NATO Enlargement and the South

september 11 and nato enlargement

9/11 (september) is one of the influential events in the international politics. in fact this event opens a new chapter of transaction in international relation and has been affected great powers policy and international institution in different aspects. nato as the most important security institution in west also affected by these events. these events have been changed nato strategy in deal wi...

Positive and normative use of fuzzy DEA-BCC models: A critical view on NATO enlargement

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a widely used mathematical programming approach for comparing the input and output of a set of comparable decision-making units (DMUs) by evaluating their relative efficiency. The traditional DEA methods require accurate measurement of both the inputs and outputs. However, the real evaluation of the DMUs is often characterized by imprecision and uncertainty in...

A responsibility to protect Africa from the West? South Africa and the NATO Intervention in Libya

This article will argue that South Africa‟s approach to conflict mediation and peace building is informed by the ANC‟s experience of the transition to democracy in South Africa and is widely misinterpreted. This was particularly evident in the Libyan crisis, where South Africa was widely accused of exhibiting a morally duplicitous and ideologically rudderless foreign policy because of the manne...

EU Enlargement: The New Member States and Agricultural Trade Potentials

An interactive MOLP method for identifying target units in output-oriented DEA models: The NATO enlargement problem

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis Target unit Undesirable output Multiple objective linear programming Minimax method a b s t r a c t Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a mathematical programming technique for identifying efficient Decision Making Units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. DEA provides a technical efficiency score for each DMU, a technical efficiency reference se...