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Sylvia Pankhurst was a pioneering figure of socialist feminism who advocated for universal suffrage and against war. Less well-known is her involvement in the movement for an international auxiliary language. In 1927, Pankhurst published a booklet, Delphos. The Future of International Language, where she described the growing need for a world auxiliary language and her support for Interlingua (Latino sine flexione). A biographically informed study of Delphos shows the modernist, cosmopolitan and democratic vocation of the international auxiliary language movement in the early 20th century. Pankhurst's views on the motivation and principles of an interlanguage-to-come were widely shared by the international auxiliary language community. We present her support for Interlingua as an example of the scientific humanism that dominated the beginnings of interlinguistics, and relate her language activism to her socialist and pacifist stands. ; Sylvia Pankhurst była pionierską postacią socjalistycznego feminizmu, który opowiadał się za powszechnym prawem wyborczym i przeciw wojnie. Mniej znane jest jej zaangażowanie w ruch na rzecz międzynarodowego języka pomocniczego. W 1927 roku Pankhurst opublikowała broszurę Delphos. Przyszłość języka międzynarodowego, w którym opisała rosnące zapotrzebowanie na światowy język pomocniczy i jej wsparcie dla języka Interlingua (Latino sine flexione). Osadzone w kontekście biograficznym studium Delphos pokazuje modernistyczne, kosmopolityczne i demokratyczne powołanie ruchu na rzecz międzynarodowego języka pomocniczego na początku XX wieku. Poglądy Pankhurst na temat motywacji i zasad przyszłego interjęzyka były szeroko rozpowszechnione przez międzynarodową społeczność na rzecz języka pomocniczego. Artykuł prezentuje jej wsparcie dla języka Interlingua jako przykład humanizmu naukowego, który zdominował początki interlingwistyki oraz odnosi jej aktywizm językowy do jej socjalistycznych i pacyfistycznych poglądów.

Using data from recent national disability surveys in Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States, an international team of researchers coded indicators of several types of disability using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health. This article discusses the Disability Tabulations (DISTAB) project and presents and evaluates the estimates of the prevalence of visual impairments.

Education-migration, or the multi-step recruitment and retention of international students as immigrants, is an increasingly important component of both higher education and so-called highly-skilled migration. This is particularly true in Canada, a country portrayed as a model for highly-skilled migration and supportive of international student mobility. However, education-migration remains under-analyzed from a social justice perspective. Using a mobility justice framework, this paper considers COVID-19's impact on Canada's education-migration system at four scales: individuals, education institutions, state immigration regimes, and planetary geoecologies. It identifies ethical tensions inherent to Canada's education-migration from a systems-level and suggests that a multi-scalar approach to social justice can both usefully complexify discussions and introduce unsettling paradoxes. It also stresses that the COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to reimagine rather than return.

In this article, I offer a reading of the pirate in Carl Schmitt inspired by Reinhart Koselleck's study on asymmetric counterconcepts. I argue that the pirate in Schmitt marks a negative asymmetric counterconceptual position associated with a space of exception in relation to which one may also identify the outlaw enemy of humanity. In displacing the political and mapping the pirate's position within Schmitt's conceptual order, the significance of this article's main contribution is to draw attention to a specific asymmetric counterconceptual structuring that marks the limits of 'our' international political world with the dehumanized negativity of its constitutive outsider. Rereading Koselleck's methodological qualification on the structural iterability of asymmetric counterconcepts, the article suggests that the spectre of the pirate lives on, haunting the outer limits of the international and legitimizing abject forms of violence.

The study of the European Union (EU) has been transformed during the past decade, & three distinct theoretical approaches have emerged. The first approach, which seeks to explain the process of European integration, has largely abandoned the long-standing neofunctionalist-intergovernmentalist debate in favor of a rationalist-constructivist debate reflecting broader developments in international relations theory. A second approach, however, has rejected the application of international relations theory in favor of comparative politics approaches which analyze the EU using off-the-shelf models of legislative, executive, & judicial politics in domestic politics. A third & final approach sees the EU as an emerging system of multi-level governance in which national governments are losing influence in favor of supranational & subnational actors, raising important normative questions about the future of democracy within the EU. 171 References. Adapted from the source document.

Most all nations recognize the need to protect intellectual property in some form due to its potential value. In 1994, the signatory nations of the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade signed the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), an ambitious international convention that set forth an international baseline for patent, copyright, and trademark protection. In addition to providing procedures for the settlement of property disputes, one practical effect of TRIPs has been the harmonization of the world's patent laws. In 1994, the United States passed the Uruguay Round Agreement Act, legislation that implemented several changes to domestic patent law required by TRIPs. Although opinions, especially those of developing nations, debate the fairness of TRIPs, the Agreement represents an effective balance among competing interests and a m~or step towards world patent law harmonization.

The author served as the political affairs officer of the United Nations International Commission of Inquiry (ICOI) during its most recent tour (May through November 1998). (The political affairs officer is not responsible for the investigation's findings, which were the responsibility of the commission's chairman and members.) The author argues that to understand the work and findings of the commission, one must first place it within the broader context of the UN Security Council's failure to respond appropriately to the genocide in Rwanda. He concludes that despite appearances to the contrary, there was little enthusiasm to see ICOI succeed in fulfilling its mandate. The commission is another example of the unwillingness of the United Nations and the international community to take meaningful action toward Rwanda specifically and the Great Lakes region generally.

The end of the Cold War has given rise to a wide-ranging debate about the future of international relations in the Asia-Pacific. This debate has been difficult to assess in part because of the elusive quality of the outcomes being explored, such as whether the region is characterized by "stability" or "rivalry." What exactly do we want to explain?

Schumacher stellt die Aktivitäten dar, die in aller Welt und v.a. von der KPD entfaltet wurden, als Hitlers Truppen im März 1938 in Österreich einmarschierten. Neben Demonstrationen in vielen Hauptstädten kamen Proteste von sozialdemokratischen und kommunistischen Parteien, der SAI, und dem Internationalen Gewerkschaftsbund; die UdSSR und Mexiko forderten im Völkerbund Schritte gegen das faschistische Deutschland, wozu man sich nicht entschließen konnte. Bis in die Gegenwart hinein habe sich schließlich das solidarische Engagement der illegalen KPD ausgewirkt, nämlich in Form von "gutnachbarlichen und fruchtbaren Beziehungen" zwischen der "Deutschen Demokratischen Republik und der Republik Österreich". (WU)

What makes some international firms and managers successful and why do others fail? What can firms and managers do to adjust to the specific local business environment? Can we observe patterns that could guide the adjustment strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and managers charged with succeeding in a global context? To answer these questions, the editors start with the belief that location and actors matter in addition to the 'home and abroad' context in which the MNEs and managers operate. As yet another phase of development dawns ₆ post financial crisis ₆ in which globalization is a given and still in progress, the urgency increases to learn how MNEs, managers and governments can increase efficiency, minimize failure and maximize success. This volume proposes cultural hybridization of organizations and managers as well as ascertaining the resources necessary for the effective interface of national, regional, and international networks.