Preventive military strike or preventive war? The fungibility of power resources

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Steven E. Lobell
Keyword(s):  
Preventive War ◽  
Power Resources

Evaluating the innovation of oil and gas enterprises under new circumstances: Evidence from Rosneft Oil Company

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1444-1458
Author(s):  
N.M. Baranova ◽  
D.S. Loginova ◽  
S.N. Larin
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Exponential Model ◽  
Innovative Activity ◽  
Corporate Development ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Trade Wars ◽  
Oil Company

Subject. Illustrating the case of Rosneft Oil Company, we herein study how innovation spurs business operations, increases the competitiveness of firms and protects them from risks. Objectives. We model the innovative activity of Rosneft Oil Company and its competitiveness. Methods. We analyze proceedings by the Russian and foreign scholars, materials on program for the innovative and sustainable development of Rosneft Oil Company. Our assessments were based on statistical data of Rosneft’s annual report for 2004–2019. The regression analysis and econometric studies were conducted via Eviews10. Results. We set models to predict the innovative development of the company for the nearest future. We revealed that the linear model was the most appropriate and suitable for forecasting. Properties and estimates of the exponential model turned to be insignificant, on the contrary. Conclusions and Relevance. Currently, it is difficult to forecast the extent to which corporate development, its innovative activity will change in 2020 and in the nearest future. Despite the company’s achievements before 2020, continuous trade wars, geopolitical conflicts, pandemic, OPEC agreements and a consequential drastic drop in the demand for power resources considerably slowed down the pace of the economic growth not only in the company, but also in the country.

The Economic Price of Natural Gas in Pakistan (Notes & Comments)

1974 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-484
Author(s):  
J. Faaland ◽  
J. R. Parkinson
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Electricity Generation ◽  
Irrigate Land ◽  
Hydro Power ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Price ◽  
Tarbela Dam

The World Bank Study," Water and Power Resources of West Pakistan" [1], is one of the most thorough-going and sophisticated of its type. In re¬reading it we have been struck by a curious argument related to the real benefits to be expected from the construction of the Tarbela dam. It was designed to produce electricity as well as to irrigate land and it was necessary to estimate the benefits that the electricity would confer. One way of doing this was to estimate the saving that would be made by using hydro-power instead of natural gas or imported fuel, for electricity generation. This meant that an appropriate set of prices had to be estimated for Pakistan's supply of natural gas. The way in which this was done was, to say the least, unusual. The relevant passage justi¬fying the approach adopted is as follows:

An Analysis of UN Peacekeeping as Pakistan’s Soft Power Asset

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ume Farwa ◽  
Ghazanfar Ali Garewal
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
International Community ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Hard Power ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
The People ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions

The power of attraction and admiration is soft power. Generally, it is perceived that hard power cannot generate soft power, but the protective role of military in humanitarian crises and conflicts negates this prevailing misperception by specifying their contexts and effective utilizations; hard power assets can be transformed into soft power resources. This paper argues that the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions are the source of soft power and Pakistan, being an active participant in this field, can utilize this asset for shaping the preferences of others. Overall, it did earn admiration from international community and managed to build its soft image abroad through peacekeeping missions. Pakistani blue helmets not only earned the admiration and appreciation of the people of the conflict-zones and earned praises, but from international community also. However, to what extent has the country utilized this asset of soft power to exercise its influence in the global arena remains debatable. Although Pakistan’s UN Peacekeeping missions have been an instrument of building the country’s soft image, it is publicized in a far less productive manner. Peacekeeping can be used as a means to enhance the country’s presence and the level of participation in both international and regional organizations. By effective application of soft power strategy in tandem with public diplomacy, Pakistan’s UN peacekeeping can provide the country with the platform where its narratives can be projected effectively and its influence can be exercised adroitly.

Preventive War

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Luban
Keyword(s):  
Preventive War

Cross-provincial Cross-region Power Trading Optimization Modeling

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1183-1189
Author(s):  
Jing-wen Chen ◽  
Yan Xiao ◽  
Hong-she Dang ◽  
Rong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Network Flow ◽  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Route Optimization ◽  
Regional Power ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Gray Theory ◽  
Power Trading ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Regional Economic Disparities

Background: China's power resources are unevenly distributed in geography, and the supply-demand imbalance becomes worse due to regional economic disparities. It is essential to optimize the allocation of power resources through cross-provincial and cross-regional power trading. Methods: This paper uses load forecasting, transaction subject data declaration, and route optimization models to achieve optimal allocation of electricity and power resources cross-provincial and cross-regional and maximize social benefits. Gray theory is used to predict the medium and longterm loads, while multi-agent technology is used to report the power trading price. Results: Cross-provincial and cross-regional power trading become a network flow problem, through which we can find the optimized complete trading paths. Conclusion: Numerical case study results has verified the efficiency of the proposed method in optimizing power allocation across provinces and regions.

Systemic Hybridity in the Mediation of the American Presidential Campaign

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Chadwick
Keyword(s):  
Data Gathering ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Electoral Outcomes ◽  
Media System ◽  
Common Purpose

Chapter 7 continues the revisionist approach of chapter 6, but paints the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign on a broader canvas. Through a detailed analysis of key episodes in the mediation of the campaign, the chapter shows how the real-space spectacles of candidate appearances continue to generate the important television, radio, and newspaper coverage that remains so crucial for projecting the power of a candidate and conveying enthusiasm, movement, authenticity, and common purpose to both activists and nonactivists alike. The chapter discusses how these television-fuelled spectacles now also integrate with newer media logics of data-gathering, online fundraising, tracking, monitoring, and managed volunteerism. A major theme running through this chapter is the growing systemic integration of the internet and television in presidential campaigns. It also shows how the hybrid media system can shape electoral outcomes by providing new power resources for campaigns that can create and master the system's modalities.

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