Purpose: This article lays the foundations for Sustainable Security Paradigm (SSP), which features national security as a holistic and synergistic complex-adaptive system that can integrate various domains of international, social, individual activity in long-term, sustainable fashion. The novel paradigm informs original Culture Development Cycle (SSCDC) provides model transformation organizati...

After the establishment of written language, the most revolutionary development in human communication was the invention of the printing press in the 15 th century (1). Before then, books were handwritten, rare, and expensive. Medieval monasteries supported the transcription of new manuscripts from existing ones, and errors were common because of spelling, handwriting, and abbreviation idiosync...

We study the long-term effects of Cultural Revolution, characterized by widespread violence, summary executions, and chaos, on a set trust outcomes among people surveyed China Survey in 2008. find that revolution, identified cohort-specific exposure to excess deaths at county level, has significant impact trust. However, differ according relationship considered. Overall, emerges as binder betwe...