Introduction: Exploring Russian nationalisms

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pål Kolstø ◽  
Helge Blakkisrud
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Part Structure

Russian societal nationalism comes in various guises, both ethnic and imperialist. Also Putin’s rhetoric is marked by the tensions between ethnic and state-focused, imperialist thinking. Noting the complex interplay of state nationalism and societal nationalism, this introductory chapter examines the mental framework within which Russian politicians were acting prior to the decision to annex Crimea. The chapter develops a typology of Russian nationalisms, surveys recent developments, and presents the three-part structure of this book: official nationalism, radical and other societal nationalisms, and identities/otherings. It concludes that after the annexation of Crimea, when the state took over the agenda of both ethnic and imperialist nationalists in Russia, societal nationalism finds itself at low ebb.

The Political Executive Returns

2020 ◽  
pp. xxii-22
Author(s):  
Rudy B. Andeweg ◽  
Robert Elgie ◽  
Ludger Helms ◽  
Juliet Kaarbo ◽  
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Head Of State ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Exact Position ◽  
Political Landscapes

Recent developments across political landscapes have contributed to a re-empowerment of the political executive. The authority of political executives was once largely autonomous and unchecked, but diminished with the development of constitutional and democratic constraints and further curtailed by more pressures on and more competitors to the state. The drivers behind the re-empowerment of political executives are also diverse, stemming from both domestic and international sources. The study of political executives has also experienced a revival; political executives are being rediscovered by students and scholars of politics. This is partly due to the re-empowerment trend, but it is also connected to developments within the research program on political executives. Although the term ‘political executives’ will be understood by scholars and non-scholars alike, there is considerable room for different notions of the exact position and functions of political executives in different types of political regimes. This introductory chapter also discusses the borderlines between the political executive and other actors within the executive: the bureaucracy and the head of state.

scholarly journals Assessing the Potential of Catch-Only Models to Inform on the State of Global Fisheries and the UN’s SDGs

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6101
Author(s):  
Rishi Sharma ◽  
Henning Winker ◽  
Polina Levontin ◽  
Laurence Kell ◽  
Dan Ovando ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stock Assessment ◽  
Fishing Effort ◽  
The State ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Traditional Assessment ◽  
Stock Status ◽  
Stock Assessments ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Measure Of Performance

Catch-only models (COMs) have been the focus of ongoing research into data-poor stock assessment methods. Two of the most recent models that are especially promising are (i) CMSY+, the latest refined version of CMSY that has progressed from Catch-MSY, and (ii) SRA+ (Stock Reduction Analysis Plus) a recent developments in field. Comparing COMs and evaluating their relative performance is essential for determining the state of regional and global fisheries that may be lacking necessary data that would be required to run traditional assessment models. In this paper we interrogate how performance of COMs can be improved by incorporating additional sources of information. We evaluate the performance of COMs on a dataset of 48 data-rich ICES (International Council for the Exploration of Seas) stock assessments. As one measure of performance, we consider the ability of the model to correctly classify stock status using FAO’s 3-tier classification that is also used for reporting on sustainable development goals to the UN. Both COMs showed notable bias when run with their inbuilt default heuristics, but as the quality of prior information increased, classification rates for the terminal year improved substantially. We conclude that although further COM refinements show some potential, most promising is the ongoing research into developing biomass or fishing effort priors for COMs in order to be able to reliably track stock status for the majority of the world’s fisheries currently lacking stock assessments.

scholarly journals Securitisation gaps: Towards ideational understandings of state weakness

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Kevork Oskanian
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
State Action ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Republic

Abstract This article contributes a securitisation-based, interpretive approach to state weakness. The long-dominant positivist approaches to the phenomenon have been extensively criticised for a wide range of deficiencies. Responding to Lemay-Hébert's suggestion of a ‘Durkheimian’, ideational-interpretive approach as a possible alternative, I base my conceptualisation on Migdal's view of state weakness as emerging from a ‘state-in-society's’ contested ‘strategies of survival’. I argue that several recent developments in Securitisation Theory enable it to capture this contested ‘collective knowledge’ on the state: a move away from state-centrism, the development of a contextualised ‘sociological’ version, linkages made between securitisation and legitimacy, and the acknowledgment of ‘securitisations’ as a contested Bourdieusian field. I introduce the concept of ‘securitisation gaps’ – divergences in the security discourses and practices of state and society – as a concept aimed at capturing this contested role of the state, operationalised along two logics (reactive/substitutive) – depending on whether they emerge from securitisations of the state action or inaction – and three intensities (latent, manifest, and violent), depending on the extent to which they involve challenges to state authority. The approach is briefly illustrated through the changing securitisation gaps in the Republic of Lebanon during the 2019–20 ‘October Uprising’.

scholarly journals Empowering Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems from Topological Data Analysis

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 634
Author(s):  
Tarek Frahi ◽  
Francisco Chinesta ◽  
Antonio Falcó ◽  
Alberto Badias ◽  
Elias Cueto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Topological Data Analysis ◽  
Motion Sensors ◽  
Driver Assistance Systems ◽  
The Road ◽  
Topological Features ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Topological Data

We are interested in evaluating the state of drivers to determine whether they are attentive to the road or not by using motion sensor data collected from car driving experiments. That is, our goal is to design a predictive model that can estimate the state of drivers given the data collected from motion sensors. For that purpose, we leverage recent developments in topological data analysis (TDA) to analyze and transform the data coming from sensor time series and build a machine learning model based on the topological features extracted with the TDA. We provide some experiments showing that our model proves to be accurate in the identification of the state of the user, predicting whether they are relaxed or tense.

scholarly journals Recent Developments in Coatings, Gratings, and Reflective Components

1984 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 607-616
Author(s):  
R. R. Shannon
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The State ◽  
Current Technology ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Incoming Radiation ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Electronic Sensors ◽  
Large Primary ◽  
Telescope System

The requirements on gratings and coatings for astronomical use differ from the general industrial requirements primarily in the scale of the components to be fabricated. Telescopes have large primary mirrors which require large coating plants to handle the components. Dispersive elements are driven by the requirement to be efficient in the presence of large working apertures, and usually optimize to large size in order to efficiently use the incoming radiation. Beyond this, there is a “new” technology of direct electronic sensors that places specific limits upon the image scale that can be used at the output of a telescope system, whether direct imagery or spectrally divided imagery is to be examined. This paper will examine the state of the art in these areas and suggest some actions and decisions that will be required in order to apply current technology to the predicted range of large new telescopes.

Popular Belief in State Intervention for Social Protection in China

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHACK KIE WONG ◽  
NAN SHONG PETER LEE
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Attitude Survey ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Developments

The paper starts with a brief discussion of recent developments of economic restructuring of the State Owned Enterprises in China and their related reforms in social insurance and social assistance. It then reports the findings of an attitude survey of residents in Shanghai in 1996 towards the social and economic consequences of economic reform. It reveals that, despite the fact that most people feel better off with the reforms, there is still a need for the state to play a role in social protection.

scholarly journals The de-institutionalisation of power beyond the state

2021 ◽  
pp. 135406612110536
Author(s):  
Jonathan White
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The State ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Political Structures

The making of modern authority centred on efforts to formalise and de-personalise power, and transnational orders such as the European Union have often been viewed as an extension of that project. As this article argues, recent developments tell a different story. More than a decade of crisis politics has seen institutions subordinated to and reshaped by individuals and the networks they form. Locating these tendencies in a wider historical context, the article argues that greater attention to informality in transnational governance needs to be paired with greater recognition of the normative questions it raises. Just as a separation between rulers and the offices of rule was central to the making of modern legal and political structures, the weakening of that separation creates legitimacy problems for contemporary authorities both national and supranational. Rather than acclaimed as flexible problem-solving, the step back from institutions should be viewed as a challenge to accountable rule.

Putting the ‘Policy’ back into Social Policy

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Newman
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
What Works ◽  
Governance Theory ◽  
Recent Developments

This paper argues that the study of social policy can be enriched by a greater focus on the dynamics of the policy process itself. Such a focus needs to transcend the usual descriptive accounts of institutions and implementation methods. The paper draws on a range of theoretical approaches that illuminate the shaping and delivery of policy, from classic theories of power and the state to analyses of the micro-dynamics of the policy–action relationship. The paper explores the contribution of recent developments in governance theory, and assesses contemporary debates about the ‘modernisation’ of the policy process and the focus on evaluating ‘what works’ in social policy.

Reinventing spiritual care in a secular context: the chaplain as entrepreneur

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Hetty Zock
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
The State ◽  
Care Community ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
Recent Developments

This paper discusses the state of chaplaincy—professional spiritual care—in the secularized context of the Netherlands. The present religious and cultural climate is sketched, as well as the organization of chaplaincy and the daily practices of chaplains. Two important recent developments are highlighted: the rise of non-denominational spiritual care and spiritual caregivers getting involved in extramural care (community care). Finally, the Guideline Spiritual Care—an interdisciplinary model for providing spiritual care—is presented. It is argued that chaplaincy in the Netherlands has gone through a process of transformation, in which the relation between the professional and the religious identity of the chaplain had to be redefined. Spiritual care may still be denominationally organized in the Netherlands, but the spiritual caregivers share a common professional identity as professionals who focus on meaning, belief systems, and ethics.

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