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Asked to provide advice to a Central or Eastern European nation drafting its first post-
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This article explores the reemergence of the Law and Development Movement in the post–
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In several nations in Southeast Asia, illegally importing, exporting, trading, or possessing
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China is both a recipient and a donor of foreign development aid. As a donor state, China
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Having already abandoned a central command economy and embraced the" mixed market"
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The history of legality in Vietnam is inextricably bound up with the adaptation of foreign
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