This article challenges the presumption that American commitment to greater Indo-Pacific region has positive effects on regional stability. It argues degree which America's strategic choices in Asia embrittle or consolidate peace depends how they intersect with relational configurations of order. An accommodative strategy restraint and mutual threat reduction offers greatest stability least ris...

Estimates of the radiated seismic energy based on teleseismic and regional data often differ by up to an order of magnitude, with a tendency for regional estimates to be larger than teleseismic estimates for the same event. In this study we compare the velocity spectrum determined from teleseismic data after correction for radiation pattern and propagation effects, with the velocity spectrum de...

empowering of terrorist groups in the middle east is the product of numerous reasons. one of the most important of these reasons is the competition between regional powers and their use of the leverage of terrorist groups in order to put pressure on each other. furthermore, immature and wrong policies of great powers like: the united states in militarization of the region have provided new just...

the development of regional logistics system is a typical self-adapting and self-organizing evolution process. According to the structures and operation of regional logistics, the self-organizing characteristics of regional logistics synergetic evolution are analyzed. Moreover, the space evolution phases of regional logistics system are educed based on the complex system theory, and the enterpr...

when the tunisian revolution triggered the domino of the collapse arab leaders, it was not anticipated to reach to syria creating a deep conflict with local, regional and trans-regional dimensions. however, when the protests speared to syria, various players try to exploit it to their own advantage, and an all-out conflict began. due to syria's geopolitical location, regional powers such as ira...