The concept of communicability is introduced for complex socioeconomic networks. The communicability function expresses how an impact propagates from one place to another in the network. This function is used to define unambiguously the concept of socio-economic community. The concept of temperature in complex socio-economic networks is also introduced as a way of accounting for the external st...

Unlike peer nations’ residents, Americans are less accepting of, and concerned by, (especially anthropogenic) climate change. Reinforced Theistic Manifest Destiny theory (RTMD; e.g., Ranney, 2012) explains many such “U.S.exceptionalist” phenomena by combining geopolitical history with six belief constructs: afterlife, deity, nationalism, creation, evolution, and global warming. We assess predic...

Knowledge spillovers—non-rival information goods with the potential to be adapted by neighboring producers—have been the focus of a large body of empirical and theoretical economic research. However, the majority of existing work only examines two industries (academic and patent citation networks), and only focuses on estimating the effects of individual geopolitical units on knowledge spillove...

conduct and orientation of states in their foreign policy are affected by geopolitical constant and variable factors. the authors of the present paper try to study the impact of variable factors on determining the islamic republic of iran’s foreign policy in the 1979-2005 period, on the basis of holsti’s trilogy on foreign policy (orientations, national roles and goals). exploiting the concept ...