This article contains a comparison of narratives of foreign members of armed groups of The Islamic State of Iraq; the Levant; the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics in Syria and Ukraine. This data was collected in 2015-2016 using social networks and telecommunications which are presented in...

Globally we are living in difficult times when peace and human security have become big challenges that could have negative implications if not addressed properly. University students -the future leaders are also the victims of such threats and some of them involve themselves in violence by...

Globally we are living in difficult times when peace and human security have become big challenges that could have negative implications if not addressed properly. University students -the future leaders are also the victims of such threats and some of them involve themselves in violence by...

Current study intends to seek the role of deterrent variables in minimizing the violence behavior of the natives of a society, as literature of crime and economics discipline at country level is unable to explain it. We have concentrated on deterrent variables defined as conviction rate to...

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2008. The Brazilian experience is instructive as it is a case of an economy that expanded aggregate exports significantly, but with stagnant aggregate TFP...

This paper studies the regional convergence of sub-national states in the case of Mercosur from 1961 to 2005 by using a non-parametric technique of clustering under the concept of \regime of performance". In the first section, a review in interregional convergence is shown for the Mercosur case....