This paper develops a theory of the interaction between appropriative conflict and economic growth. Appropriative conflict, as measured by the diversion of resources, is viewed as the cost of securing effective property rights. We identify conditions under which conflict rises or falls as the rate of economic growth improves. The main implication of the analysis is that if the quality of proper...

Since its inception in the early 1990s, the Tumen River Area Development Programme (TRADP) has come to embody many of the hopes and frustrations of micro-regionalism in Northeast Asia in the post-Cold War period. On the one hand, the project has been seen as a means to utilise economic co-operation as a means to drive political and security co-operation. But on the other, ambitious hopes for th...

The article reviews the prerequisites and circumstances of UN Convention on Law Sea development in context creating a system for resolving international maritime disputes. It was found that adoption result complex political process lengthy negotiations at Third Conference Sea. One results establishment International Tribunal Seabed Disputes Chamber as part Tribunal.After that, analyzes separate...

The ascendency of Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency Brazil in 2018 put role traditional media companies and journalists under spotlight. Bad news or opinions against his government have been officially treated as fake, inaccurate, false information. In this context, data show a decrease trust growing consumption through platforms. According 2021 Reuters Institute report on trust, only 21% Brazil...

This article assesses the assumption that populist parties form an efficacious exhaust valve for voters, the channelling discontent thesis, as it is termed here. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Dutch PVV voters and (deliberate) nonvoters, I assess this thesis in a comparison between them. This analysis shows that non-voters do not lack political fulfilment on two of the three dimensions of ...

Abstract Do inferior courts play a meaningful role in interbranch disputes between the judicial and other branches? In conflicts involving judiciary, lower move first may shape direction of conflict before high intervene directly. This paper explores how this organizational feature affects judiciary’s ability willingness to constrain branches, developing formal model an dispute hierarchical bra...

This article, the lead article of a special issue on “The International Adjudication Mega-Politics,” explores causes, strategies and consequences international courts (ICs) becoming embroiled in mega-political legal disputes. In seminal Ran Hirschl described “mega-politics” cases as those where – both national spoke to fundamental questions that defined identity polity. we adapt term for specif...