The guerrilla war in Afghanistan pits tribes against a colonial power. This form of guerrilla war is put into perspective and used to develop a simple dynamic mathematical model describing (1) the macrocombat interactions between the Afghan guerrilla forces and the Soviet and Afghan regular...

It is a puzzle that while academic research has increased in specialization, the important and complex problems facing humans urgently require a synthesis of understanding. This unique collaboration attempts to address such a problem by bringing together a host of prominent scholars from across...

The protection and enforcement of property rights both at the national and international levels is mostly taken for granted so that the importance of this issue for the smooth flow of international transactions is not always fully realized. One has to remember that about 200 years ago, large...