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Islamic Democratic Theory: Between Political Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2004

Islamic Democratic Theory: Between Political Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The essay compares the contributions that Philosophers, Jurists and Theologians make to the discourse on Islam and Democracy.


The Postmodern Empire: The United States' New Foreign Policy And Its Global Challenges, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2004

The Postmodern Empire: The United States' New Foreign Policy And Its Global Challenges, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The Paper examines shifts in American Foreign Policy after 9/11 and argues that the US had become a Postmodern Empire.


American Muslims As Allies In The War On Terrorism, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2004

American Muslims As Allies In The War On Terrorism, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This chapter argues that rather than threat to America, American Muslims can be strong allies against extremism.


The Islamic State, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2004

The Islamic State, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This essays explores classical and contemporary approaches to theorizing the state from an Islamic perspective. It examines the works of Al-Mawardi, Al-Farabi, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Tamiyyah, Maulana Maududi and Muhammad Abdul and Jamaluddin Afghani.


Islamic Democratic Theory: Between Political Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2004

Islamic Democratic Theory: Between Political Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The article compares the role that jurists, theologians and philosophers play in shaping the discourse on Islam and Democracy.


Living On Border Lines: Islam Beyond The Clash And Dialogue Of Civilizations, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2004

Living On Border Lines: Islam Beyond The Clash And Dialogue Of Civilizations, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

No abstract provided.


Living On Borderlines: Islam Beyond The Clash And Dialogue Of Civilizations, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2004

Living On Borderlines: Islam Beyond The Clash And Dialogue Of Civilizations, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The Book chapter discusses how Muslims in America are living on the borderlines of two civilizations.


Inflationary Performance In A Monetary Union With Large Wage-Setters, Lilia Cavallari Jan 2004

Inflationary Performance In A Monetary Union With Large Wage-Setters, Lilia Cavallari

Lilia Cavallari

No abstract provided.


Agents Cooperation And Network Sustainability: A Note On Social Capital, Massimiliano Mazzanti Jan 2004

Agents Cooperation And Network Sustainability: A Note On Social Capital, Massimiliano Mazzanti

Massimiliano Mazzanti

No abstract provided.


Exclusion And Inclusion In Personal Media Networks, Mathieu O'Neil Jan 2004

Exclusion And Inclusion In Personal Media Networks, Mathieu O'Neil

Mathieu O'Neil

Personal media bypass mass media hierarchies, generating a sense of community and proximity. Print “zines” and online “blogs” also serve to culturally and socially distinguish those who produce and consume them. Digital network technology has transformed personal media. For example, blogs enable viewers to add comments, extending the parameters of inclusion. At the same time, instances of exclusion seem to proliferate in the “blogosphere”. The simplification of complex tools makes it ever-more easy to create personal media: hence the multiplication of internal exclusion procedures which serve to differentiate agents equalized by undifferentiated inclusion in dominant networks.


The Archaeology Of Ancient State Economies, Michael E. Smith Jan 2004

The Archaeology Of Ancient State Economies, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.


Los Hogares De Morelos En El Sistema Mundial Mesoamericano Posclásico, Michael E. Smith Jan 2004

Los Hogares De Morelos En El Sistema Mundial Mesoamericano Posclásico, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.


Future Impact Of Digital Tv Services And Broadband Internet Connections On Residential Energy Consumption, Clemens Cremer, Michael Friedewald, Barbara Schlomann, Alois Huser Jan 2004

Future Impact Of Digital Tv Services And Broadband Internet Connections On Residential Energy Consumption, Clemens Cremer, Michael Friedewald, Barbara Schlomann, Alois Huser

Michael Friedewald

No abstract provided.


Globalization In The West African Sub-Region: Challenges And The Way Forward, Mchivga Alexander Abelega Dr. Jan 2004

Globalization In The West African Sub-Region: Challenges And The Way Forward, Mchivga Alexander Abelega Dr.

Dr. Mchivga Alexander Abelega

No abstract provided.


How To Get It. Diagrammatic Reasoning As A Tool Of Knowledge Development And Its Pragmatic Dimension, Michael H.G. Hoffmann Jan 2004

How To Get It. Diagrammatic Reasoning As A Tool Of Knowledge Development And Its Pragmatic Dimension, Michael H.G. Hoffmann

Michael H.G. Hoffmann

Discussions concerning belief revision, theory development, and "creativity" in philosophy and AI, reveal a growing interest in Peirce's concept of abduction. Peirce introduced abduction in an attempt to provide theoretical dignity and clarification to the difficult problem of knowledge generation. He wrote that "An Abduction is Originary in respect to being the only kind of argument which starts a new idea." These discussions, however, have led to considerable debates about the precise way in which Peirce's abduction can be used to explain knowledge generation. The crucial question is that of understanding how we can get the new elements capable of …


Learning By Developing Knowledge Networks. A Semiotic Approach Within A Dialectical Framework, Michael H.G. Hoffmann, Wolf-Michael Roth Jan 2004

Learning By Developing Knowledge Networks. A Semiotic Approach Within A Dialectical Framework, Michael H.G. Hoffmann, Wolf-Michael Roth

Michael H.G. Hoffmann

A central challenge for research on how we should prepare students to manage crossing boundaries between different knowledge settings in life long learning processes is to identify those forms of knowledge that are particularly relevant here. In this paper, we develop by philosophical means the concept of a dialectical system as a general framework to describe the development of knowledge networks that mark the starting point for learning processes, and we use semiotics to discuss (a) the epistemological thesis that any cognitive access to our world of objects is mediated by signs and (b) diagrammatic reasoning and abduction as those …


Optimal Debt With Unobservable Investments, Michael Raith, Paul Povel Jan 2004

Optimal Debt With Unobservable Investments, Michael Raith, Paul Povel

Michael Raith

We study financial contracting when both an entrepreneur’s investment and the resulting revenue are unobservable to an outside investor.We show that a debt contract is always optimal; repayment is induced by a liquidation threat that increases with the extent of default. Moreover, when the entrepreneur’s decision concerns the scale of his project, a contract that minimizes liquidation losses is optimal. When the decision concerns managerial effort or project risk, however, it may be optimal to write a contract with a greater threat of liquidation, to induce the entrepreneur to exert more effort or to choose a less risky project.


Abuse Of Authority And Hierarchical Communication, Guido Friebel, Michael Raith Jan 2004

Abuse Of Authority And Hierarchical Communication, Guido Friebel, Michael Raith

Michael Raith

If managers and their subordinates have the same basic qualifications, organizations can benefit from replacing unproductive superiors with more productive subordinates. This threat may induce superiors to deliberately recruit unproductive subordinates, or abuse their personnel authority in other ways, to protect themselves. We show that requiring intrafirm communication to pass through a “chain of command” can be an effective way to provide superiors with an incentive to recruit the best possible subordinates.We discuss alternative ways to prevent the abuse of authority and general implications of our analysis for organizational design. We also present supporting evidence from the literature on human …


Potted Histories: Cremation, Ceramics And Social Memory In Early Roman Britain,, Howard M. R. Williams Jan 2004

Potted Histories: Cremation, Ceramics And Social Memory In Early Roman Britain,, Howard M. R. Williams

Howard M. R. Williams

Archaeologists have identified the adoption of new forms of cremation ritual during the early Roman period in south-east Britain. Cremation may have been widely used by communities in the Iron Age, but the distinctive nature of these new rites was their frequent placing of the dead within, and associated with, ceramic vessels. This paper suggests an interpretation for the social meaning of these cremation burial rites that involved the burial of ashes with and within pots as a means of commemoration. In this light, the link between cremation and pottery in early Roman Britain can be seen as a means …


Death Warmed Up: The Agency Of Bodies And Bones In Early Anglo-Saxon Cremation Rites, Howard M. R. Williams Jan 2004

Death Warmed Up: The Agency Of Bodies And Bones In Early Anglo-Saxon Cremation Rites, Howard M. R. Williams

Howard M. R. Williams

It is argued that recent archaeological theories of death and burial have tended to overlook the social and mnemonic agency of the dead body. Drawing upon anthropological, ethnographic and forensic analogies for the effects of fire on the human body, together with Gell’s theory of the agency of inanimate objects, the article explores the cremation rites of early Anglo-Saxon England. As a case study in the archaeological study of the mnemonic agency of bodies and bones it is suggested that cremation and postcremation rites in the 5th and 6th centuries AD in eastern England operated as technologies of remembrance. Cremation …


Fracturas Sociales, Competencia Política Y Sistemas De Partidos En Ecuador: La Traducción Política De Un Cleavage Étnico, Flavia Freidenberg Jan 2004

Fracturas Sociales, Competencia Política Y Sistemas De Partidos En Ecuador: La Traducción Política De Un Cleavage Étnico, Flavia Freidenberg

Flavia Freidenberg

No abstract provided.


Ecuador, Flavia Freidenberg Jan 2004

Ecuador, Flavia Freidenberg

Flavia Freidenberg

No abstract provided.


Los Medios De Comunicación De Masas: ¿También Son Actores?, Flavia Freidenberg Jan 2004

Los Medios De Comunicación De Masas: ¿También Son Actores?, Flavia Freidenberg

Flavia Freidenberg

No abstract provided.


Medición Del Desarrollo Sostenible Y Análisis Regional: Diseño Y Aplicación De Un Índice Sintético Global A Las Comunidades Autónomas Españolas, Fernando González-Laxe Jan 2004

Medición Del Desarrollo Sostenible Y Análisis Regional: Diseño Y Aplicación De Un Índice Sintético Global A Las Comunidades Autónomas Españolas, Fernando González-Laxe

Fernando González-Laxe

No abstract provided.


La Gobernanza Y Los Indicadores De Evaluación De Pesquerías, Fernando González-Laxe Jan 2004

La Gobernanza Y Los Indicadores De Evaluación De Pesquerías, Fernando González-Laxe

Fernando González-Laxe

No abstract provided.


The Precautionary Principle In Fisheries Management, Fernando González-Laxe Jan 2004

The Precautionary Principle In Fisheries Management, Fernando González-Laxe

Fernando González-Laxe

No abstract provided.


Classes, Multitudes And The Politics Of Community Movements In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Franco Barchiesi Jan 2004

Classes, Multitudes And The Politics Of Community Movements In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Franco Barchiesi

Franco Barchiesi

No abstract provided.


Endogeneidad De Los Criterios Del Área Monetaria Óptima. Un Enfoque Alternativo Para El Caso Del Mercosur, Francisco Carlos Ruiz Diaz Jan 2004

Endogeneidad De Los Criterios Del Área Monetaria Óptima. Un Enfoque Alternativo Para El Caso Del Mercosur, Francisco Carlos Ruiz Diaz

Francisco Carlos Ruiz Diaz

Este documento propone para el caso del MERCOSUR, la aplicación de los criterios de endogeneidad como método alternativo de análisis costo-beneficio, el cual difiere de los métodos tradicionales al incorporar los efectos dinámicos en la evaluación de si determinadas zonas se constituyen o no en potencial candidato para ser considerada Área Monetaria Optima. El marco general presentado considera todas las características relevantes de las economías abiertas contrastando los hechos estilizados derivados de las predicciones teóricas de modelos de los Ciclos Económicos Reales Internacionales. Se pone énfasis a la necesidad de dotar al proceso de integración regional de credibilidad institucional lo …


Review Of Music, Culture, And The Library: An Analysis Of Discourses, Jenna Hartel Jan 2004

Review Of Music, Culture, And The Library: An Analysis Of Discourses, Jenna Hartel

Jenna Hartel

No abstract provided.


European Regional Policy And Backward Regions: Implications Towards Eu Enlargement, Andrés Faiña, Jesús López-Rodríguez Jan 2004

European Regional Policy And Backward Regions: Implications Towards Eu Enlargement, Andrés Faiña, Jesús López-Rodríguez

Jesús López-Rodríguez

No abstract provided.