The Berlin Airlift is one of the most significant events in history air power and international relations. operation, which lasted from June 1948 to May 1949, involved massive airlift essential supplies citizens Berlin, who were cut off rest world by Soviet forces. was a demonstration humanitarian efforts that ultimately helped achieving objectives diplomacy. This paper provides strategic analy...

Alexander George was a towering figure who made path breaking and enduring contributions to political psychology, international relations, and social science methodology. I focus on George’s closely related research programs on deterrence and coercive diplomacy, with special attention to the importance of the asymmetry of motivation, strategies for “designing around” a deterrent threat, the con...

Modern systems-on-chip (SoCs) incorporate a large and growing number of specialized hardware units that must be integrated into a unified address space via a shared bus topology. This process is labor-intensive and error-prone because the interface requirements of all connected blocks must bemutually satisfied. The design productivity gains derived from the modularity of RISC-V are bottlenecked...

The Public Awareness of Research Infrastructures (PARI) three-day conference held in July 2022 at the SKA Observatory’s Global Headquarters (U.K.) discussed science communication issues that practitioners face research infrastructures, like community building, diplomacy and equity, diversity inclusion STEM. We concluded we need to bring society within walls scientific facilities as much help sc...

Poverty reduction and health became central in the agendas of Southern regional organisations in the last two decades. Yet, little is known about how these organisations address poverty, inclusion and social inequality, and how Southern regional formations are engaging in power constellations, institutions, processes, interests and ideological positions within different spheres of governance. T...

Three years ago, the Lancet's frontispiece stated "Health is now the most important foreign policy issue of our time" and last year, the Director-General of WHO, Margaret Chan, in her opening address, to the Executive Board at its 132nd Session said "health diplomacy works". The nascent field of health diplomacy provides a political framework which aims to deliver the dual goals of improved hea...