To capture the role of politics in tourism, we propose a novel measure to quantify political relations based on text analysis published diplomatic statements. We explain how affect outbound tourist flows from China Japan and Korea. Estimated monthly data (1997m1-2018m12), our model shows China-Japan disputes Korea China-Korea clashes influence number Chinese tourists going Japan. The effects ar...

Whilst the global governance architecture for the Internet has evolved at pace in the last ten years the EU's role and influence in its formation and development has been relatively understudied. This paper contributes to closing this gap in the literature through an investigation of how the EU has sought to shape the emerging environment for Internet governance in the context of its quest for ...

This paper argues that powerful impetus exists for the realisation of a global multilateral electronic market infrastructure, as envisaged by the ebXML endeavour. Crucial in this regard is the problem of interoperability: making it possible for disparate systems to interact fluently. An obvious panacea would be to use a pre-specified set of protocols comprised of selected globally-accessible op...