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International integration & functionalism are defined as the processes whereby decisions & activities are performed by international organizations rather than by separate nations. The greatest difficulty incurred in the development of such worldwide programs is their location in the context of current national & transnational processes. Some of the other issues which must be dealt with in the creation of global models include: (1) the fact that overlapping functions of territorial units perform conflict management functions as well as performing specific functional roles, (2) organizations created for a specific need often perform interdependent functions with groups created out of a different need, (3) since many global problems transcend boundaries of rich & poor nations, some equalization of resources may be necessary to produce efficient collaboration between rich & poor groups, & (4) existing national boundaries may not necessarily reflect the nature of future global systems. 1 Figure, 1 Table. M. Cain.

AbstractWe explore the significance of physical theories set in Euclidean spacetimes (i.e., theories with Riemannian rather than pseudo-Riemannian metrical structure). In particular, we explore (a) the use of these theories in contemporary physics at large, and (b) the sense in which there can be a notion of temporal evolution in these theories. Having achieved these tasks, we proceed to reflect on the lessons that one can take from such theories for Knox's 'inertial frame' version of spacetime functionalism, which seems (on the face of it) to issue incorrect verdicts in the case of theories with Euclidean metrical structure.