The political and military atmosphere has heated in the South China Sea over the past few years, both bilaterally and multilaterally. However, not every country in the South China Sea has aligned interests. While the Mischief Reef incident of 1994-1995 saw ASEAN united against Chinese assertiveness, each country has grown more focused on isolated issues less relevant to the nations as a group.

On May 12, 2016, the Brazilian Senate initiated impeachment proceedings of President Dilma Rousseff, installing Michel Temer as interim president. Temer’s agenda included Provsisional Measure No. 726, which shuttered Brazil’s Ministry Culture, calamatious news for culture makers, who relied on ministry a source advocacy and financial support. In response, activists occupied state offices across...

This study is a novel attempt at fusion of female-authored Chinese poetry and Daesoon Thought. Notably, this has style never been attempted in classical literature studies or on will also clarify the key concept grievance-resolution (解冤 haewon) Jinrihoe through comparison with works. Choi Song-seoldang’s that was composed early 20th century, contemporaneous emergence Thought, analyzed here via ...

Volatility smiles arise in currency option markets when empirical exchange rate returns distributions exhibit leptokurtosis. This feature of empirical distributions is symptomatic of turbulent periods when exchange rate movements are in excess of movements based on the assumption of normality. In contrast, during periods of tranquility, movements in exchange rates are relatively small, resultin...

This research addressed theoretical approaches in political science arguing that the American electorate is either poorly informed or dependent on party label cues, by assessing performance on political judgment tasks when party label information is missing. The research materials were created from the results of a national opinion survey held during a national election. The experiments themsel...

This research addressed theoretical approaches in political science arguing that the American electorate is either poorly informed or dependent on party label cues, by assessing performance on political judgment tasks when party label information is missing. The research materials were created from the results of a national opinion survey held during a national election. The experiments themsel...

Abstract The recent proliferation of settler colonial and Indigenous studies Palestine have addressed the historical present-day enclosure Palestinian land, yet question ‘indigeneity’ is underexamined in this literature. Claims to indigeneity straddle varied definitions: a racial category; as constructed through encounter or preceding colonialism; local relation an international juridico-politi...