Diplomatic Control, Foreign Policy, and Change under Xi Jinping: A Field-Theoretic Account

origins of armenia’s foreign policy and its foreign policy towards iran

foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged hist...

Identity and Foreign Policy

Political Culture and Iran`s Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of Iran`s Foreign Policy during Ahmadinejad and Rouhani

Political culture represents a society`s widely held, traditional values and its fundamental practices; foreign policy decision makers tend to make policies that are compatible with their society`s political culture because they share, if not all, many of those values. Among the various factors influencing Iran`s foreign policy,  the role of political culture seems to be rather underestimated. ...

Investment under Uncertainty and Policy Change∗

In this paper the impact of a policy change on the investment behavior of the firm is studied in an asymmetric information setting. The policy change occurs when a stochastic process describing the state of the economic environment reaches a certain trigger. Asymmetric information is modeled here by imposing that the firm does not know this trigger but only its probability distribution. Consequ...

Using Policy Gradients to Account for Changes in Behaviour Policies Using Policy Gradients to Account for Changes in Behaviour Policies under Off-policy Control

Off-policy learning refers to the problem of learning the value function of a behaviour, or policy, while selecting actions with a different policy. Gradient-based off-policy learning algorithms, such as GTD (Sutton et al., 2009b) and TDC/GQ (Sutton et al., 2009a), converge when selecting actions with a fixed policy even when using function approximation and incremental updates. In control prob...