The foreign policy of states determines the way they behave in the international arena. Accurate analysis of official foreign policy documents of a country is helpful in that it shows what the international priorities of a country are at specific periods. This article reviews the U.S. National Security Strategy documents published in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2015 from the perspective of the percept...

Colin S. Gray distinguished himself from other scholars in the field of strategic studies with his belief that grand strategy is indispensable, complex, and inherently agential. This article identifies key themes, continuities, conceptual relationships, potential discontinuities decades thought. Gray’s statement “all strategy” remains highly relevant today, emphasizing importance agential conte...

Article Rush Doshi: The Long Game. China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, 459 Seiten was published on September 1, 2022 in the journal SIRIUS – Zeitschrift für Strategische Analysen (volume 6, issue 3).

background: back and shoulder pain are most common musculoskeletal disorders in students, that the way of sitting or interactions with academic equipment is a major risk factor for these disorders.  the aims of this study is redesign and construct a prototype of painting chair (kharak) by using industrial design and ergonomic methods to reduce musculoskeletal disorders and increase user satisfa...

The war in Syria, given its complexity and geopolitical importance, has received much recent analytical attention. Although many perspectives have been covered, there is still a need Western sources to view the conflict more through Russia’s lens. This article thus looks at how Russia designed executed military strategy Syria fit into overall grand strategy. It examines exactly Russian ‘strateg...

Even though there has been a proliferation of e-society measures in recent years, analyses of the metrics of the “information society” are still far from responsive to the needs of many stakeholders and continue to suffer from a number of serious limitations. Issues in eight critical areas are briefly presented. They include: definition of the universe to be measured; definition of the objects ...

As the next generation of engineers, engineering students at the local level have specific views on what key issues should be addressed in the coming decades. Results of a University of Kansas survey completed by over 220 engineering students from sophomores to graduate students in seven engineering majors from five departments are reported, analyzed, and compared with the 14 Grand Challenges f...