We present an Active Queue Management policy and we study its ability to steer an entire TCP/IP network into global max–min fairness of its long–lived flows, in a totally distributed fashion. A previously proposed technique, initially applicable to circuit–switched networks and feedback–based flow control networks is adapted to the realities of packet–switching and TCP flow/congestion control, ...

Background This article assesses the global health policies of the European Union (EU) and those of its individual member states. So far EU and public health scholars have paid little heed to this, despite the large budgets involved in this area. While the European Commission has attempted to define the ‘EU role in Global Health’ in 2010, member states are active in the domain of global health ...

Commenting on a recent editorial in this journal which presented four challenges global health networks will have to tackle to be effective, this essay discusses why this type of analysis is important for global health scholars and practitioners, and why it is worth understanding and critically engaging with the complexities behind these challenges. Focusing on the topics of problem definition ...

National economies are not randomly distributed in the global economy, but embedded in complex networks of trade, financial flows, and international organizations. This research uses this insight to address the Convergence-Divergence debate by focusing on how network structures at the international level affect domestic policy outcomes. My thesis posits that economic forces of globalization imp...

Presently, there is no satisfactory model for dealing with political autonomy of agents in policy based management. A theory of atomic policy units called ‘promises’ is therefore discussed. Using promises, a global authority is not required to build conventional management abstractions, but work is needed to bind peers into a traditional authoritative structure. The construction of promises is ...

Integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been recognized by many actors as the appropriate approach to respond to challenges in water resources management in a sustainable way. The main players in developing and diffusing the IWRM concept have included expert groups, international organizations, and multistakeholder platforms, which cooperated in various activities promoting the IWRM co...

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is difficult in poor settings. In 2001, the Thai government adopted the policy to scale-up its treatment initiative to meet the needs of all its people. Employing qualitative approaches, including in-depth interviews, document review and direct observation, this study examines the processes by which the universal ART policy developed between 2001 and 2007, with the ...