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A Childhood Lost? The Challenges of Successful Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Child Soldiers: The Case of West Africa
(NUPI Working Paper;712, Working paper, 2006)[Abstract] After a conflict ends, there is a need to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate child soldiers into society. This report examines the challenges of achieving successful disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration ... -
A Gap in OSCE Conflict Prevention? : Local Media and Inter-Ethnic Conflict in the Former Soviet Union
(NUPI Working Paper;645, Working paper, 2003)This paper argues that local media have been of great importance in the escalation of inter-ethnic conflicts in the former Soviet Union, and that conflict prevention by the OSCE in the region initially did not focus ... -
A Global Race for Free Trade Agreements : From the Most to the Least Favored Nation Treatment?
(NUPI Working Paper;653, Working paper, 2003)The article examines the currently expanding worldwide network of bilateral free trade agreements. Following regional integration in Europe and later the Americas, the process in East Asia has accelerated from 2002. A ... -
'A house of straw, sticks or bricks'? Some notes on corruption empirics
(NUPI Working Paper;678, Working paper, 2005)Corruption has become a fashionable subject the last decade or so. The decades before it was neglected, and the phenomenon itself has been around as long as large-scale organisations. One reason for large shifts in ... -
A Match made in Heaven? Strategic Convergence between China and Russia
(NUPI Working Paper;717, Working paper, 2007)This paper examines the strategic convergence between Russia and China. Strategic convergence is understood as the overlap of key objectives and interests with regard to long-term developments in world politics, which ... -
A Polanyi Perspective on Post-Communist Corruption
(NUPI Working Paper;648, Working paper, 2003)The paper seeks to explain the present high levels of corruption in the post-communist countries, i.e. the centrally planned economies where the communist party lost power as the outcome of a specific historical process ... -
A Study of Civil Society in Nicaragua
(NUPI Working Paper;699, Working paper, 2006)NORAD has commissioned this study as an input to analyzing governance issues in Nicaragua. The report analyzes current civil society in Nicaragua as the product of the developments over the last decades. The sphere is ... -
Aid for Trade and the Post-Washington Confusion
(NUPI Paper;715, Working paper, 2006)The paper examines the rationale for ”aid for trade” (AfT), starting with a review of developments in the field and institutions involved. A statistical analysis attempts to trace for which countries there has not been ... -
An Essay on Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa - A Bargaining Approach
(NUPI Working Paper;613, Working paper, 2000)The separation of children from their families have a large number of social and economic aspects. At least the economic aspects are under-researched. At the point of transition of leaving their families somehow the ... -
As safe as the Bank? : Household financial behaviour and economic reasoning in post-soviet Russia
(NUPI Working Paper;687, Working paper, 2005)This study examines the financial behaviour of Russian households from the collapse of communism to the financial melt down in August 1998. By transforming savings into investment, financial intermediaries are important ... -
Basra Crude : The Great Game of Iraq's "Southern" Oil
(NUPI Working Paper;723, Working paper, 2007)Concepts like “Shiite oil” and “Kurdish oil” obfuscate the debate about Iraq’s energy resources. This paper starts from the proposition that it would be better to call a thing by its name: in terms of the size of reserves, ... -
Child soldiers: Reasons for variation in their rate of recruitment and standards of welfare
(NUPI Working Paper;704, Working paper, 2006)Why do some children voluntarily join while other children are forced to join military organization in situations of conflict, and why do the organizations recruit them? How is the actual number of children determined? ... -
Corruption and fast change: Shifting modes of micro-coordination
(NUPI Working Paper;650, Working paper, 2003)The paper studies the effects on corruption of having coexisting, contradictory norms for allocating different micro-coordination modes across society. One important reason for their coexistence is fast change, and links ... -
Corruption in China and Russia compared : Different legacies of central planning
(NUPI Working Paper;679, Working paper, 2005)During the first decade after markets became the major mechanisms of economic coordination in China and the area of the former Soviet Union (FSUA), corruption was perceived to increase in both. At the same time China ... -
Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa and its sources of evidence
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Crude Nukes on the Loose? : Preventing Nuclear Terrorism by Means of Optimum Nuclear Husbandry, Transparency, and Non-Intrusive Fissile Material Verification
(NUPI Working Paper;664, Working paper, 2004)This thesis assesses the threat of nuclear terrorism and identifies strategies for diminishing the risk of such incidents. Never before have the material, the technology, the know-how, and, perhaps, the motivations needed ... -
DDR and SSR Challenges in Mali
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Definitions of strategic political communication
(NUPI Working Paper;689, Working paper, 2005)Political communication comes in various forms. The first part of this paper presents some variants of political communication, and provides a set of definitions of such communication. A centre of gravity is along the ... -
Defusing a Ticking Bomb? : Disentangling International Organisations in Samtskhe-Javakheti
(NUPI Working Paper;646, Working paper, 2003)This article examines how various organisations divide and coordinate their conflict prevention and development aid in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region of southern Georgia, and how that coordination might be improved. There ... -
Den stora segern fyller 60 : Segerdag, symbolåtervinning och ett förlorat fosterland
(NUPI Working Paper;707, Working paper, 2006)Uppsatsen handlar om firandet av 60-årsjubileet av andra världskrigets slut i Ryssland våren 2005. Den så kallade segerdagen som firas den 9 maj är en av landets största högtider. Uppsatsens huvudintresse är hur bilden av ...