Over the past two decades, protracted conflicts have become a prominent feature in many African countries. In Sudan, it is almost nine years since the crisis in Darfur manifested itself to the international community in the form of massive displacement and killings following the…
Growing interdependence of Canada, the United States, and Mexico in production, trade, and consumption of natural gas and electricity during the 1990s produced a new North American functional entity—partly governmental, partly non-governmental, and partly intergovernmental. Coop…
The confluence of three streams--the success of the modern missionary movement, the pervasiveness of globalization, and the latent potential of the interdependent body of Christ--indicate that advancing the mission of God in the twenty-first century calls for new ways of thinkin…
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of oil price fluctuations and oil revenues on the main macroeconomic variables in oil based labor importing economies and labor exporting economies, represented by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan respectively. Numerous academic st…
This dissertation explores the impact of exogenous forces on the political and socio-economic institutions prior to, during, and after etatism (state controlled enterprises) in the parliamentary Republic of Turkey. After the third military coup of 1980, Turkey concentrated on po…
The call for further empirical research on the effects of task interdependence and levels of virtuality on the performance of teams was addressed herein. The researcher sought to extend the work of Hertel, Konradt, and Voss (2006) who proposed that the competencies required for …
This study addresses unresolved issues in the literature on positive youth development (PYD) theory by drawing on international adolescent interview data and philosophical ethics. The unresolved issues addressed include (a) What is positive development? (b) What is the role of m…
Does awareness of interdependence with human and nonhuman others produce a moral commitment to social responsibility? This dissertation examines “interdependence” in its political, economic, quanto-bio-cosmic, and moral theological dimensions in order to assess its normative val…
Modern management literature highlights the importance of headquarter and country organisations working together in an interdependent fashion to improve their performance. However, empirical support for this link is scarce; moreover, the theoretical framework on the factors that…