10 research outputs found
Book review: SIPRI yearbook 2013: armaments, disarmament and international security, from Stockholm international peace research institute
The SIPRI Yearbook remains the authoritative source of data, analysis, and prognosis for researchers of peace and conflict, and this 44th edition analyses developments in 2012 in security and conflicts, military spending and armaments, and arms control and disarmament. Patrick Theiner finds that academics, policy makers, and journalists will undoubtedly find its information about arms and conflict to be both exceptionally well-researched and clearly presented
Book Review: theories of globalization by Barrie Axford
Theories of Globalization makes a welcome addition to the bookshelves of those interested in globality, globalism, and globalization, writes Patrick Theiner. Barrie Axford offers students and scholars a comprehensive and critical introduction to the concept of globalization, and draws out the common threads between competing theories, as well as pinpointing the problems that challenge our understanding of globalization
Donors, dollars, and diseases : state-institution interactions in global public health
THESIS 9834This study explores the dynamics of state interactions with institutions for global public health. It investigates three separate, but intrinsically linked questions: why donor states contribute resources to certain international institutions, which developing states aim to acquire these resources, and how institutions ultimately translate between donors and recipients in their decisions about resource distribution