The nadir of vital interests: Hannah Arendt and the Franco-German Armistice 1940

Illusions of common interest and joint purpose falter when states choose to break up, as with the recent changes to the European Union, or according to more dangerous precipitants such as those which shaped the Franco-German Armistice 1940, 80 years ago as a detail of war. The latter bares the sudden end of the Franco-British alliance and holds an invitation from history to re-examine the troubling political, social and legal layers of the concept of the vital interests of states. That category opened to radically different interpretations for political and legal thinkers who witnessed the fall of France yet did not respond directly or immediately. Hannah Arendt’s theory of politics, conceived in the aftermath of war as a corrective to the internal fragmentation of the European nation-state, elucidates the instability of the concept of vital interests which underpinned international legal and political thought in the 1930s and 1940s and frustrates the co-operative relations between states. The problem pairs back, she says, to whether interests signify an associative technique or sword. Her invitation for legal thought is to challenge the expectation of rupture implicit in the juridical category by outlining an alternative that recovers the pacifistic function of law and implicates the international lawyer.

Development Strategy of Mangrove Ecotourism Centre at Pantai Indah Kapuk as an Attraction at DKI Jakarta

Mangrove Ecotourism Centre Pantai Indah Kapuk is a tourism destination in Jakarta that managed by Ministry of Forestry. Mangrove ecosystem at Mangrove Ecotourism Centre Pantai Indah Kapuk has natural resources for ecotourism. From that potential, can defined the accurate strategy for Mangrove ecosystem at Mangrove Ecotourism Centre Pantai Indah Kapuk developing. The result showed that the determined alternative strategy aim to reach the short term and long term objective at Mangrove Ecotourism Centre Pantai Indah Kapuk, that is develop all potential which covering destination, promotion and human resources owned as an alternative tourism by focusing on sustainable tourism in the capital city of Indonesia, DKI Jakarta. Creates opportunities for coaching people around the destination to do development and management of mangrove to increase public income. Create synergy among developer, government,community, and the third parties in the development of destination, promotion and human resources to reach a joint purpose.

CELLS OF IMMUNE SYSTEM OF MOTHER АND TROPHOBLAST CELLS: CONSTRUCTIVE COOPERATION FOR THE SAKE OF ACHIEVEMENT OF THE JOINT PURPOSE

In the present review modern data about change of morfo-functional properties of a trophoblast during pregnancy, and also about influence of the cytokines produced by cells of a microenvironment, including leucocytes of mother, on a functional state of trophoblast is cited. Features of interaction between trophoblast and immune cells of mother are described within physiological pregnancy and within pregnancy complicated by preeclampsia.

‘The Taste Buddies’: participation and empowerment in a residential home for older people

ABSTRACTThe active participation and autonomy of older people living in residential homes is considered to be problematic. However, in our action research project conducted in a Dutch residential care organisation we found ways to enhance residents' direct participation. This form of participation is grounded in deliberative and participatory approaches to democracy. In this article we describe how a group of seven residents (all female), calling themselves ‘The Taste Buddies’, developed a joint vision on how meals could be improved. The facilitation of this process enhanced this group's empowerment, building interpersonal trust, social identity and joint purpose. We will take the reader through this process and discuss the developments of these older women against the background of relational empowerment. We argue that resident participation as partnership with employees and managers starts with relational empowerment among residents themselves (enclave deliberation). This process is non-linear and requires time and constructive facilitation.