From the eminent point of view which the happy consummation of peace has led us to, we may survey at our leisure the condition of the European powers. Warned by the past, we look upon the present state of the world with a cautious, as well as a critical eye. According to our conception, the study of Mind, in its broad physiognomy of nations and dynasties, of religion and civilization, is the hi...

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Joel Peters is Associate Professor of Government and International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, USA. From 1992-96 he as an Associate Research Fellow in the Midde East Programme at the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), London, where he directed a research project on the Multilateral Arab-Israeli Peace Talks. He is the author o...

A concurrent hardware software codesign environment, PeaCE, is presented in this paper. PeaCE provides the designer with an environment in which the designer can design hardware and software components in a concurrent and cooperative manner. PeaCE covers the codesign which consists of specification, algorithm validation, partition, cosimulation, synthesis, and testing on prototyping board. The ...

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With war in the Middle East and the prospect of terrorist attacks at sites ranging from major airports to the local shopping mall, it may be appropriate to remind ourselves that much of the world is experiencing an extended period of peace. Indeed, developed countries have not fought each other since the Second World War. This peace is unusual because powerful nations are historically the most ...

as an important event, each war has a lasting effect on people's life and language for decades. some war consequences are in direct relation with end result (winning or losing) of the war and some others are the aftermath of the war itself. this essay discusses two points about the period following the war, considering iran-iraq war. first, death becomes a routine. it will be internalized ...

This article argues for a new local turn in peace process research to analyze the perspectives and embeddedness of participants Track One negotiations. Historically, practice have focused on mediators’ strategies coaxing belligerent disputants into signing agreements. Problems with implementation such agreements (i.e., peacebuilding peacekeeping) are often faulted as reason their collapse. Howe...