although on the basis of geo-economic theories, study of energy-related issues is of strategic importance to all countries, energy resources are no more restricted to oil and gas reserves as was the case during the past century. of course, these resources are still key elements of global energy reserves. today, in addition to geo-politics and geo-economics, the concept of hydro-geopolitics puts...

This article seeks to analyze urban politics through the lens of the social constructionist approach to scale. This approach views scale not as a set of pre-given, natural, and immutable levels upon which social life occurs. Rather, it regards scale as a fluid context for and product of power relations in society. The article argues that urban politics is frequently characterized by political s...

Members of the 67th World Health Assembly in 2014 were presented with a framework document to guide World Health Organization (WHO) engagement with non-state actors, a key part of WHO reform kick-started in 2011. According to this document, non-state actors include four distinct constituencies: i) nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), ii) private sector entities; iii) philanthropic foundations;...

Brendon Swedlow PS: Political Science & Politics / Volume 44 / Issue 04 / October 2011, pp 736 ­ 739 DOI: 10.1017/S1049096511001375, Published online: 18 October 2011 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1049096511001375 How to cite this article: Brendon Swedlow (2011). Cultural Surprises as Sources of Sudden, Big Policy Change. PS: Political Science & Politics,44, pp 7...

Sara Wallace Goodman World Politics / Volume 64 / Issue 04 / October 2012, pp 659 ­ 698 DOI: 10.1017/S0043887112000184, Published online: Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0043887112000184 How to cite this article: Sara Wallace Goodman (2012). Fortifying Citizenship: Policy Strategies for Civic Integration in Western Europe. World Politics, 64, pp 659­698 doi:10.1017...

T he fundamental approach to policy prescription in economics derives from the recognition that the presence of market failures—like externalities, public goods, monopoly, and imperfect competition—creates room for well-designed public interventions to improve social welfare. This tradition, already clear in Pigou (1912), was elaborated by Samuelson (1947), and still provides the basis of most ...

The invocation of the precautionary principle, for instance, to prohibit the commercialisation of genetically modified crops in Austria, has been criticised for blurring the boundaries between science and politics. Three different understandings of precaution arise in the policy process around this case, and in the relevant actors’ view of precaution and the perceived relationship between scien...

Policy literature on the insecurity of cyberspace frequently invokes comparisons to Cold War security strategy, thereby neglecting the fundamental differences between contemporary and Cold War security environments. This article develops an alternative viewpoint, exploring the analogy between cyberspace and another largely ungoverned space: the sea in the age of privateering. This comparison en...