This article argues that since World War II, comparative education has worked in the service of two historic blocs: one focused on creating institutions and ideologies support internationalism a second containing threat communism. Both versions have supported justified foreign intervention into domestic systems, mirroring colonial practices logics. Once United States America became politically ...

Since the late 1980s governments in sub-Saharan Africa have been undertaking various structural reforms, both politically and socio-economically. Uganda is no exception in a sense the country endeavors for democratization as well as for sustainable development. One of the pillars for this policy reform has been decentralization, which has been considered to be essential to create a collaborativ...

Abstract China's environmental crackdowns under Xi Jinping have led to a sweeping shutdown of private enterprises. To circumvent this, enterprises developed different survival strategies including direct lobbying government officials and indirect through business associations. Based on comparative case studies in Chinese cities, our research finds that larger enterprises, enjoying more economic...

Targeted attacks on civil society and non-governmental organizations have gone underreported despite the fact that these organizations have been shown to be frequent targets of these attacks. In this paper, we shed light on targeted malware attacks faced by these organizations by studying malicious e-mails received by 10 civil society organizations (the majority of which are from groups related...

Naci Yorulmaz’s book, based on his Ph.D. dissertation completed at the Uni- versity of Birmingham in 2011 under title Arming Sultan: German Arms Trade and Personal Diplomacy Ottoman Empire before World War I begins with a quote from Friedrich Naumann, liberal politician advocate Germany’s Mitteleuropa Plan, which aimed domination Central Europe. In Naumann’s words, “We need to make country econ...

As a new economic entity, the Islamic banking business is an interesting object, not solely for and legal discourses, but again financial anchor that may elevate profit existing industries, thus also country. It generally agreed, therefore, growth development of this industry in particular counties are due to concerted efforts politically, legally, economically, socially, other relevant causes....