Throughout the course of history, annexation has littered international scene as major powers exert their force in takeover smaller lands. Sometimes these takeovers are violent and others not, but what we undoubtably see is that will be successful if economic indicators rise, post-acquisition. We focus our attention to three prominent cases by powers: Crimea, Kashmir Hong Kong. briefly examine ...

Polyhedral annexation is a new approach for generating all valid inequalities in mixed integer and combinatorial programming. These include the facets of the convex hull of feasible integer solutions. The approach is capable of exploiting the characteristics of tile feasible solution space in regions both "adjacent to" and "distant from" the linear programming vertex without resorting to specia...

Various forms of foreign military presence on the territory state have been studied, such as occupation, conquest, deployment bases, annexation, etc. The features that characterize legal regimes occupation and annexation their international regulation identified. Among signs is effective control occupier over another with takeover all functions government or without armed resistance, well obtai...

Weighted voting is a classic model of cooperation among agents in decision-making domains. In such games, each player has a weight, and a coalition of players wins the game if its total weight meets or exceeds a given quota. A player’s power in such games is usually not directly proportional to his weight, and is measured by a power index, the most prominent among which are the Shapley–Shubik i...

Urban economics dictate that cities must grow to maintain their vitality. Small cities increase their population and economic base, thereby expanding their city limits. Large cities manage growth so that expansion is controlled, avoiding real estate and economic depressions. Former Albuquerque Mayor David Rusk argues in Cities Without Suburbs that cities with aggressive growth strategies prospe...

The purpose of the research. article consists in determination current international legal regime territory Crimea for further proper argumentation Ukraine’s position interstate disputes with Russian Federation. Main content. Various forms foreign military presence on a state have been studied, such as: occupation, conquest, deployment bases, annexation, etc. Determined are signs that character...

This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with areas which were under indirect colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct rule have significantly lower levels of access to schools, health centers and roads in the post-colonial period. I find evidence ...