Abstract This article explores how political division manifested itself in the electricity systems of West and East Berlin analyses strategies both throughout 40 years Cold War. It reveals goal full energy independence propagated by proved illusory for material, geopolitical, institutional, economic environmental reasons. Apart from vestiges past interdependence, pressures to collaborate gained...

Just over a quarter century ago, Michael Petrunik, Senior Research Officer in the Research Division of the Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada, wrote an article entitled “The Politics of Dangerousness.” The specific impetus for Petrunik’s paper was the then recently enacted 1977 Canadian Dangerous Offender Legislation. He sought to explain the political underpinnings of recent legal dev...

Political Parties in Confl ictProne Societies: Encouraging Inclusive Politics and Democratic Development P parties are an essential component of representative democracy. Th ey organize voters, aggregate and articulate interests, craft policy alternatives, recruit and socialize new candidates for offi ce, set policy-making agendas, integrate disparate groups and individuals into the democratic ...

This paper is a sympathetic critique of the current view of the state and state restructuring in the literature on geographical political economy. We contend that although this literature has developed a view of the state that is far more complex than a crudely determinist or economistic reading, it nevertheless remains limited. The literature analyzes the imperatives that shape state restructu...

For the past few years, regionalism has been progressing in East Asia with the likes of China, Japan, and Korea (CJK) as the most prominent actors. Unfortunately, with the absence of trade arrangement amongst the CJK, the present regional trade scheme is not sufficient to reach sustainability. This paper uncovers the inefficient scheme through Engle-Granger Cointegration and Error Correction Me...

the Christian theology of religions. Introduction A remarkable revival of Trinitarian theology emerged in the twentieth century. Karl Rahner, on the Catholic side, and Karl Barth, on the Protestant side, played key roles in the “ecumenical rediscovery” of the Trinity. In addition to rethinking elements of this central doctrine (e.g., nature of divine personhood, Filioque, etc.), this resurgence...

Recent scholarship has conceptually reframed HIV-related stigma as a social rather than individual process that perpetuates and sustains relations of power that devalues persons living with HIV (PLHIV). If HIV-stigma is perpetuated by social relationships that are embedded in socio-economic and political structures that insidiously exclude PLHIV, and less by ‘spoiled’ individual identity, how d...

This paper offers a broad overview of the Hungarian development strategy over the past two decades. Combining historical and functional analysis, some major strengths and weaknesses are identified, with special emphasis on the country’s open-door policies and the role played by the European Union. The paper investigates why the impetus of institutional and financial integration was lost by abou...