Through developing of the concept of hitmazrehut, the article highlights avenues for decolonializing and de-orientalizing sociopolitical theory and practice in Israel/Palestine. Hitmazrehut (literally ‘becoming of the East’) is understood as the transformation of relations between space, identity, and narrative through an intersectionality framework of social movement activism and intellectual ...

The paper places a strong focus on the increasing geopolitical tensions in world and geoeconomic adjustment process of both Japan Hungary to new environment. After introductory part (Chapter 1), which discusses changes global political economic environment, next chapter 2) analyses for countries, focusing foreign trade policies. Chapter 3 focuses how relations with two major powers, United Stat...

A~STRCT. This paper argues for the re-conceptu~i~t~on of geopolitics using the concept of discourse. Geopolitics is defined as a discursive practice by which inteltectuals of statecraft ‘spatialize’ international politics and represent it as a ‘world characterized by particular types of places, peoples and dramas, Four theses explicating this re-conceptualization are outlined including the dist...

The first process was geopolitical, and had to do with the need to provide security for the fledgling state from external threats. This included not only threats to the Israel’s existence, but also threats to the economic well being of its population and its capacity for future growth through the absorption of large segments of the Jewish Diaspora. Water issues were central to Israel’s geopolit...

This paper investigates whether the macroeconomic uncertainty factors can explain and forecast China’s INE crude oil futures market volatility. We use GARCH-MIDAS model to investigate explaining predicting power of uncertainties. considered various geopolitical risk (GPR) indices, economic policy (EPU) infectious disease pandemic (IDEMV) indices in our model. The empirical results suggest that ...

In sports competitions, teams can manipulate the result by, for instance, throwing games. We show that we can decide how to manipulate round robin and cup competitions, two of the most popular types of sporting competitions in polynomial time. In addition, we show that finding the minimal number of games that need to be thrown to manipulate the result can also be determined in polynomial time. ...