This report provides an extended evaluation of Kurma, a practical implementation of a geo-distributed load balancer for backend storage systems. In this report we demonstrate the ability of distributed Kurma instances to accurately converge to the same solutions within 1% of the total datacenter’s capacity and the ability of Kurma to scale up to 8 datacenters using a single CPU core at each dat...

The confrontation between Paris and Moscow, which commenced at the end of last decade in Sahara-Sahel region, is largely a consequence weaknesses French foreign policy Russia strives to exploit its political economic benefit. hotspots this are Libya Mali, where Franco-Russian rivalry has led global securitization conflict (in both countries), transformation regional balance power Libya), aggrav...

How does expanding the nuclear club alter structure of international system? The alignments in system clearly shapes proliferation, as great powers often pressure subordinates into eschewing pursuit. What remains unclear, however, is how acquisition by subordinate states can, turn, affect these alignments. I use a formal model to show that including powers’ preferences after their allies have a...