The World Trade Organization ("WTO") has been heavily criticized since its inception for its potentially destructive influence on other policy domains, particularly environmental and labor policies. The public debate with respect to the WTO was structured, to a large extent, by this negative stance. "Linkage" emerged over the last decade as an alternative framework for thinking about the relati...

Computational approaches to language processing arose during a time of bitter debate in the linguistics community that pitted the generative theory of grammar Cho57] versus more quantitative and empirically motivated approaches (e.g., Sha48]). An unfortunate side eeect of this feud was a schism between statistical and symbolic approaches to natural language processing that resulted in limited i...

Intergroup contact theory is enjoying a renaissance; positive contact does reduce intergroup prejudice, but intergroup contact has generally been studied in relatively benign settings. With a number of countries either still experiencing or having just emerged from periods of pervasive intergroup animosity, contact theory is, nowadays, being put to its most stringent test as contact theorists t...

Once severely rejected, first language (L1) use is no more considered to be inherently detrimental in foreign language pedagogy. Recent research within sociocultural framework has come up with numerous facilitative roles for L1 use (Anton and DiCamilla, 1999; Swain and Lapkin, 2000; Storch and Wigglesworth, 2003). Also, studies from humanistic perspectives that deal with the teachers’ and learn...

 Relations between the third world countries in different parts of Asia and Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries, to a great extent, were influenced by the presence and policies of colonial powers. Thus, for a better understanding of roots of disputes and issues existing between these countries concerning frontiers, disputed Islands, political and prejudicial tensions, we need to study pas...

Do cultural values and traditions influence the development of coping styles ? To address this question, we compared self-reports of coping by 6-14-year-olds in Thailand and the U.S. One hundred and forty-one children were interviewed about six common stressors: separation from a friend, injection in a doctor's office, adult anger, peer animosity, school failure, and physical injury. Children's...

and a large number of conference participants for very useful comments. We thank the National Science Foundation for financial assistance through a grant with the NBER. Arnaud Devleeschauwer and Jesse Shapiro provided excellent research assistance. ABSTRACT European countries are much more generous to the poor relative to the US level of generosity. Economic models suggest that redistribution i...


 Animal rights advocates in the West decry mistreatment of animals, such as their use experimentation and, most notoriously, factory farming. They identify fact that animals are legally considered mere property source these abuses. also tend to view Abrahamic religions responsible for this paradigm and conflict with animal rights. The flashpoint context is battle over Jewish Muslim ritual...

The consumer's antagonistic behavior towards brands is hotly discussed because of the political issues it carries. However, factors affecting Muslim consumers to reject a product still requires more paucity empirical evidence. current study casts light on antecedent that influence product, and pattern between reasons for refusal intention boycott brand. online survey was able reach 450 responde...

The article explores the experience of establishing state bodies in Soviet Union that were involved building relationships with religious organizations. It examines relationship between leaders Council for Russian Orthodox Church Affairs (CROCA = rus. SDRPC, established fall 1943) and Religious Cults (CRCA SDRK, spring 1944). main sources research are materials from central archives Russia. is ...