scholarly journals Regional security dialogues in Europe and in Asia: The role of Track 1.5 forums in the practice of international security

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Anna Longhini ◽  
Erin Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
International Security ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Mind State ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Munich Security Conference

Abstract The term regional security dialogue brings to mind state-organised conferences and events; however, an under-appreciated subset of such dialogues are organised by non-state actors that have unique formal aspects. These quasi-formal dialogues operate alongside, and sometimes in competition to, state-sanctioned processes. Why do some of these forums appear to be more effective at fostering regional dialogue than strictly formal or informal processes with the same goals? Drawing from heterogenous discourse approaches, we address this question by identifying and expanding the concept of the quality of discursive space, as a key feature for the success of security dialogues. We then apply this concept to two of the most successful so-called Track 1.5 security dialogues: the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Europe and the Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) in Asia. We analyse these cases using a mix of interviews with participants and organisers, participant observation, and public outputs with the aim of improving the understanding of the role and impact of Track 1.5 diplomacy in the practice of international security. Our findings highlight that it is what we call the quality of discursive space, as a mix of different components in this space, which differentiates effective dialogues from mere policy ‘talk shops’.

scholarly journals CANCELLATION OF THE TREATY OF 1987 ON THE ERADICATION OF INTERMEDIATE AND SHORTER-RANGE MISSILES AND ITS IMPACT ON PAN-REGIONAL SECURITY IN AEGIS OF THE ‘THREE SEAS’ AREA (BALTIC, ADRIATIC-BLACK SEA SPACE)

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-145
Author(s):  
Alika GUCHUA
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
International Security ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Baltic

The issue of the international security has become more pressing actual in 21st century due to the appearance of new dangers and challenges in the modern world, which were not typical for the previous century. On the background of geopolitical transition, the role of strategic offensive arms and weapons of mass destruction has become more important. In the modern world, it is important to maintain strategic parity on arms when global challenges pose a serious threat to all humanity. In this paper, we discussed the reasons for the cancellation of the Treaty on the Elimination of intermediate-range and short-range missiles of 1987 and the dangers that are threatening the world. The USA and Russia have officially announced that they are starting modernizing and producing ballistic missiles and what is more important, their policies are forcing other countries to produce similar arms. The paper focuses on the security environment of the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Sea regions, the dangers that resulted from the cancellation of the abovementioned agreement. The Politics of Strategic Bullying in the Bipolar Era, the “Cold War” phenomenon and geopolitical processes of New Cold War is also discussed in this paper. Also, discussing the role of strategic offensive arms and defining NATO's role in ensuring international security has an important place in this paper.

scholarly journals Foster Care Reform and Social Partnership in Nizhny Novgorod Region

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-394
Author(s):  
Jouko Nikula ◽  
Nina Ivashinenko
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Sociology Department ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
State Actors

  Jouko Nikula – PhD, Senior Researcher, Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. Email: [email protected] Nina Ivashinenko – Doktor Nauk in Economics, Professor, Head of Economic Sociology Department, Lobachevsky State University of N. Novgorod, Head of UNN-ISESP RAS Laboratory. Russian Federation. Email: [email protected]   This article discusses on-going foster care reform in Russia and analyses possibilities for the evolution of partnerships between stakeholders. The role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the realisation of programmes related to child welfare reform is considered, revealing that social partnership is a form of collaborative action. In other words, drawing on the work of Sandra Waddock, social partnership involves interactions performed by various actors to achieve common goals. The main characteristics of social partnerships are that they are specialised, voluntary and collaborative, and their main goal is to try to solve a common problem. However, not all cooperation between public authorities, NGOs and business is a partnership; in fact a successful partnership is characterised by a variety of features. These include mutual trust, complementary strengths, reciprocal accountability, joint decision-making, clearly articulated goals, equitable distribution of costs and benefits, performance indicators, as well as mechanisms to measure and monitor performance and a clear delineation of responsibilities. The role of non-state actors is increasing in welfare and other social services due to adverse demographic trends and the diminishing economic base available to the state for delivering social services. The state’s efforts to dismantle the former state-centred system of welfare has also resulted in the outsourcing of welfare responsibilities and services in child welfare to non-state actors. Alongside their growing role, many new questions have been raised about the quality of the NGOs’ activities and their skills. Therefore, the expansion of NGOs’ social functions potentially generates both opportunities and risks in the transformation of child welfare. Even if there are some green shoots of partnership between the public authorities and NGOs in this field, their relationship is not reciprocal. We argue that Russian NGOs need to improve their social status and the quality of their work to allow them to have their own voice when negotiating their relationship with different state actors.

scholarly journals Peran Kepemimpinan Kepala Sekolah Dalam Mendukung Budaya dan Mutu SMPK Angelus Custos II Surabaya

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuliana Pebristofora marni Mala ◽  
Yatim Riyanto ◽  
Bambang Sigit Widodo
Keyword(s):  
Principal Leadership ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Role Of The Principal ◽  
Depth Interviews

The role of the headmaster's leadership in supporting the culture and quality of the school is very influential for the quality of the school. This leadership is oriented to how the role of the headmaster's leadership in supporting the interactive learning process, conducive schoolenvironment, cultured and quality community. The purpose of the research is: (1) describe how the role of the headmaster's leadership in supporting the culture of SMPK Angelus Custos II Surabaya (2) describes how the role of the headmaster's leadership in supporting the quality of SMPK Angelus Custos II Surabaya. This research uses Qualitative research method. Data collection using research instruments with participant observation methods, in-depth interviews, documentation and literature reviews. The results of this study are: (1) the role of the principal leadership at SMPK Angelus Custos II Surabaya in supporting the culture and quality of education is considered as an important element and optimal enough in determining the direction of school success. (2) The impact of the principal's support in improving the culture and quality of education at SMPK Angelus Custos II Surabaya is quite maximal. It can be concluded that the role of the headmaster's leadership in supporting the culture and quality of the school is very influential in improving the quality of the school.

scholarly journals Managing nursing care to puerperae and newborns in primary healthcare

Rev Rene ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. e43654
Author(s):  
Tamiris Scoz Amorim ◽  
Marli Terezinha Stein Backes
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Objective Understanding ◽  
Management Of Care

Objective: understanding the meaning of managing nursing care for puerperae and newborns in primary healthcare. Methods: qualitative study, based on the theoretical framework of Data-based Theory. Participant observation and semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with eleven primary healthcare nurses. The analytical process involved open, axial, and selective coding/integration. Results: the central phenomenon, Promoting the management of nursing care in primary healthcare, indicates the leadership of nurses when dealing with challenges in the context of care. That suggests actions and interactions to guarantee autonomy and the quality of care, in addition to empowering the parents. Conclusion: the management of care from nurses who participated in the research aims to embrace the mother-child and family particularities since the prenatal, and to promote a singular, multidimensional, continuous, vigilant, and systematized care, which values the subjectivity and the main role of the woman-mother and the care they should have with themselves and the newborn.

scholarly journals Ecotourism, social and human capitals, and identity valorization: the communities of Tapajós (PA), Brazil

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismar Borges de Lima ◽  
Anne-Marie D'Hauteserre
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Central Amazonia ◽  
Social Capitals ◽  
Academic Debate

This article deals with the role of community-based ecotourism for strengthening human and social capitals as well as for enhancing culture and forest livelihood of riverbank dwellers in the Tapajós region, in central Amazonia. The research was done based on the premise that ecotourism can be a potential avenue for putting in evidence local culture, identity and singular lifestyles as while it can contribute to strengthen the local networks which can result in collective material and immaterial advantages. The analysis examines the hypothesis that outsiders (the tourists) once they travel to and stay with local communities, they become the primary agents who are in a position to perceive the main aspects of values, beliefs and routines as particularities of an Amazonian livelihood. Even though the visitors usually stay a few days in a certain community, they end up paying enough attention to what the locals tell and do. This way, the tourists involuntarily put the locals at the centre of their visit, to the extent the locals start realizing how important their forest lifestyle is. This argument certainly does not aim at validating the “spetacularisation” of forest people, of their environment and of their culture. Instead, the authors are rather interested in the processes through which outsiders can direct or indirectly – as ecotourism participants - contribute to improve the quality of life and to raise self-esteem of riverbank dwellers. Some Amazonian peoples (of remote areas) usually have a feeling of periphery and of marginalization, because they do not take part in the ‘developed metropolitan world’. The self-esteem factor gets relevance in an academic debate, because the Amazonian peoples hold a feeling of being periphery and marginal in reason of not being part of a ‘developed metropolitan world’; and this may cause adverse effects on their attitude and expectations. The investigation has a qualitative approach in order to produce descriptive data. Open and semi-structured interviews and participant observation were the main methods used for getting information from the riverbank dwellers.

scholarly journals PARTICIPATION OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES IN IMPROVING ISLAMIC RELIGION EDUCATION QUALITY AT STATE 1st VOCATIONAL SCHOOL, WADASLINTANG

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
Fathah Nurjanah ◽  
Maryono Maryono
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
Interview Participant ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
School Committees ◽  
Executive Agency

This research was aimed; 1) to know the quality of islamic religious education at theSMK N 1 Wadaslintang, 2) to know the participation of school commitee in increasingthe quality of islamic religious education at the SMK N 1 Wadaslintang, 3) to know thesupport and handicap factors how did school commite in increasing the quality of islamicreligious at the SMK N 1 Wadaslintang. In this research, we used a qualitative research.Qualitative search is a research that aimed to understand a phenomenon about what’sfelt by research subject holisticly with the words or language. In the collecting data, weused the interview, participant observation and documentation study. And analizing data,we wear the interactive analisis that ie data collection, data reduction , data displayand verification. The result of research had showed taht 1) quality of islamic religiouseducation is so good, it showed by activity of dhuha worship and dhuhur done togetherlyand on Friday, they go to mosque to pray togetherly.2) role of the school commitee inincreasing quality of islamic religious education such as : as a advisory agency, asa supporting agency, as a controlling agency, and as a executive agency. 3) factor ofsupporting as below a good leadership, a good performance of teacher and participationof student\s adults and handicap factor were such as less of infrastructure and businessof school commitee.

On Problems of Security and Cooperation in Northern-Eastern Asia

2012 ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
V. Shvydko
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
International Security ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
Joint Statement ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Pacific Asia ◽  
Common Vision

The publication sums up realization of the 2010-2012 three-year program of Russia-US-Japan dialogue of experts “Security challenges in Northeast Asia”. The program was designed to arrange for an expert discussion of current issues of international security in Pacific Asia. A set of international conferences envisaged by the program ended in participants’ endorsement of a joint statement reflecting their common vision of the situation and challenges to security in this region, the role of international alliances and possible steps by the three nations to strengthen regional security. The publication contains full text of the joint statement.

Cognitive Health Counseling 40+

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Eschen ◽  
Franzisca Zehnder ◽  
Mike Martin
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Pilot Phase ◽  
Subjective Memory ◽  
Cognitive Health ◽  
Health Counseling ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Main Outcome Variable ◽  
Further Development

This article introduces Cognitive Health Counseling 40+ (CH.CO40+), an individualized intervention that is conceptually based on the orchestration model of quality-of-life management ( Martin & Kliegel, 2010 ) and aims at improving satisfaction with cognitive health in adults aged 40 years and older. We describe the theoretically deduced characteristics of CH.CO40+, its target group, its multifactorial nature, its individualization, the application of subjective and objective measures, the role of participants as agents of change, and the rationale for choosing participants’ satisfaction with their cognitive health as main outcome variable. A pilot phase with 15 middle-aged and six older adults suggests that CH.CO40+ attracts, and may be particularly suitable for, subjective memory complainers. Implications of the pilot data for the further development of the intervention are discussed.

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