METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO PREPARATION, WRITING AND REPRESENTATION OF ARTICLE IN THE SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL: TECHNOLOGIES, TYPICAL MISTAKES, CRITERIA OF SELF-EVALUATION OF QUALITY

The article discusses methodological approaches to the preparation, writing and submission of scientific articles to the journal. Particular attention is paid to the generalization of typical mistakes of young scientists in writing articles, as well as the criteria for self-assessment of the quality of the article prepared for submission to the scientific journal. The materials of the article are based on the author's many years of experience in the management of the dissertation Council, work in the expert Council of the WAC, editorial boards of scientific economic journals, his research, published monographs, textbooks and scientific articles, management of the preparation of candidate and doctoral theses, as well as on the experience and recommendations of well-known scientists.

Practices of community representatives in exploiting information channels for citizen democratic engagement

The purpose of the research was to investigate the practices of elected, yet unpaid, community councillors in Scotland as they exploit information channels for democratic engagement with citizens. Its focus is both novel and significant in that it considers the information literacy of a group that has not been studied before: volunteer representatives active in hyperlocal government. The primary means of data collection was semi-structured interviews of one hour in length with 19 community councillors. Research design and data analysis were informed by the SCONUL 7-Pillar Model of Information Literacy, and by Activity Theory. The main finding of the analysis is that community councillors engage with a range of information sources and tools in their work, the most important of which derives from local authorities. Three recommendations emerge from the analysis. These relate to: (1) information literacy training; (2) valuing information skills; and (3) the role of the public library service in supporting community council work.

DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDONESIAN FOREIGN POLICY

The article explores the practical aspects of Indonesia’s foreign policy agenda on the issues of democracy and human rights in multilateral dimension. It was clarified that state policy in this area is being implemented in the context of regional cooperation in Southeast Asia within ASEAN framework, as well as the Bali Democratic Forum and the Institute for Peace and Democracy created by Indonesia. At the international level, Indonesia’s position was expressed through the participation of the country in the UN Security Council work as a non-permanent member. It is emphasized that the ASEAN principles of regional cooperation impede Indonesia’s leadership efforts in the area of democratic transformation and complicate multilateral cooperation between the countries of Southeast Asia, and therefore Indonesia attracts other actors to this cooperation. It was found that, given Indonesia’s own problems in this area, the increased attention to democracy and human rights is indicative of their instrumental nature in Indonesia’s foreign policy, in particular its importance for strengthening Indonesian prestige abroad. At the same time, it is noted that such an agenda can stimulate Indonesia to implement more effective policy at the national level.

How the Responsibility to Protect Influences the Security Council’s Powers, Limits and Dynamic

In 2005, the Responsibility to Protect was adopted in the World Summit Outcome with the aim to enable an efficient response to humanitarian crises by making the Security Council “work better”. The swift reaction to the events in Libya sparked the hope that the new concept enabled the Security Council to function this smoothly in the future. The debates within the Council in relation to the NATO intervention demonstrate that the Responsibility to Protect was able to contribute to this success in certain, limited ways. At the same time, these debates were herald to the problems experienced in relation to the events in Syria. Through an analyses of the debates concerning Libya within the Council, debates in other UN bodies related to the new concept, State practice, and relevant documents, this article will outline the potential of the Responsibility to Protect to make the Council “work better”, as well as its limitations.