Considering the current upward drift in farm use all over the world, the Russian agro-food market has immense possibilities to create such economic conditions under which the farming sector could develop dynamically. The increase in the grain production is of crucial importance for all agricultural branches. In this respect, the grain sector is Russia’s strategically significant economic segmen...

Rapid socio-economic changes in recent history have created the environment in which the drug problem as we know it has taken shape and started to exhibit the characteristics mentioned above. Over the past decade, established illicit drug markets in the industrialized countries have shown signs of stabilization, while the growth of illicit drug use has continued to accompany socio-economic tran...

An iterative learning based economic model predictive controller (ILEMPC) is proposed for repetitive tasks in this paper. Compared with existing works, the initial feasible trajectory of the proposed ILEMPC is not restricted to be convergent to an equilibrium so it can handle various types of control objectives: stabilization, tracking a periodic trajectory and even pure economic optimization. ...

One of the more important questions in the area of quantitative economic policy concerns the suitability of optimal control theory for economic stabilization problems. Despite extensive theoretical and applied research in this area, the question of the appropriateness of control theory has still not been completely resolved. The papers by Kalchbrenner and Tinsley and by Prescott are, therefore,...

I develop a theory of political conflict in the shadow of violence in light of various domestic and international crisis situations ranging from transitional, revolutionary, and anti-colonial conflicts to internationalization of such conflicts. This theory is particularly concerned with the nature and the timing of political stabilization processes with respect to the military capabilities, ins...