the United States’ desire for isolationism and its desire to maintain hegemony. While the United States has initiated and continued wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that are increasingly unpopular with alliance members, it has also focused on increasing NATO buy-in and has become involved in ance members. This raises the question of whether strong states suffer from alliance entrapment, a that are ...

following a period of conflict between russia and the west, new signs of confrontation between the united states and china are observed. china as the most populous country in the world with the highest rate of economic growth at international level, china neither stands the hegemonic power of the united states nor has the intention of direct confrontation with it. in effect, china seeks to find...

BACKGROUND Surgical never events are being used increasingly as quality metrics in health care in the United States. However, little is known about their costs to the health care system, the outcomes of patients, or the characteristics of the providers involved. We designed a study to describe the number and magnitude of paid malpractice claims for surgical never events, as well as associated p...

Although, once, in the far past, sending gifts and missionaries was called a type of public diplomacy, today it is manifested as academic disciplines, policy making institutions, and multi-purpose organizations. The most important institutions of these kinds, now, exist in the US, whose purpose is to promote the politics of this country as Public Diplomacy and to follow local and international ...

BACKGROUND Japan's National Database (NDB) includes data on health checks and health insurance claims, is linkable using hash functions, and is available for research use. However, the linkage rate between health check and health insurance claims data has not been investigated. METHODS Linkage rate was evaluated by comparing observed medical and pharmaceutical charges among health check recip...