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Theory of International Politics

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The article was published on 1979-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7932 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Global politics & International relations.

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How Can International Organizations Shape National Welfare States? Evidence From Compliance With European Union Directives

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the implementation of European Union social policy directives through a new quantitative data set and qualitative case studies of Greece and Spain, concluding that international organizations can shape national social policies by reorienting the axes of contestation from left-right to supranational-subnational.
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Corporate Ethics and Corporate Governance

TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of leadership in shaping business values is discussed, and a conceptual framework for understanding CSR is proposed. But it does not consider the role of women in CSR.
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Military Statecraft: Power and Influence in Soviet and American Arms Transfer Relationships

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine American and Soviet relations with arms transfer clients and distinguish three dimensions of influence sought by patron states: bargaining power, structural power, and hegemonic power.
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Defending Hierarchy from the Moon to the Indian Ocean: Symbolic Capital and Political Dominance in Early Modern China and the Cold War

TL;DR: In this article, a causal process in which concerns about legitimacy produce attempts to secure dominance in arenas of high symbolic value by investing wealth and labor into unproductive (in direct military and economic terms) goods and performances is identified.
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The Political Economy of Imperialism, Decolonization, and Development

TL;DR: A theory of imperialism and decolonization that explains both historic cycles of expansion and decline and the demise of the urge to colonize has been proposed in this paper, where the authors argue that technological shocks enable expansion, while military technology gradually disseminates, diluting imperial advantage.
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Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes

Imre Lakatos
TL;DR: For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge, proven either by the power of the intellect or by the evidence of the senses as discussed by the authors. But the notion of proven knowledge was questioned by the sceptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.
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Introduction to cybernetics

TL;DR: This book contains the collected and unified material necessary for the presentation of such branches of modern cybernetics as the theory of electronic digital computers, Theory of discrete automata, theory of discrete self-organizing systems, automation of thought processes, theoryof image recognition, etc.
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Barriers to New Competition

Henry W. Broude, +1 more
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