Queen's was a result of an outgrowth of educational initiatives planned by Presbyterians in the 1830s. A draft plan for the university was presented at a synod meeting in Kingston in 1839, with a modi ...
The calculation of the land area of a particular empire is controversial. In general, the list aims to include all land that was explored and explicitly claimed, even if the areas were populated very ...
Fox was born and grew up in Chicago. He attended Haverford College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a B.S. in 1932.He then obtained his masters and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Chicago, in 1934 a ...
N.J. Spykman could be considered as a disciple and critic of both geostrategists Alfred Mahan, of the United States Navy, and Halford Mackinder, the British geographer. His work is based on assumption ...
From the post-classical Latin word hegemonia, from "1513 or earlier"; or the Greek word ?γεμον?α, meaning "authority, rule, political supremacy", related to the word ?γεμ?ν "leader".Hist ...
Miller worked as an analyst at Central Intelligence Agency, from 1974 to 1990. From 1990 to 2000, she worked as professor of China studies and for most of that period, director of the China Studies Pr ...
Though Britain and the empire emerged victorious from the Second World War, the effects of the conflict were profound, both at home and abroad. Much of Europe, a continent that had dominated the world ...
There are no set or defined characteristics of a great power. These characteristics have often been treated as empirical, self-evident to the assessor. However, this approach has the disadvantage of s ...
For Nye, power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get the outcomes you want. There are several ways one can achieve this: you can coerce them with threats; you can induce them with ...
The ability to project power and exert influence on a global scale was only made possible with the Industrial Revolution and the associated modernizations in technology, communications, finance and bu ...
Many areas of the world are considered to have inherited culture from a previous sphere of influence, that while perhaps today halted, continues to share the same culture. Examples include the Anglosp ...
The history of international relations can be traced back to thousands of years ago; Barry Buzan and Richard Little, for example, consider the interaction of ancient Sumerian city-states, starting in ...
The zeroth law of thermodynamics may be stated in the following form:If two systems are both in thermal equilibrium with a third then they are in thermal equilibrium with each other.The law is intende ...
Thermoeconomics is based on the proposition that the role of energy in biological evolution should be defined and understood through the second law of thermodynamics but in terms of such economic crit ...
Technocracy advocates contend that price system-based forms of government and economy are structurally incapable of effective action, and promoted a society headed by technical experts, which they arg ...
