On 30 September 2011, the US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen in what has become the most controversial incident of US ‘targeted killing’, or, as its critics would prefer, of the US practice of ‘extrajudicial executions’. This controversy over wording expresses a profound disagreement over the legal status of the US drone program. Target killing suggests that the drone program may be...

A new brain imaging study demonstrates that patients with autism have a strikingly different pattern of brain activity compared with control subjects. During cognitive tasks, cortical areas known as the "default state" network--areas that have been implicated in both self-referential processing and processing of socially relevant information--typically reduce their brain activity. In patients w...

the ninth constitution of afghanistan (1382 /2003) was ratified according to the bone agreement and with a democratic orientation. this paper compares the principles of this constitution with principles of two models of liberal democracy. for this purpose, five indexes have been used for our analysis: the view on man, the notion of right, political system, democracy, and the process for the act...

Title of dissertation: CONSTITUTING REPUBLICS: TOWARD POLITICAL CONCEPTION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PREDICAMENT Emilbek Dzhuraev, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor Stephen Elkin and Professor Karol Soltan Department of Government and Politics How is a good political order constituted? This work is a critical and constructive exploration of the problem of political cons...

Through an investigation of authoritarian encounters in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, this paper takes seriously the challenges making geopolitical sense contextualised micro moments. Working a minor key, offers three contributions. First, it advances theory, micropolitical sensibility that interrogates co-constitution intimate scales. Second, proposes loose ethnographic framework to guide anal...

Are acquired characteristics inherited? We admit that individuals inherit a certain constitution, and that definite variations from this constitution are acquired during life-time, according to well-known laws. The question is: Are these definite acquired variations in any degree transmitted, or are the congenital variations in the constitution of the offspring independent of those which have b...

normative constitution is the highest law system and the consistency of this system requires, following the rules below from the superior rules. from this view, preservation of the constitution as the fundamental law governing the legal system of each country needs to legal ways of controlling instruments. this process is followed from two distinct complementary routes of constitutionalization ...