Railroad Technocracy, Extraterritoriality, and Imperial <i>Lieux de Mémoire</i> in Russian Émigrés’ Manchuria, 1920–1930s

Russian Imperial Policy: Tsars -- Bolsheviks -- Primakov

An Economic Analysis of Extraterritoriality

Extraterritorial application of national laws are regarded as an infringement of national sovereignty and against the interests of the nations affected by these actions, who frequently oppose their enforcement as a consequence. This paper examines extraterritorial application of national competition laws, and identifies an additional issue. Extraterritorial action by national competition author...

The Performance of De Novo Private Firms in Russian Manufacturing

This paper considers the current performance and future prospects of newly-established private manufacturing firms in Russia, using information gathered in a mid-1994 World Bank survey of 439 Russian industrial firms, including forty-odd de novo private firms. The paper finds that in terms of most performance indicators, de novo private manufacturing firms look significantly better than their s...

Beyond functionality and technocracy: creating human involvement with educational technology

Innovation of education is highly topical. It is obviously boosted by a range of new technologies, which enable new modes of learning that, are independent of time and place through Web-based delivery and computer-mediated communication. However, innovators in education often encounter intrinsic conservatism or even deliberate obstructions. For innovators it is important to be aware of and to u...

Imperial College,

We review the properties of classical p-brane solutions to supergravity theories, i.e. solutions that may be interpreted as Poincaré-invariant hyperplanes in space-time. Topics covered include the distinction between elementary/electric and soli-tonic/magnetic solutions, examples of singularity and global structure, relations between mass densities, charge densities and the preservation of unbr...