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"Am 14. Mai 2008 jährt sich der Tag der Unabhängigkeitserklärung des Staates Israel zum sechzigsten Mal. Diese war Ausgangspunkt einer der imposantesten herrschafts- und wohlfahrtspolitischen Erfolgsgeschichten seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Sicherheitspolitisch fällt die Bilanz allerdings ambivalent aus. Israels Ansehen in der Region des Nahen Ostens ist sehr gering. Hauptsächlich seinen überlegenen Streitkräften und hervorragenden Bündnisstrukturen außerhalb der Region ist es geschuldet, dass Israels Existenz auf absehbare Zeit nicht gefährdet erscheint. Das regionalpolitische Kernproblem für Israel besteht im ungelösten israelischpalästinensischen Konflikt. Dieser hat zunächst eine unmittelbare sicherheitspolitische Dimension: Die militanten Akteure auf palästinensischer Seite sind zwar weit davon entfernt, die staatliche Integrität Israels gefährden zu können. Trotz des Einsatzes militärischer Gewalt seitens Israels vermögen es diese Gruppen aber, die israelische Zivilbevölkerung zu terrorisieren. Der israelisch-palästinensische Konflikt hat für Israel jedoch auch Implikationen, die weit über orthodoxe sicherheitspolitische Fragen hinaus weisen. Sie berühren zudem Probleme von vitaler Bedeutung im ökonomischen, vor allem aber im herrschaftspolitischen Bereich. Seit jeher strahlt der israelisch-palästinensische Konflikt auf das Verhältnis Israels zu den arabischen Staaten der Region sowie Iran aus. Israelische Ambitionen, den israelisch-palästinensischen Konflikt von den zwischenstaatlichen Konflikten zu isolieren, waren in der Vergangenheit nur sehr bedingt erfolgreich, und es ist sehr fraglich, ob sich hieran in absehbarer Zukunft etwas ändern wird." (Autorenreferat)

Proposing an aggregative conception of vulnerability, this book provides a new framework for understanding individual experience of, and resilience to, vulnerability and promotes the need to find remedies for exposure to involuntary dependence, the unsecured future and the painful past.

This book provides a theoretical, empirical, and pragmatic understanding of social dilemmas (SDs). A SD is a social situation where cooperation maximizing collective or social profit is different from defection maximizing individual profit. Problems arise when too many group members choose to pursue individual profit and immediate satisfaction rather than behave in the group's best long-term interests. The problems include an environmental problem and various types of urban, economic, and political problems. Most books treating SDs are not monographs but are proceedings or omnibus volumes written by different researchers. Few monographs have been published for SDs, but those few deal only with basic theories and empirical findings. This book, by contrast, is a monograph by a single author and provides complete coverage from basic theories in Part I to applied theories and pragmatic solutions for urban, transportation, and environmental problems in Parts II and III. Various types of strategies are proposed in this book to overcome the problems caused by SDs in various situations based on the basic theories of those dilemmas. The strategies are psychological and structural ones. The book includes theories, empirical evidence in experiments, and practical policies in the real world for these strategies. Thus, the work effectively provides a bridge between basic behavioral scientists, applied behavioral scientists, and practitioners. With this useful source, basic scientists will understand how to apply their scientific knowledge to the real world and also will encounter new scientific problems that should be solved scientifically. Applied researchers and specialists will become familiar with new solutions through basic research on SDs and will be made aware of new pragmatic problems that should be solved with a practical approach

Today there is no unified approach to description of the stages of addiction and
evolution of adolescent addiction formation. In this paper we consider two main
points. At first we describe the different approaches to the selection stages of addictive behavior. The second point is the description of using the method of constructing
artificial neural networks to determine the formation of chemical addiction. Also this
article describes the theoretical approaches to the evolution stages of dependence and
to the construction of artificial neural networks. It is experimentally proved the importance and logic of constructing assessment stage of addictive behavior, described
the main parameters of this assessment, and considered the main characteristics of
sentence groups. Thus, we demonstrate the number of objective advantages of artificial neural networks to the classical methods. It is create possibility using artificial
neural networks in professionals' practice working with the assessment of adolescent
addiction.

During his lifetime, British author and thinker G.K. Chesterton gained a reputation as a top-rate intellectual and social critic. In this volume, Chesterton turns his attention to a series of major problems facing the world at the turn of the twentieth century, offering his one-of-a-kind take on each topic