The financial crisis has deeply affected European defence budgets and, as a consequence, the EU’s capability to act as a provider of global security. This paper assesses the extent to which pooling & sharing (P&S) of military capabilities is a viable plan to boost collective capacity-building and offset the heavy budget cut-backs, drawing impetus from the NATO ‘smart defence’ agenda. Although m...

The historically prevailing view in the network literature has been that relationships within networks develop gradually and cumulatively over time, with power playing what might be termed a ‘concrete’ role in such a process, based primarily on identifiable resource dependencies. The concept of (Foucauldian) ‘system power’, beginning to emerge in the management and organisation literature, is n...

With the business environment become more complex and dynamic, organizations have been faced with more pressures of competition. Organizations are often compelled to form strategic alliances with other organizations to survive and prosper. The inter-organizational arrangement can become favorable seedbed for inter-organization conflict. The participants in the strategic alliance often spend a s...

This paper generalizes the model proposed by Misra, by considering switching between political parties. In the model proposed, the movements of members from political party B to political party C and vice versa, are considered but the net movement is considered by assuming that [Formula: see text] (a constant), which implies that the movement of members is either from party B to party C or from...

This paper describes the stakes of ongoing conversations in areas queer theory and black studies on epistemological, ethical, political role unintelligibility. In line with longstanding philosophical questions about value aporia as gap or absence understanding, thinkers like Lee Edelman Frank Wilderson III have articulated how people regularly fallen into spaces unintelligibility they run again...

The dramatic health emergency that has hit Europe put the issue of a thorough reform European budget financing system back on political discussion table, in order to support expenditure required cope with new tasks are increasingly expected be assigned Union. ensuing debate concerns both nature resources and budget. And it also how distribution between different levels government is defined. ta...