Received: March 18, 2015; Accepted: March 20, 2015; Published: March 22, 2015 If you read these pages, you certainly know the seminal book by Benoit B. Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982). In his Masterpiece, Benoit provides both a mathematical model and a description for many of the seemingly complex forms and patterns in nature, showing that fractal patterns are extremely famili...

Hannah Arendt’s existential, republican concept of politics spurned Carl Schmitt’s idea that enmity constituted the essence of the political. Famously, she isolated the political sphere from social conflict, sovereign regimes, and the realm of military violence. While some critics are now interested in applying Arendt’s more abstract political ideas to international affairs, it has not been ack...

in islamic penal law, most of the crimes against national and social security are gathered under the title muḥāriba (waging war); whereas, in jurisprudence, there is disagreement about the nature and criteria of muḥāriba and the concept of arms in muḥāriba. however, by research and delving into evidences derived from jurisprudential texts, a true definition of this category can be achieved, acc...

This research has focused on the analysis of international consequences aggravated and frustrated exports agricultural products from Ukraine due to war events, as well other risks associated with them. Despite existence acts that seek to, at least partially, remove uncertainties regarding prospects for export grain crops (such Istanbul Initiative under auspices United Nations), number Ukrainian...

to offer proper services for military personnel with psychiatric disturbances, calls for the application of known fundamental principles of socio-military psychiatry. in this respect, military and public mobilization, active participation of vast majority of people concerning sacred defense and by its very nature, the social vulnerability necessiate a harmonious multidimensional programming cen...

During the Gulf War of 1991, the television coverage was frequently observed to be ‘just like a video game’. This analogy primarily derived from the specific, ‘bombs-eye’ perspective of camera-equipped weapons, approaching their targets. The troubling nature of this coverage was said to derive from the viewer’s sense of direct involvement: the argument was that viewers were able to marvel at th...

the main purpose of this article is to investigate the role of the great powers in the eight- year's old war between iran and iraq. due to the nature of the various variables involved in this study, we have to employ political as well as international theories. because of the effect on international political order on this war, it was realized that the approach taken by the neorealism incl...