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We examine how globalization affects trade patterns and welfare when conflict prevails domestically. We do so in a simple model of trade, in which a natural resource like oil is contested by competing groups using real resources (?guns?). Thus, conflict is viewed as ultimately stemming from imperfect property-rights enforcement. When comparing autarky with free trade in such a setting, the gains from trade have to be weighed against the possibly higher resource costs of conflict. We find that importers of the contested resource gain unambiguously. By contrast, countries exporting the contested resource will lose under free trade, unless the international price of the resource is sufficiently high. Regardless of what price obtains in international markets, countries tend to over-export the contested resource relative to what we would observe if there were no conflict; for some range of prices, the presence of conflict even inverts the country's comparative advantage. We find further that an increase in the international price of the contested resource over an even wider range reduces welfare, an instance of the ?natural resource curse.?

Cover -- Handbook on Teaching Social Issues -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- An Introduction to Teaching Social Issues -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: Re-Framing the Teaching of Social Issues -- Chapter 1: The Struggle for Democratic Schooling -- Chapter 2: "How Could We Solve That Problem?" -- Chapter 3: The Subjectivity of Openness -- Chapter 4: Academic Freedom and Issues-Based Social Education -- PART II: Critical Social Issues in the Curriculum -- Chapter 5: Critical Peace Theory and the Deconstruction of Systemic Economic Inequality

"Social science practitioners have recently witnessed numerous episodes of influential research that fell apart upon close scrutiny. These instances have spurred suspicions that other published results may contain errors or may at least be less robust than they appear. In response, an influential movement has emerged across the social sciences for greater research transparency, openness, and reproducibility. Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research crystallizes the new insights, practices, and methods of this rising interdisciplinary field"--Provided by publisher

Introduction -- Overview of the design process -- Taking design initiative and clarifying roles -- Diagnosing or assessing stakeholders, goals and interests, and contexts -- Creating dispute management processes and systems -- Selecting, engaging, and preparing the participants in the new process -- Determining the extent of confidentiality and openness in the processes -- Seeking justice, safety, reconciliation, change, public and personal understanding, and other goals -- Enhancing relationships -- Using technology in dispute management systems and processes -- Implementing -- Using contracts -- Using law -- Evaluating and revising -- Skills for designers.

Introduction: the end of charity -- The billionaire effect: disruptors with deep pockets -- The demand for results: good evidence is hard to find -- People, not widgets: what do people really need? -- The "pure" social enterprise: products with purpose -- Big business for good: corporates becoming social enterprises -- Aid goes retail: crowdfunding & direct aid -- Open source aid: the case for openness -- Systems thinking: embracing complexity -- Ending extreme poverty: getting to absolute zero by 2030 -- Ushering in a new era: what we can do

Self-efficacy (SE) is the critical link between environment, culture, institutions, modernization, and development. It enables adaptive learning from environmental stimuli, and fosters agency, cooperation, goal setting, openness, opportunity recognition, and longer-term planning. SE can be regarded as fertilizer for any policy measure. Research amongst smallholder farmers in South Ghana shows that historical return on investment culturally bequeathed investment SE, which largely influences today's farming investment and household income. SE is well malleable and perceptive to intentional promotion.

"In an attempt to understand this more thoroughly, this work discusses an aspect of politics--presidential politics--that can at times still exhibit the unpredictable vigor characteristic of the new. It is directed at an audience of readers who approach new fields of the intellect with the openness and enthusiasm of the young everywhere. Perhaps more importantly, this volume aims at drawing the attention of students to the deep connections between our current political culture and the political history that has shaped it"--

The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists explore what cosmopolitanism means in the context of everyday life, variously viewing it as an aspect of kindness and empathy, as tolerance, hospitality and openness, and as a defining feature of pan-human individuality. The chapters thus advance an existential critique of abstract globalization discourse. The book enriches interdisciplinary debate

Which structural reforms affect the speed the regional convergence within a country? We found that domestic financial development, trade/current account openness, better institutional infrastructure, and selected labor market reforms facilitate regional convergence. However, these reforms have mixed effects on the growth of regions closer to the country's development frontier. We also document that regional income disparity and average income are inversely correlated across countries so that speeding up regional convergence increases national income. We also present a theoretical model to dis

Normative Trade Theory To Bribe or not to Bribe for Free Trade Innovations and International Trade Comparative Cost and Factor Endowments Social Welfare and Pareto Improvement Cost Harmonization and Welfare Capacity Constraint and Export Subsidies Subcontracting or Exporting with Flexible Manufacturing Inward FDI and the Size of the Market Unionization and the Environment The Price Effects of MERCOSUR Global Imbalances and Exchange Rates Regulation, Quality Adjustment and Relative Price Changes Continued Openness and Reforms for Agriculture

Rousseau and Radical Democracy presents the first comprehensive examination of Rousseau's founding role in, and continuing relevance for, recent and influential theories of democracy. Kevin Inston demonstrates the actuality of Rousseau's thinking through an analysis of his deep connection with the groundbreaking work of contemporary European thinkers, including Lefort, Laclau and Mouffe. The book affirms Rousseau's centrality for current debates in democratic thought by showing how, contrary to common assumptions, his writings emphasise the openness and difference necessary for a dynamic mode

Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice traces the development of relational ideas from their origin in object relations and self psychology to their evolution in current relational, intersubjectivity, and attachment theory. Relational treatment emphasizes openness and collaboration between client and therapist, mutual impact, the client's subjectivity, and the therapist's empathy, genuineness, and use of the self in therapeutic interaction. The approach treats the relationship and dialogue between client and therapist as crucial to the change process and shows how the therapeutic relationship

Among the more than 100 less developed countries in the post-war world, the economic region surrounding mainland China, including Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore, have been most successful in their transition growth process. The economists have identified the openness in orientation and the depoliticization of their economies as two causal factors behind the miracle of their economic system. This paper argues that the policy evolution has "roots" that reside deep in the traditional Chinese cultural values. (DÜI-Sbt)

The extremely dangerous world of the next two decades requires that Russia adjust its foreign and defense policy. This policy should be based on the "Fortress Russia" concept: maximum possible sovereignty, independence, autonomy, and security, with a focus on intensive internal development. Russia must be intelligently open to beneficial economic, scientific, cultural, and informational cooperation with friendly countries of the World Majority. However, openness is not an end in itself, but rather a means to ensure internal material and spiritual development.

This essay explores Leo Bersani's use of intellectual uncertainty, openness, and tautness in his writing to create a space for thinking about "what is politically unfixable in the human" (Homos 71). In particular, this essay, which travels under the banner of the word perhaps, pays attention to Bersani's first brief, then extended response to Jean Genet's statement (in the context of his play, The Maids), "I suppose that there is a union for domestic servants—that is not our affair."