Enlargement fatigue has descended upon the European Union (EU) institutions, which remain focused on resolving Brexit crisis and ongoing internal reforms. This multi-faceted phenomenon directly caused so-called accession in potential EU members, are increasingly turning to other geopolitical alternatives. Russia China new dominant powerbrokers EU’s immediate neighbourhood, courting political bu...

Expansion of business onto the Internet crosses national borders and creates uncertainty as to the propriety of jurisdiction by the courts of nations and their internal political units. Analysis of jurisdiction in United States law reveals that traditional rules provide guidance for resolving the question of constitutional jurisdiction in cases that cross geopolitical lines.

Plant-pathogen interactions are an important knowledge domain within plant biotechnology, both scientifically and in economic terms. Unlike other knowledge domains within life sciences, however, semantic technologies have not been used extensively to codify it, therefore, there is a lack of axiomatic models amenable to automated integration and inference. We present the Plant-Pathogen Interacti...

In this paper we investigate the contextualized representation of events. In particular, we re-interpret the formalization of events and situations adopted in the NewsReader Event and Situation Ontology (ESO) according to the notions of context and module proposed in the Contextualized Knowledge Repositories (CKR) framework. This contextualized formalization sets the basis for exploiting logica...

From the perspective of spatial information sharing and interoperation, the concept of geo-ontology has been proposed in this paper. At first, a brief introduction to the Geo-Ontology concept has been described and the hierarchical structure of geo-ontology has also been analyzed. Then, the traditional method of ontology construction has been discussed and the existing problems have also been s...

Millions of Rohingya were forced to flee their home and became effectively stateless due countless violations vulnerabilities in Myanmar. Their future has become jeopardized with a profusion uncertainties; however, like other displaced people, also got media attention when disaster conflicts them flee. This study aims explore classify the determinant factors that push Myanmar government force I...

Heightened geopolitical risk has become the new normal. We study effects of risks on cross-border acquisition activity. Using military alliance to proxy for degree risks, we find that formation between two countries is associated with greater flows. recent North Atlantic Treaty Organization enlargements as identification strategy, stronger alliance, especially defense pacts. One important chann...

Emerging powers have often employed diverse strategies to gain influence in their regions. This article explores and compares the maritime regional influence-building pro- cesses spearheaded by Brazil India. We identify geo- political variables that permanence of dis- cursive region-building involve: sustained interaction with coastal states; generation sufficient consciousness/awareness; strat...