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Why do governments in some developing countries implement international standards, while others do not? Focusing on the politics of bank regulation, this book develops a new framework to explain regulatory interdependence between countries in the core and the periphery of the global financial system. Drawing on in-depth analysis of eleven countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, it shows how financial globalization generates strong reputational and competitive incentives for developing countries to converge on international standards. Regulatory interdependence is generated by relations between regulators, politicians, and banks within developing countries, and international actors including investors, peer regulators, and international financial institutions. We explain why it is that some configurations of domestic politics and forms of integration into global finance generate convergence with international standards, while other configurations lead to divergence. This book contributes to our understanding of the ways in which governments and firms in the core of global finance powerfully shape regulatory politics in the periphery, and the ways in which peripheral governments and firms manoeuvre within the constraints and opportunities created by financial globalization

Africa --- Asia --- Latin America --- financial globalization --- regulatory interdependence --- international banking standards --- Basel I --- Basel II --- Basel III --- transnational policy networks

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The members of the 19th century Basel Reading Society belonged to the socio-cultural bourgeoisie. This study is a biography of this group of members of civil society: its transformation is observed and interpreted against the backdrop of the club history of the Reading Society and within the local historical context. The collective body is analysed and portrayed with respect to both the imposed statutory framework, quantitative development, social, political and historical economic factors, and also to individual biographical data.

sociology --- association history --- bürgertum --- lesegesellschaft --- soziologie --- sozialgeschichte --- basle --- basel --- vereinsgeschichte --- social history --- bourgeoisie

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From how the mammoth came to the museum to how scientific facts emerged from the collected artifacts - a history of scientific collections.

wissenschaft --- natural history --- museology --- naturgeschichte --- geschichte der naturwissenschaften --- history --- museum history --- museumwissenschaft --- sammlungsgeschichte --- cultural history --- museumsgeschichte --- basel --- geschichtswissenschaft --- history of science --- collection --- science --- sammlung --- wissenschaftsgeschichte --- history of collections --- museum --- kulturegeschichte

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During Nigeria’s decolonization, Swiss traders and diplomats, aware of the exceptional potential for growth, attentively observed this new market for possible business opportunities. This book focuses on multinational companies, diplomats, development cooperation actors and public opinion: it analyses underlying motivations and means, as well as the implications of their activities.

foreign aid --- croix-rouge --- basel mission --- alusuisse --- nigeria --- public opinion --- diplomacy --- arms --- business --- switzerland --- nestlé --- humanitaire --- decolonization --- mediation --- humanitarian aid --- médiation --- development --- colonization --- guerre civile du nigeria --- trente glorieuses --- armes --- biafra --- pétrole --- décolonisation --- économie --- afrique --- oerlikon-bührle --- british empire --- propaganda --- diplomatie --- coopération au développement --- propagande --- opinion publique --- utc --- commerce --- trade --- mission de bâle --- suisse --- colonisation --- oil --- cicr --- panalpina --- icrc --- empire britannique --- nigerian civil war --- red-cross