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Leading the Unwilling: Unilateral Strategies to Prevent Arctic Oil Exploration

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  • Justin Leroux
  • Daniel Spiro

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  • Justin Leroux & Daniel Spiro, 2018. "Leading the Unwilling: Unilateral Strategies to Prevent Arctic Oil Exploration," CIRANO Working Papers 2018s-26, CIRANO.
    • Handle: RePEc:cir:cirwor:2018s-26
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    Keywords

    Arctic Region; Oil Exploration; Climate Change; Geopolitics; Unilateral Action;
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    JEL classification:

    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • F5 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • Q3 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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