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belligerents. The issues surrounding the Ottomans were not resolved, however, and lead to the Crimean War (1853—1856) fought by Britain, France, and the Ottomans against Russia. Rivalry between Britain and Russia developed over Central Asia in the Great Game of the late nineteenth century, as Russia desired warm-water ports on the Indian Ocean while Britain wanted to prevent Russian troops from gaining a potential invasion route to India. The Pandjeh Incident caused a war scare in 1885. There was cooperation

7 Historical institutionalism Sven Steinmo Historical institutionalism is neither a particular theory nor a specific method. It is best understood as an approach to studying politics and social change. This approach is distinguished from other social science approaches by its attention to real-world empirical questions, its historical orientation and its attention to the ways in which institutions structure and shape behaviour and outcomes. Although the term ‘historical institutionalism’ was

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University Press, 1982. 9. Pour une excellente identification du rôle complexe des variables sociétales dans la formulation de la politique extérieure économique dans une perspective de public choice consulter Kenneth W. DAM, The Rules of the Global Game. A New Look at the US International Economic Policymaking, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2001, particulièrement la première partie de l’ouvrage intitulée « Angles of Vision », pp. 3-92. 10. Certaines analyses sociétales accordent néanmoins

been[vii]. The third leg on the stool is the use of differential retentions: Claims that are "non-indemnifiable" - and therefore will be paid by individuals rather than corporations - will often be subject to a lower retention than others, on the theory that an individual will be less able to absorb a larger share of the risk. Over the past two or three years, retention levels of more than a million dollars have become common. For a director facing years of protracted litigation, this presents a

quantity competition in homogeneous markets, Economics Letters, 38, 417-422. [2] ALLEN B. et M. HELLWIG (1986), Bertrand-Edgeworth oligopoly in large markets, Review of Economic Studies, 53, 175-204. [3] AMIR Rabah (1996), Cournot oligopoly and the theory of supermodular games, Games and Economic Behavior, 15, 132-148. [4] AMIR Rabah et I. GRILO (1999), Stackelberg vs Cournot equilibrium, Games and Economic Behavior, 26, 1-21. [5] AMIR R. et J.Y. JIN (2001), Cournot and Bertrand equilibria compared:

Kanungo, 1998). According to Bass though, theories of transformational leadership and organizational change emphasize that change is accomplished through the leader’s implementation of a unique vision of the organization (Bass, 1985). Adding to such a theory, Bass and Avolio argued that the achievement of such a milestone would be done through powerful persuasive, personal characteristics, and actions designed to change internal organizational cultural forms and substance (Bass and Avolio, 1994). Other

http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1988_num_29_4_2548 Abstract Didier Lapeyronnie : Social movements and political action. Is there a resources mobilization theory ? The approach in terms of resources mobilization theory must be considered as a full attempt at theory building. Conceived in the more general framework of participative democracy, it tries to analyze political action and social movements as a set of integrated values, without refering to the social

Sociales (05JAXLX004) et d’une bourse de la Fondation pour la Recherche Scientifique des Chercheurs Rentrés en Chine du Ministère de l’Éducation chinois. LE YIN ET LE YANG DANS LA COMMUNICATION Références 163 BANDURA, A., Social Learning Theory, Engl. Cliffs, Prentice-Hall 1977. BARTLETT, F. C., Political Propaganda, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1940. BI, J. et D’AGOSTINO, F., « The Doctrine of Filial Piety: A Philosophical Analysis of the Concealment Case », Journal of Chinese

inutile. En effet, si deux individus A et B, respectivement en possession des biens a et b, désirent échanger, la théorie est apte à décrire le rapport d‟échange en comparant l‟intensité relative 13 Thierry LEVY, 1994, Measurement Economics, Value-Theory and the Social function of Money, Atlantic Economic Society Best Papers Proceedings, Vol. 4, N°2, Juillet. 14 Jean-Pierre DUPUY, 2004, Intersubjectivity and Embodiment, Journal of Bioeconomics, -, pp 275-294. 15 Jean-Paul SARTRE,1939, Une idée fondamentale