China is a vast and overpopulated country in the eastern Asia whose energy security and supply is the most important factor of economic growth and consequently, economic, social and political security. By the past decades, its leaders have understood the key role of economic growth and development in the economic and political security of china. Thus, they have put all their concentration on th...

What are the underlying drivers of human development? This essay argues that long-term human development, in incomes, social conditions, security and so on, is fundamentally driven by capitalist dynamics and state functioning. The big issue is not state versus market, or growth versus equity, or dynamism versus security. It is the jointly determined functioning of both capitalism and the state....

as, the terrorism, nowadays, is an important and effective matter that affects different problems especially national security, it is tried to study an important aspect of interaction fields between national security and political development in developing countries and iran. an important point in this study is to consider terrorism as an strategic phenomenon that follows the procedures includi...

Why do monetary unions fail? Answers to this question from a material-based approach tend to point to a breakdown in elite political support, especially when actors have material incentives to ‘cheat’ on their multilateral commitments rather than cooperate to overcome the collective action problem that a monetary union entails. Recent ideational approaches have focused on the role of shared eco...

We examine the evidence of growing social media use among political elites in lowand middle-income countries, including in places where the propor‐ tion of actual voters on social media is small. We propose three ways to view this phenomenon of– first, as signaling, second, as a means for politicians to access elite populations, and third as a way to circumvent mainstream media and exercise dir...

This article takes the existence of power networks of local elites as a social fact of fundamental importance and the starting point for the study of patronage in the governance of the coastal waters of East Kalimantan. We address the question of how to capture the elites for project implementation, rather than assuming the inevitability of elite capture of project funds. We analyze the multipl...

25 DIW Economic Bulletin 11.2014 Aside from current income, the parameter of net worth represents a key resource in the economic activity of households. In addition, net worth has a specific function going far beyond the sheer fact of earning (for example, in the form of interest and dividends). It contributes significantly to stabilizing consumption in periods of income loss, while tangible as...

Values and attitudes towards the regional integration process of the Russian political elites are considered as an indication of what regional integration (RI) tends to be and how it evolves over time. This paper suggests how to systematically grasp and integrate elite’s attitude into the analysis of RI by means of text network analysis. The text network analysis allows one to visualize the mea...