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China's explosive growth over the last three decades has pushed it to the far corners of the earth in search of petroleum, building materials and agricultural commodities. Establishing inroads into Latin America, a vast area rich in natural resources, has become a critical aspect of China's development strategy. In 2010, China surpassed the U. S. as Brazil's largest trading partner, significantly changing a pattern that has existed for decades and upsetting the balance of power in the region. While the trade relationship of Brazil and China may seem straightforward (i.e. Brazil exports raw materials to and imports manufactured goods from China), there are many economic and geopolitical factors at play that add to its complexity. What this might mean for future relations between the U.S. and these two countries is difficult to predict. This exploratory research project will investigate current trade and political relationships in the China-Brazil-US triangle, using standard statistical analysis, social network analysis and qualitative action research techniques.

The paper attempts to challenge the somewhat marginal role of international factors in the study of transitions to democracy. Theoretical and practical difficulties in proving causal mechanisms between international variables and domestic outcomes can be overcome by defining the international dimension in terms of Western dominance of world politics and by identifying Western actions towards democratising countries. The paper focuses on the case of Algeria, where international factors are key in explaining the initial process of democratisation and its following demise. In particular, the paper argues that direct Western policies, the pressures of the international system and external shocks influence the internal distribution of power and resources, which underpins the different strategies of all domestic actors. The paper concludes that analysis based purely on domestic factors cannot explain the process of democratisation and that international variables must be taken into more serious account and much more detailed.

Chapter 1: Forecasting the South African Financial Cycle: A Linear and Non-linear Approach -- Chapter 2: From clubs to communities. From tourists to international friends -- Chapter 3: Measuring Dynamic Capabilities-Based Synergies in M&A Deals with Real Options: Amazon's Acquisition of Whole Food -- Chapter 4: Raising rivals' costs when the downstream firms compete in Stackelberg fashion -- Chapter 5: Comparing five generational cohorts on their sustainable food consumption patterns: Recommendations for improvement through marketing communication -- Chapter 6: The Effect of Budgetary Policies on the Economy Activity in Algeria: A Markov Switching Approach -- Chapter 7: Structure of Bond Pension Funds during Decreasing Yield Curves -- Chapter 8: Extracting Common Factors from Liquidity Measures with Principal Component Analysis on the Polish Stock Market -- Chapter 9: The Mechanism of Political Budget Cycles in Greece -- Chapter 10: Examination Of Business Interest In Level Of Complexity Of Facial Biometric Technology Implementation In Slovakia -- Chapter 11: Innovation And Sales Growth Among Heterogeneous Albanian Firms - A Quantile Approach -- Chapter 12: Quantitative analysis of inequalities at ICT sector in Visegrad countries -- Chapter 13: Does government spending cause investment - A Panel Data Analysis -- Chapter 14: An exploratory study of fans' motivation in Albanian football championship -- Chapter 15: Accounting knowledge of regional economic university students -- Chapter 16: Corporate governance disclosure in Slovak banks -- Chapter 17: Implementation of Critical Reflection Analysis in Process of Teaching and Learning which Focused on Developing Critical Thinking Skills -- Chapter 18: Agreement between methods of measurement of poverty rates -- Chapter 19: The role of strategic agility and economic environment's friendliness-hostility in explaining success of Polish SMEs -- Chapter 20: Macroeconomic determinants of NPLs using an extended sample and Dominance Analysis -- Chapter 21: Aspects of financial accounting and managerial accounting outputs in connection with the decision-making processes of accounting units -- Chapter 22: Movies performance: empirical evidence from Italy -- Chapter 23: Patterns of knowledge creation in European regions: an analysis by the phases of the EU-enlargements -- Chapter 24: Influence of Economic Sanctions: Empirical Evidence for Iran and Russia -- Chapter 25: Corporate Governance and its association with audit opinion: the case of Greece -- Chapter 26: CO2 Emissions, Energy Consumption, Economic Growth, Trade and Urbanization in Greece -- Chapter 27: Does the Time Driven ABC method apply in a construction company -- Chapter 28: Economic crisis predictors revisited in preparation for the COVID-19 aftermath -- Chapter 29: Should Market Makers Hedge with Realised or Implied Volatility -- Chapter 30: Stress Testing Option Sensitivities in a Stochastic Market -- Chapter 31: Firm performances and the onset of shocks in India -- Chapter 32: The Neoclassical Approach for measuring Total Factor Productivity: the case of the Greek Economy -- Chapter 33: Consumers' Motives for visiting Social media pages and Social media Advertisements -- Chapter 34: Factors affecting E-Marketing adoption and implementation in food firms: An empirical investigation of Greek food and beverage firms -- Chapter 35: An application of Differential Equations on Anthropogenic Climate Change -- Author Index.

This book is designed to present a fully developed theory of international crisis and conflict, along with substantial evidence of these two closely related phenomena. The book begins with a discussion of these topics at a theoretical level, defining and elaborating on core concepts: international crisis, interstate conflict, severity, and impact. This is followed by a discussion of the international system, along with two significant illustrations, the Berlin Blockade crisis (1948) and the India-Pakistan crisis over Kashmir (1965-66). The book then presents a unified model of crisis, focusing on the four phases of an international crisis, which incorporate the four periods of foreign policy crises for individual states. Findings from thirteen conflicts representing six regional clusters are then analyzed, concluding with a set of hypotheses and evidence on conflict onset, persistence, and resolution.

Focuses on the development of a child labour monitoring system in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.

This report examines international literature on harm reduction and also presents primary research in health services in Ireland on approaches to harm reduction. The aim of harm reduction efforts is to minimise the risks stemming from shared use of drug-use paraphernalia, such as needle exchange programmes. One of the criticisms of Irish drug services is that the restricted opening hours and limited number of exchange services may contribute to continued sharing of needles among drug users. The report points out that other non-injecting paraphernalia such as spoons are also associated with the risk of contracting diseases, yet services do not as yet focus on them. The report notes that specific risk factors that contribute to risky drug practices include youth, a shorter injecting history, confinement to prison, homelessness and being involved in a sexual relationship with another intravenous drug user. The report suggests that harm reduction practices can be introduced into a prison population without a subsequent increase in drug consumption rates. The provision of consumption rooms and the prescription of heroin are also discussed, with the report noting that legislation would have to altered to implement these new strategies.This resource was contributed byThe National Documentation Centre on Drug Use.