In The Power Triangle: Military, Security and Politics in Regime Change , Hazem Kandil utilises Egypt, Turkey and Iran as case studies through which to understand regime dynamics that enable movement between revolution, reform and resilience. Hesham Shafick praises Kandil’s account as the work of an exemplary scholar that makes a crucial theoretical contribution to the study of regime change by...

Gravel barriers represent physiographic, hydrographic, sedimentary, and ecological boundaries between inshore open marine offshore environments, where they provide numerous important functions. The morphosedimentary features of gravel (e.g., steep, energy reflective form) have led to their characterization as effective coastal defense during extreme hydrodynamic conditions. Consequently, often ...

[1] The long-term (1935–1999) monthly records of temperature, precipitation, stream flow, river ice thickness, and active layer depth have been analyzed in this study to examine Lena River hydrologic regime and recent change. Remarkable hydrologic changes have been identified in this study. During the cold season (October–April), significant increases (25–90%) in stream flow and decrease in riv...

Regression models for de facto currency regime classification are complemented by inferential techniques for tracking the stability of exchange rate regimes. Several structural change methods are adapted to these regressions: tools for assessing the stability of exchange rate regressions in historical data (testing), in incoming data (monitoring) and for determining the breakpoints of shifts in...

There is general agreement that the traditional command-and-control regulation of radio spectrum by the FCC (and NTIA) has failed. There is no general agreement on which regime should succeed it. Property rights advocates take Ronald Coase’s advice that spectrum licenses should be sold off and traded in secondary markets, like any other assets. Commons advocates argue that new technologies cann...

This appendix contains the proofs of all the intermediate results that have been omitted from the paper, as well as extensions of several results reported in the paper. The appendix is divided into 6 sections. In Section 2 we show that for any distribution of precision choices , there are no non-monotonic equilibria in the second stage of the game. We also establish properties of the ex-ante ut...

We study costly information acquisition in global games, which are coordination games where payo¤s are discontinuous in the unobserved state and in the average action of agents. We show that only symmetric equilibria exist and we provide su¢ cient conditions for uniqueness. We then characterize the value of information in this context and link it to the underlying parameters of the model. We ex...

The political environment can be likened to an ecological system in that over time its structures undergo evolutionary patterns. Though originally described for ecological systems, C. S. Holling's (Gunderson and Holling 2001) notion of the adaptive cycle can be applied to particular political systems in an effort to elucidate facilitating or destabilizing behavioral mechanisms. This paper inves...

Based on results from the literature, a description of sound generation in a recorder is developed. Linear and non-linear analysis are performed to study the dependence of the frequency on the jet velocity. The linear analysis predicts that the frequency is a function of the jet velocity. The non-linear resolution provides information about limit cycle oscillation and hysteretic regime change t...