In this article I locate some of the fundamental problems of self-determination within the context of an evolving international society. First, I argue that one particular manifestation of self-determination, that of national self-determination, is both a solution to the enduring problem of territorial legitimation in international relations as well as the source of subsequent challenges to ter...

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...

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...

The national economy of most countries is made up of various regions (provinces) with different industrial composition, financial structure, trade relations, and institutional environment. Depending on these characteristics, regions may respond differently to a uniform national macroeconomic policy. Policymakers should consider these heterogeneities to achieve the national development objective...

1 Background 2 1.1 Characterization of Anonymous Channel Based on Indistinguishability . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1.1 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1.2 Relations Proven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 A Provably Secure And Efficient Countermeasure Against Timing Attacks . . . . . . . ...

Standard varieties of Chinese and English have major typological prosodic differences, which present considerable difficulties for Chinese L2 learners of English at all levels: first, differences in the phonotactic foundations of prosody (syllable and syllable sequence patterns); second, the difference between lexical tone language and lexical stress-accent language; third, timing differences i...

We consider that factors such as prosody of systems’ utterances and dialogue rhythm are important to attain a natural human-machine dialogue. However, the relations between dialogue rhythm and speaker’s various states in task-oriented dialogue have been not revealed. In this study, we collected taskoriented dialogues and analyzed the relations between “dialogue structures, kinds of dialogue act...

Markovian Process Algebra (MPA) is a process algebra enhanced with exponential timing which allows the mapping of speciications on continuous time Markov chains (CTMCs). This paper introduces a compositional approach to compute the generator matrix of the CTMC underlying a MPA speciication which consists of the parallel composition of nite state agents. Furthermore two diierent equivalence rela...