The conventional literature on the role of middle powers emphasises importance soft power, niche diplomacy and coalition building. This article explores a case unusual power activism with focus recent Turkish foreign policy behaviour. It demonstrates how interaction domestic politics external dynamics produced an degree activism, going well beyond behaviour, government increasingly employing co...

In this paper we study a class of integral functionals defined on H 0 (Ω), but non coercive on the same space, so that the standard approach of the Calculus of Variations does not work. However, the functionals are coercive on W 1,1 0 (Ω) and we will prove the existence of minima, despite the non reflexivity of W 1,1 0 (Ω), which implies that, in general, the Direct Methods fail due to lack of ...

Background A longstanding concern regarding the use of coercive interventions and treatment pressures is their potentially damaging effect on clients' engagement in treatment and the quality of the relationship between clients and clinicians. So too, it is believed that more favorable client-clinician relationships decrease the need for coercive interventions, since they signify a mutual engage...

Payment for research participation has raised ethical concerns, especially with respect to its potential for coercion. We argue that characterising payment for research participation as coercive is misguided, because offers of benefit cannot constitute coercion. In this article we analyse the concept of coercion, refute mistaken conceptions of coercion and explain why the offer of payment for r...

I’ve written a large number of articles over the last forty years, but rather few research papers going through the peer review or refereeing process. One of them came to mind when I read a paper we’re publishing in the current issue, by Claudiu Heteliu and others, on possible ‘coercive citation’—if that’s an unfamiliar expression [1], it will become clear soon... One of the reviewers of my pap...

Domain switching behavior of 0.955Pb~Zn1/3Nb2/3!O3 – 0.045PbTiO3 ferroelectric single crystal has been investigated using the ultrasonic technique in addition to the polarization hysteresis measurements. The ultrasonic technique makes it possible to extend the coercive field measurement to frequencies as low as 10 Hz, revealing the existence of a saturated coercive field Esc , which representin...

Policing is a widespread mechanism regulating cooperation in both human and animal social groups. Policing can promote the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among non-relatives by tying the reproductive success of individuals to the efficiency and success of the group. In this paper, we investigate the evolution of reproductive policing using a multi-scale computational model inspired by...

How does the public view the offer of a biological treatment in lieu of prison for criminal offenders? Using the contrastive vignette technique, we explored this issue, using mixed-methods analysis to measure concerns regarding changing the criminal's personality, the coercive nature of the offer, and the safety of the proposed treatment. Overall, we found that of the three variables, the safet...

G-equations are popular front propagation models in combustion literature and describe the front motion law of normal velocity equal to a constant plus the normal projection of fluid velocity. G-equations are Hamilton-Jacobi equations with convex but non-coercive Hamiltonians. We prove homogenization of inviscid G-equation for space periodic incompressible flows. This extends a two space dimens...

An integrative review of three theories that explain why some individuals engage in persistent pursuit—coercive control theory, relational goal pursuit, and attachment theory— is presented. The meta-analytic evidence pointing to persistent pursuit as a gendered behavior is reviewed, and coercive control theory is used to explain gender differences. The strong conceptual and empirical overlap be...