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The article deals with numerous initiatives of the EU Commission, both legislative and political, aimed at strengthening the MS coordination in the field of health. Based on the Commission's recommendations on restrictions of freedom of movement, the author analyzes the «colour coding» of the EU regions to discover travelers arriving from «risk zones», and identifies conflicting approaches of Member States and other critics to this practice. The author shows interest in Commission's activities for joint procurement of coronavirus vaccines and other medicines and medical instruments, which it carries out using the power received from the Member States. However, the author notes that only a few MS take advantage of these contracts, preferring their national procurement channels. The author considers Commission's desire to take the next steps in the direction of the Health Union a significant event in the EU health policy. In conclusion, the author foresees upcoming discussions about who will make decisions in the field of health policy in the EU.

In the introductory of the paper, the author will analyze the evolutionary development of the security service. Furthermore, the author will determine the goals in the functioning of the service and define the term counterintelligence. Within the paper, the author defines the role of the Security and Counterintelligence Directorate that existed until the reforms in 2019 in the Republic of North Macedonia. In the final part of the paper, the author will define the role of the Agency of National Security and explain the reasons why there was a need to establish the Agency of National Security. The content will be prepared on the basis of analysis of foreign literature and using electronic content. In the preparation of the content of the paper, the author will apply the general scientific methods: the descriptive method, the normative method, the comparative method and the method of content analysis as a separate scientific method. Keywords: security, national security, Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence and Agency of National Security

The founding fathers of grounded theory (GT) claimed it is an inductive methodological approach. Yet, some scholars argue that purely inductive GTs are not possible given researchers' involvement in data collection and analysis. Subsequently, a constructivist GT approach was introduced. Still, full-length methodological articles that include rationales or detailed explanations for using constructivist GT approaches are limited in peer-reviewed journals. The purpose of this article is to highlight the ways in which the author used a constructivist GT approach in his dissertation. Within the article, the author provides concrete examples and a rationale for the ways in which he used a theoretical framework within a constructivist GT study. First, the author introduces literature on GT. Next, the author introduces the theoretical framework used in the study, highlighting the introduction of a theoretical framework as a departure from the traditional tenets of GT. Finally, the author highlights the ways in which he used the theoretical framework to shape the research questions, data collection and analysis, and findings.

Статья направлена на поиск, анализ и классификацию международно-правовых актов, которые регулируют вопросы образования и имеют обязательный характер для Украины или являются ориентирами для Украины вследствие рекомендательного характера или политического влияния. В статье обращается внимание на то, что массив международно-правовых актов в сфере образования недостаточно исследован. ; The article seeks to analyse and classify the international legal instruments in the field of education. Author examined such international legal instruments in the field of education, that are obligatory for Ukraine. Author also examines international documents, that are recommendatory or have political influence on Ukraine. Author thinks that influence of the EU's documents will increase in future Ukrainian legislation. Nevertheless, interstate bilateral treaties are still important. Most of them has general character or regulates the Validation of foreign studies and degrees. Author draws attention to the insufficient amount of the researches in this sphere. Author worries, that there are many acts of international organizations aimed at improving education and internationalization, but for some reason they are not ratified by Ukraine.

The author met Betita Martinez in August 1969 in New Mexico, were Martinez had recently relocated from New York City to support and work with the Alianza Federal de Mercedes and had started the newspaper of the movement, El Grito del Norte. At the time the author met Martinez, she had helped start the Women's Liberation Movement, which first gripped national attention in August 1968 demonstrating at the Miss America pageant. Since then, the author claimed Martinez as a mentor, and for the next two years they corresponded by letters and phone calls. And the author visited her again in New Mexico, during the time of campus strikes all over the country protesting the US bombing of Cambodia. The author had moved to New Orleans early that year to organize in the South, and she was driving to speak at student rallies in Albuquerque, San Diego, Los Angeles, Fresno, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Adapted from the source document.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss how fieldwork impacted the author's own and one participant's positioning; the author's reflexivity, experiences and feelings of alterity; the participant's performances and conversations between the author and participant.Design/methodology/approachThe author uses a confessional tale to describe the time spent with the participant and confesses how it impacted on the author as the researcher. The author examines her biases, feelings, and vulnerabilities, and explores some of the methodological and positioning issues with which she struggled.FindingsThe author ponders on what she learned while being in such close quarters with a participant and discusses what she should keep in mind about herself as the researcher during subsequent data collection forays. Researchers should know themselves well before attempting such closeness because when we are researchers, we can't change who we are as people.Originality/valueIt is believed that the extreme researcher/participant closeness was unique but was, at the same time, an extremely useful form of data collection.

In this article, the author explores resemblances and overlaps of very different regimes of religious governance, the secular and the religious, in the ways they address religious discrimination. The author defines religious discrimination broadly and considers the possible solutions available to those (usually) democratic states that respond to complaints of discrimination. The author considers two limit cases: Indonesia, which bases its Islamic judicial system on scripture; and France, which proclaims that it does not recognize or support any religion. The author argues that although these two countries begin at opposite ideological positions with respect to the state's relationship to religion, in fact they adopt policy positions that share several features, including granting formal privileges to recognized religions and maintaining the state's legal superiority to scripture as the source of law. The author argues, not that this overlap is to be expected in all cases, even of democratic societies responsive to discrimination claims, but that we ought to pursue further comparative research into its scope.

In this article the author presents her viewpoints and experiences regarding social movements, as related during her acceptance of 2008 John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award. The author reflects upon the identities and political commitments pivotal to her research, which provided her with new insight into the nature and dynamic of the field of social movements. Then the author discusses the overall importance of mentors and collaborators, particularly in the field of collective behavior theory. Next, the author discusses the process of ideas and practicum, the issues of gender, and moving in a direction that pushes the envelope. Then the author explains her thoughts on the everyday meaning of theoretical innovation and the multi-institutional approach to social movements, the practices of activists, and politics. Also, the article discusses theoretical bridging, action orientation and public sociology, before concluding on a personal note re social movements and the structural, cultural, and social psychological factors lying therein. References. M Diem

This article analyzes how the Obama Administration interacts between Israel and the Arab world; examining policies and positions; and comparing with past U.S. presidential administrations. First, the author examines how the Obama campaign and early administration interplayed with Israel, and the Palestinians; highlighting human rights reports and humanitarian efforts; comparing with those policies initiated under the Bush Administration. Then the author presents the resolutions and voting record of the UN General Assembly, and the U.S. led efforts during each vote. The author states in these decisions, the U.S. Decision was isolated from a large majority of the world, including discussions re the Geneva Convention, and applications to the Palestinian Authority, and territories. Next, the author examines how the Obama Administration "demanded" that Israel settle on their settlements; providing U.S. policy supporting this line over the past 40 years; dissecting the interests of all actors involved. The author then concludes opining on Obama's future policies, and political interactions in the region. M. Diem

This article outlines a number of steps toward a more sensitive and affirmative conception of childhood and hope ("childhood-hope"). Throughout the article, the author explores how our understandings of hope might be extended via an examination of childhood-hope. First, it considers childhood as a universalizing, affective condition, which can be characterized by very simplistic, and problematic, notions of hope, logic, and futurity. The author connects this line of thought explicitly with what the author identifies as impulses of hopefulness and of "doing good" for children, exemplified by a selection of "high-profile" quotations about children. Second, the author extends the discussion to explore everyday articulations of hope by young people involved in a project concerning their interpretations and experiences of self-esteem. The author concludes by outlining how universal representations of childhood-hope may be extended and critiqued though young people's own articulations of hope, and draw attention to some of the positive political interventions that young people's modest forms of hoping might have.

Author makes case that due to recent events, initiatives in areas of naval arms control are extremely poorly timed. These events include political changes in USSR, the changing international security environment, the new Soviet military doctrine and strategy, ongoing arms control negotiations, unarticulated U.S. and NATO goals, and changes in Soviet and U.S. planning assumptions and scenarios. Author then analyses three major areas for naval arms control proposals: (1) restrictions on strategic antisubmarine warfare, (2) naval operations, and (3) strategic antisubmarine warfare technology and fanks them on technical grounds. Author reviews the goals of arms control and finds none of these three areas in need of formal regulation. Author concludes with a number of innovative areas for naval arms control in areas of doctrine, strategy, operations, and exercises with concrete recommendations and acceptable (to USN) fallback positions. (Author) (kr) ; Prepared for: Director, Defense Nuclear Agency and Office of the Chief of Naval Operations ; http://archive.org/details/navalarmscontrol90012trit ; MIPR-90-581 ; NA ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

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.

1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of Trends and Patterns in Segregation -- 3. Strategies for Measuring and Analysing Segregation -- 4. Description of Trends in White-Minority Segregation (with additional co-author Wenquan Zhang) -- 5. Latinos, Asians, and Blacks in New Destinations (with additional co-author Rogelio Saenz) -- 6. Micro-Macro Links in Residential Segregation – How groups differ -- 7. Cross Community Variation in Segregation -- 8. Segregation of Multiracial Individuals and Households (with additional co-author Jessica Barron) -- 9. Segregation in Rural Nonmetropolitan Communities (High D Low S) special case analysis -- 10. Latino and Asian Subgroups(with additional co-author Wenquan Zhang) -- 11. Segregation in 1930 vs 2010 -- 12. Overview and Conclusions -- Appendix 1. Symbols and Notation -- Appendix 2. Overview of Segregation Measurement.

In this article, the author describes their mental health struggles tied to Black Masculinity as a (former) Black athlete. In particular, the author focuses on the stigma surrounding mental health in the Black community and the ways in which Blackness, Black masculinity, and mental health battles emulate the (Black) struggle that must be. The author attempts to highlight the complicated nature of mental health struggles, specifically the ways in which suicide is handled in the world of sport and the ways in which the narrative can have juxtaposed racial frameworks. The author moves into and through their own personal experiences with mental health as a Black man, both in present tense and including personal journal entries, to make sense of "the (Black) struggle that must not be ignored."