VOLUME 10(1) • 2018
REGULATING THE SHARING ECONOMY AT THE LOCAL LEVEL: HOW THE TECHNOLOGY OF ONLINE LABOR PLATFORMS CAN SHAPE THE DYNAMICS OF URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
ABSTRACT. This article reviews recent literature (especially Davidson and Infranca, 2016) concerning the way the technology of online labor platforms can influence the underlying forces of urban settings. Using data from Pew Research Center, ING, Ipsos/Allianz, and MarketingCharts.com, I performed a..
SHARING ECONOMY, REGULATORY ARBITRAGE, AND URBAN GOVERNANCE: HOW CITY SPACE SHAPES ECONOMIC GROWTH AND INNOVATION
ABSTRACT. Employing recent research results (e.g. Davidson and Infranca, 2016) covering the relationship between sharing economy, regulatory arbitrage, and urban governance, and using data from Pew Research Center, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding the debate over the legality of hom..
DOES XI JINPING’S ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN REALLY SUPPORT CLEAN AND TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT AND MARKET EFFICIENCY?
ABSTRACT. This article reviews and advances existing literature (e.g. Chen, 2017; Lee, 2018; Osburg, 2018; Zhu and Zhang, 2017; Zhu, Huang, and Zhang, 2018) concerning China’s anti-corruption campaign and its auditing routines. Using data from BloombergGadfly, ChinaFile, China Today, Economist.com, ..
CANADIAN MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS: REPRESENTATION, RESPONSE, AND RESETTLEMENT
ABSTRACT. This paper offers a critical analysis of Canadian media content (The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, National Post, Huffington Post, CBC, and CTV), from September 2015 to April 2016, of the coverage of the Canadian resettlement effort of Syrian refugees, including representation of the refug..
RENEWING NUCLEAR POWER AND TECHNOLOGY
ABSTRACT. Nuclear power has been linked to geopolitical issues beyond its control for decades. Matters of safety, waste management, and proliferation are intrinsic to the technology. However, other issues – including the Cold War competition between Western and Eastern blocs for hearts and minds aro..
THE UNITED STATES AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF WATER: HUMAN NEED, MISSISSIPPI RIVER BARGES, AND OFFSHORE EURASIAN BALANCING
ABSTRACT. Countries are secure and prosperous, or fail to reach such advantage, for a variety of reasons. In the case of the United States, a primary cause for its past, current, and perhaps future success in these respects, the author believes, comes from its place amidst water, that resource amply..
FOOTBALL POLITICS IN CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE: A SYMPTOM OF GROWING ANTI-EUROPEANISM AND ANTI-GLOBALIZATION?
ABSTRACT. There is a discourse in Europe’s current academic and political debate about growing anti-Europeanism linked to anti-globalization in the Central Eastern European (CEE) region. Football culture in the European Union’s East, particularly Poland, is perceived as symptom of such trend. Many o..
THE UK AND EUROPEAN “CENTRE FORMATION” FROM 1950 TO BREXIT
ABSTRACT. It might be thought that Brexit is just a case of the UK getting honest with itself and its partners. On that interpretation, much British opinion never really accepted European integration. Hence, the UK should never have joined a body committed to an “ever closer Union between the people..
HOW ANCIENT STATES RISE AND FALL: PRE-DEMOCRATIC REGIME TYPOLOGY, REPRESENTATION, AND DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL BALANCES OF POWER
BSTRACT. Are the principles of international relations applicable to history? How are they applied? What do we learn when we do so? The three connected case studies in this article help answer all three of these questions. The Assyrian Empire was the superpower of the 9th, 8th, and 7th centuries BC...
U.S.–CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION: EMERGING FACTOR IN WESTERN PACIFIC STRATEGIC POLICY ANALYSIS
ABSTRACT. Those studying and analyzing Western Pacific strategic trends and developments have access to multiple unclassified analyses of security trends in this region covering these waters and adjacent countries. These information resources are produced by military and government agencies from mul..