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Although the American public's increasingly cynical views about human nature have drawn considerable attention from scholars, existing research says little about how interpersonal trust shapes mass foreign policy opinions. This study analyzes survey data to test the claim that citizens use their beliefs about human nature to reason about international affairs. The results indicate that cynical citizens are more likely than trusting citizens to endorse the principle of isolationism & to oppose cooperative forms of intervention in other nations' problems. Citizens' use of interpersonal trust as an information shortcut helps them to make inferences regarding a topic about which they typically know little, but such inferences are not necessarily realistic ones. 4 Tables, 49 References. Adapted from the source document.

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Although part of Common Agricultural Policy rural Romanian actors were still struggling tounderstand the philosophy and direction of evolution of European agricultural policy and agriculturalpolicies in the developed world. This article highlights the main challenges for the Romanianagriculture in the context of the EU Common Agricultural Policy. From January 1, 2014 will endrestrictions on purchases of agricultural land by non-residents. In these circumstances, the questionremains for brief use to strengthen local farms. Agriculture is not the business of unskilled and skilledphysical work. Romania needs to rehabilitate the reputation of this sector in the labor market, todevelop education and training system continues to stimulate the sector and attract young people torestore agricultural and rural elite. No non-agricultural activity is possible as long as there is minimalinfrastructure (water, sewer, electricity, gas). Any small business, business travel or shop facilities inrural areas require at least these basic utilities. Challenges mentioned that urgent consolidation ofholdings, investments in human capital and investment in rural physical infrastructure in rural areasare closely inter-related and conditioning. They must be addressed simultaneously and under greatpressure of time, given the liberalization of agricultural land from January 1, 2014.

This article examines Vietnam's strategy toward China since 1990. The study suggests that Vietnam's China policy has been informed by a changing mix of four different pathways, whose salience depends on the interplay of interest and balance of power among China, America, ASEAN, and Vietnam's two grand strategic camps and supreme leader.

India's relationship with Israel has been one of the most sensitive and controversial issues in New Delhi's diplomatic history. In September 1950, India decided to recognise the newly created state of Israel but deferred the establishment of diplomatic relations until January 1992. Rather than solely concentrating on the last two decades of the relationship, this book takes a broader historical perspective to understand the formation and evolution of India's Israel policy since the pre-Independence period

The viability of Vegetable-Agroforestry (VAf) system is constrained by various factors, including farmers' inability to invest in the system, inadequate institutional structures for facilitating information flow, and lack of market incentives. This paper reports on a scoping study of the policy environment of VAf in Vietnam and the Philippines. We hypothesized that policy incentives are needed to stimulate smallholder investments in VAf. ; LTRA-5 (Agroforestry and Sustainable Vegetable Production)

When research and policy development interact, it can take a number of forms. This article provides insights from a very extensive cooperation in which the researcher took up a part-time position within the civil service. The article chronicles the cooperation and inductively presents a number of competing demands in this type of cooperation, as they appeared in the process. Finally, the article discusses what can be learned by practitioners and researchers who consider entering similar extensive cooperation.