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From local to global: The changing face of the environmental challenge

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The factors, which act as drivers behind the globalizing of environmental policy since 1980, are analyzed. It is concluded that the world needs a multi-tier environmental governance body that ' thinks globally, acts globally' as well as regionally, bilaterally, domestically and locally.

Government domestic functions, Interpretation and construction, Environmental policy, Environmental law

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The Bible and the ballot box: Evangelicals and democracy in the 'global south'

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The unlikelines of the role of evangelical Christians in the global south to bring about a dramatic political change in their unsettled societies is presented. The factors responsible for equipping these very evangelicals to play a democratizing role in the global south are discussed.

Christians, Political aspects, Asia, Political reform, Democratization

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Fears of foreign ownership: the old face of economic nationalism

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Study examines some of the many examples of 'economic patriotism' and analyses whether this new protectionism wave represents a new breed of mercantilist fervor or a reincarnation of protectionism from years past.

Europe, Foreign investments, Economic aspects, Foreign ownership

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