Sino-Soviet relations: re-examining the prospects for normalization

Turkish - Iranian Relations: Prospects and Uncertainty

Iran and Turkey are two key regional actors that separately play a role in multiple geographies in terms of both geographical weight and tenets of identity. Geographically speaking, these two countries are simultaneously influential in political-security issues in different areas such as the Fertile Crescent. When it comes to identity, by making a link between their principles and values to reg...

Irredentism, the Diaoyu Islands, and Sino-Japanese Relations

Trade in Equipment and Capital Quality: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Split

April 3, 2011 Abstract How does access to imported capital goods affect the quality of investment in poor countries? From 1949 to 1957, China imported most of its industrial plants from the Soviet Union, but in the late 1950s a series of political disputes ended their trading relationship. In 1960, China entered a period of autarky which persisted until 1978. In market settings, closure to capi...

BARNETT PAPERS IN SOCIAL RESEARCH Re-Examining the Fertility Assumptions for Pacific Asia in the UN‘s 2010 World Population Prospects

Pacific Asia is currently home to some of the lowest fertility rates – and hence the fastest aging populations – in the world. This paper presents a systematic overview of both the reasons for this low fertility, and why it is unlikely to increase fertility significantly in the near future. As well as a comprehensive review of scholarly opinion, the paper examines the uniquely low fertility ide...

Normalization of relations and ontologies

Although few systems for normalization of relations are already in place to support schema refinement, they are rarely used be it by database practitioners, or as a teaching aid at universities. Meanwhile, the Semantic Web potential for novice implementations understood by both humans and machines Web-wide has just recently urged the need to reinterpret systems that are yet in the mainstream of...