Abstract As the RAS journals move to Open Access publication, Sue Bowler finds out what change means for research and community

Since the Reform and Open Door Policy Initiative launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the Chinese government gradually undertook the open door policy towards foreign direct investment (FDI). First, the government created Special Enterprise Zones (SEZ) in the selected coast cities. A set of preferential treatment is granted to the foreign enterprises invited in SEZs with a restriction on the trans...

Background Implementing an open door policy is a complex intervention comprising changes in therapeutic stance, team processes, and a change from locked to open doors. Recent studies show that it can lead to a reduction of seclusion and forced medication, but the role of the physical change of door status is still unclear. Aims The aims of this study is to examine the transition from closed t...

religion and politics in muslim world are like two next-door neighbors. current developments in the region, no matter they named as arab spring, islamic awakening or radicalism stress the mentioned fact. however, involvement of religion in politics is not inappropriate at all, probably these two are janus-faced and they have synchronically showed tendency to each other: constructive and destruc...

although on the basis of geo-economic theories, study of energy-related issues is of strategic importance to all countries, energy resources are no more restricted to oil and gas reserves as was the case during the past century. of course, these resources are still key elements of global energy reserves. today, in addition to geo-politics and geo-economics, the concept of hydro-geopolitics puts...

Geçmişten günümüze sınırlar ve sınırları ifade etme biçimleri değişiklik göstermiştir. Bu çalışma, Türkiye’nin sınır politikasının dönüşümünü anlamayı amaçlamaktadır. amaçla, 2011 yılında Suriye’de başlayan iç savaşla birlikte uyguladığı açık kapı politikasından hem Suriyeli de Afgan göçmenlere karşı duvarı projesine odaklanılmıştır. Açık ne tür etkilerinin sonuçlarının olduğu, hangi gerekçeler...