a commonly desired ultimate foundation or ground is full unity, community, or consensus, which is often, if not typically, figured as lost or perhaps lacking, usually because of the intrusive presence of others seen as outsiders or polluters of the city or the body politic. One may, however, insist that such unity, community, or consensus is absent and that the sociopolitical problem is how to ...

To ascertain whether youth bulges are related to violent conflict and whether violent conflict falls off when youth bulges are followed by busts, we analyzed data from 1998-2005 covering 127 nations. Controlling for variables representing such factors as socio-development, macroeconomics, technology advancement, government capacity, and geo-politics, we find that youth bulges are related to vio...

The goal of GILS is to make it easier for people to locate information, in all its forms, in all languages, for all time. This is perhaps a somewhat grand statement, but the free flow of information really is the touchstone of GILS. This leads into all sorts of interesting implications-ranging over technology policy, scientific research, socio-economics, geo-politics, and so on. Whether you cal...

The essence of human uniqueness and what is special about humans is spirituality. What is unique to every human being is his: language, sociability, politic, science, art, technical and working attitudes, playing games, fun and laughter, as well as religiosity and ethical attitudes. All of these dimensions are based upon spirituality or even the human spirit. This paper aims to relate all these...

China’s overseas industrial parks contribute to political and economic cooperation, cultural exchange between home host countries. Current studies mainly discuss the effect of from perspective institutional difference, multi-scale coupling, as well key partnerships, while little attention has been paid comprehensive analysis parks. Based on a theoretical framework, this paper explores overall g...