This book, by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, explores the complex nature of Russian nationalism. It examines nationalism as a multilayered and multifaceted repertoire displayed by a myriad of actors. It considers nationalism as various concepts and ideas emphasizing Russia’s distinctive national character, based on the country’s geography, history, Orthodoxy, and Soviet tec…
ABSTRACT This book explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa. Despite many positive developments in relation to sexual and reproductive health in recent years, many Africans still encounter challenges, for instance in poor maternity services, living with HIV, and discrimination on the basis …
This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia/Inner Asia. Changes in drylands are happening in an overwhelming manner. Climate change, growing political instability, and increasing enclosures of large expanses of often co…
Over 98% of sprayed insecticides and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other than their target species, including non-target species, air, water and soil. The extensive reliance on insecticide use reduces biodiversity, contributes to pollinator decline, destroys habitat, and threatens endangered species. This book offers a more effective application of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) a…
In 1922, Harald Bohr and Johannes Mollerup established a remarkable characterization of the Euler gamma function using its log-convexity property. A decade later, Emil Artin investigated this result and used it to derive the basic properties of the gamma function using elementary methods of the calculus. Bohr-Mollerup's theorem was then adopted by Nicolas Bourbaki as the starting point for his …
This Open Access book explores the meaning and roles that strategy and leadership play in our lives. Based on decades of experience, the author contemplates whether we believe strategic leadership exists because it actually exists, or whether it exists because we believe it does? Both answers are true. The author argues that the duality of the essence of strategic leadership is clear. It ma…
This open access book provides the first explicit case study for an application of the method of reflective equilibrium (RE), using it to develop and defend a precautionary principle. It thereby makes an important and original contribution to questions of philosophical method and methodology. The book shows step-by-step how RE is applied, and develops a methodological framework which will be us…
Buku ini menjelaskan dan membahas bagaimana hak anak atas kebebasan berekspresi ditegakkan melalui praktik dan pengambilan keputusan dalam Layanan Perlindungan Anak (CPS). Dengan menggunakan hak berekspresi sebagaimana ditetapkan dalam Pasal 12.2 Konvensi Hak Anak Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa (CRC) sebagai titik tolak, buku ini menjelaskan seperti apa seharusnya praktik CPS dan bagaimana praktik …
Buku ini mengeksplorasi wacana tentang pencegahan konflik dan pembangunan perdamaian dengan mempertemukan para peneliti dari Tiongkok dan Swiss melalui serangkaian dialog kebijakan. Piagam Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa, yang diadopsi segera setelah Perang Dunia II, dengan jelas menyatakan tentang kebutuhan mendasar bagi komunitas internasional untuk bertindak dalam kemitraan guna mencegah konflik …
ABSTRACT This book focusses on Russia’s cultural statecraft in dealing with a number of institutional cultural domains such as education, museums and monuments, high arts and sport. It analyses to what extent Russia’s cultural activities abroad have been used for foreign policy purposes, and perceived as having a political dimension. Building on the concept of cultural statecraft, the a…