STRATEGIC STUDIES OF PUBLIC POLICY (STRATEGIC STUDIES OF GLOBALIZATION JOURNAL)
Year:2017 | Volume:7 | Issue:22 |Papers Count:9

The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect of natural resources abundance on military expenditure in the Middle East countries during the years of 1995-2014. For this purpose, design a general model of military expenditure for this countries with the presence of natural resource abundance indicators, Includes two general index: The share of natural resource revenues from the GDP and the share of fuel exports from the merchandise exports and also 5 separate indicators, including: revenue share of oil, natural gas, coal, forests and minerals from the GDP and in order to estimate it, is used Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) in dynamic panel data form. The model estimation results show that general indicators of natural resources abundance had a positive and significant effect on the military expenditure of countries studied. Also, with separate of revenues from natural resources, show that the share revenues of oil and natural gas from the GDP, had a positive and significant effect and revenues from other natural resources, had a meaninglessness effect on the military expenditure in this countries. Accordingly, can say that the energy resources in Middle East countries influence on the military expenditure. So that a one percent increases in the share of oil and natural gas revenues of GDP, respectively, will increase military burden in this countries approximately 0. 14 and 0. 05 percent.

Asian countries with their human rights action, namely the signing of the Bangkok Declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration of ASEAN strengthen its core point of differentiation debates that "Asian values"against hegemony of liberal democracy claims is the world-Shmvly. This paper seeks to answer the whats nature of asian values and why crreated and Asian discourse created and what are its components. "Asian countries with their human rights action, namely the signing of the Bangkok Declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration of ASEAN strengthen its core point of differentiation debates that "Asian values"against hegemony of liberal democracy claims is the world-Shmvly. This paper seeks to answer the whats nature of asian values and why crreated and Asian discourse created and what are its components. "Asian countries with their human rights action, namely the signing of the Bangkok Declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration of ASEAN strengthen its core point of differentiation debates that "Asian values"against hegemony of liberal democracy claims is the world-Shmvly. This paper seeks to answer the whats nature of asian values and why crreated and Asian discourse created and what are its components. "

One of the new approaches embodied in policy and governance, open data policy discussions of governance. Open data policy governance concept and a new approach that seeks to take advantage of the capabilities of people in the arena of policymaking. This study aims to understand the government open data policy and benefits in the policy arena is formed. This study was conducted descriptive and analytical approach and through a documentary analysis of the advantages and benefits of open data in government policy is determined. The study is exploratory and descriptive research hypothesis is lacking. change in government and public policy. his study was conducted descriptive and analytical approach and through a documentary analysis of the advantages and benefits of open data in government policy is determined. The study is exploratory and descriptive research hypothesis is lacking. change in government and public policy. his study was conducted descriptive and analytical approach and through a documentary analysis of the advantages and benefits of open data in government policy is determined. The study is exploratory and descriptive research hypothesis is lacking. change in government and public policy.

Nordic council consist of five countries including Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland and three autonomous land including Faroe Islands, Greenland and Å land Islands. All of these countries have a high level of national brand and international image. Today, Scandinavian and Nordic countries are real window of happiness and prosperity for many of the countries in the world and their Governance, economic, cultural, social, business and politics are sample of many countries. Basically Nordic countries and their image and even their name have mental processes, perception and visual that comes with many fascinating concepts which combine with happiness. Thesis paper examine process of national and regional branding in Nordic council and emphasize that Nordic Council policy on the process of national branding and image building for each of the countries have been coordinated and convergent. Result of the this process made global and regional brand and regional image for Nordic countries.

The sustainable supply chain management is one of the most important issues among academicians and the industry sector in recent years. Over the past two decades, many organizations have taken some steps to integrate the principles of sustainability into their long-and short-term decision-making. The factors driving an increased focus on sustainability can be divided into three distinct categories: Reducing risks and improving the financial performance of the supply chain, attracting customers who value sustainability and making the world more sustainable. Environment protection is an important aspect of Islam. Muslims are to maintain the ecological balance created by Allah. Protection of the environment is essential to Islamic beliefs and mankind has the responsibility to ensure safe custody of the environment. The Purpose of this study is to identify Islamic principles in the field of environmental sustainability of the supply chain divided into two categories, the principle of Islamic insight and values, to provide a new insight to the perception of requirements of Islamic-Iranian model of progress in the field of supply chain management. The research method used for data gathering was qualitative based on the literature. Thematic analysis (TA) as a widely-used qualitative data analysis method was used to identify and present Islamic principles in the field of environmental sustainability. The results should give academicians, politicians and Industrial managers some clues to which strategic activities to employ.

This study aimed to introduce and implement an applied model of policy-making, which was assumed to be able to remove or eliminate certain significant challenges policy-makers might encounter such as “ separation of authoring phase from administration phase” , “ lack of a best-fit policy-making theory” , and “ lack of integration of the feedbacks taken from critics and scientific communities” . Researchers have tried to present a framework capable of covering while-policy-making as well as post-policy-making essentials. Hence, attempts were made in this case study to investigate the impact of “ Ignace Snellen’ s Rationality Theory” as the best-fit model on “ price stabilization” rule and to elicit its strategies for three stages of planning, implementation and feedback. The data of the study were collected via library research as well as interviewing methods, and they were analyzed via a qualitative-structural method. The findings indicated the capability of the mentioned theoretical framework in removing the separation of theoretical planning and practical aspects of policies. This could provide an appropriate ground for integrating experts’ views during the process of analysis and feedback.

Economic development, population growth and enhancement of living standards in Iran over the past decade have led to significant uplift in energy consumption in various sectors including the building sector. As reported by various centers, the prolongation of this trend will lead to equality in energy supply and demand in less than ten years and the country will then become an energy importing one. Although the implementation of energy efficiency refinement is far from the existing potential, the country has witnessed invaluable activities towards this objective by relevant institutions in the past two decades. Implementation of energy efficiency improvement is the target of this research, where lack of economic and financial incentives is evident in taking this issue forward. In addition, major barriers in the way of energy efficiency improvement are discussed in this work. It is important to note that deficiencies in the administrative system, energy efficiency market provisions and low prices of energy carriers are the major barriers on the path of energy efficiency improvement. Finally, given the policy-makings and barriers present, a number of long-term and short-term solutions are proposed.