It is commonly assumed that there is much less secrecy in the United States than in its allies across the Atlantic. This paper sets out to substantiate this thesis by means of a comparison between Norway and the US. The Freedom of Information Act and the Executive Order on classification are...

The role of military research and development in the arms race and the role of universities in promoting military R&D have been described in many previous studies. This article describes how two universities (in Norway and New Zealand) took the further step of getting involved in servicing a...

The article sets forth a general theory of interaction patterns between nations, based on theory and empirical research mainly in social psychology and international relations. A number of predictions generated from the theory are tested on data concerning airline connections for 125 countries...

How does one organize international interaction patterns which will serve to strengthen a peaceful and just international order? This is the central question of this paper which focuses on one particular type of interaction: international aviation. Starting from the five 'global values' of...

Conflict over scarce resources, such as minerals, fish, water, and particularly territory, is a traditional source of armed struggle. Recently, wideranging claims have been made to the effect that environmental degradation will increase resource scarcity and therefore contribute to an increase...

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