In his presidential address, October 1998 on Formative and Early Years of the Peace Science Society (International), it was not possible for the author to include a number of important items required for a full appreciation of the setting and the organizational dynamics of that critical period,...

It is unnecessary for us to point out that there has emerged a new type of warfare that is employed by terrorist organizations and that the continued and even greater poverty conditions of many regions of the world contribute to the growth of the terrorists' activities. This negative outcome has...

This paper is concerned with the development of a cooperative analysis approach for use by Diplomats and Negotiators in resolving certain difficult conflicts. It employs concepts from economics and peace science without any diminution of the urgent need for superb diplomacy and negotiations...

This working paper speaks of "art and science" of nuancing conflicts in an unusual manner. We use the word "art" specifically to designate non-scientific factors. But when we employ the term "art and science" we have in mind the use of non-economic factors, for example diplomatic know-how and...

Against the background of the fruitful application of the gravitational force from physics in the development of the gravity model extensively employed in regional science, possible parallels from the analysis of the coplay of the four basic forces of particle physics are examined. In...

In emissions trading, the initial allocation of permits is an intractable issue because it needs to be essentially fair to the participating countries. There are many ways to distribute a given total amount of emissions permits among countries, but the existing distribution methods, such as...