This essay describes terrorism as a mode of warfare and examines its unique characteristics, by comparing this method of struggle to other forms of violent conflict. It further emphasizes the role of terrorism as a strategy of insurgence and delineates the main strategic ideas by which terrorists have hoped to achieve their political objectives. The study evaluates terrorists' success in obtain...

The aim of this paper is to indicate how knowledge of the argumentative activity type of a political interview plays a role in a pragma-dialectical analysis of confrontational strategic manoeuvres. The author gives an account of the contextual pre-conditions created by the rules and conventions of a political interview for the performance by a politician of responses to an accusation of inconsi...

INTRODUCTION Today's rapidly changing global political climate is significantly impacting the military strategies of Free World coun-triess Important decisions are being made regarding each country's defense and military equipment needss Regardless of these ongoing political changess howeverr the threat of nuclear weaponry use remains a viable possibilityy As long as a first-strike capability e...

The authors estimate the responsiveness of aid to recipient countries’ economic and physical needs, civil/political rights, and government effectiveness. They look exclusively at the postCold War era and use fixed effects to control for the political, strategic, and other considerations of donors. They find that aid and per capita income have been negatively related, while aid has been positive...

We present a game-theoretic model of political discourse that explores how strategic incentives to make potentially persuasive arguments vary across different informational contexts. We show that political sophistication of the listeners fundamentally affects the speakers’ incentives to make informative arguments, increasing the informed speech for speakers who are less likely to be successful ...

T brief examines the capacity of China to challenge America as a technology innovator. It assumes that the balance of innovation capacity matters for strategic strength in the long haul. Absent a fuller analysis of this assumption, this brief makes some ad hoc observations about the possible relationship. The analysis treats innovation as the successful commercialization (or strategic military ...

In this study, more than 398 high-school students through cluster stratified sampling method were chosen in Hamedan. The data were gathered by a questionnaire and statistical indexes like T.Test, variance analysis, Pearson correlation, multivariable regressions, factor analysis and path analysis were applied. The results show that the average of political participation is 14.83 out of 27.85 and...