Against the background of the fruitful application of the gravitational force from physics in the development of the gravity model extensively employed in regional science, possible parallels from the analysis of the coplay of the four basic forces of particle physics are examined. In...

This statement supplements the rationale of the 1997 Isard/Azis proposal1 to initiate a resolution of the then current bitter conflict between North and South Koreas. The proposals and initiatives of the U.S., Japan, other nations and the U.N. had reached a stalemate. The Isard/Azis proposal...

In this paper we wish to make generally available a comprehensive survey of the peace economics literature up to 1992, printed at that time in a very high-priced book unaffordable by most scholars and university and college libraries. This survey constitutes Part II of this paper. To this survey...

In this part we wish to present a short, but compact survey of the main strands of thought in the literature on peace economics up to 1992. A more detailed and thorough survey requires a book-length manuscript currently being written.There are many ways in which this survey can be organized. One...

The cessation of the relatively rosy interactions of the United States and Soviet Union in 1959-60 resulting from the U-2 incident and the subsequent intense escalation of hostilities led a group of concerned international scholars to convene at Malmö, Sweden in 1963. Their discussions...