According to the analysis presented in the article, the main threat to Finnish security is no more a conflict between the great powers, into which Finland would be drawn, but rather geopolitical spillover from a crisis in Russian-Baltic relations. Weighing the pros and cons of Finnish (and Swedish) Nato-membership in this context, the author concludes that Finland’s and Sweden’s Nato-membership...

States exist in an anarchic international system which survival is the necessary precursor to fulfilling all of their citizens’ other interests. Yet states’ inhabitants – and policymakers they empower also hold social ideas about ends that state should value how it pursue them: ‘role’ expect ‘play’ politics. Furthermore, such role-performative impulses can motivate external behaviours inimical ...

Historical accuracy is an often overlooked and understudied topic in the study of realism in video games. For some games, however, this topic is both an extremely interesting and important one, quite deserving of attention. In this paper, we investigate many of the issues and challenges of historical realism in video games, with a focus on strategy games. In particular, we examine these issues ...

Matthew P. Fahrenkopf, MD, Joshua J. Nelson, MD, Mitchell Eichhorn, MD, Julie Conway, MD and Adam Hassan, MD aMichigan State University College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids; bGrand Rapids Medical Education Partners Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency, Grand Rapids, Mich; cHelen DeVos Children’s Hospital Pediatric Ophthalmology, Grand Rapids, Mich, and dEye Plastic & Facial Cosmetic ...

there are different strategies for selecting stocks, and different investors use different strategies according to their risk tolerance or their expected rate of return. in this study, the profitability of a broad range of stock se-lection strategies in tehran stock exchange over the period 1370-1383, has been examined, and it has been investigated whether the successful strategies in other cou...