The International Union of Psychological Science is an organization composed of National Member organizations (national societies / associations / committees of scientific psychology, national academies of science, or similar organizations), comprising not more than one National Member per country. Eleven charter Members founded IUPsyS in 1951. At December 31, 2005 the number of National Member...

one of the most important fields in international relations discipline is the study of international organizations. indeed, the rise of international and regional organizations in last decades causes a pervasive controversy among western scholars. but among iranian scholars, we don't have any theoretical works on international organizations. this article attempt to investigate internationa...

The Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, founded in 2004, brings together researchers from several countries in the Americas who have carried out empirical studies of the social and environmental impacts of economic integration. The goal of the Working Group Project is to contribute empirical research and policy analysis to the ongoing policy debates on national economi...

the protection of fundamental human rights at the time of war or peace is an obligation that should be observed at anytime by the states and international organizations. after the second world war, the non-peaceful situations such as occupation and economic sanctions have occurred numerously, which in some cases lasted for more than a decade. unfortunately, the laws governing these situations a...

Land-use changes have dramatically transformed tropical landscapes. We describe an ecological-economic land-use change model as an integrated, exploratory tool used to analyze how tropical land-use change affects ecological and socio-economic functions. The model analysis seeks to determine what kind of landscape mosaic can improve the ensemble of ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, and econom...