scholarly journals North Kosovo and the Serbia-Kosovo normalization dialogue

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 111-137
Author(s):  
Gustavo Oliveira Teles de Menezes
Keyword(s):  
Great Powers ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Face ◽  
Normalization Process

The article describes and discusses political and security trends in Serb-majority North Kosovo during the Serbia-Kosovo normalization process launched in 2011. Perspectives from the local Serb population in the face of the interests and policies of the governments of Serbia, Kosovo and the Western great powers that promote normalization are highlighted, showing that critical views of normalization and associated trends are widespread in North Kosovo. In this connection, it is argued that dissatisfaction and insecurity with normalization and associated trends also became present in the region’s political life, pointing to latent challenges to the legitimacy and sustainability of normalization.

scholarly journals The Limits of Constructivism: Can Rawls Condemn Female Genital Mutilation?

2009 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Koppelman
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Genital Mutilation ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
The Face ◽  
Acceptable Theory ◽  
Female Genital

AbstractConstructivist political theory, championed most prominently by John Rawls, builds up a conception of justice from the minimal requirements of political life. It has two powerful attractions. It promises a kind of civic unity in the face of irresolvable differences about the good life. It also offers a foundation for human rights that is secure in the face of those same differences. The very parsimony that is its strength, however, deprives it of the resources to condemn some atrocities. Because it focuses on the political aspect of persons, it has difficulty cognizing violence done to those aspects of the person that are not political, preeminently the body. Constructivism thus can be only a part of an acceptable theory of justice.

scholarly journals Improved Detection of Inundation below the Forest Canopy using Normalized LiDAR Intensity Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan W. Lang ◽  
Vincent Kim ◽  
Gregory W. McCarty ◽  
Xia Li ◽  
In-Young Yeo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Canopy ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Forested Wetlands ◽  
Evergreen Forest ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Patterns ◽  
Inundation Maps ◽  
The Face ◽  
Moderate Resolution ◽  
And Function ◽  
Normalization Process

To best conserve wetlands and manage associated ecosystem services in the face of climate and land-use change, wetlands must be routinely monitored to assess their extent and function. Wetland extent and function are largely driven by spatial and temporal patterns in inundation and soil moisture, which to date have been challenging to map, especially within forested wetlands. The objective of this paper is to investigate the different, but often interacting effects, of evergreen vegetation and inundation on leaf-off bare earth return lidar intensity within mixed deciduous-evergreen forests in the Coastal Plain of Maryland, and to develop an inundation mapping approach that is robust in areas of varying levels of evergreen influence. This was achieved through statistical comparison of field derived metrics, and development of a simple yet robust normalization process, based on first of many, and bare earth lidar intensity returns. Results demonstrate the confounding influence of forest canopy gap fraction and inundation, and the effectiveness of the normalization process. After normalization, inundated deciduous forest could be distinguished from non-inundated evergreen forest. Inundation was mapped with an overall accuracy between 99.4% and 100%. Inundation maps created using this approach provide insights into physical processes in support of environmental decision-making, and a vital link between fine-scale physical conditions and moderate resolution satellite imagery through enhanced calibration and validation.

The democratisation of indigenous languages

AILA Review ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 26-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Themba Moyo
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Clear Vision ◽  
The Face ◽  
Meaningful Role

This article attempts to explore issues of language marginalisation in Malawi. It argues that the policies pursued from independence 1964 todate have not been democratic. They have essentially favoured a small ruling English-Chichewa elite, that has emerged and entrenched itself, regardless of which government has come into power. Viable indigenous languages, which could equally play a meaningful role in the socioeconomic political life of the country, have been largely marginalised, in market places and in other national functions. In the face of this situation, the argument advanced is one of an immediate review of of such incoherent and fragementary policies for more accommodating ones, with a clear vision and an agenda for implementation for all the citizenry.

Constructing Impossible Uprisings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Volpi
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Political Life ◽  
North African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Unexpected Events ◽  
Causal Processes ◽  
The Face ◽  
North African Countries

This chapter introduces the ‘eventful sociology’ that characterizes the emergence of protest episodes in the four North African countries. Events are non-routine sequences of actions that reshape the routine forms of governance (and opposition) structuring everyday social and political life. Transformative events initiate a transformation of behaviors that is both strategic and reactive, and that reshapes social and political life first at the local level. This chapter qualifies the emergence of new causal processes and how they interact with preexisting practices of governance. The narrative places side by side the views and strategies of different pro- and anti-regime actors in the face of unexpected events and their consequences. The chapter outlines how sequences of events produced new practices, arenas and actors of contestations, often as unintended consequences of interactions. This event-centric account of protest episodes highlights the transformative role of protest in the construction of newly effective forms of political behaviors.

scholarly journals The importance of accounting professional’s motivation in relation to teleworking

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 492-498
Author(s):  
Sónia Ruão Leite ◽  
Paulo Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Accounting Firms ◽  
Accounting Professionals ◽  
The Face

The various transformations marked by social, economic and political life in the last decades, have given a prominent place to telework in many fields being accounting one of them. In times of uncertainty, many accounting firms have implemented telework arrangements to provide flexibility and support for employees who seek an acceptable balance between career and family. It is also in this scenario that teleworking comes to assume a fundamental role for the development of accounting itself. Teleworking thus arises as a response to the pandemic situation experienced in our country since March 2020, raising the question of the motivation of accounting professionals in the face of adaptation, motivation and experiences related to teleworking. Through an exploratory-descriptive investigation with a qualitative approach based on the application of a scale of motivation for professionals (adapted), it was our intention to assess the levels of motivation expressed by the accounting professionals in view of the change from in person to online attendance (telework) due to the Covid-19 pandemic.      

scholarly journals „Brak” państwa czy jego „nadmiar” – wyzwania i zagrożenia współczesnej demokracji

1970 ◽  
Vol 21 (282) ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Kiwior-Filo
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Migration Crisis

The changes taking place in the modern world, their character and dynamics determine the need to verify the role and tasks of the most important institution of political life, in particular the state. However, the multitude of positions in this regard, from extremely libertarian, aimed at eliminating the state as an organization using coercion, promoting “philosophy of strength” instead of “philosophy of freedom”, to voices demanding “strengthening” the state - a guarantor of security (on various levels: military, economic , social, social, cultural etc.), especially in the face of challenges such as migration crisis or modern terrorism. The dilemma of limiting the state or strengthening it, which has always been present in political discourse, deepens the crisis of values and the difficulty in defining concepts of fundamental importance, including democracy itself. Question asked by Chantal Delsol What do we care about? it seems so current in the face of many contemporary paradoxes.

scholarly journals Political Culture of Coastal Society in the Hinterland Area of Batam CityThis research examines the political culture of coastal communities in the face of Simultaneous Regional Elections of 2015 in Batam City. The purpose of this research is to analyze the types of political culture and the participation of coastal society in political activities, especially elections, because there is no research that discusses the political culture of coastal society in particular. Research that discusses the political life of coastal society has not been discussed, especially how the role and views of society on political life and government. In fact, coastal society are groups that will be affected and feel the consequences of these political activities. This research uses qualitative method. The respondents are selected by purposive sampling technique and data obtained by observation and in-depth interview. The findings in this study indicate that the type of coastal society culture is included in the type of participant political culture, in which the level of participation society in Simultaneous Regional Elections of 2015 is quite high and their knowledge on political activity is sufficient. Keywords: Political Culture; Coastal Society; Participant Political Culture

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.29) ◽  
pp. 1044
Author(s):  
Diah Ayu Pratiwi ◽  
Meri Enita Puspita Sari
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Face ◽  
Regional Elections

This research examines the political culture of coastal communities in the face of Simultaneous Regional Elections of 2015 in Batam City. The purpose of this research is to analyze the types of political culture and the participation of coastal society in political activities, especially elections, because there is no research that discusses the political culture of coastal society in particular. Research that discusses the political life of coastal society has not been discussed, especially how the role and views of society on political life and government. In fact, coastal society are groups that will be affected and feel the consequences of these political activities. This research uses qualitative method. The respondents are selected by purposive sampling technique and data obtained by observation and in-depth interview. The findings in this study indicate that the type of coastal society culture is included in the type of participant political culture, in which the level of participation society in Simultaneous Regional Elections of 2015 is quite high and their knowledge on political activity is sufficient.  

Over the Horizon

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Edelstein
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
International Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Face ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
The Cold War

This book examines how existing great powers in international relations respond to the rise or resurgence of other great powers. More specifically, it seeks to account for why existing powers often cooperate with rising powers despite the long-term threat that they potentially pose. To account for this behavior, the theory presented in the book focuses on the time horizons of political leaders . Leaders are unlikely to adopt competitive and costly strategies in the face of uncertainty about a rising power’s long-term intentions. Instead, they profit from cooperation in the short-term while they await more and better information about the rising state’s interests and intentions. To test this argument against alternative arguments, the book presents case studies of four modern examples of rising great powers and their strategic interactions with existing great powers: the rise of late nineteenth century Germany, the emergence of the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, the resurgence of interwar Germany, and the development of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the cold war. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications of the argument for international relations theory and the contemporary rise of China.

What Kind of War Is This?

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-50
Author(s):  
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Irregular Warfare ◽  
Political Autonomy ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Face

When considering the role of war, historians often focus on war’s role as a unifier. Citizens rally to the flag and society anneals in the face of suffering and sacrifice. Even military defeat can drive this process when people build a narrative of tragedy that inspires devotion. However, this phenomenon was not the only connection between wars and nation-building. Most insurgents in mid-nineteenth-century conflicts resorted to irregular warfare, in form or another. This decision impeded their efforts to obtain political autonomy. Irregular war generated stiff counter-insurgencies from dominant powers, weakened domestic and foreign support for rebels, and diminished claims to civilizational fitness necessary for inclusion in the family of nations. The great powers of the nineteenth century did not collude about the best ways to suppress rebellion but they shared the same reactions to insurgencies nonetheless.

scholarly journals PROSES REKRUTMEN POLITIK CALON LEGISLATIF LOKAL DI MEDAN PADA PEMILU 2009

PERSPEKTIF ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Putra Adela
Keyword(s):  
Succession Planning ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Graduate Degree ◽  
Legislative Elections ◽  
Recruitment Process ◽  
Postgraduate Level ◽  
The Face ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Selection Of

This research aimed to find out more specifically about the recruitment process of legislative candidates by analyzing the processes and mechanisms conducted by Prosperous Justice Party in the face of legislative elections in 2009 in Medan. This study successfully demonstrated that the quality of PKS candidates are good enough when viewed from the level of education that almost all legislative candidates PKS is a graduate degree and some have passed the postgraduate level. PKS has two times following the general election after changing the name, so that from the experience, candidates for legislative members of PKS has experienced enough, considering that there are also some legislative candidate who was also member of the previous legislature. Personally, the popularity of candidates for legislative members of PKS is not so high, but PKS as an institution has a high popularity in the community. PKS candidates recruitment process is closed, causing the PKS tends to be more exclusive. This is because efforts to preserve the Islamic ideology as the party with the good succession planning, so that the selection of candidates is highly selective made PKS as a form of consistency to the ideology of the party, and regarded as a cadre of people capable of carrying the PKS remain as party da’wah in the political life of the state.

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