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“Hunger makes a thief of any man”: Poverty and crime in British colonial Asia

Januar 12, 2017, 11:00 a.m., Papaioannou KJ., Allgemein.

<span class="paragraphSection"><div class="boxTitle">Abstract</div>This study uses rainfall variation as an instrumental variable for rice production to estimate the impact of poverty on different types of crime across British colonies in South and South East Asia (1910-–1940). Using original primary sources retrieved from annual administrative and statistical reports, it provides some of the first evidence in a historical setting on the causal relationship between poverty and crime. Extreme rainfall, both droughts and floods, lead to a large increase in property crimes (such as robbery, petty theft, and cattle raiding), but not to an increase in interpersonal violent crimes (such as murder, homicides, and assault). In line with a growing body of literature on the climate-economy nexus, this study offers evidence that loss of agricultural income is one of the main causal channels leading to property crime. Additional historical information on food shortages, poverty, and crime is used to explore the connection in greater detail.</span>

Quelle: https://academic.oup.com/ereh/article/21/1/1/2971456/Hunger-makes-a-thief-of-any-man-Poverty-and-crime?rss=1

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The changing character of EUFOR Althea: power politics or learning?

Januar 12, 2017, 4:53 a.m., Trineke Palm, Allgemein.

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Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2016.1256947?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

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Emerging powers and the responsibility to protect: non-linear norm dynamics in complex international society

Januar 12, 2017, 4:34 a.m., Charles T. Hunt, Allgemein.

Volume 29, Issue 3, September 2016, Page 870-890
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Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2016.1270547?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

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The effectiveness of Canada’s navy on escort duty

Januar 11, 2017, 11:00 a.m., Skogstad K., Allgemein.

<span class="paragraphSection"><div class="boxTitle">Abstract</div>This paper examines the relative effectiveness of different vessels used as convoy escorts in the North Atlantic by the Allied navies during the Second World War. A data set is created that matches convoy movements to German U-boat locations in order to examine the escort composition and the number of merchant ships lost when an engagement occurred. I find that larger escort vessels, such as destroyers and frigates, were between 1.4 and 2.25 more effective than smaller escort vessels, such as corvettes, at preventing the loss of a merchant ship. As an application of these results, I examine the cost faced by the Allies from Canada failing to develop domestic naval manufacturing capabilities prior to World War II. By constructing a counterfactual scenario, I find that developing a Canadian domestic shipbuilding industry would have given the Allies a net benefit of 23.2 million 1940 Canadian dollars.</span>

Quelle: https://academic.oup.com/ereh/article/21/1/104/2971452/The-effectiveness-of-Canadas-navy-on-escort-duty?rss=1

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Topic „Ideal Spaces“

Januar 11, 2017, 9:48 a.m., Ulrich Gehmann, Ideal Spaces, Topics.

An ideal space is a space both imagined and perfected. Traditionally, an ideal space was associated with the notion of utopia, or in more broader terms, with the search for a space hoped for where humans can unfold their positive potentials and were able to lead a better life. Today, in times of globalization (also of problems), the search for an ideal space seems to be obsolete and to belong to a past. But this isn’t the case, not only as utopias are concerned. In terms of non-physical spaces, we live in many ‚ideal‘ spaces, at least on a part-time base, and also the issue of the classical utopia as a space for a better community of humans has not been settled. We want to invite to investigate possible meanings of spaces considered „ideal“ in both past and present, to investigate their range of appearance as well as their social relevance and impact, in particular today.

Quelle: http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1995

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