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[...] there is a demand for highly skilled workers to service a globalizing economy, particularly in information technology and finance. [...] a focus on circular migration in the international arena can draw attention to the close linkages between internal and international migrations, linkages that are both conceptual and practical.
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[...] the rise of China affects all countries, including the EU as its largest trading partner, not only in terms of trade, but also insofar as it is an engine of the world economy alongside the US. [...] an international body or forum cannot force its mandate on sovereign nations; instead, it must appeal to the mutual self-interest of countries in maintaining stability.
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Upon graduating with a degree in Spanish and international relations, Campbell began his early career working at the United Nations, the State Department and Congress. Between Campbell's two children, Collin, 24, and Caroline, 21, he's coached hockey, baseball and softball but never had a chance to coach the sport he grew up playing golf.
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According to the photographs of strikers from the 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery Strike, the British workers waving the national flag are white and male. [...] the employment of migrant workers is often symptomatic of issues that do not essentially derive from immigration policy.
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Additionally, poorer states may believe that by allowing visafree travel from rich countries, problems such as large-scale illegal immigration or refugee crises will not arise. [...] our initial intent is to conceptualize visa-free travel rights as a measure of national influence and how closely this influence fits into the actual data.
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[...] it is impossible to approach the Middle East as a whole in terms of hydrology and hydropolitical features.7 The overwhelming common denominator in all six basins, however, is the potential of water body management to foster peace and stability in the region. [...] the technical solution to solve the water demand crisis lies mainly in just consuming less water in agriculture.
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If a violent act is committed, there is often no adequate law enforcement system to punish the offenders. Since most camps are not entirely closed, the problems of crime, violence, and militarization leach out into the surrounding host community.1 The presence of refugees can thus pose a security problem, but the host country is usually also affected on a political, economic and environmental level.
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[...] access to cheap energy resources is of such major importance for the industrialized countries that it triggers political and military conflicts. [...] the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased from the pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million (ppm) to 385 ppm today, resulting in an increase of the average global temperature of about 0.6 °C. Based on results of the International Panel on Climate Change,2 there is a growing scientific and political consensus that an increase of 2°C of the earth's average temperature above pre-industrial levels is the maximum safe level that can be envisaged.
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[...] it develops an informal model of asymmetry in interstate relations that assumes rational state actors and iterative interactions among these actors. [...] changes in the structure of international relations have a clearly observable effect on international law.
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Since the late 1980s a growing number of scholars, journalists, and NGOs have been employing the metaphor fortress Europe to depict what are allegedly disastrous migration policies enacted within the framework of the European Union. [...] irregular migration has been enabled by the past decades' neoliberal transformations of the EU's social relations and political economy.3 At first sight, there is a glaring contradiction between the EU's stated objective of fighting illegal migration on the one side, and its neo-liberal economic objectives on the other.