt levels in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have been rising over the years as countries undertake infrastructure projects and the increased use of bilateral and private credit...
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Study of Iran–Saudi Arabia Sports Relations International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Ali Mohsenifar, Morteza Dousti, Fateme Zare, Gábor Géczi
Political tensions and conflicts have been accompanying modern sports for a long time. The objective of this study was to determine the political reasons for not hosting football matches between Ir...
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Populism in power—A comparative analysis of populist governance International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Wolfgang Muno, Christian Pfeiffer
In this paper, we seek to explore whether populism, when in power, is guided by a particular logic of governance that can be derived from the logic of populism itself. To this end, we develop an id...
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Under family control: The trend of sole candidate elections in Indonesia International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Andi Yakub, Andi Ali Armunanto, Haryanto
The rise of sole candidates in various local head elections in Indonesia has been the subject of many scholarly critical analyses. Most of the analyses perceive the phenomenon as a symptom of incum...
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Identifying the conceivable diplomatic outcomes of Sport Diplomacy initiatives International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Kambiz Abdi, Jami Fullerton, Mohammad Deheshti, Reza Kavand, Hamidreza Monibi, Mahdi Talebpour
Although studies around Sport Diplomacy (SD) are expanding rapidly, there is no specific agreement on the outcomes of SD initiatives. The purpose of this study is to identify the conceivable diplom...
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Do international rents bolster democratic backsliding under populist governments? Evidence from Latin America International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Daniel S. Leon
The political science literature often points to populism as the cause of democratic backsliding. The literature purports that populism undermines democracy's liberal component, meaning the horizon...
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Qatar's multi-actors sports strategy: Diplomacy, critics and legitimisation International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Håvard Stamnes Søyland, Marcelo Moriconi
Drawing on official documents and empirical examples, this article analyses Qatar's sports strategy to gain attraction and generate soft power globally. The paper shows how the country based has ef...
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Investigating nuclear-armed North Korea's “strategic” challenge and options for the United States and South Korea International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Hwee-rhak Park
This study analyzes the challenge of North Korea, which has managed to have a strategic level of nuclear weapons and suggests a few options for the United States and South Korea to address this cha...
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Gujarat's industrial status and characteristics: With special reference to defeminization in the labor market International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Bodam Lee
In general, the state has become richer, the people returning to work has increased, and more women have joined the labor force. However, even though Gujarat has achieved great economic development during a typical industrial structural transformation, a very small percentage of women participate in economic activities. This study aims to characterize Gujarat's low engagement of female labor force
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Electoral competition and government health expenditure in electoral autocracies: A pessimistic view International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Jeong-Woo Lee
Does electoral competition affect expenditures on the provision of public goods in electoral autocracies? Previous studies firmly agree that multiparty elections are critical to autocratic survival. Accordingly, studies argue that multiparty elections lead to an increase in health expenditure in electoral autocracies. In addition to the literature, less explored is the effect of electoral competition
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Financing warfare in ancient India: 1500 BCE–circa 800 CE International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-07-03 Kaushik Roy
In this essay, I attempt to build a typology of how warfare was financed in ancient India. During the period discussed in this article (1500 BCE–800 CE), most of the polities of the subcontinent followed continental strategy. Hence, they focused on maintaining armies rather than navies. Loot and plunder were adequate for maintaining irregular forces and mercenaries temporarily. Some polities which
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Revolution in military affairs - The operation mole cricket 19 as a case study for the technological race during the cold war International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Haim Yogev, Ronen A. Cohen, Eyal Lewin
The article reviews the development of the modern idea of Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) whose buds appeared after the First World War, matured during the Cold War and demonstrated in 1982 in the First Lebanon War by the Israeli Air Force, and in 1991 in the Iraq War by the American Army. After analyzing the essence of RMA, with reference to the concept of both evolution and revolution of military
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Demand without supply? Mass partisanship, ideological attachments, and the puzzle of Guatemala's electoral market failure International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Patricio Navia, Lucas Perelló, Vaclav Masek
The demand for an ideologically based party system is not always met with a supply. As a country where a large majority of adults identify on the ideological scale but whose weak political parties primarily function as short-lived personalist platforms, Guatemala represents an extreme case of a demand supply mismatch. Using six AmericasBarometer surveys from 2008 to 2018, we analyze the supply-side
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British penetration into and subjugation of Isokoland in South Central Nigeria, 1896–1911: A narrative International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Uwomano Benjamin Okpevra
The Isoko, like other peoples of Nigeria, played significant roles in the historical process and evolution of Nigeria and should be acknowledged as such. The paper teases out much more clearly—and, more importantly, the multiple stages of the British expansion into Isoko. That is, how does that multi-stage, multi-phase process affect how we think more broadly about British colonial expansion in Africa
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The effect of social identity on integration of social minorities: The case of North Korean refugees in South Korea International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Seo-Young Cho
This paper investigates the effect of a shared social identity on social behaviors of a marginalized population by focusing on North Korean refugees in South Korea. The findings of a behavioral experiment with North Korean refugees show that the common Korean identity can promote their integration in South Korea, despite considerable differences caused by seven-decade long separation between the two
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Interstate Rivalries and Expansions in Military Capacity International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Prashant Hosur Suhas, Shelli Israelsen
This article addresses the scholarly debate on the relationship between interstate rivalry and military capacity. We draw on Tilly's bellicist theory of state formation in early modern Europe and Thies’ modifications to predatory theory, which prioritizes the role of interstate rivalry on state building, to explain variation in military capacity. We unpack the rivalry mechanism into spatial and positional
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Chosen trauma and saffronization of India International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-11-13 Raja Qaiser Ahmed, Maryum Tamoor, Muhammad Waqas Saleem, Iqbal Babar Summar
The research undertakes the structural transformation of India by the ideology of Hindutva embodied by the contemporary government of the Bhartiya Janata Party. This study is a first of its kind as it attempts to decipher the genesis of this metamorphosis from a psychoanalytical perspective. India has been accredited as a stalwart of democracy and an uploader of an inclusive multicultural and multireligious
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The changing political trends in erstwhile FATA: a study of the last three elections International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-10-30 Raja Qaiser Ahmed, Mohammad Ishaq, Muhammad Shoaib
This study investigates the changing political trends in erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Analysis of the last three elections (2008, 2013, 2018) shows a substantial change in the region. The tribal structure, local traditions, power arrangement and electoral practices have changed significantly over a decade. The extension of the Political Parties Order to the region and
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An ex-post analysis of trade effects of the ASEAN–Korea Free Trade Area (AKFTA) from Korea’s Perspective International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-10-30 Ga Eun Lee, Innwon Park
This paper empirically analyzes the effectiveness of the ASEAN–Korea Free Trade Area (AKFTA) focusing on the ex-post trade creation and diversion effects with controlling related intra-bloc and extra-bloc regional trade agreements (RTAs) and economic characteristics of interconnected economies. The quantitative analysis applies a gravity model regression analysis by specifying standard pooled ordinary
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Factors affecting loan repayment rate among smallholder farmers got loans from the Amhara Credit and Saving Institution: In the case of Habru District, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Andualem Kassegn, Ebrahim Endris
The aim of this paper was to examine factors affecting loan repayment rate among smallholder farmers in the Habru District, Ethiopia, who had taken loans from the Amhara Credit and Saving Institution. In this study, both primary and secondary sources were used. The study employed a combination of multi-stage purposive and stratified sampling techniques in the selection of 384 borrowers from smallholder
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Issues and contentions in the incursion of Islam and Christianity into Ilé-Ifè, southwestern Nigeria International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Samuel O. Aghalino, Ayowole S. Elugbaju
The late ninetieth century marked the period when Ilé-Ifè, the reputed cradle of the Yoruba people, witnessed the penetration of Christianity and Islam. Specifically, from the 1890s, both religions established a few years apart through several actors and factors, operated concurrently within Ilé-Ifè. However, the accounts surrounding the periods, initiators and several issues associated with the establishment
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US–China commercial rivalry, great war and middle powers International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Bora Jeong, Hoon Lee
This paper examines whether the recent trade war between the US and China would lead to a great power war. In so doing, we rely on two theoretical frameworks, mercantilism and power transition theory, that are likely to link trade war to a military confrontation. Evidence shows that the trade war per se is not a sufficient condition for an all-out war between the US and China. Unlike mercantilists
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The US–South Korea alliance: How the patron benefits from the protégé International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Sojeong Lee, Brandon Prins, Krista E. Wiegand
Since the end of World War II, the US military has continuously deployed troops to South Korea. The alliance works as an asymmetrical alliance, where the US is a patron and South Korea is a protégé. While it is argued that this deployment has significant political, economic, and military effects on South Korea and the region, few studies have examined how the presence of US forces there enhances US
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The autonomy of international organizations? The analysis of major powers’ influence over the World Bank’s aid policies International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-07-07 Yooneui Kim, Youngwan Kim
Are international organizations autonomous actors in global politics? This paper investigates whether and how major powers influence the World Bank’s official development assistance policies. Despite the World Bank’s attempts to maintain independence from its member states, we argue that major powers are still influential. Testing this expectation with the data of official development assistance provisions
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Empirical categorization of middle powers and how different middle powers are treated in international organizations: The case of India and South Korea International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Byungwon Woo
Which countries are middle powers in international relations? While the term “middle powers” has witnessed a steady increase in its use in the past two decades, answers to the question are likely to be diverse, depending on to whom one asks the question. The paper tries to provide objective criteria that would allow one to define the entire population of middle powers and theorize how different types
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Varieties of citizenship in regional organisations: A cross-regional comparison of rights, access, and belonging International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Amalie Ravn Weinrich
This paper explores the variation of citizenship in eight regional organisations (ROs). Since the 1980s, ROs have increasingly served as spaces for developing, regulating, and providing citizenship. However, current literature primarily takes a rights-based approach and focuses on a narrow set of cases without providing an account for the variation of citizenship in ROs. This paper offers a broad,
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Public Sector Employment, Quality of Government, and Well-Being: A Global Analysis International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-06-12 Robert Davidson, Alexander Pacek, Benjamin Radcliff
While a growing literature within the study of subjective well-being demonstrates the impact of socio-political factors on subjective well-being, scholars have conspicuously failed to consider the role of the size and scope of government as determinants of well-being. Where such studies exist, the focus is largely on the advanced industrial democracies of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation
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The Predicament of Europe’s ‘Last Dictator’ International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-05-30 Yuliya Brel-Fournier, Minion K.C. Morrison
Belarusian citizens elected their first president in 1994. More than 20 years later, in October 2015, the same person triumphantly won the fifth consecutive presidential election. In August 2020, President Lukashenko’s attempt to get re-elected for the sixth time ended in months’ long mass protests against the electoral fraud, unspeakable violence used by the riot police against peaceful protesters
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Political Islam in South Asia: A critical appraisal of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-05-28 Md Nazrul Islam
The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI) is the largest Islamist Party in Bangladesh. It was founded in 1941 in British-India, by Maulana Mawdudi, a prominent South Asian Islamist leader. The BJI has undergone political vicissitudes during its eight-decade-long political history. The most notable political success of the Party was to have a couple of cabinet positions as a coalition partner in the Nationalist–Islamist
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Taking a side between the United States and the People’s Republic of China: Strategic hedging of South Korea and India International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-05-13 Wonjae Hwang, Hayoun Jessie Ryou-Ellison
This paper explores how South Korea and India have taken positions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China over diverse foreign policy issues. By adopting dual engagement and strategic ambiguity as hedging strategies, both regional powers reduce their vulnerability to the influence and pressure of the two great powers. Thanks to their strategic importance and prominence in regional
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The impact of foreign public evaluations of the US Presidents on the favorability toward the country International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-05-13 Eun Bin Kim, Jinhwan Oh
This study examines how international publics’ evaluations of US Presidents affect the favorability of their views of the US. More specifically, it investigates the impact of the US Presidents George W. Bush, Barak Obama and Donald Trump on attitudes toward the US in 32 nations. It analyzes the data from Pew Research Center’s Global Indicators Database on opinions of the US and confidence in the US
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Intervention and state strength: Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Economic Community of West African States compared International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Sanae Suzuki
How can we explain variations in the approaches of regional organizations (ROs) to cross-border security threats, especially those derived from internal conflicts such as civil wars and unconstitutional changes of government? On the one hand, regional security threats appear regularly throughout the world. Pulling in the opposite direction, governments steadfastly insist on their sovereign right to
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Societal transformation: Eastern European experience and conceptualization International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Nikolai Genov
The paper contains analyses of attempts at explaining the profound changes in Eastern Europe after 1989. The analyses are guided by the conceptual framework of social interaction. It covers the micro, meso and macro level of the social organization. The first target is the theory of transition. The diagnosis reveals some constructive features of the theory together with its difficulties to get operationalized
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Regional (dis)integration beyond governments: A comparison in social and civil society participation between Mercosur and SADC International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Haroldo Ramanzini Junior, Bruno Theodoro Luciano
The aim of this article is to analyse the involvement of civil society in regional integration organizations through a comparative analysis of social/civil society channels in the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). We seek to analyse the level of openness and the trajectory of both blocs in relation to civil society participation. The instruments
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Impacts of ecosystem vitality on ASEAN’s agricultural exports: A System Generalized Method of Moments approach International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-02-11 Nguyen Khanh Doanh, Nguyen Ngoc Quynh, Yoon Heo
This study examined the impact of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s ecosystem vitality (EV) on its agricultural exports to the rest of the world. Using a sample of the six major ASEAN countries (ASEAN-6) (including Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) and their 72 trading partners for the period 2007–2016, we found robust evidence of a positive relationship
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Religious populism in Pakistani Punjab: How Khadim Rizvi’s Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan emerged International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2021-02-11 Ahmad Sabat, Muhammad Shoaib, Abdul Qadar
Khadim Rizvi’s open manifestation of religion helped him become one of the most popular leaders of Barelvi-Sunni Muslims in Pakistani Punjab. He emerged as the leader of a moral community during a crisis. After a series of protests and negotiated agreements with the federal and provincial governments, he was able to translate his support into electoral power. In the 2018 election, his TLP bagged 1
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The value of sub-national data: The dynamics of contentious politics in Nepal International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2020-07-28 Belén González, Johannes Vüllers
Over the last decade, a renewed interest in the empirical analysis of contentious politics has led to significant improvements in the quality and quantity of data. The related wave of research has thus turned to analysis of the dynamics of contentious politics from a comparative perspective. Unfortunately, these studies use country level datasets for their analysis, creating a mismatch between the
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Trends in Korean studies: A content analysis of Korea-related articles published in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1990–2015 International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2020-06-26 Daniel Jong Schwekendiek
While South Korea has become an economic and pop-cultural powerhouse in recent decades, North Korea has remained continuously in the media due to its humanitarian issues and nuclear brinkmanship. A...
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Movement of the people: Violence and internal displacement International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2020-06-06 Diego Esparza, Jessica Lucas, Enrique Martinez, James Meernik, Ignacio Molinero, Victoria Nevarez
Individuals internally displaced by conflict are a prominent feature of wars, political violence and other forms of repression. We suggest that a subnational analysis of internally displaced person (IDP) generation can help us determine the extent to which more specific flight-precipitating factors can account for individuals’ behaviors. In particular, we are interested in how different conflict actors
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Authoritarian survival strategies and elite churn: The case of North Korea International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2020-06-01 John Ishiyama, Taekbin Kim
How do autocrats interact with authoritarian elites? This is a question that has gained increasing scholarly attention over the past decade. In this article, using the case of North Korea we develop a set of theoretical expectations for “elite churn” or changes in the composition of the elite (either in terms of promotions, demotions, or new entrants) resulting from moving around elites from office
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The US-North Korean asymmetrical security dilemma: Past the point of nuclear no return? International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2020-05-15 Erwin Tan, Jae Jeok Park
The bulk of literature on the security dilemma has examined the phenomenon within the context of rivalry between great powers of roughly equal strength (for instance, the United States-Soviet nuclear arms race). Yet no study has examined the implications of power asymmetry between a strong power and a weak one when they are facing the security dilemma in their interaction. This manuscript shall examine
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Towards sustainable integration: The role of government in facilitating ASEAN integration through education cooperation International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2020-04-23 Dhiyathad Prateeppornnarong
Economic integration is undoubtedly at the top of the agenda for the ASEAN Community. To pave the way for such integration, serious consideration should also be given to sociocultural aspects of th...
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On the determinants of economic growth: Empirical evidence from the Eurozone countries International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2020-04-06 Panagiotis Pegkas, Christos Staikouras, Constantinos Tsamadias
This study empirically investigates the causal relationship between economic growth and several factors (investment, human capital, trade openness and public debt) in the Eurozone countries, where imbalances persist several years after the financial crisis. The results reveal a long-run relationship between variables and public debt, as investment, human capital and trade openness positively affect
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Revolutionary mass uprisings in authoritarian regimes International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2020-04-03 Holger Albrecht, Kevin Koehler
This article explores the conditions under which revolutionary mass uprisings are likely to occur. We offer a probabilistic explanation of the social and political conditions that make people rise against autocrats. The article presents a medium-n dataset of 79 revolutionary mass uprisings in 165 autocracies since 1945. Since revolutions are rare events, a combination of factors must come together
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Sleep, bark, or bite: Do natural resources make the difference regarding peaceful or violent conflict? International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2020-01-21 Matthias Basedau, Vita Roy
Natural resources can create state-based and other conflicts through several causal mechanisms. Debate, however, has remained silent on forms of conflict, especially why violent or peaceful collective action occurs. Combining the literatures on nonviolent- and armed conflict with work on the resource–conflict link, we developed a number of hypotheses on how resources affect the conditions under which
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Revisionist Conflict and State Repression International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2020-01-09 Thorin M. Wright
What kinds of international conflicts make states more likely to increase repression? I argue that the issues at stake in conflict may have different levels of domestic salience and may alter the domestic political status quo, thus increasing or decreasing a state’s or regime’s propensity to repress. I argue and find that democracies are most likely to increase repression when they are territorial
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Discussing the determinants of online budget transparency based on a spatial regression analysis of Croatian cities and municipalities: Do good neighbours make you better? International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2020-01-09 Paulo Reis Mourao, Mihaela Bronić, Branko Stanić
Taxpayers want to pay as little in taxes as possible to fund an adequate level of public goods and services in their local government, and so they need to keep their local incumbents accountable. Online local budget transparency (OLBT) facilitates this accountability, as it enables citizens to find information online about their local budgets that is timely, accurate, comprehensive and understandable
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Ethno-political favouritism in maternal health care service delivery: Micro-level evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, 1981–2014 International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2020-01-09 Ole Magnus Theisen, Håvard Strand, Gudrun Østby
It is commonly held that political leaders favour people of the same ethnic origin. We test this argument of ethno-political favouritism by studying variations in the usage of maternal health care services across groups in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). More specifically, we link geo-referenced individual-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys on 601,311 births by 399,908 mothers in 31 countries
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Determinants of presidential approval ratings: Cross-country analyses with reference to Latin America International Area Studies Review Pub Date : 2019-12-06 Ji Won Jung, Jinhwan Oh
Despite a conventional belief that prosperity boosts presidential popularity, research on the effect of economic and political factors on presidential popularity shows wide variation. What are the main contributing factors when people evaluate their political leaders? How do economic conditions and perception of corruption influence people’s evaluations of their political leaders? Using comprehensive