In the wake of World War II, the United States and its allies developed a new type of security arrangement in which a state could maintain a long-term, peacetime military presence on the territory of another equally sovereign state that, unlike earlier practice, was not tied to occupational regimes or colonial rule.  Meer

The present book proposes a systematic understanding about the conditions, mechanisms, influences, and processes evolving into a creative behavior in music, based on interdisciplinary perspectives of the cognitive sciences, In his research study, Sebastian Schmidt focuses on so-called musical extrapolations’ processes which bring the elusive quality of music into mental existence by creating extrapolations about possible future occurring events, their musical meanings, and the interrelations of their meanings.  Meer

Sebastian Schmidt definiert zunächst ‚digitale Produkte’ und stellt deren Besonderheiten aus wirtschaftstheoretischer Sicht dar. Er zeigt, wie durch eine voll automatisierte Abwicklung, also durch eine Digitalisierung der Vermarktungsprozesse, virtuelle Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke digitaler Produkte entstehen können.  Meer

This book argues that we are directly responsible for our attitudes by considering how we blame each other for being irrational. It thereby connects the most recent research on responsibility and rationality in a unifying dialectic.  Meer