scholarly journals The emergence of environmental stewardship as a primary institution of global international society

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Falkner ◽  
Barry Buzan
Keyword(s):  
International Society ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
The Other ◽  
English School ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Normative Order ◽  
Primary Institutions ◽  
The Impact

This article develops an English School framework for analysing the emergence of new primary institutions in global international society, and applies this to the case of environmental stewardship. The article traces the impact that global environmentalism has had on the normative order of global international society, examines the creation of secondary institutions around this norm and identifies the ways in which these developments have become embedded in the constitution and behaviour of states. It assesses the ways in which environmental stewardship has interacted with the other primary institutions that compose global international society, changing some of the understandings and practices associated with them. The conclusions argue that environmental stewardship is likely to be a durable institution of global international society, and that it might be a harbinger of a more functional turn in its priorities.

scholarly journals The use of the term ‘limnology’ and its scientometrics consequences for limnologists

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Fontaneto ◽  
Alejandro Martínez ◽  
Stefano Mammola ◽  
Aldo Marchetto
Keyword(s):  
Publication Output ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scientific Impact ◽  
Lake Ecology ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

Jargon is the specialised vocabulary of any science: it allows the creation of new terms to define concepts and it removes ambiguity from scientific communication. Yet, it may also hinder understanding for a broader audience. Given that the Journal of Limnology has jargon in its title, we here investigate the impact of the term ‘limnology’ on the way limnologists work, publish their research, and attract the interest of other scientists. We do so by comparing scientometric features of papers published from 1965 to 2020 that used the term ‘limnology’ against papers on similar topics but that used the term ‘lake ecology’ or ‘hydrobiology’, and to the marine counterpart of papers that used the term ‘oceanography’. We found that papers using the term limnology score worse than those of the other topics in terms of both publication output and scientific impact. Limnologists may need to use other terms in addition to ‘limnology’ to reach a broader scientific audience.

Cognitive Explanations of Indian Perceptions of China

Asian Survey ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-355
Author(s):  
Yongrong Cao ◽  
Hsin-Che Wu ◽  
Min-Hua Huang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
South Asia ◽  
International Society ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Schema ◽  
China And India ◽  
Strategic Competition ◽  
Negative Orientation ◽  
The Impact

In recent years, the economic development of China and India and their border confrontations have intensified bilateral strategic competition. This study used the State of Democracy in South Asia survey to identify dual mindsets of competition and contingency that drive how Indians perceive China’s influence in Asia. These two mindsets are based on a cognitive schema characterized by a political predisposition against China. However, this negative orientation is moderated as more information is acquired regarding the impact of China on India. The competition mindset does not always manifest itself, and is only cognitively activated when a change is perceived in India’s power status. On the other hand, the contingent principle appears whenever competition seems to have abated, or disadvantage seems unavoidable. The mindsets of competition and contingency are not only relevant to the evolution of Sino–Indian relations, but also explain how Indian policymakers behave and respond in international society.

On the Calculation of Pair Creation by Fast Charged Particles and the Effect of Screening

1935 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Bhabha
Keyword(s):  
Impact Parameter ◽  
Momentum Space ◽  
Minimum Distance ◽  
Rest Mass ◽  
Charged Particles ◽  
The Other ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact

In a recent paper I developed a method for calculating the probability of the creation of an electron pair in the collision of two charged particles moving with a relative velocity very near that of light. I showed there that under certain conditions it is legitimate to treat one of the colliding particles, say the heavier one of charge Z2 and rest mass M2, which we shall call the particle 2, as fixed at the origin of coordinates, and the other, of charge Z1 and rest mass M1, which we shall call the particle 1, as moving classically along a straight line with uniform velocity V in the direction of the z-axis, passing the other particle 2 at a minimum distance of approach (impact parameter) b. I developed expressions (given by (18) to (22) of A) giving the probability of the transition of an electron from an initial state of negative energy E0 and momentum p0 lying in an element of momentum space dp0 to a final state of energy E and momentum p lying in an element of momentum space dp, under the combined perturbing influence of the two colliding particles when they pass at a minimum distance b. The initial state of the electron, left vacant after the transition, appears as a positron of momentum p+ = − p0. To get the differential effective cross-section for the creation of the above pair, we must integrate this probability over all values of the impact parameter b, and this integration can be performed easily as shown in A. The final result can be written as a sum of a finite number of doubly infinite integrals (A, (24)). The purpose of this paper is to carry through the evaluation of these integrals for certain special cases, and to consider the effects of screening. The results have already been communicated in A.

The political international society: Change in primary and secondary institutions

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 601-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
KILIAN SPANDLER
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
International Society ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Deep Structure ◽  
The Political ◽  
English School ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Autonomous Objects ◽  
Primary Institutions

AbstractThis article intends to contribute to the theorising of institutional change. Specifically, it asks how dynamics in the ‘deep structure’ of international society correspond to changes in more specific institutions as embodied by regimes and international organisations. It does so by taking up the distinction of primary and secondary institutions in international society advocated by scholars of the English School. It argues that, while the differentiation offers analytical potential, the School has largely failed to study secondary institutions such as international organisations and regimes as autonomous objects of analysis, seeing them as mere materialisations of primary institutions. Engaging with the concepts of structuration and path dependence will allow scholars working in an English School framework to explore more deeply the relation between the two kinds of institutions, and as a consequence devise more elaborate theories of institutional change. Based on this argument, the article develops a theoretical model that sees primary and secondary institutions entangled in distinctive processes of constitution and institutionalisation. This model helps to establish international organisations and regimes as a crucial part of the English School agenda, and to enlighten the political mechanisms that lead to continuity and change in international institutions more broadly.

scholarly journals A Study on Managers' Creation of Budgetary Slack in Emerging Economies: The Case of Vietnam

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Quang-Huy Ngo ◽  
Thi-Nam-Ninh Doan ◽  
Thanh-Nha Huynh
Keyword(s):  
Information Asymmetry ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Budgetary Slack ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Budgetary Participation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

Although the budgeting literature well documents managers' creation of budgetary slack in developed economies, lack of attention has been paid to this behaviour in emerging economies. It is doubtful that some unique characteristics, only existing in emerging economies, cause this behaviour to be different than the budgeting literature predicts. Since there is no study examining managers' creation of budgetary slack in emerging economies, such as Vietnam, to get insight into whether or not these characteristics cause the differences, the aim of this study is to replicate prior budgeting studies by using Vietnamese samples. Particularly, we investigated the impact of budgetary participation, budget emphasis, information asymmetry, and the interactions between these variables on managers' creation of budgetary slack. Data obtained from the questionnaire sent to 99 Vietnamese managers shows that the last two variables and the interaction between them induce managers' creation of budgetary slack. However, the results also indicate that the first variable and the interaction between this variable and the other two variables respectively have no impact on managers' creation of budgetary slack. These results provide some insight into the creation of budgetary slack of Vietnamese managers for future studies to extend the line of research.

scholarly journals The English School: History and Primary Institutions as Empirical IR Theory?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Buzan ◽  
George Lawson
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Society ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
English School ◽  
Ir Theory ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
School Work ◽  
School History ◽  
Primary Institutions ◽  
Historical Accounts

How does the English School work as part of Empirical International Relations (IR) theory? The English School depends heavily on historical accounts, and this article makes the case that history and theory should be seen as co-constitutive rather than as separate enterprises. Empirical IR theorists need to think about their own relationship to this question and clarify what “historical sensitivity” means to them. The English School offers both distinctive taxonomies for understanding the structure of international society, and an empirically constructed historical approach to identifying the primary institutions that define international society. If Empirical IR is open to historical-interpretive accounts, then its links to the English School are in part strong, because English School structural accounts would qualify; they are, in other ways, weak because the normative theory part of the English School would not qualify. Lying behind this judgement is a deeper issue: if Empirical IR theory confines itself to regularity-deterministic causal accounts, then there can be no links to English School work. Undertaking English School insights will help open up a wider view of Empirical IR theory.

Supporting Requirements to Code Traceability Creation by Code Comments

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (08) ◽  
pp. 1099-1118
Author(s):  
Guohua Shen ◽  
Haijuan Wang ◽  
Zhiqiu Huang ◽  
YaoShen Yu ◽  
Kai Chen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Software Maintenance ◽  
Source Code ◽  
The Other ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Code Tracing

Requirements-to-code tracing is an important and costly task that creates trace links from requirements to source code. These trace links help engineers reduce the time and complexity of software maintenance. Code comments play an important role in software maintenance tasks. However, few studies have focused intensively on the impact of code comments on requirements-to-code trace links creation. Different types of comments have different purposes, so how different types of code comments provide different improvements for requirements-to-code trace links creation? We focus on learning whether code comments and different types of comments can improve the quality of trace links creation. This paper presents a study to evaluate the contribution of code comments and different types of code comments to the creation of trace links. More specifically, this paper first experimentally evaluates the impact of code comments on requirements-to-code trace links creation, and then divides code comments into six categories to evaluate its impact on trace links creation. The results show that the precision increases by an average of 15% (based on the same recall) after adding code comments (even for different trace links creation techniques), and the type of Purpose comments contributes more to the tracing task than the other five. This empirical study provides evidence that code comments are effective in tracing links creation, and different types of code comments contribute differently. Purpose comments can be used to improve the accuracy of requirements-to-code trace links creation.

Primary Institutions, Secondary Institutions, and Moral Obligation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Youde
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
International Society ◽  
Moral Obligation ◽  
English School ◽  
Global Health Governance ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Formal Organizations ◽  
Primary Institutions

Institutions are foundational to the English School and to the very concept of international society, so it makes sense that scholars would pay attention to them. What’s curious, though, is how much ambiguity permeates the discussion of primary and secondary institutions within English School theorizing. There is a lack of agreement among authors about what constitutes a primary institution, and secondary institutions receive almost no attention because they are merely formal organizations with no independent power within international society. This chapter distinguishes between primary and secondary institutions, describes the emergence of moral obligation and responsibility as a primary institution, explains why secondary institutions are constitutive of international society, and makes the case for global health governance as a secondary institution.

Effects of governance on entrepreneurship: European Union vs non-European Union

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Jesús Rodríguez-Gulías ◽  
Vítor Manuel de Sousa Gabriel ◽  
David Rodeiro-Pazos
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Government Effectiveness ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Governance Indicators ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of six governance indicators on the rate of creation of new companies between countries that are members of the European Union (EU) and those that are not. H1 states that the various dimensions of governance help to explain the immediate creation of new businesses in European and non-European countries. H2 states that the various dimensions of governance help to explain the deferred creation of new businesses in European and non-European countries. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses two types of analyses: firstly, univariate analysis, which is a descriptive statistics of the dependent, independent and control variables, and the results of a t-test; and secondly, multivariate analysis, which estimates using the fixed-effects estimator under the specifications previously raised for the subsample of 28 EU countries and for the subsample of 103 non-EU countries during the period 2004-2014. Findings The results show that the variables of governance are not significantly higher in the EU, although the density of the enterprises is. Within the governance indicators, government effectiveness is significant in the EU. The results obtained for the EU confirmed H1and H2, with a significant positive effect of government effectiveness on entrepreneurship, while the other governance variables were not significant in the EU subsample. The results obtained for non-EU countries suggest no significant immediate effects (H1) and a slightly significant delayed effect of rule of law on the entrepreneurship (H2) concerned. Research limitations/implications Future research in this area could consider introducing another regional division or other types of methodology as variables affect models. Practical implications Governance can be defined as the ability of a government and its public institutions to provide services and design, and implement rules, which is a factor that affects the creation of new companies. However, the effect of governance could differ depending on the country and its economic environment. This paper analyses the effect of six governance indicators on the rate of creation of new companies considering two different geographic regions as countries are presumably heterogeneous. Therefore, these results indicate that the effect of governance variables on entrepreneurship differs according to the region. Social implications The effect of governance variables on entrepreneurship according to the region is also known. Originality/value This study applied panel data analysis to two samples of countries during the period 2004-2014, one formed by 28 countries of the EU and the other by 103 non-EU countries. No other paper considers this number of countries for this period. To assess the impact of governance on the creation of new companies, this paper considered the existence of immediate and deferred effects of governance on entrepreneurship.

scholarly journals International refugee protection and the primary institutions of international society

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Nantermoz
Keyword(s):  
International Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
English School ◽  
Territorial State ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
State Practice ◽  
Politics Of Contestation ◽  
The One ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Primary Institutions

AbstractRefugees are often considered as a source of disorder if not fundamental threat to international society. In contrast, and drawing from an English School approach, this article argues that the figure of the refugee is foundational to the constitution of both modern international society and its agent, the sovereign territorial state; hence refugee protection represents a primary institution of international society. Starting with conceptual and methodological considerations for studying primary institutions, the article then highlights the longstanding and widespread state practice of granting asylum. It is shown that on the one hand, the figure of the refugee serves to consolidate and naturalise the nation/state/territory trinity underpinning the modern state system; and on the other hand, protecting refugees plays a central role in the construction of statist self-identities as liberal, humanitarian, and altruistic agents. The last section of the article turns to the politics of contestation of refugee protection, examining domestic, regional, and international reactions to ‘anti-refugee’ policies in the United States, Hungary, and Australia. The considerable amount of criticism generated by these restrictive policies, it is argued, evidence the enduring importance and relevance of refugee protection in (and for) international society.

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