129 research outputs found
Managing Great Power Politics
This Open Access book explains ASEANâs strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy, this book argues that the regional security institutions in Southeast Asia, ASEAN and ASEAN-led institutions have devised their own institutional strategies vis-Ă -vis the South China Sea and navigated the great-power politics since the 1990s. ASEAN proliferated new security institutions in the 1990s and 2000s that assumed a different functionality, a different geopolitical scope, and thus a different institutional strategy. In so doing, ASEAN formed a âstrategic institutional webâ that nurtured a quasi-division of labor among the institutions to maintain relative stability in the South China Sea. Unlike the conventional analysis on ASEAN, this study disaggregates âASEANâ as a collective regional actor into specific individual institutionsâASEAN Foreign Ministersâ Meeting, ASEAN Summit, ASEAN-China dialogues, ASEAN Regional Forum, East Asia Summit, and ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting and ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting-Plusâand explains how each of these institutions has devised and/or shifted its institutional strategy to curb great powersâ ambition in dominating the South China Sea while navigating great power competition. The book sheds light on the strategic potential and limitations of ASEAN and ASEAN-led security institutions, offers implications for the future role of ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific region, and provides an alternative understanding of the strategic utilities of regional security institutions
Managing Great Power Politics
This Open Access book explains ASEANâs strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy, this book argues that the regional security institutions in Southeast Asia, ASEAN and ASEAN-led institutions have devised their own institutional strategies vis-Ă -vis the South China Sea and navigated the great-power politics since the 1990s. ASEAN proliferated new security institutions in the 1990s and 2000s that assumed a different functionality, a different geopolitical scope, and thus a different institutional strategy. In so doing, ASEAN formed a âstrategic institutional webâ that nurtured a quasi-division of labor among the institutions to maintain relative stability in the South China Sea. Unlike the conventional analysis on ASEAN, this study disaggregates âASEANâ as a collective regional actor into specific individual institutionsâASEAN Foreign Ministersâ Meeting, ASEAN Summit, ASEAN-China dialogues, ASEAN Regional Forum, East Asia Summit, and ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting and ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting-Plusâand explains how each of these institutions has devised and/or shifted its institutional strategy to curb great powersâ ambition in dominating the South China Sea while navigating great power competition. The book sheds light on the strategic potential and limitations of ASEAN and ASEAN-led security institutions, offers implications for the future role of ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific region, and provides an alternative understanding of the strategic utilities of regional security institutions
Dissipation-induced pure Gaussian state
This paper provides some necessary and sufficient conditions for a
generalMarkovian Gaussian master equation to have a unique pure steady state.
The conditions are described by simple matrix equations; thus the so-called
environment engineering problem for pure-Gaussian-state preparation can be
straightforwardly dealt with in the linear algebraic framework. In fact, based
on one of those conditions, for an arbitrary given pure Gaussian state,we
obtain a complete parametrization of the Gaussian master equation having that
state as a unique steady state; this leads to a systematic procedure for
engineering a desired dissipative system.We demonstrate some examples including
Gaussian cluster states.Comment: 8 page
Image and Substance Failures in Regional Organisations: Causes, Consequences, Learning and Change?
States often pool their sovereignty, capacity and resources to provide regionally specific public goods, such as security or trade rules, and regional organisations play important roles in international relations as institutions that attempt to secure peace and contribute to achieving other similar global policy goals. We observe failures occurring in these arrangements and activities in two areas: substance and image. To analytically account for this, we distinguish four modes of substance and image change and link these to specific types of failure and (lack of) learning. To empirically ground and test our assumptions, we examine instances of image failure in ASEAN (political/security policy) and substantive policy failure in EU labour migration policy. In so doing, this article contributes to several different fields of study and concepts that have hitherto rarely engaged with one another: analyses of policy failure from public policy, and regional integration concerns from area studies and international relations. We conclude with suggestions for ways forward to further analyse and understand failures at the international and supranational levels
Superradiance around Rotating Dilatonic Black Hole
We consider a superradiance effect around rotating dilatonic black holes. We
analyze two cases: one is an exact solution with the coupling constant
, which effective action is reduced from the 5-dimensional
Kaluza-Klein theory, and the other is a slowly rotating dilatonic black holes
with arbitrary coupling constant. We find that there exists a critical value
(), which is predicted from a superstring model, and the
superradiant emission rate with coupling larger than the critical value becomes
much higher than the Kerr-Newman case () in the maximally charged
limit. Consequently, 4-dimensional primordial black holes in higher dimensional
unified theories are either rotating but almost neutral or charged but
effectively non-rotating.Comment: 12 pages, Latex, three figures, WU-AP/43/9
A case of primary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma of the prostate
We report a case of primary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma of the prostate. A 67-year-old man presented with urinary obstruction and an elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level. A physical examination revealed mild prostate enlargement and no lymphadenopathy. A needle biopsy and immunohistochemical studies of the prostate were performed, which revealed marginal zone B-cell MALT-type lymphoma. A bone marrow aspiration and biopsy did not show involvement by lymphoma. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen and the pelvis revealed no lymphadenopathy or ascites. There was no involvement of other sites by lymphoma. The patient was diagnosed and staged as extranodal marginal zone B-cell MALT-type lymphoma of the prostate, low grade and stage I. The patient received external beam radiation therapy to the prostate with a total dose of 3600cGy in 22 fractions, and became free of disease within the following 15 months
Misplaced States and the Politics of Regional Identity:Towards a Theoretical Framework
Whilst there is no shortage of analyses on the politics of regions in International Relations, little attention has been paid to states who perceive that they do not properly fit in the regions they happen to be located in. These are the âmisplaced statesâ: they stand out not so much because of material capacities but because they espouse an identity, manifested in different ways, in marked contrast to the states around them. This article asks what causes this process of a change in identity amongst misplaced states in different parts of the world. Comparing across regions, it analyses why and how states reconstruct their identities in order to enhance or deemphasise their degrees of regional conformity. By focusing on the ârole-location processâ rooted in role theory, this article contributes to the literature by conceptualising the phenomenon of âmisplacement.â A state is misplaced when there is mismatch between its aspirations and othersâ expectations for it. The article also details how and why misplacement occurs and studies its implications both for the states in question as well as for the politics of their geographical regions
Evaporation and Fate of Dilatonic Black Holes
We study both spherically symmetric and rotating black holes with dilaton
coupling and discuss the evaporation of these black holes via Hawking's quantum
radiation and their fates. We find that the dilaton coupling constant
drastically affects the emission rates, and therefore the fates of the black
holes. When the charge is conserved, the emission rate from the non-rotating
hole is drastically changed beyond (a superstring theory) and
diverges in the extreme limit. In the rotating cases, we analyze the slowly
rotating black hole solution with arbitrary as well as three exact
solutions, the Kerr--Newman (), and Kaluza--Klein (), and Sen black hole ( and with axion field). Beyond the
same critical value of , the emission rate becomes very large
near the maximally charged limit, while for it remains finite. The
black hole with may evolve into a naked singularity due to its
large emission rate. We also consider the effects of a discharge process by
investigating superradiance for the non-rotating dilatonic black hole.Comment: 33 pages, LaTex, 14 postscript figure files (appended as a uuencoded
compressed tar file
Equivalence of black hole thermodynamics between a generalized theory of gravity and the Einstein theory
We analyze black hole thermodynamics in a generalized theory of gravity whose
Lagrangian is an arbitrary function of the metric, the Ricci tensor and a
scalar field. We can convert the theory into the Einstein frame via a
"Legendre" transformation or a conformal transformation. We calculate
thermodynamical variables both in the original frame and in the Einstein frame,
following the Iyer--Wald definition which satisfies the first law of
thermodynamics. We show that all thermodynamical variables defined in the
original frame are the same as those in the Einstein frame, if the spacetimes
in both frames are asymptotically flat, regular and possess event horizons with
non-zero temperatures. This result may be useful to study whether the second
law is still valid in the generalized theory of gravity.Comment: 14 pages, no figure
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