Historically, issues of gender, race and the environment have received little attention in mainstream International Relations (IR) scholarship. Great strides have been made, however, in interrogating the inadequacies of the field in these areas and, similarly, in demonstrating the necessity of expanded definitions of security and violence in IR. Despite these strides, mainstream environmental s...

1 Shandong Provincial Institute of Dermatology and Venereology, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China, 2 Shandong Provincial Hospital for Skin Diseases, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, 3 Shandong Provincial Key Lab for Dermatovenereology, Jinan, Shandong, China, 4 Shandong Provincial Medical Center for Dermatovenereology, Jinan, Shandong, China, 5 Jinan Insti...

The state plays a central position in theoretical debates in International Relations (IR). Both Realists and Liberals see the state as the central actor in the international system and thereby follow a Western understanding of the state as the holder of the monopoly of force. In the IRsub discipline of security studies new categories such as weak state, quasi state or state failure have created...

The authors used an event-contingent daily recording strategy, the Rochester Interaction Record (RIR), to examine the motivational dynamics of interpersonal relations. Using hierarchical linear modeling, the authors demonstrated that social interactions were more pleasant when participants felt autonomous, competent, and related. Autonomy, competence, and relatedness consistently predicted inte...

Recent rhetoric surrounding the contemporary aid relationship between donors and African states is couched in terms of a high level consensus between western and African political leaderships, a central pillar of which is adherence to liberal principles of governance and economic management. The paper argues that an analysis of the nature of this consensus and its prospects requires that we nee...

NA WANG****, XIANMEI LU******* & FUREN ZHANG********** * Shandong Provincial Hospital for Skin Diseases, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China ** Shandong Provincial Institute of Dermatology and Venereology, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China *** Shandong Provincial Key Lab for Dermatovenereology, Jinan, Shandong, China **** Shandong Provincial Medical Center for...

The paper explains the growth –inequality nexus for China’s provinces. The theoretical model of provincial development consists of two regions and studies the interactions of a mutual depending development process. Due to positive externalities, incoming trade and FDI induce imitation and hence productivity growth. The regional government can in‡uence the economy by changing international trans...

One of the delightful attractions that mathematics and geography have in common is that they offer fresh views of the world. Both fields of inquiry are circumspect almost by definition, and as soon as one looks around without prejudice, one discovers alternatives to one’s provincial world view. In mathematics, formalism and generalization are the seemingly sterile keys that open the gates to fe...

Based on Dunning’s OLI framework and the investment development path theory, this paper investigated the determinants of outward FDI by China’s provincial firms. The results show that provincial economic development, innovation and technology, and export to GDP ratio are statistically significant determinants, while FDI inflows, import to GDP ratio and provincial market size are not statistical...

National Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100021, China; △ Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 510300, Guangdong, China; Guangxi Regional Center for Disease Control And Prevention, Nanning 530028, Guangxi, China; Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou 310051,...