| This paper examines and compares the merits and demerits of the national (global) and the regional (partitioned) voting system where the national voting selects a candidate directly by a simple majority of the entire voting population of the nation while the regional voting chooses the candidate indirectly by a majority of the regions, not by the majority of the entire votes. And we demonstra...

President Barack Obama, in his 2011 State of the Union Address, called America "the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers" and "of Google and Facebook." U.S. Chief Information Officer, Steven VanRoekel, said that America has become a "Facebook nation" that demands increased transparency and interactivity from the federal government. Facebook as a nation in 2012 would be the third largest cou...

Having a clear, differentiated positioning gives a country an advantage in attracting investment, business and tourism, and in building markets for its exports. Countries like Greece, Spain and Chile are successfully repositioning themselves using coordinated marketing and highly visible events like the Olympics. Positioning and national image also matter greatly in public diplomacy and cannot ...

Many countries now engage in interference, degradation, blocking, or surveillance of Internet traffic. In response, individuals, organizations, and even entire countries are taking steps to control the geographic regions that their traffic traverses. For example, some countries are building local Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) to prevent domestic traffic from detouring through other countries....

The paper re-reads the complex and changing relationships between the university and the nation-state, and between national and supranational (EU-level) educational policies in Europe. It is focusing on long-term consequences of globalisation-related pressures on European nation-states with respect to national educational policies. It assesses the indirect impact of globalisation on European un...

Introduction In 1996, the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) launched three initiatives i.e. National Education (NE), the Thinking Programme (TP) and the Master Plan for Information Technology in Education (MPITE). Three years later, the Project Work (PW) initiative was implemented in 1999. These initiatives represent the change in the landscape in our education system and as a nation itself...

The articles in this issue highlight contributions that studies of Latin America can make to wider debates about the effects of genomic science on public ideas about race and nation. We argue that current ideas about the power of genomics to transfigure and transform existing ways of thinking about human diversity are often overstated. If a range of social contexts are examined, the effects are...