Zimbabwe Language Policy: Continuity or Radical Change?

American Policy in Persian Gulf Region: Continuity or Change at the Trump Era

United States power in Persian Gulf has risen since the end of Second World War. Dividing U.S. presence in the Region into the Cold war and post-Cold war era, the principle policy in first period was narrowing the impact of Soviet Union in the Region and in latter, Access to Persian Gulf region’s oil and controlling the major threats which can disrupt the flow of oil to global energy market. Fo...

Cluster Renewal in Old Industrial Regions – Continuity or Radical Change?

The purpose of this paper is to explore conceptually the role of clusters for the economic recovery of old industrial regions. We will identify three types of clusterbased renewal, distinguishing between an innovation-oriented adjustment of mature clusters (incremental change), the emergence of new agglomerations in established industries (diversification) and the rise of knowledge intensive an...

putin; a change or the continuity in russian foreign policy in the new era

putin’s policies have had significant impact on russian foreign policy after the cold war. despite the fact that putin sought for increasing russia’s power to the same level as the cold war, however; he was aware that the nature of the international system has undergone serious changes. therefore, some specific factors including close collaboration with the united states, an energy-oriented for...

Business Analytics: Radical Shift or Incremental Change?

Conceptualizing Continuity and Change

Political scientists studying institutional development face the challenge of accounting for both continuity and change over time. Models of path dependence based on increasing returns, inspired by the example of the QWERTY typewriter keyboard, have played an important role in the analysis of institutional continuity, but they have been criticized for their inability to accommodate change. In t...