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Spring 2009
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Courtesy of Nazli Choucri and MIT Press. Used with permission.
Source: Nazli Choucri. Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses, pp. 31.
Distribution of States Across Profile Groups (1/2)
Profile 1
Profile 2
Profile 3
Profile 4
Profile 5
Profile 6
Algeria
Albania
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Finland
Antigua and
Barbuda
Angola
Armenia
Australia
Costa Rica
New Zealand
Austria
Argentina
Azerbaijan
Canada
Dominica
Norway
Bahrain
Benin
Estonia
Dominican
Republic
United States
Barbados
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Iceland
El Salvador
Sweden
Belgium
Bhutan
Bulgaria
Oman
Grenada
United States
Croatia
Bolivia
Burundi
Saudi Arabia
Jamaica
Cyprus
Botswana
Cambodia
Lebanon
Czech Republic
Brazil
Cape Verde
Lithuania
Denmark
Burkina Faso
China
Malaysia
France
Cameroon
Comoros
Maldives
Germany
Central African
Republic
Cote d'Ivoire
Marshall
Islands
Greece
Mauritius
Hong Kong,
China
Belarus
Chad
Egypt, Arab Rep.
Chile
Ethiopia
Colombia
Gambia, The
Philippines
Ireland
Congo, Dem.
Rep.
Georgia
Poland
Israel
Congo, Rep.
Ghana
Sri Lanka
Italy
Djibouti
Guatemala
St. Lucia
Japan
Ecuador
Uzbekistan
Hungary
Korea, Rep.
•
Source: for the slide “Distribution of States Across Profile Groups (1/2).
*See Choucri and North (1993) for initial specification; and see
Wickboldt and Choucri (2006) for extension of the logic to differentiate
empirically among countries within each of the profile group.
Distribution of States Across Profile Groups (2/2) Profile 1
Profile 2
Profile 3
Profile 4
Profile 5
Profile 6
Venezuela, RB
Haiti
Thailand
Kuwait
Sudan
Honduras
Turkey
Luxembourg
Gabon
India
West Bank
and Gaza
Malta
Guinea
Indonesia
Mexico
Guyana
Jordan
Netherlands
Iran, Islamic Rep.
Kenya
Portugal
Kazakhstan
Pakistan
Seychelles
Yemen, Rep.
Vietnam
Singapore
Mauritania
Rwanda
Slovak Republic
Mongolia
Sierra Leone
Slovenia
Mozambique
Swaziland
Spain
Niger
Syrian Arab
Republic
St. Kitts and
Nevis
Madagascar
Tunisia
Switzerland
Mali
Uganda
United Kingdom
•
Source: for the slide “Distribution of States Across Profile Groups (2/2).
*See Choucri and North (1993) for initial specification; and see
Wickboldt and Choucri (2006) for extension of the logic to differentiate
empirically among countries within each of the profile group.
Definition of State Profiles
Group VI:
Technology
>
Population
>
Resources
Group V:
Technology
>
Resources
>
Population
Group IV:
Resources
>
Technology
>
Population
Group III:
Population
>
Technology
>
Resources
Group II:
Population
>
Resource
>
Technology
Group I:
Resources
>
Population
>
Technology
*See Choucri and North (1993) for initial specification; and see
Wickboldt and Choucri (2006) for extension of the logic to differentiate
empirically among countries within each of the profile group.