Bill Clinton, the ex-president of the United States of America at the end of his two presidency period stated that one of his most important successes was the link between internal economy and the foreign policy of the country.  Some general conclusions can be derived from this statement, which include the following and which make the hypotheses of this article: 1- Economic relations are necess...

Today’s rapidly changing global political climate is significantly impacting the military strategies of Free World countries. Important decisions are being made regarding each country’s defense and military equipment needs. Regardless of these ongoing political changes, however, the threat of nuclear weaponry use remains a viable possibility. As long as a first-strike capability exists, radiati...

in cinema, the relationship between art and society is questioned more than other kinds of art. among all diverse approaches studying cinema, the reflection approach- believing cinema is impressed by the society. this approach is a theoretical framework of this research. the main question is how cinema reflected political demands of iranian society from 1995 to 2006. this period is noticeable c...

Political and economic risks arise from social phenomena that spread within and across countries. Regime changes, protest movements, and stock market and default shocks can have ramifications across the globe. Quantitative models have made great strides at predicting these events in recent decades but incorporate few explicitly measured cultural variables. However, in recent years cultural evol...

This paper studies the endogenous emergence of political regimes, in particular democracy or oligarchy, in heterogeneous societies in which institutions do not ensure political commitments. Democracy emerges if the ruling coalition that makes political decisions represents the majority of individuals of the population, while oligarchy emerges when the political decisions are made by a minority ...

This study examines the effect of Internet on intention to vote. Specifically, we explore how Interactivity and credibility as the characteristics of Internet influence apolitical and political internet users’ intention to vote. We argue apolitical users who have political apathy are affected more by the characteristics on Internet than political users who are interested in politics. We also ar...

There are two contradictory answers to the question in the title. The first is the good growth hypothesis: economic growth generates higher incomes, which should make people approve of the government. Hence growth generates stability. The second is the destabilizing growth hypothesis: growth generates complex changes in society, and therefore instability. A part of the instability will be polit...

In this paper we model political risk for international capital budgeting as the value of a hypothetical insurance policy that pays the holder any and all losses arising from political events. We address three important aspects of political risk that are widely acknowledged in the literature but either missing or incomplete in existing mathematical models: 1) loss causing political events arise...