Nature, war, and Holy Writ

JIHĀD The Origin of Holy War in Islam

Quantum mechanics writ large

S ome two centuries before the quantum revolution, Newton (1) suggested that corpuscles of light generate waves in an aethereal medium like skipping stones generate waves in water, with their motion then being affected by these aether waves. Times have changed. Light corpuscles are now known as photons, and the majority of physicists have dispensed with the notion of aether. Nevertheless, certa...

Bargaining and the Nature of War

A model of bargaining embedded within a random-walk model of warfare is developed. The conflict model contains aspects of both lottery-based and war-of-attrition models of conflict. Results show that future disputes are less likely to lead to armed conflict following long rather than short wars. Furthermore, should a subsequent dispute lead to armed conflict, the higher the cost and the longer ...

In Cypher Writ

Digital Scholarship is a method of scholarly communication, research, and exchange of ideas that employs modern forms of technology, in particular, those forms of technology maintained within an institution’s cyberinfrastructure. Digital scholarship then is often, in equal parts, the intellectual content and the manner in which it is created and presented. That is what sets it apart from, for e...

Petition for Writ of Certiorari