This paper presents a social network analysis of partnerships in refugee education and shows how relationships between organisations change response to multiple crises, including political economic disaster, COVID-19. We draw insights from an original database 440 state nonstate entities engaged Syria Lebanon (2018–2021). find that comprise complex web global, national, local actors. The policy...

Polities shape power structures and interaction patterns between actors in policymaking processes. Although the social fabric of interactions is key to successful policymaking, it remains unclear which relational are typically found across political systems. By adopting a network approach, we analyse differences four policy networks German Swiss consensual–federal, French majoritarian–unitary, ...

studies on urban policy making are widespreading in the developed countries. however, these studies have not been widely established in iran yet. this article is, therefore, an attempt to attract the attention of specialists and students of public policy in iran on the importance of such studies. tehran, one of the largest metropolitans of the world, rightly provides a relevant context to capit...

Jeremy Shiffman’s editorial appropriately calls on making all forms of power more apparent and accountable, notably productive power derived from expertise and claims to moral authority. This commentary argues that relationships based on productive power can be especially difficult to reveal in global health policy because of embedded notions about the nature of power and politics. Yet, it is e...

One major issue in future B-ISDN is the problem of routing, given QoS and policy constraints. The problem has been proved to be extremely complex and heuristics have been proposed to reach near-optimal solutions . In this paper we propose the use of computational intelligence algorithms, such as fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms for route computation. We designed an inter-domain routing mechan...

The focus on public policy and health equity is discussed in reference to the current global health policy discussion on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This initiative has strong commitment from the leadership of the international organizations involved, but a lack of policy clarity outside of the health financing component may limit the initiative’s impact on health inequity. In order to add...

global health 2035, the report of the lancet commission on investing in health, laid out a bold, highly ambitious framework for making rapid progress in improving global public health outcomes. it showed that with the right health investments, the international community could achieve a “grand convergence” in global health—a reduction in avertable infectious, maternal, and child deaths down to ...

the commentator suggests that it is necessary to extend the classical connotation of  global city which focuses much on the functions of controlling global capital and production. global city should also include the dimensions of the leading role and capacity on health improvements and well-being promotion. the commentator agrees with authors’ assessments about shanghai’s substantial progress o...