Why the 'Militarising' of the European Union is strengthening the concept of a 'Civilian power Europe'

CFSP/ESDP; NATO; power analysis

Greek parliamentarians and Greek foreign policy (2004-2014)

The Europeanisation of Greek foreign policy was announced in the 1990s as a ‘success story’. However, it has led to a vivid debate over whether this has really occurred or if it only amounted to ‘superficial Europeanisation’. More recent research, that also takes into consideration the impact of the current financial and economic crises, tends to confirm the latter approach. However, there is very little research on ‘deep Europeanisation’, for instance on its ‘crossloading’ dimension. This is particularly so over the international role of Greek parliamentarians. It also represents a gap in the growing academic study of ‘parliamentary diplomacy’, and that on International Parliamentary Institutions, including on the European Parliament. This paper is a pilot study that presents preliminary findings from the Hellenic Parliament (in Greek, the Vouli ton Ellenon, in short the Vouli), from Greek members of the European Parliament (MEPs), and from a parliamentary network, the World Hellenic Inter-Parliamentary Association. Its objective is to call for the need for more research on this subject

Soldiersand Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and AmericanNational Security

If you intend to own only a single volume on the crucial question of civil-military relations in the United States, choose this book. It is a comprehensive (indeed, exhaustive) review of the literature and commentary surrounding this timely debate. (A synthesis appears as the lead article in this issue.) It addresses what former secretary of defense William Cohen described as a “chasm” in American society. The editors have assembled a wide variety of commentators who examine two fundamental questions: Are the American armed forces and the civilian sector drifting apart as the result of a lack of shared values and neartotal ignorance by the civilians of the military role? If so, what are the potential consequences for U.S. society

Gravitational signals due to tidal interactions between white dwarfs and black holes

In this paper we compute the gravitational signal emitted when a white dwarf moves around a black hole on a closed or open orbit using the affine model approach. We compare the orbital and the tidal contributions to the signal, assuming that the star moves in a safe region where, although very close to the black hole, the strength of the tidal interaction is insufficient to provoque the stellar disruption. We show that for all considered orbits the tidal signal presents sharp peaks corresponding to the excitation of the star non radial oscillation modes, the amplitude of which depends on how deep the star penetrates the black hole tidal radius and on the type of orbit. Further structure is added to the emitted signal by the coupling between the orbital and the tidal motion.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figres. Submitted to MNRA

Precessing supermassive black hole binaries and dark energy measurements with LISA

Spin induced precessional modulations of gravitational wave signals from supermassive black hole binaries can improve the estimation of luminosity distance to the source by space based gravitational wave missions like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We study how this impacts the ablity of LISA to do cosmology, specifically, to measure the dark energy equation of state (EOS) parameter $w$. Using the $\Lambda$CDM model of cosmology, we show that observations of precessing binaries by LISA, combined with a redshift measurement, can improve the determination of $w$ up to an order of magnitude with respect to the non precessing case depending on the masses, mass ratio and the redshift.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, version accepted to PR

Re-inventing Spaces of Commoning: Occupied Squares in Movement.

In the recent occupied squares movement (including the Arab Spring uprisings and the worldwide Occupy movement), space commoning was a process that reinvented space-as-commons through collective action: space both as a good to be shared and as a form of organizing shared practices. This paper explores such processes of urban commoning and the ways in which they are connected to emerging communities in movement as well as to the creation of new kinds of political subjectivation. Subjects belonging to such communities tend to escape dominant classifications of political and social identities and to participate in acts that create urban threshold spaces. Thus, liminality characterizes both the subjects and the spaces of the occupied squares movement. Key words: commoning; community; liminal spaces; political subjectivation; Syntagma square occupation. Resum Durant els recents moviments d'ocupació de les places (incloent les revoltes de la Primavera Àrab i el moviment Occupy a escala global), l'acció col·lectiva sobre l'espai ha propiciat un procés de reinvenció del mateix a partir de la idea dels comuns, és a dir, un espai més enllà de ser comú, també fa referència a l'organització de pràctiques compartides. L'objectiu d'aquest article és explorar aquest procés urbà de fer ciutat en comú i les formes en què el mateix està relacionat a les recents comunitats en moviment, així com als nous tipus de subjetivació política. Els subjectes que duen a terme aquest procés tendeixen a escapar-se a les classificacions dominants de les identitats polítiques i socials, i procuren participar en accions que produeixen espais urbans liminals. La liminalitat, de fet, caracteritza tant als subjectes com als espais del moviment d'ocupació de les places. Paraules clau: fer en comú; comunitat; espai liminal, subjectivació política; ocupació de la plaça Syntagma

Investigating Six Nations Day School Records from 1879 to 1953

From the 1860s to the 1990s, approximately 700 Indian Day Schools operated across Canada, with twelve being in Six Nations of the Grand River. Day schools were intended to assimilate Indigenous children, to erase Indigenous cultures and languages. Children experienced physical, verbal, and sexual abuse. Library and Archives Canada have digitized, publicly accessible microfilm reels containing files from residential schools and day schools. To make the information regarding the Six Nations and New Credit Day Schools more accessible, I catalogued the content in the files into a searchable database and summarized the notable findings in a poster