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Mozambique’s two civil conflicts are both results of the country’s defining challenge: managing its transition into becoming a fossil fuel economy.
The absence of U.S. participation in the Kyoto Protocol comprises a major impediment to the development of an effective global climate regime. While conventional theories of international relations attribute American abstention to materialist determinants of climate politics, which depicts a static image of the United States as a self-interested, power-maximizing state, this study asserts the need for a more comprehensive, social constructivist analysis of American identity. By employing computer assisted methods of quantitative content analysis, this study delineates the dominant strands of U…
The vision of an academic-turned-politician has brought a stream of creativity to local public administration in Colombia. It is said that disruptive innovation occurs at the edge of disciplines.[i] And Sergio Fajardo, mathematician and former journalist, has managed to leverage such cross-discipline dialogues and energize communities to engage with public planning objectives. As mayor of Medellín in Colombia from 2004 to 2007, he “introduced transparency fairs, broke clientelistic political networks, raised tax receipts, improved public services, established civic pacts and restored citizens’…