Economic interests

China's Economic and Strategic Interests in Afghanistan

Afghanistan has a unique and indeed, an immense significance in the strategic calculus of People’s Republic of China. The geopolitics of this Chinese neighbourhood has four glaring peculiarities, which include; political, strategic, geographical, and economic. In the rapidly changing global security environment, these aspects demands a deeper cooperation not only between China and Afghanistan b...

Munchausen syndrome by proxy: more than "economic vested interests".

Interests.

t the time that Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the party’s monopoly position in the political sphere, and its rationale for playing the dominant role in economic and social arrangements, centered on a single thesis—one that had been prominently stated and emphatically endorsed since Lenin’s time. The party so fully represented the people’s ...

Competing interests

Combining rabies-virus tracing, optical clearing (CLARITY), and whole-brain light-sheet imaging, we mapped the monosynaptic inputs to midbrain dopamine neurons projecting to different targets (different parts of the striatum, cortex, amygdala, etc.) in mice. We found that most populations of dopamine neurons receive a similar set of inputs rather than forming strong reciprocal connections with ...

Commercial websites: Moving the goalposts on contract formation or justifiable protection of economic interests?

In this paper I will examine one element of a wider discussion on the harmonisation and globalisation of commercial law as a response to the development of electronic commerce. Over the past decade we have seen many developments at a regulatory level associated with electronic commerce which have impacted on the body of law we know as ‘commercial law’. However, there are also implications for a...