Decentered? ASEAN's Struggle to Accommodate Great Power Competition

Unipolarity, StatUS Competition, and Great power war

On Struggle and Competition in Scientific Fields

What is the difference between struggling for achievements and competing for success? What is the effect of competitions on a scientific field? What are the specific implications on TOC? In this opinionated essay, I address these questions and related issues, while rooting the discussion in an appropriate theoretical framework. On the style of this essay. This opinionated essay refers to the so...

The Great Caliban The Struggle Against the Rebel Body

...take some Pity on me... for my Friends is very Poor, and my Mother is very sick, and I am to die next Wednesday morning, so I hope you will be so good as to give my Friends a small Trifill of Money to pay for a Coffin and a Sroud, for to take my body a way from the Tree in that I am to die on... and don’t be faint Hearted... so I hope you will take it into Consideration of my poor Body, and ...

Imam Khomeini’s Approach to Political Struggle

The developments in the contemporary world, particularly the revolutions, coups and wars, have led to development of many theories about social movements. One of the methods used in social movements to bring about sociopolitical change is nonviolence. Nonviolent method of struggle was theorized by Gene Sharp, who collected and introduced 198 methods of nonviolent actions, protest and persuasion...

Struggle for space: viral extinction through competition for cells.

The design of protocols to suppress the propagation of viral infections is an enduring enterprise, especially hindered by limited knowledge of the mechanisms leading to viral extinction. Here we report on infection extinction due to intraspecific competition to infect susceptible hosts. Beneficial mutations increase the production of viral progeny, while the host cell may develop defenses again...