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Why is it that despite the end of the Cold War and the almost constant controversies surrounding the alliance's role in the world, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is still a prominent and vital player in international security? Joe Burton provides an in-depth analysis of NATO's changing role in the post–Cold War era and its ability to survive, adapt, and meet the needs of its members in an increasingly turbulent, globalized security environment. He offers a historically and theoretically informed account of NATO that isolates the core dynamics that have held the alliance together in troubled times. In particular, he examines a series of processes and events—from the 1990 Gulf War to the rise of the Islamic State-that help explain NATO's continuing relevance.

This article examines the difficulties faced by three Eastern European countries in commemorating the Holocaust in the post-Communist era. Since 1989, many of these countries have sought to fashion new national identities by looking to their pre-Communist past. In the case of Slovakia and Hungary, however, their pre-Communist predecessors were Nazi allies, and while Poland never collaborated with Nazi Germany, the Home Army had a difficult and complicated relationship with Jews and Jewish underground organizations. I identify three basic approaches taken by these countries' memorials regarding the fate of their Jewish communities during the war: aphasia (an unwillingness to speak about the Holocaust), "deflective negationism" (shifting blame to others), and finally, an open examination of the Holocaust.

Abstract. Declining levels of turnout recently observed in some East European elections have generated concerns about the performance of the newly emerging democracies. Theories developed to explain turnout in industrialized democracies emphasize the importance of two major groups of factors: institutional and socioeconomic. This article argues that a comprehensive model of voter participation in post‐Communist settings should also include a dynamic component to account for temporal changes generated by the transitional process. I test a model of voter turnout that incorporates explanations of temporal (sequence of elections) and spatial differences (electoral system type, party system characteristics and economic development). Multivariate regression is used to estimate the model, with data from fifteen East European countries over four consecutive elections.

Introduction: The meaning of Murambi -- Part I. Creating What You Are Afraid of the Rwandan Patriotic Front's Transitional Justice Program -- Rewriting history in post-genocide Rwanda -- Symbolic struggles -- Justice as memory -- From violent repression to political domination : transitional justice, political reform and development -- Part II. Popular Narratives -- Political reform in three Rwandan communities -- Popular narratives of memory and history -- Politics by other means : popular opinion about "transitional justice" -- Conclusion: "We pretend to live together" : assessing the impact of transitional justice mechanisms in Rwanda

Western analysts regularly dismiss Pancasila (the state ideology of Indonesia) as a "self-serving" ideology with which the Indonesian regime justifies the status quo. However, the author takes seriously the New Order regime's determination to design its own policy. He tries to conceptualize this policy in terms that are consistent with some of the ideological concepts used by Indonesians in their self-understanding and analysis and examines the prospects of democratization in post-Soeharto Indonesia. Absence of democracy in Asia is briefly discussed. (DÜI-Sen)

We study implementation in settings where agents take strategic actions that influence preferences over mechanism outcomes and yet are hidden from the mechanism designer. We show that such settings can arise in entry auctions for markets, and that the Vickery-Clarke-Groves mechanism is not necessarily truthful. In this paper we first formalize so-called ex post hidden actions, we then characterize social choice functions that can be implemented in a way that is robust with respect to ex post hidden actions, and finally we propose a mechanism to do so. The model allows agents to have multi-dimensional types and to have quasi-linear utilities in money. We showcase these results by identifying social choice functions that can and cannot be implemented in entry auctions for Cournot competition models.

On Sunday 26 December 2004, a tsunami of up to 30 metres high hit the northern tip of Sumatera in Indonesia, causing immediate destruction and the deaths of at least 130,000 in Indonesia alone. The scale of the devastation and ensuing human suffering prompted the biggest response endeavour to any natural disaster in history. Post-Disaster Reconstruction will be the first major book that analyses the different perspectives and experiences of the enormous post-tsunami reconstruction effort. It looks specifically at the reconstruction efforts in Aceh, one of the regions most heavily-hit by the tsu.

AbstractWithin a context of substantial adoption policy reform in England, this paper explores post adoption support. Findings from a small‐scale survey of 22 local authorities in England and interviews with 11 adoption practitioners (from 11 of the authorities that completed the survey) are presented and related national policy discussed. The paper argues that support should continue postmatching a child with their adoptive parent(s) and that this should be the norm rather than the exception. It also emphasizes the need to improve the availability of and access to post adoption support in a timely manner.

A l'intersection des champs du travail, de l'éducation et de la mobilité sociale et professionnelle, la formation post-scolaire (ou formation continue) se présente comme diverse dans ses objets de recherche comme dans ses pratiques et ses institutions. Ce chapitre vise à donner un aperçu des approches les plus représentatives de la sociologie de la formation post-scolaire. Quatre dimensions structurent le propos : l'analyse des politiques et des dispositifs précède celle des pratiques et rapports sociaux de formation, puis débouche sur celle des publics de la formation et des inégalités qui les traversent. La question des comparaisons internationales est évoquée en conclusion.

A l'intersection des champs du travail, de l'éducation et de la mobilité sociale et professionnelle, la formation post-scolaire (ou formation continue) se présente comme diverse dans ses objets de recherche comme dans ses pratiques et ses institutions. Ce chapitre vise à donner un aperçu des approches les plus représentatives de la sociologie de la formation post-scolaire. Quatre dimensions structurent le propos : l'analyse des politiques et des dispositifs précède celle des pratiques et rapports sociaux de formation, puis débouche sur celle des publics de la formation et des inégalités qui les traversent. La question des comparaisons internationales est évoquée en conclusion.

A l'intersection des champs du travail, de l'éducation et de la mobilité sociale et professionnelle, la formation post-scolaire (ou formation continue) se présente comme diverse dans ses objets de recherche comme dans ses pratiques et ses institutions. Ce chapitre vise à donner un aperçu des approches les plus représentatives de la sociologie de la formation post-scolaire. Quatre dimensions structurent le propos : l'analyse des politiques et des dispositifs précède celle des pratiques et rapports sociaux de formation, puis débouche sur celle des publics de la formation et des inégalités qui les traversent. La question des comparaisons internationales est évoquée en conclusion.

In this study of 192 cases of post partum psychosis, the mean age of cases was 24.2 years. A past history of post partum psychosis was present in 16 cases (8.3%). As per the RDC categories, a majority of patients had unspecified functional psychosis and developed psychosis after the birth of first child. There was a positive correlation between the birth of female child and psychosis. The majority of cases developed psychosis within first 2 weeks after delivery. There were several other statistically significant differences when these cases were compared with non-puerperal, disease-matched controls.

Albania experienced the harshest totalitarian regime in Europe for almost 45 years. The Communist regime in Albania was characterized by complete isolation from the rest of the world. The legacy of the past, which resulted in extreme poverty and the lack of a democratic culture, is the main factor inhibiting Albania's democratisation. The central focus of this article is to evaluate the role of the Socialist Party during the transition from Communism to a democratic system. Albanian democracy faces a number of persistent challenges, thus making Albania's post-Communist transition highly uncertain.