This study focused on decentralization and democratic local government in Cross River State, Nigeria. Sample size of 900 was adopted for the purpose of the study. Stratified random sampling was used in the study. Stratification was done on the basis of geopolitical zone, political party affiliation and educational status of the respondents. 900 political party members evenly distributed (300 ap...

Emergence of new geopolitical affairs in the important and sensitive places of the world, like the Middle East, Balkan, Central Asia (Caucasus zone) and… has caused emergence of a new trend of so called cold war with variables like the expansion of NATO to the East, the U.S. missile Defense shield, Georgia’s events, the prevalent problems of the Middle East, those of Pakistan and Afghanistan, o...

abstract the overall focus of the caspian sea security is shaped in four geopolitical areas contain the caucasus,(azerbaijan), central asia( turkmenistan and kazakhstan), russia,( ussr) a political unit in the international system which is one of the largest exporters of oil and gas in the north, and iran with huge reserves of oil and gas and oil industries in the south,. these important geopol...

We investigate different models for detecting and classifying important geopolitical events in high-frequency spatiotemporal network data. Building on previous empirical work on the network response to real-world events, our goal is to develop a generative model that can identify the time, location, and nature of different emergency and non-emergency events. As a testbed for these models, we us...