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Sovereignty On Borrowed Territory: Sahrawi Identity In Algeria, Randa Farah
Sovereignty On Borrowed Territory: Sahrawi Identity In Algeria, Randa Farah
Randa R Farah Dr.
This article begins with a brief overview of the pivotal moments in this conflict. It will subsequently argue that, since the Moroccan invasion in 1975, three fundamental factors have enabled the Sahrawis to sustain their struggle for national independence against great odds.
Reform From Below: Behavioral And Institutional Change In North Korea, Marcus Noland, Stephan Haggard
Reform From Below: Behavioral And Institutional Change In North Korea, Marcus Noland, Stephan Haggard
Marcus Noland
The state is often conceptualized as playing an enabling role in a country’s economic development—providing public goods, such as the legal protection of property rights, while the political economy of reform is conceived in terms of bargaining over policy among elites or special interest groups. We document a case that turns this perspective on its head: efficiency-enhancing institutional and behavioral changes arising not out of a conscious, top-down program of reform, but rather as unintended (and in some respects, unwanted) by-products of state failure. Responses from a survey of North Korean refugees demonstrate that the North Korean economy marketized in …
Palestinian Refugees: Dethroning The Nation At The Crowing Of The 'Statelet', Randa Farah
Palestinian Refugees: Dethroning The Nation At The Crowing Of The 'Statelet', Randa Farah
Randa R Farah Dr.
The Oslo agreements proposed a two-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza existing alongside Israel. However, the refugees’ right of return and claims to land and property expropriated by Israel during the 1948 were removed from the equation, although they represent the core issues in the conflict. Based on the territorial divisions that preceded the 1967 war, or the ‘green line’, the agreements implicitly rendered the 1948 war and its consequences for the majority of the Palestinian population a non-negotiable historical reality. In a manner of speaking, the crowning of the ‘state’ …
Trafficking Of North Korean Refugees In China, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
Trafficking Of North Korean Refugees In China, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
Donna M. Hughes
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