Most social scientists would like to believe that their profession contributes to solving pressing global problems. There is today no…
Introduction Preview: Iraq’s ability to reach its energy potential should be of broad regional and international concern. Iraq could be…
Previous research on the determinants of effectiveness in knowledge systems seeking to support sustainable development has highlighted the…
Though it defies consensus, between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent…
Extracting, delivering, and disposing water requires energy, and similarly, many processes for extracting and refining various fuel sources…
Technological changes and improved electronic communications seem, paradoxically, to be making cities more, rather than less, important.…
The sudden pace at which revolutionary fires swept across North Africa took the world by surprise: It was a hopeful Arab Spring for many.…
Then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates traveled to Brussels in June, where he warned European allies of the “dwindling … patience in the U.…
Legal texts have been with us since the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became textual. The discovery of the structure…
The Handbook on the Economics of Conflict conveys how economics can contribute to the understanding of conflict in its various dimensions…