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International audience ; The operative discourse in the military: the operational messaging. The radio message is a particular and codified dialogical situation, using terms and rules pre-established procedures, generating stable and repetitive statements, which limits the possibilities of interpreting the message. The objective is to analyze discursive and language constructions which are specific to a radio message. And this lead to the question of how it places the radio message into a specific discourse genre: the operative discourse.

This occasional paper presents recommendations for improving the effectiveness of operation and maintenance of agency-managed irrigation systems and for providing effective assistance to farmer-managed systems in Nepal. This paper sets out a series of recommendations with supporting arguments. These recommendations were discussed at an Irrigation Sector Coordination Meeting held in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 23 February 1988. The meeting was convened by the Ministry of Water Resources and was attended by representatives of a number of government departments and international donor agencies.

"Die Ächtung und Bekämpfung der Folter ist ein zentrales Anliegen der deutschen auswärtigen Menschenrechtspolitik. Die innerstaatliche Umsetzung der Präventionsverpflichtungen aus dem Zusatzprotokoll zur UN-Anti-Folterkonvention (OPCAT) hingegen wird den internationalen Standards nicht gerecht. Das hat jüngst auch der Bericht des UN-Unterausschuss zur Verhütung von Folter und anderer grausamer, unmenschlicher oder erniedrigender Behandlung oder Strafe (SPT) über seinen Besuch in Deutschland 2013 deutlich gemacht. Der deutsche Nationale Präventionsmechanismus, die Nationale Stelle zur Verhütung der Folter, besitzt einen umfassenden Auftrag, dessen Erfüllung ihr aber durch ihre Ausgestaltung und Ausstattung unmöglich gemacht wird. Der Beitrag führt in den Stand der innenpolitischen Prozesse ein und verdeutlicht den Umfang des völkerrechtlichen Folter- und Misshandlungsverbotes mit Bezug auf die Situation in Deutschland. Er stellt den Auftrag Nationaler Präventionsmechanismen aus dem Zusatzprotokoll und die erheblichen Fortentwicklungsbedarfe der Nationalen Stelle zur Verhütung der Folter dar." (Autorenreferat)

The Croatian government is undertaking a five-year plan to move people with intellectual and physical disabilities from confinement in two long-stay institutions, to supported housing within their communities.This paper examines a 17-year investment by the Mental Health Initiative of the Open Society Public Health Program to make these reforms possible. It reviews the development of civil society engagement, past organizational failures, changes in international law and political pressure, the roots of government partnership, and future challenges and opportunities.

As China turns increasingly to the cultivation of soft power in the course of developing its foreign policy, the use of political rhetoric and its explicit and implicit audiences become more and more important, both on a bilateral level and within the international arena at large. Using the case of China's relations with African countries, this article examines key themes within China's diplomatic narrative regarding its role on the African continent and contrasts with Western and African responses.

This article considers the links between international child abduction and relocation. It draws on research evidence and anecdotal evidence to explore the conventional wisdom that a restrictive relocation jurisdiction will result in increased abductions by the parent wishing to relocate, usually the mother, while a liberal relocation jurisdiction will result in increased abductions by the prospective left-behind parent, usually the father. The article concludes by considering whether specialist mediation can help to prevent what are truly relocation disputes from becoming abductions.

Forme classique de l'action militaire depuis l'antiquité, l'engagement en coalition pose des problèmes stratégiques particuliers concernant l'organisation du commandement, la répartition de la charge de l'effort et la conduite générale des opérations interalliés. Cet article se propose d'appliquer ces questions génériques à la question spécifique de la guerre aérienne en coalition telle qu'elle émerge après le premier conflit mondial. La fulgurance de l'aviation la prédispose en effet aux actions coercitives internationales telles que la guerre du Golfe (1991) ou du Kosovo (1999).

L'entrée dans l'Union européenne de dix pays d'Europe centrale et orientale, en 2004 et 2007, a été accompagnée du départ de centaines de milliers de jeunes vers les pays de l'ouest et du sud de l'Europe. Dans un contexte économique difficile, la mobilité apparaît comme une nouvelle option possible pour des jeunes en quête d'intégration professionnelle. Il s'agit alors de comprendre quelle est l'articulation entre mobilité internationale et passage à l'âge adulte dans le parcours des jeunes migrants intra-européens.

Last spring the rights of same-sex couples gained recognition in a number of places throughout the world. In the United States, three states—Delaware, Minnesota, and Rhode Island—legalized same-sex marriage, while supreme courts in two heavyweights on the international scene, Brazil and Germany, struck down statutes discriminating against homosexuals in the name of equality under the law. All these places have quite different social structures and legal systems, yet gay marriage did not stir much controversy in any of them.

AbstractThis article compares five leading Chinese universities with 16 other research-intensive institutions in Asia, Europe and the United States. All the universities demonstrate an increasing commitment to research, although the fastest growth between 2003 and 2007 occurred in Asian institutions. Beijing and Qinghua universities compare favourably in terms of funding, but their research output is not as highly regarded. Despite concerns about academic freedom, the international standing of at least some Chinese universities is likely to rise in the future.

This paper examines the social construction of marriage migration in Vietnamese online media. We present a content analysis of 643 items published online between 2000 and 2010 on international marriages between Vietnamese women and foreign Asian men. Our analysis reveals that online media content speaks to four important shifts discussed in Vietnamese studies: (1) shifts in notions of gender, sexuality, and marriage; (2) emerging discourses around class-making; (3) emerging discourse on human trafficking; and (4) shifting roles of the media.

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In The Law of Peoples (1999), John Rawls develops the concept of realistic utopia within the framework of a philosophy of international relations. In order to illustrate his definition of "decent peoples" he imagines an "idealized Islamic people named Kazanistan." What are the context and status of the imaginary construct of a society of peoples? How are the people of Kazanistan described? In what sense, and to what extent, is this "idealized Islamic people" imagined by Rawls really a utopia?

APSA is pleased to include here the names of individuals who have completed their doctoral dissertations at political science departments in the United States in 2012. The list is based on data collected in the APSA member database and includes information reported by both individuals and departments. Dissertations are listed by fields of interest as labeled by APSA, American politics, comparative politics, international relations, methodology, public administration, political philosophy and theory, public lawand courts, and public policy. (See also, table 1.)

La révolution arabe est un mouvement historique, aboutissement contemporain de la nahda , la renaissance arabe. La Syrie est au cœur de ce bouleversement, et la révolution qui s'y déroule doit être comprise au regard de l'histoire, comme de la structure de l'État syrien, qui parvient encore à se maintenir au niveau international, bien qu'il ne soit plus en réalité qu'une fiction. C'est au peuple syrien qu'il faut s'intéresser, si l'on veut qu'il puisse conquérir sa liberté.