Indian Ocean is known as a source of moisture for southeast of Iran due to summer precipitation. In this study, in order to investigate the role of SST of Indian Ocean, and the convergence and divergence fields in the precipitation of southeast of Iran, precipitation data of five synoptic stations were used during 2000-2010, including Iranshahr, Khash, ChahBahar, Zabul, and Saravan. To investig...

The non-implementation of political decisions is a major challenge contemporary life. Policy analysis has devoted careful attention to implementation gaps resulting from administrative non-compliance with orders. However, the fact that authorities actually want enforce all policies should not be taken for granted. This article proposes conceptual model systematically accounts cross-agency diver...

While the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC) Blueprint 2025 envisages a centrality of regional architecture in responding to security challenges region, divided positions among member states – mostly visible South China Sea dispute have deepened pessimism on fate APSC. Notwithstanding persisting intra-ASEAN disunity, organization has been projecting goal global political arena. The highl...

The British colonization of New Zealand after 1840 was marked by an unusual concern compared to other settler colonies for incorporating the indigenous population Māori population into the new society. But despite a continuing political rhetoric of protection and sovereignty Māori have historically had lower living standards and, since the 1920s, higher rates of incarceration than European-desc...

The chapter presents up-to-date estimates of Italy’s regional GDP, with the present borders, in ten-year benchmarks from 1871 to 2001, and proposes a new interpretative hypothesis based on long-lasting socio-institutional differences. The inverted U-shape of income inequality is confirmed: rising divergence until the midtwentieth century, then convergence. However, the latter was limited to the...