Israel's West Bank settlements are a central point of contention in the dynamics Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Overall, however, their rapid proliferation has been generally understood through lens an ideologically centered approach that highlights, specifically, centrality national religious settlers' movement. Against this background, article focuses on overlooked reality large, state-sponsor...

Hyper-capitalism in global Information and Communication Technology (ICT) markets during the late 1990s created a new global production network, shaped by multi-national corporations, international capital flows, and a flourishing of high-tech entrepreneurship. Each of the cities considered here benefited substantially from this growth, but their positions as nodes in the ICT global production ...

In this paper we introduce a distinction between two forms of planning: Just-in-Case planning versus Just-in-Time planning. The first refers to the traditional mode of planning as currently practiced in most urban and regional planning agencies, whereas the second, is what planning in a self-organizing system might be. The key notion behind this distinction is Just-in-Time— a method of producti...

the politics of shifting to the east, which is interpreted in the statements of turkish islamist politicians as ottomanism, is a newly emerged strategy which is essentially comprehensible in the connection with the history and identity of the ottoman era and the new regional and trans-regional role of turkey. the ideology of ottomanism not only implies the expansion of turkey’s influence on the...

In the context of many movements with a strong female presence promoting peace in Middle East, movement Women Wage Peace (WWP) currently represents largest and most impactful organization country. Founded aftermath 50-day Gaza War/Operation Protective Edge 2014, has grown to 45,000 Israeli members, significant grassroots Israel today. WWP’s theory change refracts Israeli–Palestinian conflict, i...

The paper studies evolution of different aspects in Iran–Israeli relations the Syrian crisis. Basic developments Iran Israeli confrontations and analysis its specific are retrospectively shown. author examines key internal external factors, influencing nature conflict character development. argues that regional international environment determined more than religious cultural differences two na...

Negotiations among nations on policies to promote international economic integration have widened in recent years to cover new issues; for example, foreign direct investment rules, policies to promote competition, the international movement of labor, the environment and monetary union. In these negotiations, a consensus among the parties negotiating is usually lacking and many of these negotiat...