Security and the Transnational Information Polity

From information infrastructure to information polity

Most academic journals will reach a publishing watershed; a point in their existence at which a reorientation is deemed appropriate. So it is with Information Infrastructure and Policy as it transforms during this edition and the next into a wholly new journal, Information Polity: The International Journal of Government and Democracy in the Information Age. This edition remains true to the prog...

0 - Brokering Europe : Euro - Lawyers and the Making of a Transnational Polity

By any standards, Europe is a lawyers’ paradise. Many figures illustrate the extent to which ‘Europe’ is juridified and could well be called upon here: the number of pages of European regulation in any given field, the percentage of national legislation originating in EU norms, the everincreasing caseload of the European Court of Justice (ECJ, or ‘the Court’), etc. Figures, however, fail to gra...

Editorial: Information Polity: an international journal for the information age

Recent data made available to me confirms the gathering strength of Information Polity amongst academics and professionals worldwide. Of particular significance for a journal that sets out to be international in its outreach and content is the interest to be found in the journal in the USA, India, Canada, China as well as in the UK and many other European countries. Such reach will add weight t...

supply and demand security of energy in central asia and the caucasus

امنیت انرژی به معنی عرضه مداوم و پایدار همراه با قیمت های معقول در حامل های انرژی، که تهدیدات امنیتی، سیاسی، اقتصادی، محیط زیستی و روانی را کاهش دهد. امروزه نفت و گاز تنها، کالای تجاری نیست بلکه بعنوان ابزار سیاسی مورد استفاده قرار می گیرد.اختلاف میان روسیه و اکراین بر سر انرژی در ژانویه 2006، تهدیدی برای امنیت انرژی اروپا ایجاد کرد. در این تحقیق ما تلاش کردیم که نقش انرژی آسیای میانه و قفقاز ر...

Editorial: Quality and variety in the pages of Information Polity