Kantian statists believe that the state is a conceptual prerequisite for acquisition of property rights and, hence, freedom itself. They argue under statelessness, are indeterminate, unilateral, and unassured therefore remain merely provisional until instituted. We not morally bound by rights, hence there can be no justice (or injustice) without state. This article makes two arguments. First, i...

Abstract As soon as the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was formed in 1953, disgruntled white settler politicians new polity pushed for reconfiguration its borders. Driven by decolonisation struggles across Africa a surge anti-colonial nationalism particular, these debates were particularly vibrant among political establishment Southern Rhodesia, Federation's dominant constituent. The ques...

Abstract Presidents' unilateral sway over policy is of global concern to scholars, practitioners and the general public. While pending actions provoke media speculation about how much authority presidents have change without legislatures, scholarship has yet systematically measure presidential discretion across areas public policy. This study surveys an interdisciplinary panel using discrete ch...

Abstract The development of digital technology encourages culture to spread more inclusively and diversely around the world. On this basis, article aims reveal changing trend dynamic mechanism behind Chinese cultural communication by studying status quo overseas in media, education, arts influence different regions. research shows that existence hegemony unilateralism Western countries incomple...

In the mid-1990s, the policy debate within the WTO focused on whether regional trade agreements (RTAs) were building blocks or stumbling blocks for the WTO system, essentially questioning whether regionalism was appropriate at all from an economic policy perspective. Given the proliferation of RTAs since that time and the inability to roll back the clock, that policy debate has been replaced by...

ABSTRACT Corporate taxation and particularly corporate tax incentives that jurisdictions introduce in special economic zones have not, until recently, been subject to extensive international regulation. Only the last decade has a regime of soft law standards European Union measures with extraterritorial effect constructed. This article explains how Base Erosion Profit Shifting Action Plan devel...

The site selection plays an important role in the entire life cycle of a tidal power plant (TPP) project. However, some problems decrease the evaluation quality of TPP site selection: (a) suitable and effective methods are scarce since the TPP site selection involves multiple forms of data; (b) there is no comprehensive evaluation index system due to the unilateralism of existing criteria. In t...