China’s growing technological capability has become the topic of the day among Western officials concerned with the national security and economic competitiveness implications of China’s growing prominence. The publication of a study which attempts to explain how security and competitiveness have been linked in the evolution of Chinese technology policies is therefore quite timely. The effort t...

Ned Foote (Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, retired); Juan Arredondo (Sergeant, U.S. Army, retired); Jonathan D. Pruden (Captain, U.S. Army, retired). They have walked the walk and paid the price. A very high price. They are veterans who sustained major limb loss during the Vietnam or Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) conflicts. Their names are Juan Arredondo, Ned Foote, ...

the paper aims to examine why women took part in the battles at the advent of islam and how much they were effective in the promotion of islam. the participation of women in battles in the advent of islam is one of its undeniable and sure facts, and however, islam is against the women to take part in battles as warriors, yet, nothing in the cases of saving oneself or defending the holy prophet’...

Darius offered the political order of “king of kings” to solve the political crisis of his era. He legitimized it based on an order of gods. In his belief, the nature of politics was based on a dualistic religious worldview that is the fight between true divinity and false divinity’s will and performance in the world. In addition, the chief true divinity’s law was introduced as the principle or...

This paper contrasts natural oral narratives of Bedouin adults and children (ages 8- 11) in the Negev Desert (South Israel). The analysis showed some striking stylistic differences, on both developmental genre-related grounds. Adults, narrating tribal legends a stylized, performed idiom. used distinct styles for textual levels orientation, plotline, direct speech; told folktales anecdotes relat...