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The Problems Of Arab Economic Development And Integration
by Adda GuecioueurIn this book, scholars, journalists, and officials of Arab, pan-Arab, and non-Arab institutions afford insights into the problems of Arab economic development and integration. The contributors, who met on the occasion of the 11th Arab Summit (also known as the First Arab Economic Summit), demonstrate that Arab economic integration is the best means by which individual Arab countries can achieve economic development. Their study of the integration process, the obstacles encountered, and the results achieved, in addition to being of interest to anyone concerned with the Arab world, is of particular relevance to those studying economic development in the Third World and South-South or North-South relations.
Problems of Contemporary French Politics (Routledge Revivals)
by Dorothy PicklesFirst published in 1982 Problems of Contemporary French Politics looks at the most important political controversies that have preoccupied France from the death of de Gaulle up to and including 1981 presidential and legislative elections. Three areas are discussed: the evolution of government and opposition parties, focusing in particular on their electoral attitudes and on the relations between parties making up the respective coalitions; the changes in the European and world situation and their effects on French political thinking in the field of foreign policy; and the political situation in which the fourth President of the Fifth Republic – and the first socialist President – takes up his office. Dorothy Pickles looks dispassionately at what promise to be the main issues dominating French politics in the 1980s, asking questions rather than suggesting answers. This book is a must read for students and scholars of French politics, French history, European politics, and international relations.
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe
by Juan J. Linz Alfred StepanSince their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground in numerous areas. They reconceptualize the major types of modern nondemocratic regimes and point out for each type the available paths to democratic transition and the tasks of democratic consolidation. They argue that, although "nation-state" and "democracy" often have conflicting logics, multiple and complementary political identities are feasible under a common roof of state-guaranteed rights. They also illustrate how, without an effective state, there can be neither effective citizenship nor successful privatization. Further, they provide criteria and evidence for politicians and scholars alike to distinguish between democratic consolidation and pseudo-democratization, and they present conceptually driven survey data for the fourteen countries studied.Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation contains the first systematic comparative analysis of the process of democratic consolidation in southern Europe and the southern cone of South America, and it is the first book to ground post-Communist Europe within the literature of comparative politics and democratic theory.
Problems of Democratization in China (East Asia)
by Thomas G. LumFirst published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Problems of International Money, 1972-85
by Michael PosnerA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Problems of International Politics: The Wartime Origins of Democratization
by Reyko HuangWhy do some countries emerge from civil war more democratic than when they entered into it, while others remain staunchly autocratic? Observers widely depict internal conflict as a pathway to autocracy or state failure, but in fact there is variation in post-civil war regimes. Conventional accounts focus on war outcomes and international peacebuilding, but Huang suggests that postwar regimes have wartime origins, notably in how rebel groups interact with ordinary people as part of war-making. War can have mobilizing effects when rebels engage extensively with civilian populations, catalyzing a bottom-up force for change toward greater political rights. Politics after civil war does not emerge from a blank slate, but reflects the war's institutional and social legacies. The Wartime Origins of Democratization explores these ideas through an original dataset of rebel governance and rigorous comparative case analysis. The findings have far-reaching implications for understanding wartime political orders, statebuilding, and international peacebuilding.
Problems Of International Politics: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Problems of International Politics)
by Matthew LongoBorders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences that dominate the news, it reveals borders to be thick, multi-faceted and binational institutions that have evolved greatly in recent decades. The book contributes to debates within political science on sovereignty, citizenship, cosmopolitanism, human rights and global justice. In particular, the new politics of borders reveal a sovereignty that is not waning, but changing, expanding beyond the state carapace and engaging certain logics of empire.
Problems of International Politics: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought (Problems of International Politics)
by Joshua SimonThe American and Latin American independence movements emerged from distinctive settings and produced divergent results, but they were animated by similar ideas. Patriotic political theorists throughout the Americas offered analogous critiques of imperial rule, designed comparable constitutions, and expressed common ambitions for their new nations' future relations with one another and the rest of the world. This book adopts a hemispheric perspective on the revolutions that liberated the United States and Spanish America, offering a new interpretation of their most important political ideas. Simon argues that the many points of agreement among various revolutionary political theorists across the Americas can be attributed to the problems they encountered in common as Creoles - that is, as the descendants of European settlers born in the Americas. He illustrates this by comparing the political thought of three Creole revolutionaries: Alexander Hamilton of the United States, Sim#65533;n Bol#65533;var of Venezuela, and Lucas Alam#65533;n of Mexico.
Problems of Life
by Leon Trotsky Lev D. Trotsky Z. VengerovaFrom the introduction: Trotsky's great merit is the exceptionally wide scope of his vision. He unites the destructive elements of a revolutionary mind with the zeal of a master-builder intent on constructive work. The world knows him as one of the implacable Bolshevist leaders, but Problems of Life, a book published only a few months ago in Russian, shows Trotsky in a very different light. It shows that in the middle of his military and militant activities he devotes much of his energy to the peaceful work of social reconstruction, and that the centre of the problem lies for him in culture, education and morals. His book deals with the interests, duties and morals of daily life, and shows Bolshevism and the Bolshevist spirit from a new constructive side.
Problems of Mind: Descartes to Wittgenstein (Routledge Revivals)
by Norman MalcolmFirst published in 1972, Problems of Mind begins with a consideration of the view that the human mind is an immaterial thing that does not require corporeal embodiment for its operations. It takes up the conception that "inner experiences" are "strictly identical" with brain processes. The book also deals exclusively with the doctrine called "Logical Behaviourism", which will always possess a compelling attraction for anyone who is perplexed by the psychological concepts, who has become aware of the worthlessness of an appeal to introspection as an account of how we learn those concepts, and who has no inclination to identify mind with brain. The three most plausible theories of mind-body dualism, mind-brain monism, and behaviourism are all rejected, and nothing is set forth as the true theory. Norman Malcolm states that this is 'only a drop in the bucket. It will serve its purpose if it leads the reader into the writings of Wittgenstein, who is easily the most important figure in the philosophy of mind.’ Problems of Mind will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of philosophy of mind, ethics, logic, and philosophy in general.
Problems of Protection: The UNHCR, Refugees, and Human Rights
by Niklaus Steiner Mark Gibney Gil LoescherFirst Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Problems of Refugees in Africa: Boundaries and Borders (Routledge Revivals)
by Ebenezer Q BlavoFirst published in 1999, this volume is an attempt to make the facts of the tremendous physical, social and psychological problems for the uprooted due to the numerous conflicts known to all and to stress the need for a concerted effort by all to achieve lasting peace on the continent. Ebenezer Q. Blavo had substantial opportunity to observe first hand and be in close contact with refugees of almost all African nationalities. He explores concepts and experiences of being refugees as well as current and potential refugee policies for African countries. This book forms part of a series on voices in development management, in which grass roots organisations and development practitioners can voice their views and present their perspectives along with the conventional development experts. Many of the volumes in the series will contain explicit debates between the various voices in development and permit the suite of neglected development issues such as gender and transport or the microcredit needs of low income communities to receive appropriate public and professional attention.
Problems of Resettlement on Saipan, Tinian and Rota, Mariana Islands (Occasional Historical Papers Series No. #7)
by Neal M. BowersInvestigation into the problems associated with re-establishing a sustainable economy in the war-ravaged Northern Mariana Islands.
Procedural Justice and Legitimacy in Policing
by Lorraine Mazerolle Elise Sargeant Adrian Cherney Sarah Bennett Kristina Murphy Emma Antrobus Peter MartinThis brief focuses on the "doing" of procedural justice: what the police can do to implement the principles of procedural justice, and how their actions can improve citizen perceptions of police legitimacy. Drawing on research from Australia (Mazerolle et al), the UK (Stanko, Bradford, Jackson etc al), the US (Tyler, Reisig, Weisburd), Israel (Jonathon-Zamir et al), Trinidad & Tobago (Kochel et al) and Ghana (Tankebe), the authors examine the practical ways that the police can approach engagement with citizens across a range of different types of interventions to embrace the principles of procedural justice, including: · problem-oriented policing · patrol · restorative justice · reassurance policing · and community policing. Through these examples, the authors also examine some of the barriers for implementing procedurally just ways of interacting with citizens, and offer practical suggestions for reform. This work will be of interest for researchers in criminology and criminal justice focused on policing as well as policymakers.
Procedural Justice and Relational Theory: Empirical, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives (Routledge Research in Legal Philosophy)
by Denise Meyerson, Catriona Mackenzie, and Therese MacDermottThis book bridges a scholarly divide between empirical and normative theorizing about procedural justice in the context of relations of power between citizens and the state. Empirical research establishes that people’s understanding of procedural justice is shaped by relational factors. A central premise of this volume is that this research is significant but needs to be complemented by normative theorizing that draws on relational theories of ethics and justice to explain the moral significance of procedures and make normative sense of people’s concerns about relational factors. The chapters in Part 1 provide comprehensive reviews of empirical studies of procedural justice in policing, courts and prisons. Part 2 explores empirical and normative perspectives on procedural justice and legitimacy. Part 3 examines philosophical approaches to procedural justice. Part 4 considers the implications of a relational perspective for the design of procedures in a range of legal contexts. This collection will be of interest to a wide academic readership in philosophy, law, psychology and criminology.
Procedure in the Canadian House of Commons
by William DawsonProcedure in the Canadian House of Commons is an attempt to survey the whole field of Canadian procedure historically and analytically, to establish what the procedure of the House was in 1867 and to trace its slow development—its evolvement through principles, traditions, rulings, and precedents—to the present time. A particular interest has been taken in depicting how the House operates in practice as compared with how it is believed to operate in theory. Throughout his analysis, Dawson provides insightful criticism and proposals for improvement in the hopes that this book will provide a new perspective on procedure both to those who are caught up in the day-to-day functioning of the House and to those, both in the House and outside it, who are concerned about larger, more distant implications.
Proceedings of The Focus Conference (Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research #732)
by Manyane Makua Mariam Akinlolu Mashango Sithole Phiwayinkosi Gumede Cebo NyondoThis is an open access book.It is a common cause globally that the abrupt emergence of Covid-19 wreaked havoc in all sectors, including the higher education system. The sudden closure of campuses as a social distancing measure to prevent community transmission has shifted face-to-face classes to online teaching and learning, a transformative experiment for academics and students in most institutions. This has thrown the focus on utilising Learning Management Systems (LMS), eLearning tools and platforms for effective student engagement, which may have limitations of accessibility and affordability for many students. The pandemic has exposed the shortcomings of the current higher education system and the need for more training of academics and practitioners in digital technology to adapt to the rapidly changing educational climate. In the post-pandemic situation, eLearning and virtual education may become an integral part of the higher education system, hence the question of re-inventing higher education. The higher education institutions and universities need to plan the post-pandemic education and research strategies to ensure student learning outcomes and standards of educational quality. With the move to online teaching and learning, subsequently, traditional assessments followed and were adapted and adopted for online assessment. Assessments lie at the heart of the teaching process. It shapes students’ understanding of the curriculum and determines their ability to progress. Reflections on assessments during Covid-19 abounded with the challenges that both academics and students faced regarding online assessments, including cheating and quality assurance issues. The focus on quality extended to the quality of teaching and learning in general. Moreover, the pandemic brought about the question of staff and student health and psychosocial support also became important. For academics, the abrupt shift to adapt to working from home and implementing online learning has led to over-work, low work-life balance and compromised mental health. With a view on constructive and futuristic discourse, the sub-themes of the 2022 Focus conference encapsulate the current realities in the higher education sector and beyond. It further provides opportunities for an in-depth analysis based on the benefit of hindsight and foresight. The Organising Committee specifically coined the theme, Re-inventing higher education: Insights, trends and lessons learnt from, specifically for the conference to reflect on and address the matters mentioned earlier. Academics, scholars, and practitioners in the higher education sector are called upon to share their research and express their perspectives on the reinvention of higher education.
PROCEEDINGS OF GOVERNMENT/INDUSTRY FORUM: The Owner's Role in Project Management and Preproject Planning
by Committee for Oversight Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Project ManagementInformation on The Owner's Role in Project Management and Pre-project Planning
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Energy Engineering and Environmental Engineering (Environmental Science and Engineering)
by Zuoyu Sun Prodip K. DasThis book contains the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Energy Engineering and Environmental Engineering (ICEEEE2023) that was held on August 6-8 2023 in Singapore. ICEEEE2023 is organized by Beijing Jiaotong University and Newcastle University. This book provides an international forum for discussion and communication of energy and environmental engineering.It is expected to report the latest technological developments in the fields developed by academic researchers and industrial practitioners, with a focus on renewable energy technologies and systems, energy efficiency and conservation, environmental pollution and control, sustainable development, and green cities. The contents of this proceedings will be useful to researchers, professionals, and policymakers alike.
Proceedings of the 2022 Brawijaya International Conference (Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research #235)
by Yusfan Adeputera Yusran Femiana Gapsari Madhi Fitri Titin Andri Wihastuti Fajar Ari Nugroho Indah Dwi QurbaniThis is an open access book.We proudly present the 2022 Brawijaya International Conference (BIC) as the consecutive series of conferences that is organised and hosted annually by Univeritas Brawijaya, Indonesia. The BIC 2022 will be held in Bali, Indonesia, on October 7 – 9, 2022. The conference committee consists of multi department of Univeritas Brawijaya. The BIC 2022 will present multidisciplinary research, community service essay and research, and industrial findings related to sustainable development. The BIC 2022 will be a great opportunity for exchanging ideas and knowledge in all multidisciplinary areas for academicians, scientists, practitioners, and global executives. The event will facilitate a focus group discussion and consultation for the participants, especially stakeholders, to address the current issues and challenges including the future invention and innovation within multidisciplinary areas.The BIC 2022 invites fellow researchers/scientists, students, practitioners, global executives from multidisciplinary areas to participate and gather in this event to share and discuss the related research result and finding from all multidisciplinary areas. You should not miss the great opportunity to establish partnership and acquire tremendous knowledge within the BIC 2022.
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Business and Policy Studies (Applied Economics and Policy Studies)
by Xiaolong Li Chunhui Yuan Ivoslav GanchevThis proceedings volume contains papers accepted by the 2022 International Conference on Business and Policy Studies (CONF-BPS 2022), which are carefully selected and reviewed by professional reviewers from corresponding research fields and the editorial team of the conference. This volume presents latest research achievements, inspirations, and applications in applied economy, finance, enterprise management, public administration, and policy studies. CONF-BPS hopes this volume could be inspiring and of academic value.Business and policy studies both are heated research topics and are related to multiple fields. Held by Eliwise Academy, CONF-BPS aims at bringing together intellectuals from related fields including applied economy, finance, and public administration for academic exchange. Its goal is to serve as an international platform for researchers to present latest research progress, share ideas and inspirations, and exchange experience. Through more academic communication and exchange, this conference hops to promote international corporation and joint initiatives in relevant fields. This volume will be of interest to researchers, academics, professionals, and policy makers in the field of business, economics, management, and policy studies.
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Green Building, Civil Engineering and Smart City (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #211)
by Wei Guo Kai QianThis book of the conference proceedings focuses on innovative design, technology and methods in the fields of building, civil engineering and smart city. It contains a large number of detailed design, construction and performance analysis charts, benefited to students, teachers, research scholars and other professionals in related fields. As well, readers will encounter new ideas for realizing more safe, intelligent and economical buildings.
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Green Building, Civil Engineering and Smart City (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #328)
by Wei Guo Kai Qian Honggang Tang Lei GongThe book gathers the emerging technologies and applications in various disciplines involving green building, smart infrastructure and 3D Printing, which are presented in high-quality papers of GBCESC. Moreover, by sharing knowledge and experiences around emerging civil engineering and smart city, the book aims to provide readers with an overview of the emerging trends in the fields of green building, Civil Engineering and Smart City. The topics covered include Structural Engineering, Geological Engineering, Smart Cities, Urban Planning and Design, Construction Technology, green building technology, etc. This book will be useful for researchers and professionals in designing, building, and managing sustainable buildings and infrastructure.
Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate
by Xinhai Lu Zuo Zhang Weisheng Lu Yi PengThis proceedings book focuses on innovation, cooperation, and sustainable development in the fields of construction management and real estate. The book provides a detailed analysis and description of the disciplinary frontiers in the field of building management and real estate and how they can be promoted in the context of the epidemic. A wide variety of papers provide a reference value for both scholars and practitioners. The proceedings book is the documentation of “the 25th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate” (CRIOCM 2020), which was held at the School of Public Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, in 2020.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Business and Policy Studies (Applied Economics and Policy Studies)
by Canh Thien Dang Javier Cifuentes-Faura Xiaolong LiThis proceedings volume contains papers accepted by the 2nd International Conference on Business and Policy Studies (CONF-BPS 2023), which are carefully selected and reviewed by professional reviewers from corresponding research fields and the editorial team of the conference. This volume presents the latest research achievements, inspirations, and applications in applied economy, finance, enterprise management, public administration, and policy studies. CONF-BPS 2023 was a hybrid conference that includes several workshops (offline and online) around the world in Cardiff (Jan, 2023), London(Feb, 2023) and Sydney (Feb, 2023). Prof. Canh Thien Dang from King's College London, Prof. Arman Eshraghi from Cardiff Business School, and Prof. Kristle Romero Cortés from UNSW Business School have chaired those offline workshop.