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This article describes a project in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to develop an inhouse career coaching program to support and develop young employees recruited on an affirmative action initiative. The project involved the international partnership of a financial services organization in the UAE and a training provider in Canada to train human resources and learning and development professionals in basic career coaching skills. Initial evaluation showed promising potential for in‐house career coaching as a tool for employee engagement and retention and for the usefulness of such partnerships between career professionals and organizations.

"The Legacy of Punishment in International Law illustrates how 17th and 18th century rationales for the use of force in support of piracy and colonialism have been transformed into progressive features of contemporary International Law. The classic practice of international punishment was a part of the jus ad bellum, and was the fig leaf for intra-European violence, and for the European conquest of the Americas. It has been transformed, however, into the basis for the assertion of a set of unconditionally, universally binding rules of international law, and for universal jurisdiction over perpetrators of crimes against humanity and war crimes"--

Despite the desire to focus on the interconnected nature of politics and economics at the global scale, most empirical studies in the field of international relations assume not only that the major actors are sovereign, but also that their relationships are portrayed in data that are modeled as independent phenomena. In contrast, this article illustrates the use of linear and bilinear random—effects models to represent statistical dependencies that often characterize dyadic data such as international relations. In particular, we show how to estimate models for dyadic data that simultaneously take into account: (a) regressor variables, (b) correlation of actions having the same actor, (c) correlation of actions having the same target, (d) correlation of actions between a pair of actors (i.e., reciprocity of actions), and (e) third-order dependencies, such as transitivity, clustering, and balance. We apply this new approach to the political relations among a wide range of political actors in Central Asia over the period 1989–1999, illustrating the presence and strength of second- and third-order statistical dependencies in these data.

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THIS ARTICLE IS AN ATTEMPT TO EXTRACT PERVASIVE MODES OF THINKING ABOUT NATIONS AND THEIR FOREIGN POLICIES FROM THREE CLASSICAL POLITICAL THEORIES AND TO EXAMINE TO WHAT EXTENT IT IS POSSIBLE TO SPEAK ON "COGNITIVE ARCHTYPES". THE STUDY CONSISTS OF TWO CASES. IT CONCLUDES THAT ROUSSEAU PRESENTS A CLEARER EXPOSITION OF THE DILEMNA THAN HOBBES DOES IN THE LEVIATHAN.

Die immer weiter ausgefeilte juristische Methode und Fachsprache, sind einerseits Voraussetzungen für die Ausdifferenzierung der Rechtswissenschaften, bedeuten jedoch anderseits Schwierigkeiten für die Zusammenarbeit der Jurisprudenz mit anderen Wissenschaften. In dieser Entwicklung liegt jedoch nicht nur ein soziologisch zu beschreibender Prozeß der Ausdifferenzierung; das Recht ist vielmehr eine gesellschaftliche Tatsache, die Auswirkungen auf andere gesellschaftliche Prozesse besitzt und von diesen beeinflußt wird. Eine Rechtswissenschaft, die nicht in der Lage ist, durch Interdisziplinarität diesen vielfältigen Dimensionen ihres Forschungsgegenstandes gerecht zu werden, verliert die Möglichkeit, ihn angemessen zu untersuchen. Zugleich fehlen anderen Disziplinen, die die Auswirkungen des Rechts auf ihren Forschungsgegenstand berücksichtigen müssen, die für ihre Zwecke kompetent aufgearbeiteten juristischen Informationen. Die Forderung nach Interdisziplinarität aufzustellen, bedeutet jedoch nicht, daß sie auch möglich ist. Ihre wissenschaftstheoretischen, organisatorischen und soziologischen Bedingungen, werden im vorliegenden Band interdisziplinär und international grundsätzlich und anhand ausgewählter Problembereiche analysiert und Lösungsansätzen zugeführt. / »Interdisciplinarity in Jurisprudence« -- The mutual influences of law, society and natural environments require an interdisciplinary analysis of law. Specific methods and language limit its possibility. In the present volume members of different disciplines and different countries discuss the epistemological, organizational and sociological preconditions of interdisciplinarity in jurisprudence in international and interdisciplinary perspective, referring also to concrete examples

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