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This article will analyze the activity of state-owned companies and their place in the structure of market relations from the standpoint of contemporary approaches to the study of "state failure" and "market failure". It will also consider the implications of the systematic embedding of private property rights. In addition to considering the costs of the functions of state-owned companies, the authors address the actual experience of the Russian economy in the present day, the experience of forming state corporations and the risks associated with their operation. Particular attention will be paid to the inhibition of incentives to improve the general institutional environment and, conversely, to the increasing incidence of direct state intervention in matters that affect economic development. We will examine the various ways in which the growth of the public sector, de jure and de facto, reduces opportunities for implementing private property rights.

Based on the normal coordinate theory, the vibrational analysis of the ground state (Bt), the electronically excited state (A2) and singly ionised state (A,) of ClO2 has been carried out and the force constants corresponding to these three states have been evaluated by kinetic constants method employing the general valence force field. These force constants have been used to calculate the mean square amplitudes of vibration, Coriolis Coupling Coefficients and Centrifugal distortion constants of ClO2 in these three states.

State Sponsorship of Terrorism connects three major contemporary issues of international relations: intrastate conflict, third-party intervention, and interstate relations. In order to understand,why states choose not to fight but to form alliances with terrorist organizations, the study links international and domestic security challenges and policy incentives with formal and informal limitations political leaders have to take into consideration when adjusting to them. In this study, it is argued in a neoclassical realist tradition of international relations theory that sponsorship emerges under specific conditions of mutually reinforcing external and internal security dilemmas, constituting a third way between balancing a rival through interstate alliance formation or armament. Hence, the study traced both extent and shape of sponsorship policy back to specific interplay patterns between interstate enmity and domestic challenges to the political leadership. Examining Syria's relations with Palestinian Fatah, Turkish-Kurdish PKK, and Lebanese Hizballah, between 1964 and 2006, the analysis explored the formation and developmentof sponsorship patterns in order to gain a deeper understanding of a process, which had not yet been systematically traced.

This article explores the impact of 15 separate provisions of state annexation laws on seven different measures of annexation activity. This analysis uses annexation data from 42 states between 1990 and 1998. The analysis finds that there are different patterns of annexation activity for laws designed to constrain annexation, as compared with laws designed to facilitate annexation. Laws designed to facilitate annexation are likely to be associated with high levels of annexation activity. On the other hand, laws designed to constrain annexation are not very likely to have lower levels of activity.

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