abstract the wave of islamic radicalism in central asia and separatism threaten china’s neighboring autonomous and muslim-populated xinjiang region. there is much evidence indicating that the threat is clear-cut, though in xinjiang muslim dissidents are not much strong because of increasing suppression of chinese people. in this article, the main question includes what is china’s main security ...

the us-israeli relationship is regarded as one of the strongest relations between two states in the contemporary world. for a number of cultural, strategic, and political reasons, the us strongly supports the zionist regime. on the other hand, the role of the strong, influential israeli lobby in the us has yet been another significant factor for the close relations between the two countries wit...

How does education mediate the relationship between the co-production of environmental knowledge, and the social reproduction of an alternative society? This article draws upon a political ecology of education framework to analyze how schools advance alternative land management strategies and forms of environmental knowledge. Schools catering to grassroots movements can actualize their emancipa...

Purpose To offer greater insight in the role of blogs in the creation of a more transparent news media system and a more democratic political reality. Design/methodology/approach Framing theory is employed as a conceptual tool to re-interpret existing evidence of the performance of news blogs during situations of political conflict and war. A theoretical analysis is developed setting out the pr...

We describe a new probabilistic model for extracting events between major political actors from news corpora. Our unsupervised model brings together familiar components in natural language processing (like parsers and topic models) with contextual political information— temporal and dyad dependence—to infer latent event classes. We quantitatively evaluate the model’s performance on political sc...

Though political theorists have emphasized the importance of political discussion in non-political spaces, past study of online political discussion has focused on primarily political websites. Using a random sample from Blogger.com, we find that 25% of all political posts are from blogs that post about politics less than 20% of the time, because the vast majority of blogs post about politics s...