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This book includes contributions from academics, practitioners and policy-makers connected with the Network on Humanitarian Action (NOHA), an international association of universities that is committed to interdisciplinary education and research on humanitarian action. Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of NOHA, this book highlights some of the most pressing issues and challenges facing humanitarian action and explores potential solutions. Drawing on theory and practice, and spanning a broad range of subject matter, the book explores the origin of key concepts such as human security, reconciliation and resilience and questions their effectiveness in the pursuit of humanitarian ends. It also charts current developments in the humanitarian system, in particular in its legal and financial frameworks. Issues relating to humanitarian stakeholders, such as the role of the media and the protection of humanitarian workers, are also addressed. The contributions are influenced by a range of disciplines, including anthropology, political science, legal studies and communications.

"Within a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the present and may confront in the future. To be successful, grand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more than simply reacting to immediate events. Above all, it demands they adapt to sudden and major changes in the international environment, which more often than not involves the outbreak of great conflicts but at times demands recognition of major economic, political, or diplomatic changes. This collection of essays explores the successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work and aims at achieving an understanding of some of the extraordinary difficulties involved in casting, evolving, and adapting grand strategy to the realities of the world"--

"Cooperation between science and business (S2B cooperation) is a very important issue from the points of view of the domestic economy, companies, and universities. This is mainly because such cooperation is a catalyst for faster and reliable development - not only of enterprises, but also of the entire economy. Thanks to S2B cooperation, enterprises can gain and commercialize new and ground-breaking solutions. Universities in turn can give their research a more practical dimension to increase its economic applicability, which helps universities prepare future staff to work in modern enterprises. The aim of this publication is to indicate how cooperation between universities and business can be implemented in an international dimension. It shows the role of modern universities in supporting the development of enterprise and entire economies as well as the role of modern enterprises that use resources located in universities (including knowledge resources). This unique combination has a positive impact on the results and developmental opportunities for each of them. Any potential obtained in this manner is the basis for creating a competitive advantage on the market. This book is devoted to a specific area of cooperation between enterprises and universities and will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of entrepreneurship, knowledge management, international relations, and higher education."

This article shows a selection of findings obtained from the research project entitled "Long term sentences and the human rights situation in countries that are members of the European countries". The research sought to examine the observance of human rights standards in relation to persons sentenced to long-term criminal sanctions (five years or more) in eleven countries that are members of the European Union. The research also includes the study of the living conditions in prison for inmates, their training and leisure time, their contact with the outside world and their organizational culture as well. ; El presente artículo da cuenta de una selección de conclusiones extraídas a propósito del proyecto de investigación denominado "Las penas de larga duración y la cuestión de los derechos humanos en los países miembros de la Unión Europea". Dicho proyecto tuvo por objeto estudiar el nivel de cumplimento de los estándares europeos de derechos humanos en los condenados a penas de larga duración (penas de cinco años o más)en once países miembros de la Unión Europea. Asimismo, el trabajo de investigación consideró dentro de su ámbito de estudio las condiciones de vida en prisión, formación, tiempo libre y contacto con el mundo exterior de los condenados a penas de larga duración, así como la cultura institucional.

During the 21st century, the African continent, it has become increasingly important within the international system. In this process, African natural resources gained a central role in other states. It is against this backdrop that various doors have been opened to African countries around a new configuration of the international system, where we are increasingly seeing that different international actors are becoming more prominent; whether economically, militarily, technologically, etc. Africa is currently facing a range of opportunities, where international actors such as China, the United States and Russia gained significant importance. However, during the 21st century, there was also a significant growth in African economies, which helped shape a new positioning of African states during the current century (MORASSO 2015). In relation to the above, this economic development not only contributes to African redeployment within the international system, but also contributes to Africa's position as a new scenario of international interest, in which the dispute over the financial markets and the partial controls of financial flows become even more relevant. In these frameworks, we note that Africa is in a clearly compromising situation, where the interest of different countries can be observed by interacting the states of the continent historically and significantly remotely (compared to the major empires that began their colonising waves and culminated in the distribution of Africa around 1913). In this context, countries such as China started the race on the old continent by articulating multidimensional cooperation spaces (Marchetti, 2016). In the face of this situation, Russia has not chosen to remain sidelined and has decided to re-project itself on the African continent. In this bid, the Euro-Asian country is looking for allies that are not interpelled by the United States or the People's Republic of China. Despite being the last major international player to join Africa, it is clear that Africa has a ...

International migration has emerged, in contemporary European societies, as an area of concern for control and governmentality processes, by means of its definition as a "social problem" that must be addressed by public organisms. Different laws, regulations, discourses, plans and intervention processes emerge from the need to manage these populations, generating as main effect the reproduction and solidification of power relations in host societies. Departing from different researches developed in the field of services provided to immigrant women in Spain, we propose to analise the ways in which governmentality mechanisms contribute to construct a subject that is understood as an "Other problematic and needing" that requires attention to achieve proper social integration. These mechanisms contribute to justify the urge for this population to adapt to a context of legal, social and cultural inequality that results unquestioned. ; Las migraciones internacionales se han erigido como un campo de preocupación de los procesos de control y gobierno en las sociedades europeas contemporáneas, conformándose como "problema social" que es preciso atender desde diferentes estamentos públicos. De la necesidad de gestión de estos grupos poblacionales emergen leyes, reglamentos, discursos, planes de actuación y procesos de intervención cuyo efecto principal es la reproducción y solidificación de las relaciones de poder presentes en las sociedades de instalación. A partir de diversas investigaciones en el campo de los servicios que se prestan a mujeres inmigradas en el Estado español, se analizan las maneras en las que se instalan mecanismos de gubernamentalidad que contribuyen a la construcción de una "otra problemática y carente" que es necesario atender para su correcta integración social; mecanismos que ayudan a legitimar la necesidad de adaptación de estas personas a un contexto de desigualdad jurídica, social y cultural que resulta incuestionado.