• "Resource Curse" And Investment In Oil And Gas Projects: The New Challenge By P. Stevens.CEPMLP.Vol.11.2002.
  Natural resources should generate wealth and promote both economic development and a reduction in poverty.The logic behind this view can be seen either in terms of common sense or based upon economic development theory.In the case of the latter, capital constraints and dual gap analysis imply the revenues accruing from natural resource projects should break these constraints.However, most countries having an abundance of minerals or oil seem to perform worse in terms of growth and poverty reduction than resource poor countries. Large windfall gains from such projects appear to create severe distortions in the working of the economy and the political system with strongly negative socio-political consequences. This phenomenon is called esource curse.
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• Balancing political participation and minority rights: the experience of the former Yugoslavia
  By Florian Bieber. The paper compares minority rights situation in the countries of Former Yugoslavia with the overall improvement in human rights protection in the last decade and a half. Minority rights remain largely undefined and international standards in this sphere - vague and evasive. In addition to protection from discrimination, linguistic and educational rights, the concept of minority rights should encompass political participation. The paper proceeds with a review of international legislation which endorses the above claim, and substantiates it with empirical evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia which demonstrates that political re-presentation alone is not sufficient to protect the rights of minorities
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• Dispute Resolution In The Oil And Gas Industry - Recent Trends, By Antony Connerty.CEPMLP.vol. 8. 2001
  This Paper looks at recent trends in dispute resolution in the Oil and Gas Industries. There is probably little doubt that the two major methods of dispute resolution are still litigation in the national courts and international arbitration. But it is clear that other dispute resolution processes are being used, amongst them ADR and Expert Determination. To state the obvious, which type of dispute mechanism will be used in any particular case will depend upon the precise nature of the dispute: a jurisdiction dispute arising out of an international contract is likely to be settled by litigation rather than, say, expert determination.
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• Follow the Money: A Guide to Monitoring Budgets[...](Lifting the Resource Curse (1). J. Shultz.OSI/CPS, 2006
  Many countries, rich in natural resources, squander their wealth, enriching a minority, while corruption and mismanagement leave the majority impoverished. This book helpful in learning to work with advocates on issues involving budgets and extractive industry revenues. It targets different audiences NGOs, journalists, investors, and policymakers — in an effort to help these stakeholders promote government transparency and accountability.
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• Four years of transition in Serbia
  By Begovic, Boris and Mijatovic, Bosko (eds.); Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies. The book evaluates the ground covered in Serbia's independence and identifies obstacles to be expected on the road to a liberal-democratic system, a market economy and the rule of law
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• Intellectual Property and Development (World Bank Publications, 2005)
  International policies towards protecting intellectual property rights have seen profound changes over the past two decades. This book brings together empirical research that assesses the effects of changing intellectual property regimes on various measures of economic and social performance. The main arguments are given by the fact that intellectual property norms should be adjusted to domestic needs, taking into account developing countries’ capacity to innovate, technological needs, and institutional capabilities. In addition, governments need to consider a range of complementary policies to maximize the benefits and reduce the costs of reformed intellectual property regulations.
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• Petro-states - Predatory or Developmental?By H. O. Bergesen, T.Haugland& L.Lunde.CEPMLP. vol17. 2006
  Political attention is increasing on the glaring contradiction in most oil-rich countries between natural abundance on economic and social misery. How can it be that oil is not a blessing, but becomes a curse? Although drawing on economic analysis (Dutch disease), the analytical framework established in this report on Angola and Azerbaijan emphases political and institutional factors and concentrates on the role of the state. Selected variables that are likely to decide whether the petro-states become 'predatory' or 'developmental' are studied for both countries. The analysis indicates a danger that oil resources will continue to trickle away instead of trickling down to the benefit of the broader Angolan and Azerbaijani population.
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• Petroleum Revenue Management: The Nigerian Perspective. By Hon. John Udeh, JP
  The issue of oil mineral resources and petroleum revenue in Nigeria has come a long way. From a modest start of about 5,000 barrels of crude oil per day in 1957, the country now has the potential of producing well over 2.4 millions barrels a day. In the same vein the revenue accruing from oil has run into billions of naira over the years as shown in table 1 for 1981 -1999. On oil mineral deposits, a recent publication by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) states that oil mineral reserves in Nigeria (proven) amount to over 32 billion barrels of crude, while natural gas reserve (proven) is estimated at 260 trillion cubic feet. Further exploration is still being undertaken both on-shore and off-shore, within the Nigerian continental shelf.
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• Rethinking the Resource Curse[...].By P. J. Luong&­E. Weinthal­. Annual Review of Political Science.vol. 9. 2006
  The authors argue over the widely accepted contention that an abundance of mineral resources and the influx of external rents generated from these resources during boom periods are to be blamed for the so-called "resource curse". They offer instead a new research agenda for studying the problem of resorce-rich which states that shifts the locus of study away from the "paradox of plenty" to a more appropriate paradox---that the concentration of wealth impoverishes the state whereas the dispersion of wealth enriches the state. This agenda focuses on three interrelated issues: the structure of ownership over mineral resources, the importance of strong institutions, and the relative influence of domestic versus international factors.
  and costs fiscal institutions mineral monitoring regulatory resources transaction
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• The Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies
  The area of research specialization of the Institute includes East-West relations after the end of the Cold War (new opportunities and risks; building of democracy and market economy), Transatlantic relations: rethinking and redefining the relationship at the political, economic, and strategic levels; and the European integration process, with a focus on the single market, the Maastricht and the Amsterdam treaties, the process of deepening and widening, flexible integration, CFSP, the Schengen process, EMU.
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• Will Chad's Actions be Sufficient in preventing Resource Curse?
  by D.M. Auty. CEPMLP. 2002 Chad commenced its oil production in 2002 and will be exporting vast quantities of oil by 2004. This generated an influx of capital. Other countries in Chad's position have frequently suffered what has become known as "resource Curse". Rather then stimulating growth, a mineral resource has potential to imbalance countries' economies and inducing stagnation or retarding economic growth. The purpose of this paper is to examine what actions Chad is taking in order to counter act any ill effects from the mineral exploitation and associated wealth generation. The paper concludes that although Chad has spent a great deal of time and effort in acting to avoid resource curse it is by no means clear that it will be able to do so.
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• "Human Rights in Russia: A Darker Side of Reform", Jonathan Weiler, Boulder, CO, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004. 165 pp.
  On the basis of the observation that political change in Russia has coincided with worsening physical security for many citizens, Weiler asks why Western observers have generally spoken of human rights abuses there only in relation to atrocities committed by soldiers in Chechnya and very occasional persecution of environmentalists and scientists for allegedly sharing classified information. He looks specifically at the conditions of prisoners, both those in overcrowded pre-trial detention and those already in labor camps, at attitudes toward domestic violence, and at treatment of draftees and others at the mercy of faltering state institutions.
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• "Social dialogue, tripartism and social partnership development in the South East European countries", Djuric, Dragan
  In transition countries, up until now researchers focused more on the area of industrial relations and social dialogue in the countries - candidates for the accession to the European Union, among other things because social dialogue in them is more developed. The main social partners participating in social dialogue became clearly defined, while tripartite bodies have been institutionalized with the main role to contribute through active dialogue between the social partners and the government to reducing the cost of transition changes and to the creation of social consensus in the implementation of the necessary economic and social reforms.
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• "The EU, human rights, and the Russo-Chechen conflict", Tuomas Forsberg & Graeme P. Herd. Political Science Quarterly 120.3 (Fa
  The role of the Russo-Chechen conflict in shaping the European Union's relations with Russia is of interest to analysts and policy makers. An analysis of the EU's rhetorical and substantive responses to human rights abuses in Chechnya will reveal the limitations of human rights as a central organizing principle within the CFSP when it is applied to its external relations. Article argues that over the last decade, the EU has sacrificed a coherent and systematic advancement of its normative agenda in favor of strengthening its relations with the Russian Federation, a key strategic partner
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• "The union of Serbia and Montenegro", Mijatovic, Bosko and Popovic, Dragoljub and Samardzic, Slobodan
  The paper is a proposal for the constitutional reconstruction ofSerbiaandMontenegro. It starts with overview of the present constitution, claiming its invalidity, and defines Basic principles of the state union ofSerbiaandMontenegrowith overview of fundamental rights and freedoms, distribution of authority between the federal units and the federation, economic system and state institutions
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• Anti-corruption in transition. A contribution to the policy debate
  By the World Bank. Along with the increasing understanding in the world of the horrific impact of corruption on economic development and social stability, there has also been a radical increase in the demand for practical strategies for elimination of corruption. This report uncovers various types of corruption, identifies this problem and compares its expressions in the various transition period countries. That is followed by conclusions regarding the development of various anti-corruption strategies that would take into account the differences in the region thereby ensuring the effectiveness of reforms
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Vesna Pesic with publication weurope workinggroups
• Aspects of labor migration and unemployment in the Arab region
  By Nader Fergany, Almishkat Center for Research. Migration has become internalized as a structural feature of the political economy of many Arab countries. As a result, the loss of information on the phenomenon is unfortunate and needs to be corrected. The center of attention of the paper is migration shifts to countries of destination outside the Arab region, especially Europe, which are, with some exceptions that intensify the brain drain out of the region1, apprehensive of additional migration inflows.
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• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. Through research, publishing, convening, and on occasion, creating new institutions and international networks, Endowment associates shape fresh policy approaches. Their interests span geographic regions and the relations among governments, business, international organizations and civil society, focusing on the economic, political, and technological forces driving global change
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• Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia
  By Kathleen Collins. This book is a study of regime transition, transformation, and state building in Central Asia, from Soviet colonization to decolonization; in particular, the book explores the informal politics that shapes these processes, the political systems that emerge, and the durability of these systems. Creating a democratic regime and creating a durable one are two issues that should be linked, yet most scholars and practitioners of the "third wave" of democracy have focused on building democratic regimes while neglecting the fundamental issue of regime stability
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• Coalition building and monitoring in transition countries
  By the Center for the Study of Democracy. Once an "exotic" issue in the diplomatic exchanges, corruption became a constant part of the agenda of the international community in the early and mid-1990s. In recent years, corruption has evolved into one of the priority problems of transition societies. At the same time different approaches have been elaborated both to counter corruption and to take its dimensions, survey the background factors, and the multitude of meanings it has been attributed with by public opinion. In this respect the work of Coalition 2000, which combines civil society pro-active anticorruption measures and monitoring instruments, has emerged as a unique advocacy and research tool leading to practical results
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