the relation of diplomacy and military strategy or the relation of politicians and military officials and their effect on different decisions relating to the war has been one of the debateful issues regarding the iran-iraq war. the writer has discussed some issues related to 598 resolution and iran's diplomacy weaknesses during the war.

This paper demonstrates the use of pattern-weights in order to develop a strategy for an automated player of a non-cooperative version of the game of Diplomacy. Diplomacy is a multi-player, zerosum and simultaneous move game with imperfect information. Patternweights represent stored knowledge of various aspects of a game that are learned through experience. An automated computer player is deve...

Peninsula. In this essay, we compare notes on German and Korean unification by looking at entry, tipping and endpoints of strategic diplomacy. We argue that political integration needs to drive the strategic diplomacy of Korean unification. German unification was not preordained, but was the product of strategic choices made at critical junctures of the process. While long-term developments pos...

The displaced of Sudan, due to both decades of civil war and natural disasters, are disproportionately female and many are responsible for dependents. For those settling in the capital, Khartoum, their livelihood depends on carving out ways to earn money in an urban area that is experiencing tremendous growth from the millions of recent arrivals. When confronted with the immediate need to provi...

Under its Constitution, the World Health Organization (WHO) works with its members towards the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. The context in which WHO and its Members pursue this goal has radically changed since 1946. The interdependence produced by globalization has broken down traditional ways of conceptualizing and organizing the medical, economic, politic...

Three recent books survey ancient Near Eastern treaty texts and discuss their relevance to biblical covenants. Kitchen Lawrence present the most extensive anthology now available. Altman tends concentrate on Hittite diplomacy, while Charpin highlights evidence from Old Babylonian city-states. Taken together, they demonstrate that scholars should bear in mind flexibility of these political instr...