emergence of new geopolitical affairs in the important and sensitive places of the world, like the middle east, balkan, central asia (caucasus zone) and… has caused emergence of a new trend of so called cold war with variables like the expansion of nato to the east, the u.s. missile defense shield, georgia’s events, the prevalent problems of the middle east, those of pakistan and afghanistan, o...

ـــــــThis paper presents FISA Framework for Intelligent Situation Analysis. Specifically we present a software tool to solve political disputes. Such a tool can be used successfully to cross the gap between the looseness of political situations specifications and the tightness of formal logical methods. This adaptation is performed by making use of data mining to discover both relevant topics...

Disputes over territory are a major contributing factor to the disruption of international relations. We believe that a cumulative, integrated, and continuously updated resource providing information about such disputes in an easily accessible form would be of benefit to intelligence analysts, military strategists, political scientists, and also to historians and others concerned with internati...

Leader changes induce changes in the pattern of protection and of filings of disputes at the WTO. Additionally, political institutions play an important modifying role. We offer a model that explains changes in trade policy and dispute onset induced by shifts in the sectors represented in government when leaders change. Democratic leaders are more likely to initiate WTO disputes than autocrats....

Ostensibly theoretical disputes in political science often involve competing approaches to explanation. Competing positions include skepticism, covering law arguments, reconstructions of propensities, system models, and explanations featuring causal mechanisms. Mechanismand process-based accounts including cognitive, environmental, and relational effects deserve more attention than they have re...

Beginning in 1999, a series of events generated speculation that the Chinese Party-state might be prepared to breathe new life into the country’s long dormant constitution. In recent years, as the Party-state has strictly limited constitutional adjudication and moved aggressively to contain some citizen constitutional activism, this early speculation has turned to pessimism about China’s consti...

Answering one question often begets another. We present a decision-theoretic model that describes how this dynamic sequences decisions over time. Because answering an easy question may raise a more difficult one, a rational decision-maker may delay resolution even if he has perfect information about the correct decision. Furthermore, because otherwise unrelated questions may raise similar follo...

Since their inception in August 1947, India and Pakistan have been witnessing a perpetual state of hatred and animosity. Although both states have made several efforts for peace-building, and as a result, have signed several peace agreements, which have not only proved short-lived, but also failed to establish longlasting and durable peace in the region. The paper argues that since India and Pa...