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))