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One blood and one destiny? Yemen’s relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council
For years Yemen has been the poor, neglected relation of the Gulf Cooperation Council(GCC). Long-promised aid commitments from the GCC have not materialized because of concerns over Yemeni absorption capacity. However, Yemen’s ‘Arab Spring’ protests and political crisis pushed the GCC member-states to grant an unprecedented foreign policy role to the GCC Secretariat. GCC representatives came up with a credible transition plan for Yemen which eventually saw the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the holding of parliamentary elections at the beginning of 2012. But Yemen’s crisis has also highlighted a more long-term malaise in its relations with the GCC, namely an unwillingness to fulfil a commitment made in 2006 to extend GCC membership to Yemen. Despite the good work of the GCC in 2010 and 2011 to lessen tensions, Yemen’s political crisis may return with a vengeance if governance and the economic outlook of the country are not improved. Indifference is no longer viable; extremist and insurgent groups capitalizing upon and exacerbating weak governance in Yemen are a growing threat to the security of the Gulf This report argues that Yemen must be given a realistic route to eventual accession to the GCC, not out of a sense of altruism on the part of the current member-states, but as a policy of enlightened self-interest
Meetings, minutes and the limits of participation in a rural water project
A research report submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for
the degree of Master of Arts.
Johannesburg 1998This report investigates participatory development practices through an analysis of a rural
water project. The research is based upon data from interviews, written sources, and
the author's observations as a consultant On the project, The report critically examines two
approaches to development: the modernist approach of the developers, and the critical
approach of some anthropologists who view development as a tool for the domination of the
Third World. An alternative approach is proposed which is based upon the interaction
between the global and the local. This accounts for the role of power in development without
reducing development to a strategy in a struggle between the First and the Third World. This
framework is used to analyse how different actors in the project understood project meetings
quite differently. These understandings shaped the course of the project and have important
implications for the adaptation of the village to a global environment.MT201
A study of the background and exposition of intercultural values in the secondary school literature program
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1947. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive
Casino gambling\u27s proliferation throughout the United States: A case study of legal gaming in Louisiana
Legal casino-style gambling has expanded dramatically in the United States during the 1990s. Casino Gambling\u27s Proliferation Throughout the U.S.: A Case Study of Legal Gaming in Louisiana examines the causes for this sudden growth and the effects that introducing casino gambling has had on one state in particular, Louisiana. The paper will take you through a brief history of gambling from its earliest roots to its present place in our society. It will also provide a glimpse into what is in store for the gaming industry in the future
Glue TAG semantics for binary branching syntactic structures
This thesis presents Gl-TAG, a new semantics for a fragment of natural language including simple
in/transitive sentences with quantifiers. Gl-TAG utilises glue semantics, a proof-theoretic semantics
based on linear logic, and TAG, a tree-based syntactic theory. We demonstrate that Gl-TAG is
compositional, and bears interesting similarities to other approaches to the semantics of quantifiers.
Chapter 1, rather than discussing the arguments of the thesis as a whole, outlines the global picture
of language and semantic theory we adopt, introducing different semantics for quantification,
so that Gl-TAG is understood in the proper context.
Chapter 2, the heart of the thesis, introduces Gl-TAG, illustrating its application to quantifier
scope ambiguity (Qscope ambiguity) and binding. Ways of constricting quantifier scope where
necessary are suggested, but their full development is a topic of future research.
Chapter 3 demonstrates that our semantics is compositional in certain formal senses there distinguished.
Our account of quantification bears striking similarities to that proposed in Heim and
Kratzer (1998), and also to Cooper storage (Cooper ((1983))); in fact, we can set up a form of
Cooper storage within Gl-TAG. We suggest in conclusion that the features in common between
frameworks highlight the possible formal similarities between the approaches.
One philosophically interesting aspect of our semantics left aside is that it depends on proof
theoretic methods; glue semantics combines semantic values both by harnessing the inferential
power of linear logic and by exploiting the Curry-Howard isomorphism (CHI) familiar from proof
theory (see chapter 2 for a brief explanation of the CHI). The semantic value of a proposition is
thus a proof, as some proof theorists have desired (see Martin-Lof (1996). This raises a question
for future research; namely, whether Gl-TAG is an inferential semantics in the sense that some
philosophers have discussed (Murzi and Steinberger (2015))
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