Preface

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. v-vi ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles F. Furtado
Keyword(s):  
Structural Reform ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The World ◽  
Ultimate Outcome

The world changed on August 19, 1991. On that date, a self-styled “Emergency Committee” of conservative Politburo members attempted to derail and reverse the process of structural reform that had started some six years earlier under the sponsorship of Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The coup backfired two days later because its leaders misunderstood a central political fact of life after perestroika—namely, that political events could no longer be scripted to suit the changing tastes of the party elitte. While the plotters probably suspected as much—indeed, that was one of the reasons why they initiated the coup in the first place—their mistake was in overestimating their capacity to put a stop to this “state of anarchy.” While the vast majority of Soviet citizens acted precisely as the Emergency Committee expected them to—with utter indifference to the ultimate outcome of this elite power struggle—a small minority did not. It was this opposition, not only in the streets, but within party, military, and security organs, that defeated the coup and ushered in the momentous changes that we are experiencing today.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Kotzmann
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Educational Disadvantage ◽  
The World ◽  
Higher Education Teaching

The Introduction highlights the importance of higher education and the existence of educational disadvantage in society, contextualised within current political events and discussions. It describes the intrinsic importance of education in allowing people to learn about themselves and the world they live in. It details the significant instrumental importance of education in the likelihood people will obtain employment and command higher incomes. It also provides a brief outline of different historical perspectives in relation to how best to provide higher education teaching and learning. The importance of law and policy for higher education is discussed, and the purpose and limitations of the research identified.

Paradigm Shift for the Future

2021 ◽  
pp. 173-201
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Way

Through case studies of incidents around the world where the social media platforms have been used and abused for ulterior purposes, Chapter 6 highlights the lessons that can be learned. For good or for ill, the author elaborates on the way social media has been used as an arbiter to inflict various forms of political influence and how we may have become desensitized due to the popularity of the social media platforms themselves. A searching view is provided that there is now a propensity by foreign states to use social media to influence the user base of sovereign countries during key political events. This type of activity now justifies a paradigm shift in relation to our perception and utilization of computerized devices for the future.

Fr. Tadeusz Sroka. Dziennik izraelski czyli religijny wymiar ludzkiego losu (An Israeli diary, or the religious dimension of man's fate). Warsaw: Spokania. 1985.

2004 ◽  
pp. 411-415
Author(s):  
Stanisław Krajewski
Keyword(s):  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The World

This chapter looks at Fr. Tadeusz Sroka's An Israeli Diary, or the Religious Dimension of Man's Fate (1985). An Israeli Diary takes the form of excerpts from a diary written in the years 1970–71. Each entry opens with press news about political events in the Middle East, followed by pondering over the Bible or the fate of the Jewish people. There are hardly any data concerning contemporary Israel, except a few facts showing Arab intransigence and the hopeless situation of Israel ‘in human terms’. The author says very little about Jewish history and nothing about Judaism; the Talmud is not mentioned, even in places where it could have been useful, for example in reflecting on capital punishment. The author's perspective is metaphysical; he assumes that the election of Israel is eternal. This, incidentally, is the official standpoint of the Catholic Church today, confirmed more than once by John Paul II. As a result, Israel is seen as the centre of the world. Next, the fate of the Jews reveals the ultimate perspectives of the human condition: on one pole the Holocaust, on the other the re-creation of the state by visionaries, in defiance of reason. Israel is a sign for the world, and today's secular Israel is an appropriate sign for the contemporary materialistic world.

A Double-Blind Controlled Comparison of the Effects of Chlorpromazine, Barbiturate and a Placebo in 142 Chronic Psychotic In-Patients

1958 ◽  
Vol 104 (435) ◽  
pp. 334-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Crawford Little
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
The World ◽  
Sleep Treatment

Since the original article by Elkes and Elkes (1954) numerous reports have been published in the world literature on the use of chlorpromazine in chronic psychotic in-patients. The majority of these studies indicate that the drug is indeed effective in improving the behaviour of these patients; a small minority of authors is more sceptical including Mitchell (1956) using doses up to 300 mg. daily, Sarwer-Foner and Ogle (1956) with doses of 150–400 mg. daily, and Trelles and Saavedra (1954) using sleep treatment. The literature contains numerous reports of controlled and uncontrolled studies on chlorpromazine and comparisons of its effects with those of a placebo, Reserpine, Azacyclonal, etc.; attention is now turning to the effects of such drugs in various combinations.

'Mission In Christ's Way': The Way of Which Christ?

Exchange ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-277
Author(s):  
Gnana Robinson
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

AbstractAll Churches and Missionary Movements in different parts of the world assert without hesitation that in all that they do, they follow the way of Jesus Christ. But the gross injustice in international economic dealings promoted by the so-called 'Christian Nations' in the world and the consequent widening of the gap between the rich and the poor in the world, the discrimination of people on the basis of creed, class, race and colour practised by many Christians and the power-struggle and corruption found in many local churches make the world wonder, the way of which Christ these Christians follow! The image of the Biblical Jesus is that of the Servant-leader, crowned with thorns, who emptied himself of all worldly riches, pomp and power and laid down his life as a ransom for many. Since the time of Emperor Constantine, this thorn-crowned servant Jesus is turned into a gold-crowned King, an anti-Christ with the face of 'Mammon', the idol of riches and power. Since one cannot worship God and Mammon at the same time, it is mandatory on the part of us all faithful Christians, to introspect ourselves and decide, the way of which Christ we want to follow.

Histories of Geography

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Stock
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The World ◽  
Geographical Study ◽  
History Of Geography ◽  
History Of ◽  
Whole Earth

This chapter discusses the history of geography during the Romantic period, concentrating on contemporary books which attempt to describe the whole earth and, in doing so, set out procedures for geographical study. Noting that ‘geography’ can refer both to the physical characteristics of the earth’s surface, and to the disciplined interpretation of those characteristics, the chapter begins by outlining the range of methodologies employed by these works. At the heart of geographical enquiry in the Romantic period are a set of significant epistemological questions about knowledge acquisition, and the perception and interpretation of the world. The chapter illustrates this by showing how two contemporary maps of Europe use different methods to justify and represent the limits of ‘European’ space. Furthermore, an understanding of geographical epistemologies—with their different assumptions about how to comprehend and intervene in the world—can help us interpret the tumultuous political events of the period.

Military Intervention and the Myth of Collective Security: the Case of Zaïre

1989 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Schatzberg
Keyword(s):  
Military Intervention ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Collective Security ◽  
Military Interventions ◽  
Independent State ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
The World ◽  
World Organisation

Zaïre has been open to external penetration from its earliest days as the Congo Independent State of King Léopold II, but unlike most other weak and vulnerable African states it has experienced repeated military interventions. When President Mobutu Sese Seko addressed the U.N. General Assembly in October 1973 he formally thanked the world organisation for preserving his country during the early 1960s:If a small minority of member countries of this organisation had refused to participate in the Congo operation, at the time, the vast majority had, however, spontaneously put troops at its disposition or intervened in favour of this operation. This permitted the maintenance of peace, unity, and the integrity of the national territory.

Menggarami burung terbang: Local understandings of national history

2011 ◽  
Vol 167 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Allen
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
National History ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The World

This paper focuses on the ways in which watershed events in Indonesian national history are illuminated in a work of fiction, and how a Javanese worldview gives rise to particular, localized understandings of the events. The work of fiction is Sitok Srengenge's first novel, Menggarami burung terbang (Seasoning the flying bird), the action of which is bracketed by the years 1948 and 1965. The protagonists of the novel are unassuming village folk who are bewildered at the political events and mass brutality that overtake them, and whose understanding of the world is filtered through natural omens. Such a worldview is described by Quinn (1992:124) as a 'teleological' view of phenomena, in other words a belief that everything that exists and happens - including natural omens - does so for a final purpose, that there is a reason for everything.

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