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An exploration of ethnicity, economic growth, & governance in which the author discusses how ethnicity has affected the transition to democratic governance & Africa's position in the global economy. The author also addresses issue of citizenship & modernization.

Lessons in Sustainable Developmentfrom Japan and South Korea compares the two countries, makes policy recommendations, and examines sustainable development experiments from both nations. Author Sara Hsu: Sara Hsu is Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at New Platz, USA. Author Michio Naoi: Michio Naoi is Associate Professor of Economics at Keio University, Japan. Author Wenjie Zhang: Wenjie Zhang is Researcher of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Дается характеристика участия студенческой молодёжи в политической жизни, определяются его причины на основе исследования «Участие студенческой молодёжи Омской области в политической жизни», проведенного в апреле-мае 2011 г. ; In this article the author gives key characteristics of the students youth participation in politics and also the author determines the possible causes for this participation on the base of the research "The participation of the student youth in politics" (that the author had been conducted in April-May 2011 year).

The author looks at the importance of strategic management for local government at work. The author studied other authors the theories about the strategic importance of the private and public sectors. The authors has tried to find out who are the influencing factors of the delay the full strategic management introducing the author has studied the customers and the local populations involvement in the municipality work what effect are given to organization on the strategic leadership.

The author was asked to give remarks to a congregation at a service for the Jewish high holy days. This article are those remarks. The author relates the Cubs baseball team to the time on the Jewish calendar, as those hope for a good season for the Cubs, so too do the congregants hope for a good new year. Also, the author relates that devotion to a baseball team is much the same as devotion to one's religion.

The author reviews the annual conference "Democracy and Violence" of Lithuanian Society of Philosophers in the year 2006. The author draws on organizational problems, summarizes every presentation, and reports a fragment of discussions. The author maintains that the conference was a significant event in Lithuanian philosophical life. ; Apžvalgoje pasakojama apie kasmetinės Lietuvos filosofų draugijos 2006 m. konferencijos "Demokratija ir prievarta" organizacinius rūpesčius, apžvelgiami dalyvių pranešimai, pateikiamas diskusijų fragmentas. Teigiama, kad konferencija yra minties puota, praturtinanti dalyvių filosofines pažiūras.

THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT ALL THROUGH HISTORY WOMEN HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH NON-VIOLENCE. MALE MORALITY OF NON-INTERFERENCE IS CONTRASTED TO FEMALE MORALITY WHICH TAKES POSITIVE OBLIGATION OF CARE FOR OTHERS. THE AUTHOR REVIEWS AN IFF STUDY THAT ANSWERED HOW THE OVERALL STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY IS AFFECTED BY THE WAY ITS STRUCTURES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALES. THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE MORALITY MAY HELP STOP THE ARMS RACE.

The author initially examines the traditional judicial treatment given master plans. Recent trends indicating a shift in the traditional view are explored and the author contends that Florida's Local Government comprehensive Planning Act of 1975 is at the forefront of these new trends. After discussing in depth the Act's provisions, the author concludes that the success or failure of the Act rides on the courts'interpretationso f the "consistency" provisions, and strongly advocates a broad interpretation.

Intro -- Praise -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Democracy's Timeline -- Introduction -- Part I: Assembly Democracy -- Part II: Electoral Democracy -- Part III: Monitory Democracy -- Image Credits -- Index -- About the Author -- By the Same Author -- Copyright.

In the article Author describes reorganizations of Sorbs minority organizations due to political transformation and German reunification. Author analyzed events from 1989 to 1990. Also in the article was presented main trends of changes in the minorities.

The author of the article turns to the socio-pedagogic and psychological analysis of the process of formation and development of historical and pedagogic faculties in the system of higher professional pedagogic education in the USSR in the second half of the 20th century. In terms of the creation and life of the Faculty of History and Pedagogy at Kursk State Pedagogic Institute, the author shows the most characteristic tendencies repeated in the fate of such faculties in Kostroma, Voronezh, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk. The author shows the role of Lev Umanskiy and Anatoliy Lutoshkin, who formed a unique experience of professional education, laid the tradition of combining advanced science and professional psychological and pedagogic education, focused on training specialists for working with children's and youth public organisations. The author characterises the life activity of the faculties of history and education in the 1960s-90s, shows the complex and contradictory processes of the growing ideological crisis, as a result of which adolescent and youth organisations ceased their activities and announced their dissolution. The author believes that the need for training specialists in working with youth has not disappeared today; many of the ideas and experience on which the training of such specialists in the USSR was built are quite appropriate for reproduction today. The author draws attention to the traditions of the formation of a collectivist climate in the life of student communities, the need to combine the entire process of personal and professional development of specialists with the practical work of students with adolescents and youth. In this regard, the author focuses on the role of large scientific and methodological centres in replicating the advanced experience of social upbringing of children and youth, referring to such centres as "Artek", "Orlyonok" (Eaglet), "Komsorg". In the article, the author emphasises the uniqueness of the interface between history and pedagogy in training specialists for working with teenagers and youth public organisations and associations.

In this paper the author analyzes the views of scientists on the constitution formation as a natural process in accordance with the national traditions and state formation experience. The author pays attention to the works of Charles-Louis de Montesquieu, A.V. Dicey, E. Burke, G. F. Puchta, devoted to the issues of the distribution of state power, the choice of form government, nature of laws, characteristic features of constitutions. The influence of the experience of organizing public authority on the development of the constitutional process is analyzed. In particular, the author analyzes the state-building process in Ukraine in 1917-1921, the works of state officials in the field of the state-building process, including the works of Sergei Shelukhin and Stanislav Dnistriansky in the context of preparing the basic law, taking into account the historical basis of the people's life, understanding the basic principles of the state system, the origins of the constitution. The author analyzes the text of the First Universal of the Ukrainian Central Rada. The texts of the preambles of the constitutions of the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Poland, the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic and the French Republic were worked out. The author pays attention to the references to the traditions and customs, the achievement of the nations, the cultural and political heritage of the ancestors, the practice of domestic state formation process in the preambles of the constitutions. The author analyzes the text of the Constitution of Ukraine preamble. The author proves that the constitution is not created from the abstract principles and represents the peculiarities of the state constitutional order, which is determined by the traditions, experience and practice of state building. The author convinces that the process of the constitution formation is natural and should reflect the people's interests, and the validity of the constitution depends on the consideration of the national traditions and state formation ...

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore a researcher's emotions in the field. It argues that a researcher's emotional responses can lead to insights into certain aspects of participants' emotional and social worlds, while simultaneously obscuring certain lines of inquiry and limiting data collection. On this basis, the author calls for researchers to maintain a high level of awareness and reflexivity while working with strong emotions in the field. This, the author argues, allows a researcher to remain open to new understandings and address any limitations skilfully and transparently.Design/methodology/approach– Drawing on feminist theory and emerging scholarship pertaining to fieldwork and emotions, this paper examines the methodological dilemmas the author faced in relation to the own subjectivity while carrying out field-work at radical ecovillage in the USA. It analyses sections of the reflexive diary and explores the insights the author gained by remaining aware and reflexive while in the field.Findings– The author demonstrates how feelings of unease, alienation and entrapment prompted to explore new lines of inquiry and, in turn, consider certain emotion rules and ideologies present in the research setting. The author also speculates about the ways such feelings impacted the data collection by obscuring certain phenomena in the field.Research limitations/implications– The author makes a number of practical suggestions about how researchers can work skilfully with emotions in the field. In addition, the author proposes that by remaining mindful of one's emotional responses valuable lines of questioning and themes may emerge for consideration.Originality/value– This paper contributes to emerging scholarship on the importance of examining a researcher's experiences and reactions to a research setting in conjunction with other data. It offers a practical example of how this approach can elicit insight into the lives of participants.

The paper examines the problem of transforming the perception of space in the paradigms of several cultural epochs. Space discourse is defined via its societal perception, reflection in mythological systems and some philosophical concepts. The author reviews the history of changes of space discourse through continued development of two stages - traditional and post-traditional. The author refers the archaic society, the Antiquity and the Middle Ages to the traditional stage, the Renaissance, the Modernity and the Postmodernity to the post-traditional. The author examines each of these stages and describes mythological and holistic perception of space in archaic society, its further development and hierarchizing in the Antiquity, as well as transfer of the main features of the Classic model into the Medieval period. In addition, the paper examines the process of radical changes in the perception of space beginning in the Renaissance and under the impact of the long process of secularization and general demythologization referred to by the author as the Modernity era. The paper states that this process continued for some centuries emptying the space of myth and reached its highest peak by the end of the 19th century. The author provides a special insight on the reasons of the increased need for myth and cites as an example the emergence of geopolitics as a new discipline. Further, the author describes the main vector of space discourse development from the 20th century until now shaped by the Postmodernity. The article focuses on two particular spatial concepts such as "heterotopia" and "rhizome". According to the author they illustrate the main features of modern space - anti-hierarchy and openness to a new mythologization. The emphasis is put on the main differences of space perception between the postmodern and traditional society. The author makes an assumption that the space discourse of today will also influence the researches of actual global political and territorial architecture.

Охарактеризованы тенденции развития женского социума на Дальнем Востоке в современных условиях. На основе статистических данных анализируется соотношение численности мужчин и женщин, проживающих в Приморье, раскрываются причины проблем низкой рождаемости, неустойчивости браков, женской безработицы. На примере Хабаровского края показана деятельность женских организаций в поддержку государственной политики по повышению авторитета семьи и статуса женщин, укреплению семейных ценностей. ; The author described the development trend of women's society in the Far East, in modern conditions, compared them with similar tendencies of the Soviet period. On the basis of statistical data, the author has analyzed the ratio of the number of men and women living in the Maritime region at the beginning of 2014. Comparing the corresponding figures for the Khabarovsk Territory, the author revealed the causes of imbalance of the sexes. The author touches upon fertility problems, instability of marriages, female unemployment, professional and educational activity of women, as well as residents of the Far East wages. On the example of Khabarovsk Krai the author describes the work of women's organizations in support of the government policy to increase the authority of the family and the status of women, the strengthening of family values. The author revealed the aims and objectives of many women's organizations. The article analyzes the technology of women's organizations activities: the exchange of experience at the level of the Association of Cities of Siberia and the Far East; a partnership of local governments and women's organizations; successful attempts to attract men to the challenges faced by women's organizations. The author is concerned about the negative trend which is gaining strength in the Far East the outflow of the population into the western regions of the country. In his opinion, a significant role in this process is played by women; so the author calls for women's organizations to move from words to action on the difficult way of imbuing the minds and hearts with patriotism.