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The author provides an analysis of Russian foreign policy & U.S. engagement in post-Soviet Eurasia & Russia during the Putin administration. Arguing that Russian foreign policy is rooted in Russia's economic interests, the author declares that to understand Russian foreign policy, one must first understand the developing Russian economy & Russia's changing position in the global market place. Next, the author explores how U.S. policy has worked in practice. Remnants of the U.S./Russian Cold War relationship, Russian integration into the west & its role in NATO, & Putin's counterterrorism strategy are explored. J. Harwell

A world renowned author once described "a migrant's vision" in terms of a "triple disruption," one that occurs when migrants lose their place in the world, enter into a language that is alien to them, and find themselves "surrounded by beings whose social behavior and codes are very unlike, and sometimes even offensive to," their own. The author in question—let's call him X—then proceeds to explain how the creative work of a lesser known author—let's call him Y—is informed by such "a migrant's vision."

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of economic openness & increasing capital mobility on the economic growth. The author argues that "anti-globalization" views are based on incomplete evidence & tend to ignore important historical evidence. The author discusses the relationship between market-distortions & economic growth according to the economic theory. The author also deals with the debate on the "sequencing" of economic reforms & the effectiveness of controls on capital inflows based on the Chilean 1991-1998 experience. 16 References. [Copyright 2002 Sage Publications, Inc.]

In this recollection of developing the Paul Lazarsfeld Archive at the U of Vienna, Neurath recalls his experiences with Lazarsfeld himself & his work. The author relates some childhood experiences with Lazarsfeld's work & his assistance to the author when he first came to the US. The author describes his experiences in finding a suitable director to sort through all of the work, only to discover that he himself was qualified, at which point he embarked upon searching though all of Lazarsfeld's work & delivering it to Vienna. E. Miller

The aim of the article is to analyze violence in religious sects. The analysis is built upon the Pierre Bourdieu's conception of symbolic power. The author develops her argument by, first, analyzing the conditions for possibility of violence in religious sects. The author argues that, second, symbolic violence is necessary for sects as a form of organization. Third, because of the role of violence in defining the organization, the author attempts to understand the mechanisms of power that recreate the form of the organization of the religious sects.

In this article, the author develops a civilizational analysis of the postmodernity. In his attempt, the author departs from the image of postmodernity as a romanticist critique of modernity that redefines the modern self-understanding built around the ideas of progress. Throughout the paper the author develops a comparative analysis of the Indian episteme and the postmodern culture. In his view, such an analysis provides a possibility of a better understanding of postmodernity on at least a few levels: postmodern conception of time, human relation with the nature, meaning and others.

IN THIS ESSAY, THE AUTHOR SPELLS OUT THE TRULY GLOBAL PROBLEM EXEMPLIFIED BY THREE SCHOLARS' ANALYSES OF LANGUAGE POLITICS IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE. THE AUTHOR AIMS TO CONVINCE THE READER THAT POLITICS IS A HUMAN BEHAVIOR WHICH COULD NOT EXIST WERE HUMANS UNABLE TO SPEAK, WRITE, OR REMAIN SILENT. AND ALSO TO CONVINCE THE READER THAT POLITICAL ANALYSIS CANNOT EXIST IF LINGUISTIC ISSUES ARE NEGLECTED. POLITICAL SCIENTISTS SEEM TO RECOGINZE THIS NEED. THE AUTHOR OUTLINES TURMOIL AS A LINGUISTIC ISSUE, LINGUISTIC IDENTITY, AND BORDERS OF A LINGUISTIC HEGEMONY.

THE AUTHOR ASKS THE QUESTION; JUST WHAT IS ONE TO MAKE OF BILL CLINTON? IS HE REALLY THE "NEW DEMOCRAT" THAT SOME ON THE LEFT FEAR OR THE NEW DEALER THAT CONSERVATIVES FEAR? THE AUTHOR BELIEVES THAT CLINTON IS NEITHER OF THESE--OR PERHAPS BOTH. WHAT IS CLEAR IS THAT PRESIDENT CLINTON'S PRESIDENCY MARKS A NEW POLITICAL PERIOD. OLD DEBATES HAVE EFFECTIVELY BEEN SETTLED, AND NEW ONES OPENED UP. THE AUTHOR SHOWS IN THE ARTICLE THAT THE TERMS "RIGHT" AND "LEFT" WILL TAKE ON NEW MEANINGS.

THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES UNOFFICIAL OR INFORMAL SOCIAL-POLITICAL ACTIVITIES THAT SOVIET WORKERS HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. TO INTRODUCE THE DISCUSSION, THE AUTHOR LOOKS BACK TO 1987 AT ATTEMPTS BY THE GORBACHEV REGIME TO PREEMPT UNOFFICIAL ACTIVITY ON THE PART OF WORKERS, WHICH, THE AUTHOR ARGUES, WAS DONE IN ORDER TO CONTROL THOSE ACTIVITIES AND TO USE THEM FOR HIS POLITICAL PURPOSES. THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT THE FAILURE OF THOSE ATTEMPTS HAS LED TO THE GROWTH OF UNOFFICIAL ACTIVITY AMONG SOVIET WORKERS.

The contradictions of Canada's developmental status as a "rich dependency" & its decentralized state structure are discussed through a SC analysis. Canada failed to develop a national bourgeoisie, due to its large geography & small population, resulting in a series of unintegrated regional economies. Canada did not follow the pattern of capitalist industrialization, which involves a decline of the Ru SCs & a growth of the proletariat. Independent farmers became a viable political unity & grew with the proletariat, which had the ability to resist exploitation. However, Canada's failure to develop nationally cohesive SCs has had adverse effects on economic well-being, especially in the large foreign-owned industrial sector, which is subject to international restructuring. The 1984 Canadian auto workers' strike against General Motors Corp, which upset this pattern of foreign control, offers optimism for socialist progress in Canada, given the development of a national identity & Wc unity. D. Graves.

The article is devoted to the study of the philosophical, theological and religious significance of the Wandering in Russian Orthodox culture, primarily as a unique image of folk religiosity. The author considers the concept of 'Wanderer' as one of the fundamental concepts in Russian culture. Its multiple meanings and semantic heterogeneity are revealed and analyzed both in European and domestic cultures; for this, in particular, the author refers to the experience of European and especially Russian literature of the 19th–20th centuries, in which a polysemantic image of a wanderer appears. The author is indicated value of visual image of Wanderer is studied in more detail in Russian painting of the 19th century. The valuable material on the cultural characteristics of Russian Wandering was collected by S.V.Maksimov in the second half of the 19th century. The main attention is directed to the image of Wanderer in the religious and philosophical perspective of Russian Orthodoxy. The author refers to the Christian origins of the image of Wanderer. The specificity of Wanderer's attitude to the world, his existence, other people, God is specified, as well as the connection of the concept of Wandering with the principles of Hesychasm. The author draws a special attention to the importance of good looks and tenderness as important characteristics of the image of Wanderer. Through an appeal to the traditions of Christology and patristic Orthodoxy, Hesychasm and eldership, the writings Russian literature, the anonymous author of 'Frank Stories of a Wanderer to His Spiritual Father', Russian painting of the 19th century, and modern Orthodox religious and philosophical thought, the author of the article is to reveal the unique meaning of the image of Wanderer and emphasize its special meaning-forming role for Russian Orthodox culture.

Controversial nature of environmental crime and its modi operandi made the author to direct his attention to the problem of overfishing with its intricate phenomenological structure being reflection of complex environmental criminal activities. This work is backboned by paradox of environmental crime general presence followed by its drastic essence and "default low profile" being illustrated by the author's analyzing of overfishing criminal threat. Methodologically, right after initial general overview, the author introduces us to the devastating mosaic of environmental crime and its key segments, just like to its relations with other types of criminal activities. Subsequently, focus of the article shifts from targeting environmental crime to overfishing, as one of the almost daily and most frequent criminal activities and a factor in the devastation of fish stocks with unforeseeable consequences to the detriment of both nature and man. Besides determining the phenomenon of overfishing, the author puts forward typology of criminal activities as inevitable fragments of overfishing conceptual totality. Particular section of the paper is addressed by the author to the specific links among overfishing modi operandi and the whole range of various illicit activities. This is exact section set by the author to confirm his claim about actively presented conditional correlation among close phenomena ranged differently, in relation to some other phenomena likely linked to them. In nuce, if broader term is connected to other particular terms, then narrower term, derived from the same phenomenological milieu, must be related to those terms, as well. As an example, the author presents ratio between environmental crime, as broader term, and overfishing, as narrower one. Finally, as conclusion, the author warns of overfishing consequences and suggests some possible ways to combat this kind of environmental crime.

Purpose
– The subjects considered in this research paper form the basic prerequisites for improving the effectiveness of organizational development. The author assumes that the effectiveness of any process depends on the size of the reserve of capacity of the resources used in the process (for details, see Appendix). The purpose of this paper is to determine the conditions for the effectiveness of improvement projects.


Design/methodology/approach
– The author has constructed an algorithm (called ABC) to control the capacity of resources. With its help, the author defines the strategy for improvement in an organization. The basic principle of this strategy is continuous improvement, and tactics to control resources refers to the ABC algorithm.


Findings
– The author shows that continuous improvement is a prerequisite for the effectiveness of this strategy. It is shown that the features of this strategy reflect sustainable development of the organization. Along with the algorithm ABC, it forms a basis for the sustainable development strategy. The author shows conditions for effectiveness and explains how the strategy shapes the sustainable development of the organization. The author also explains why commitment of top management is necessary, what it is, and how it can benefit the organization.


Practical implications
– This effort is symbolized by the involvement of resources in projects conducted to improve organizational functions. The result of the capacity growth is increased ability to confront new challenges.


Originality/value
– The author claims that the strategy for sustainable development is shaping the conditions for a gradual increase in the capacity of the resources used in the improvement process. The growth in resource capacity in the repeatedly run improvement projects can serve as a model of organizational learning. The learning process requires effort.