On negative aspects of environmental and other non-profit organizations’ activities under conditions of global challenges and threats

Subject. This article considers the activities of international environmental and other non-profit organizations, in the context of continuing economic integration of countries. Their humanitarian reputation, potential, and pervasiveness are increasingly being used by the West in unfair competition in the markets for natural resource extraction and territory development. Objectives. The aim is to identify and assess possible threats to the economic security of the State, associated with the activities of environmental and other non-profit organizations in its territory. Methods. The study employs the dialectical method, systems approach, and tabular interpretation of empirical and factual information. In view of little knowledge of the problem in economic science, for our empirical reasoning and hypotheses, we perform the analysis of resonant examples of the influence of international organizations on economic processes in the State. Results. We examined negative aspects of activities of environmental organizations, potentially posing a threat to the economic security of the State. We analyzed examples that confirm the illegal actions of such movements, predicted their possible consequences, assessed resonant situations associated with the functioning of Greenpeace, WWF, and attempts to establish external control over political, social, and economic projects of the State. Conclusions. International non-profit organizations have a direct impact on government processes in the Russian Federation. It is important to establish and develop national environmental structures, implement awareness-raising activities, and support domestic science.

Advanced Introduction to Legal Reasoning

This insightful and highly readable Advanced Introduction provides a succinct, yet comprehensive, overview of legal reasoning, covering both reasoning from canonical texts and legal decision-making in the absence of rules. Overall, it argues that there are only two methods by which judges decide legal disputes: deductive reasoning from rules and unconstrained moral, practical, and empirical reasoning.

Can a Planet in Peril Contain Geopolitical Rivalries?

This essay uses the tools of Western empirical reasoning to analyze the origins and driving forces of the ongoing geopolitical contest between China and the United States. The essay argues that the origins of the geopolitical contest lie in China’s rapid growth from the Deng era, the relative socioeconomic decline of the United States, and the failure of the United States to work out a rational, comprehensive strategy for managing China’s rise. Finally, in the fallout of the global COVID-19 pandemic, where the relations between the two countries have been further strained, the essay argues that the two countries can manage their geopolitical rivalry if they concentrate instead on five “noncontradictions” that also characterize their relationship: that between the fundamental national interests of both countries; in tackling climate change; in the ideological sphere; in the American and Chinese civilizations; and in their worldview.

Nalar ‘Irfānī: Tradisi Pembentukan dan Karakteristiknya

It must be acknowledged that the Islamic world until these days has left far behind from the West in terms of achievement in science and technology as a result of a burhānī-based system of knowledge that is rational-empirical. Therefore, Muslims must take back a burhānī tradition that was once victorious in the golden age of Islam in the past. But the West that has been advanced with its civilization “stabbed” and “killed” the civilization they had built themselves. This is due to the fact that the standard of truth is based on the arrogance and supremacy of the rational-empirical reasoning as such, while bayānī (textual) and ‘irfānī (spiritual) reasonings are alienated or marginalized, although it is clear that human life cannot be be measured only on the criteria of empirical rationalism, but it needs textual and spiritual approaches.

Pedagogical Interaction between Teachers and Students: Mythologized vs Real World

The article reveals the complexity of the pedagogical interaction between a teacher and a student and its multi-sensibility. The explanation of pedagogical interaction requires deep scientific-philosophical and practical-constructivist perception of reality. It has been indicated that pedagogical interaction can be based on two cultures: one of them explains reality on the basis of the understanding that occurred in the past, another one explains it with the principles characteristic to the culture of a contemporary teacher. The interaction between pedagogical myths and mythologemes has been revealed. It has been described how these constructs function in pedagogical reality. Mythologized thinking has been analysed in parallel with scientific thinking. It has been explained how a scientific idea in pedagogical practice turns into a myth because not always the diversity of the contexts of culture is taken into account and there is a lack of understanding to which educational culture a scientific idea is appealing. The essence of scientific and empirical reasoning has been defined, their similarities, differences, features of expression in the diversity of the paradigms of modern education have been revealed. It has been indicated that when a scientific statement in pedagogical reality is accepted without a certain paradigmatic context that actualizes it, in this case a scientific idea loses its efficiency and does not influence the context of pedagogical interaction.