Nowadays we medical physicists are bombarded with guidelines and task reports, and we may see similar ones from different organizations in the United States of America or worldwide. Many extraordinary and diligent medical physicists have devoted their time and knowledge in creating these documents. Yet some of us might be wondering: should we optimize the use of our resources by establishing a ...

Revised version of a paper presented at the Trinational Institute on Innovation, Competitiveness and Sustainability organized by the Center for Policy Research on Science and Technology of Simon Fraser University and held at Whistler, B.C. on August 14-21 1994. This version is to be published in R. Anderson et al. National and Regional Innovation Systems in a Global Context: The North American ...

Theorisation and debate have been going on around the concept of civil society literally for centuries and ‘civil society theory’ could be understood as an umbrella term for the body of theorisation which has emerged. However, the term is used here in a more restricted sense to refer to the contemporary production of an ideological discourse through which academic theory is recycled as the poli...

1. The story of contemporary Chinese culture is, to a large degree, a story of amalgamation: cultural identities in China form in relation to a number of competing discourses and traditions—from consumerism and nationalism, to Maoism and Confucianism. In their compelling work Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China, Geng Song and Derek Hird carefully examine the production and performance o...

Theories of modernization have assumed that the creation of nation-states involved the breakdown of parochial ethnic boundaries and increasing secularism, all of which resulted in a demographic transition from high to low fertility and mortality. Recent experiences suggests, however, that in some circumstances nation-states may be highly unstable as ethnic minorities assert their rights to self...

Enlightenment “universalism” actually parochial and dangerous.

Although “vaccine nationalism” and vaccine diplomacy have thus far typified the COVID-19 rollouts around globe, there remain limited scholarly insights on global distribution strategies. This research note (RN) examines strategies implications for public policy governments. In conceptualizing into three competing perspectives (i.e., nationalism,” diplomacy, initiative), this article highlights ...