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Approaches -- Domestic politics -- International anarchy and institutions -- Power -- War, peace and security

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The changing ethics of power beyond borders -- Part I Solidarity versus security -- 1 India and Pakistan: From zero-sum to shared security -- 2 Sino-US relations: A nascent security regime? -- Part II Assessing the logic of solidarity and national interest in great power interventionism -- 3 Cultures of solidarity and national interest: Russia's conflict management policies -- 4 International intervention in Central Asia: The triumph of geopolitics? -- 5 Constructions of solidarity: The US and the EU in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- 6 Beyond geopolitics and solidarism: Interpenetrated sovereignty, transnational conflict and the United States' ''Plan Colombia'' -- Part III Toward an ethics of human solidarity -- 7 An intersection of interests and values: US foreign policy toward Africa -- 8 Geopolitics and solidarity on the borders of Europe: The Yugoslav wars of succession -- 9 Is East Timor an exception in the Southeast Asian landscape? -- Conclusion: Making sense of national interest and international solidarity -- Index.

The aim of this thesis is to analyse international financial integration. Chapter 2 investigates the determinants of international financial integration. Variables including the capital control policy dummy variable, openness to international trade, domestic credit and economic growth are candidates for explaining variation in the degree of international financial integration. Chapter 3 analyses cointegration between the US and several European Union equity markets. Between 1993 and 1998, there is mixed evidence of cointegration ties with the US equity market. Over the period covering the introduction of the euro, most of the European markets did not show any evidence of cointegration with the US market. Granger causality tests reveal significant causality running from the US to the European markets. Chapter 4 estimates time series of market and idiosyncratic volatilities for the firms composing the index DJ Eurostoxx 50 following the volatility decomposition method of Campbell et al. (2001). There was a positive trend in both market and firm-level volatility and average correlation among firms has increased. This contrasts with the US evidence in Campbell et al. (2001) of a strong positive trend in firm-level volatility, no trend in market volatility and a decrease in the average correlation. Results confirm a statistically significant market risk-return trade-off and that firm-level volatility has no predictive power for subsequent market returns. Chapter 5 analyses the link between FDI and economic growth using panel data. FDI has a stronger positive impact on economic growth in countries with higher levels of education attainment, those that are more open to international trade, have better stock market development and lower rates of population growth and levels of risk. Chapter 6 investigates the determinants of the home bias. Results indicate that capital controls and transaction costs are factors driving the home bias of Australian equity portfolio investment. The home bias lessens if the bilateral trade ...

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-320) and index. ; Conflict and crisis: concepts and overview findings on earthquakes I -- Protracted conflict-crisis model and findings on earthquakes II -- Crisis escalation to war: concepts, model, and findings on earthquakes III -- Crisis severity and impact: concepts and model -- Crisis intensity and fallout: findings on earthquakes IV -- Structure and stability: concepts and model -- Findings on the polarity-stability nexus -- Ethiopian (Abyssinian) War 1934-36, multipolarity, Africa -- Berlin Blockade 1948-49, bipolarity, Europe -- Bangladesh 1971, bipolycentrism, Asia -- Gulf War I 1990-91, unipolycentrism, Middle East -- Coping/crisis management: findings on earthquakes V -- What have we learned? ; Mode of access: Internet.

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