Academic Articles & Research Papers

Public Administration

Public administration seeks to develop a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure and functioning of government, in all its complexity, and its interaction with society and its citizens. The book provides an account of the disc...

The spirit of public administration

Introduction: Understanding Public Administration Part One: Governance, Politics, and the Public 1. Finding the Public in Public Administration 2. The Political Context of Public Administration 3. Public Administration as Governance Part Tw...

Identity and Secession: The Case of the Secession of Slovenia and Croatia from Yugoslavia

The secessions of Slovenia and Croatia – two interrelated and interdependent processes – put an end to the existence of the socialist federal Yugoslavia. The article examines the mutual influence of the identity transformations of the Slove...

GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES: HOW WANEP PLAYS ITS ROLE IN WEST AFRICA IN 2019

Many reports in the mass media regarding the humanitarian crisis caused by economic and political instability in West Africa continued to become headlines that were widely discussed throughout 2019. The saying "there will be no smoke if the...

La Revista MERCOSUR de Políticas Sociales frente al desafío de construcción de la dimensión social regional

The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations

This book is about the global resurgence of culture and religion in international relations, and how these social changes are transforming our understanding of International Relation theory, and the k...

Self and Other in International Relations

The study of identity offers a possibility to theorize on the human collectives of world politics, to give them an ontological status, and to discuss how they are constituted and maintain themselves. The first part discusses social theorizi...

International Relations of Social Change

International relations and the study of social change world society and world-systemic dynamics of change cross-border transmission of social change international activity and social change international order and social change facets of w...

International Relations

Abstract “International relations” refers to relations that cross national boundaries, especially political relations among states. At the root of international relations is international politics, though social, cultural, economic, and geo...

Contending Theories Of International Relations: A Comprehensive Survey-

(Most chapters end with Conclusion and each chapter ends with Notes.) Preface. 1. Theoretical Approaches to International Relations. Introduction. Early Approaches to International-Relations Theory. Modern Approaches to International-Relati...

The Social Architect: A New Framework for Effective Activism and Social Leadership

Social theories and humanitarian movements, despite their good intentions, have had limited effectiveness. This paper introduces Socio-Systemic science as a conceptual and implementation framework designed for effective high impact systemic...

Avaliação da qualidade de vida e toxicidades em pacientes com câncer colorretal tratados com quimioterapia adjuvante baseada em fluoropirimidinas Evaluation of the toxicity and quality of life in patients with colorectal cancer treated with chemotherapy

RACIONAL: O câncer colorretal é a quarta causa de câncer no Brasil e o 5-fluourouracil uma das principais drogas usadas no tratamento adjuvante e paliativo dessa doença. A toxicidade da quimioterapia e as alterações de qualidade de vida, ca...

Les relations entre l’Europe du Nord et la Russie post-soviétique à travers le prisme de la conservation de la nature

Taking a critical geopolitical approach, this article shows how Europe has been mobilized as a geographical object for thinking about and putting into practice transnational environmental conservation between Finland, Norway and Russia sinc...

The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations

How can established powers manage the peaceful rise of new great powers? With The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations , the author offers a new answer to this perennial question in international relations, arguing that power...

Russia in contemporary Central Asia

The dissolution of the USSR and creation of the New Independent States (NIS) was accompanied by a rapid deterioration in relationships between the component republics. With the disputable exception of the Baltic States, the close dependence...

Foreword

The focus of the international scientific conference Society. Health. Welfare is on the human being in diverse relations with the contemporary world. The social environment, personal and public health and opportunities of enhancing one's pe...

Te Tapatoru: a model of whanaungatanga to support rangatahi wellbeing

ABSTRACTWhanaungatanga (nurturing of relationships) is at the heart of wellbeing for rangatahi (Māori youth), yet little research has considered how rangatahi understand and experience whanaungatanga. Furthermore, policy makers, organisatio...

Le Facebook des étudiants marocains. Territoire relationnel et territoire des possibles

This article questions the place of web practices in social networks of Moroccan students, the structuring and organization of these networks and how they fit into the space. The objective is to move the issue of international student mobil...

Pragmatism and International Relations

Gunther Hellmann Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University When Stanley Hoffmann characterized International Relations (IR) as an “American Social Science,” the America he referred to mainly stood for two things: a world power in search of a broade...

Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations

This essay uses Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire, one of the most widely read accounts of international politics in recent years, as a vehicle to rethink International Relations' engagement with the notion of empire. We begin with t...