Trade has become the main mode of transport for many invasive species including diseases and agricultural pests. Most species are brought to their new homes unintentionally, which constitute a market failure rooted in international trade. Unless it is practical to drive invasion risk to zero, the external costs may justify a tariff. In this paper we analyze the political process likely to gover...

Political self-organization is a reflexive, selfreferential process where political agents coordinate their actions in such a way that political power structures emerge and are differentiated, these structures enable and constrain political activities and stimulate further political practices. Acknowledgement: This paper is based on research done within the framework of the project ‘Human Strat...

Since December 1993, elections have been ‘the only game in town’ for the legitimate transfer of political power in Russia. That has led politicians – and the Kremlin itself – to targeting specifically the military servicemen as an electorate. The large number of people associated with the military in one way or another in Russia makes it reasonable for politicians to consider the military a par...

This paper argues that theorizing computer-mediated communications as political engagement within a sociomaterial perspective, an understanding attentive to the mutual constitution of the social and material, allows researchers to conceptually analyze the unique political practices afforded by information and communication technologies and their function within a public sphere. This approach fo...

This essay relies on the insight that settler colonialism is an ongoing structure geared toward elimination of Indigenous presence to argue ideologies legitimate and naturalize occupation are equally ongoing. More specifically, justify in major states like Australia, Canada, United States, Flying Heads shape-shift recur over time. We explore how two notorious ideological tropes—terra nullius my...

the present paper is an attempt to apply bourdieu’s field theory to the political field of the islamic republic of iran. the concept of field, as explained by bourdieu, provides a suitable theoretical framework to identify and explain the complexities and intricacies of different behaviors of this system and analyze its absolutely different practices in domestic and international arenas.  the m...