Agriculture, crise climatique et violences :du nouveau sous le soleil du Sahel ?Retour sur un vieux débat à partir de la région du lac Tchad by Géraud Magrin

“…By recalling how this discussion is part of long-standing reflections on the relationship between resources and conflicts, he analyses the crystallisation of the debate into two camps - neo-determinist quantitative approaches at continental scales of study, on the one hand, and critical social science approaches such as Political ecology, which are more local and territorialized, on the other; as well as the role of think tanks as mediators of scientific work towards the political sphere. …”
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In Defense of Regulated Fee-for-Service Payment: A Response to Recent Commentaries by Naoki Ikegami

“…Politicians faced with the daunting issues in healthcare are eager to embrace new ideas promoted by academics and think tanks. However, in implementation, intrinsic flaws in design, such as the difficulty of finding physicians willing to be at risk for the costs of care, tend to be ignored. …”
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Maritime Biodiversity from the French State’s Perspective by Joanna Siekiera

“…Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Alimentation, and Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition along with two research think tanks, Ifremer and OFB have organized the “day of biodiversity”. …”
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Education faculty as knowledge brokers: Competing for access to New York State print media and policy influence by Gary Anderson, Nakia M. Gray-Nicolas, Madison Payton

“…Using New York state as a case, we searched Access World News to compare the level of media access of academics with other knowledge brokering organizations (KBOs; e.g. think tanks, teachers’ unions, advocacy organizations, etc.). …”
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Private public diplomacy. The end of public hegemony over international relations by Luis Melgar

“…On the contrary, there is a wide range of actors in the International Society, such as corporations, media, universities, think tanks. Even global public opinion could be considered an actor by itself. …”
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External Police Oversight in Mexico: Experiences, Challenges, and Lessons Learned by Rubén Guzmán Sánchez, Alejandro Espriu Guerra

“…This paper outlines the experiences and challenges of—as well as the lessons learned by—the Institute for Security and Democracy (Insyde) A.C., one of the most recognised think tanks in Mexico.…”
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Desafios e Perspectivas da Política de Defesa do Brasil by Francisco Carlos Teixeira Da Silva, Luis Fernandes

“…Os projetos dos grandes “think tanks”, esposados ao início da Administração Clinton e retomado, com outros contornos embora com os mesmos objetivos pela Administração Bush, sobre um século de hegemonia de uma só grande potência se esgotou claramente. …”
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Decentralized Cyberattack Attribution by Kristen E. Eichensehr

“…They are often faster and more detailed than governmental attributions, and they fill gaps where governments choose not to attribute. Companies and think tanks have recently proposed centralizing attribution of state-sponsored cyberattacks in a new international entity. …”
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Medzinárodná intelektuálna spolupráca a popularizácia vedy na zvýšenie environmentálneho vedomia a osvety trvalo udržateľného rozvoja/ International Intelectual Cooperation and Sci... by Ingrid Belčáková

“…The Chair’s mission is to serve as think-tanks and bridge builders between academia, civil society, local communities, research and policy-making. …”
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Legal elites and international relations: the Wilson Center on the anticorruption agenda of the brazilian judiciary by Eduardo de Moura Menuzzi, Fabiano Engelmann

“…The article aims to bring elements to the analysis of the role of the think tanks in the building of the political agenda mobilized by the judicial institutions in Brazil 2000s. …”
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Inequalities in Islamic State and Society: A Critical Review on the Thoughts of Bernard Lewis by Yasir Farooq, Ihsan Ur Rahman Ghauri

“…It is imagined that very soon Islam is going to become a major religion of the Europe. Now European think tanks are constantly working to present a negative picture of Islam. …”
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PUTERILE MIJLOCII ÎN SISTEMUL INTERNAȚIONAL ACTUAL by Cristina Vohn

“…Several articles and analyses published in 2020, in international journals and on the websites of prestigious think tanks, were drawing attention on the role that the middle powers are playing in today's international politics. …”
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Forecasting Terrorism: The Need for a More Systematic Approach by Edwin Bakker

“…This article analyzes a unique branch of terrorism literature—terrorism futures—by academics, think tanks, and governmental agencies published between 2000 and 2012. …”
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INTERVIEW OF THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE JOURNAL “COMPARATIVE POLITICS”, PROFESSOR ALEXEI D. VOSKRESSENSKI’S WITH ANDRANIK MIGRANYAN, DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND COO... by A. M. Migranian, A. D. Voskressenski

“…Abstract: Institute for democracy and cooperation is the first non-profit nonstate organization, set up to become a link between American think tanks and research centers, civil society institutions, universities and Russian intellectual and research centers and political and societal organizations. …”
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The Global South and Climate Coverage: From News Taker to News Maker by Waqas Ejaz, Adil Najam

“…While major differences exist in how much attention is paid to climate coverage in different parts of the world, how climate is discussed has been noticeably uniform and the major thrust of the “climate communication agenda” remains recognizably “global” in that it is driven by the more mature media markets in the North and especially by the narratives coming out of international climate institutions (e.g., the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], climate Conference of the parties [COPs] international nongovernmental organizations [NGOs], and think tanks). Building on the recent experience of the 2022 floods in Pakistan, this essay argues that with the advent of what we are calling the age of adaptation, climate reporting is likely to shift rapidly from mostly explaining why climate change is important (and generally convergent broad ideas about what might be done about it) to reporting on localized climate impacts (and often divergent preferences on how to allocate responsibility and evaluate the cost of those consequences). …”
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Policy ambassadors: human agency in the transnationalization of Brazilian social policies by Osmany Porto de Oliveira

“…The literature presents different arguments that focus on international organizations, think-tanks, epistemic communities, private agents, networks and so on to explain how policy models travel from a place to another. …”
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Foundation-sponsored networks: Brokerage roles of higher education intermediary organizations by Nabih Haddad

“…Furthermore, the most impactful grantees are those who cross sectoral boundaries, such as advocacy nonprofits, think tanks, membership associations, and government agencies.…”
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Media:Culture:Policy, or What we talk about when we talk about (cultural) policy by Sean Johnson Andrews, Janice Peck, Gilbert B. Rodman, Fan Yang (杨帆)

“…The essays in this issue argue for (or at least accept) an understanding of policy as a cultural production representing certain ideological outlooks, and thus implicitly suggest that cultural policy studies should encompass a wide range of policies; at the same time, the essays are interested in the cultural mechanisms and means through which policies are promulgated and enforced - from think tanks to social media flak, from the global circulation of ideologies to the local practices of appropriation/resistance.…”
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THE SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE AND SINO-VIETNAMESE RECONCILIATION by Ku Boon Dar

“…The research method was based on reviews of recent reports and surveys published in newspapers or think tanks. This qualitative analysis elucidates and deepens our understanding of the SCS dispute. …”
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Building skills for sustainability: a role for regional research networks by Pranab Mukhopadhyay, Mani Nepal, Priya Shyamsundar

“…In South Asia, as local and regional environment problems grow, societal demand for new sustainability knowledge has outpaced its supply by traditional institutions and created a niche for research networks and think tanks. We discuss the role of networks in producing knowledge by using the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE) as a case study. …”
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