Global climate negotiations were again in the spotlight at Glasgow’s COP26 meeting November 2021, drawing attention to urgency of crisis and need find long term solutions. While Brazil has been a protagonist such for decades, since 2019 country abdicated its leadership role, adopting reactive stance environmental agenda. This shift is illustrative centrality scientific disputes government proje...

Decisions over whether to accord a New York City building or site landmark status are frequently controversial.2 Such decisions implicate divergent and often diametrically opposed views of the role the city’s government should play in economic development and in protecting cultural sites, as well as the role the democratic process should play in these decisions. Different views on the aesthetic...

This paper analyses how the 1950-61 conflict between Portugal and India over the territories that constituted Portuguese India (Goa, Daman and Diu) informed Portugal's relations with the World Health Organization's Regional Office for South East Asia (SEARO). The 'Goa question' determined the way international health policies were actually put into place locally and the meaning with which they ...

This paper exploits a survey of manufacturing firms in five transitioning countries to evaluate the factors that affect whether or not information on contractual disputes between firms is disseminated to other market participants. We find that these reputation flows are channeled both through informal communication among firms as well as through third party organizations; in addition, they are ...

In this paper, we discuss how machine learning could be used to produce a systematic and more objective political discourse analysis. Political footprints are vector space models (VSMs) applied to political discourse. Each of their vectors represents a word, and is produced by training the English lexicon on large text corpora. This paper presents a simple implementation of political footprints...

Caroline Artoisenet Socio-Economie de la Santé Ecole de la Santé Publique UCL Clos Chapelle-aux-Champs, 30/41 B-1200 Bruxelles Tel.: 32-2-7643098 Mail: [email protected] The regulation of human resources is a controversial subject. In Belgium, after some years of political disputes, student strikes, and procrastination, quotas have been applied to new graduates in medicine (sin...

The proliferation of markets and market-based policy instruments in environmental governance is premised on the establishment of metrological regimes and the practices of measurement, commensuration, and commodification that underlie these regimes. This paper develops the concept of metrology and examines its role in the function and dysfunction of emissions trading markets. The concept invites...

the principles of political thought in the meccan verses of the quran being discussed in the previous issue, now a few practical examples from the holy quran are presented. the experiences of some prophets, from noah to moses, are studied in the light of quranic political thought. while studying the political interactions between people and prophets, we will realize that prophets such as noah, ...