VOLUME 3(2) • 2011
INTER-TEMPORAL VARIATION, FISCAL UNCERTAINTY AND STATE-LEVEL LONG-TERM REVENUE BUDGET FORECASTS ERRORS
ABSTRACT. State-level revenue forecasts tend to be based not only on financial conditions, but also on political considerations. The relationship between these two factors can be uncovered when analyzing budget forecast errors. Typically, revenue forecast errors are assumed to follow a normal distri..
EUROPEAN NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY THEORY: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
ABSTRACT. Debate about the nature of security has flourished in many parts of the world since before the end of the Cold War. Throughout that time, Europe has proved to be a major focus for research in what has been termed non-traditional – in some ways, non-American – security studies. Ours is not ..
THE VISION OF GLOBAL DEMOCRACY AND THE TERROR OF VOYEURISM – WHY A TRANSNATIONAL PUBLIC SPHERE MIGHT NOT BE A SOLUTION
ABSTRACT. Global democracy and world governance demand a transnational public sphere in order to circulate information, balance conflicting interests of international actors and create a common understanding of a shared global responsibility. However, this article points out the ambivalent role of t..
THE IMPACT OF CHINA-EU TRADE ON CLIMATE CHANGE
ABSTRACT. International trade has a significant impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global climate change. In this respect, trade between China and the European Union, as the world’s two biggest exporters, is critical to the global GHG emission reduction efforts. The EU-15 is committed to r..
WHAT DO ASIAN COUNTRIES WANT THE SEAT AT THE HIGH TABLE FOR? • G20 AS A NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FORUM AND THE ROLE OF ASIA
ABSTRACT. The current international monetary system (IMS) is deemed to be no longer adequate to meet the needs of a complex, integrated world economy. With regards to the reform of the IMS there have been various proposals including the ones to build a stronger global financial safety net to diversi..
GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY: THE HYDROCARBON STATUS QUO AND EURO–ASIAN IMPERATIVES • WHAT REALLY SPRINGS IN THE ARAB WORLD?
ABSTRACT. “No one governs innocently” – noted de Beauvoir in her 1947’s The Ethics of Ambiguity… Is oil more than energy? Is this a construct that architectures the world currently known to acceptable for us? After a lot of hot air, the disillusion- ing epilogue of the Arab Facebook revolutions is m..
CRITICAL HISTORIOGRAPHIES IN EDUCATIONAL THEORY: RETEMPORALIZING EXPERIENCE ‘AFTER’ THE SPATIAL TURN
ABSTRACT. Kantian culture was based on the categories of time and space inherited from the best science at the time (e.g., Newtonian physics) that treated them as the permanent and absolute framework of our cognitive schema, shaping the very sense impressions we receive from the world and making the..
JAPAN’S ENERGY FUTURE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A CHANGING GEOPOLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
ABSTRACT. For much of the 20th century, economic growth was fueled by cheap oil-based energy supply. Due to increasing resource constraints, however, the political and strategic importance of oil has become a significant part of energy and foreign policy making in East and Southeast Asian countries...
NARRATIVES OF INTERCULTURAL AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: ASPIRATIONAL VALUES AND ECONOMIC IMPERATIVES
ABSTRACT. This paper examines the linked but separate notions of interculturalism, internationalism and internationalization, and their formulations in education policies and programs. The tensions between two aspects of international education, the aspirational and the economic are explored. Aspira..