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"In this reconceptualization of the history of U.S. foreign policy, Walter L. Hixson contends that a mythical national identity, which includes the notion of American moral superiority and the duty to protect all of humanity, has had remarkable continuity through the centuries, repeatedly propelling America into war against an endless series of external enemies. As this myth has supported violence, violence in turn has supported the myth." "The Myth of American Diplomacy shows the deep connections between American foreign policy and the domestic culture from which it springs. Hixson examines the discourses within America that have continuously inspired what he calls our "pathologically violent foreign policy," and he suggests some ways to redirect foreign policy toward a more just and peaceful world."--Jacket

Contrary to the hopes for the progressive and constructive development of Russian-American relations after the collapse of the bipolar world and the end of the ideological confrontation between Marxism-Leninism and liberal capitalism, the United States and the Russian Federation are currently in a state of a new "cold war". Although both the United States and the Russian Federation are currently capitalist states, there is an irreconcilable ideological struggle between them, where Russian bourgeois nationalism collides with American liberal globalism. A new detente in Russian-American relations is possible only after reducing the intensity of this ideological confrontation.

Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm är en antologi om Rysslands modernisering och presenterar resultat efter ett stort projekt som forskargruppen av 34 medverkande författare bedrivit vid Aleksanteriinstitutet under ledning av Markku Kivinen och Brendan Humphreys.
Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm presents the result of a large project about Russian modernization conducted by a research group of 34 participants at the Aleksanteri Institute under the leadership of Markku Kivinen and Brendan Humphreys.

Sollte der Staat mittels einer aktiven Industriepolitik, die die Belange der Wettbewerbspolitik hintan stellt, Unternehmen "züchten", die im Wettbewerb auf dem Weltmarkt bestehen können? Für Prof. Dr. Juergen Donges, Universität zu Köln, stoßen staatliche Initiativen zum Champions-Building oder Champions-Defending sehr schnell an Grenzen der Wirksamkeit. Der bessere Weg sei die Schaffung von Rahmenbedingungen, bei denen die Unternehmen einen starken Anreiz haben, im Inland in Forschung und Entwicklung zu investieren und eine rasche Umsetzung von Forschungsergebnissen in neue, marktfähige Produkte zu erreichen. Nach Ansicht von Dr. Dieter Heuskel, Boston Consulting Group, "steht (es) außer Frage, dass die Entwicklung international wettbewerbsfähiger Unternehmensstrategien in erster Linie Aufgabe des Managements ist. Dazu zählt auch die Entscheidung über Investitionen und Standorte. Es bleibt jedoch Aufgabe der Politik - sowohl der nationalen wie vor allem der europäischen Wirtschaftspolitik -, die Wettbewerbsbedingungen so zu gestalten, dass europäische Unternehmen im internationalen Wettbewerb wie auch an ihrem Ausgangsstandort "bewegungsfähig" sind und strategisch agieren können." Für Dr. Kurt Christian Scheel, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie, Berlin, ist die Frage nicht, ob wir nationale Champions brauchen, sondern: "Natürlich sind Champions wünschenswert. Aber: Diese sollen sich aus eigener Kraft nach den Gesetzen des Marktes entwickeln. Nur der Markt kann entscheiden, welches Unternehmen wächst und welches scheitert. Die Aufgabe des Staats ist es, durch geeignete Rahmenbedingungen dafür zu sorgen, dass Deutschland für Investitionen attraktiv bleibt, die Grundlage dieses Wachstums sind."

The Russian excellence project, referred to as the 5–100 program, is coming to an end. While it did not accomplish one of its goals to catapult some Russian universities into the top 100 of the global university rankings, the project achieved a number of important objectives. These include internationalization, improved management, and strengthened research infrastructure and productivity. The Russian government is currently considering a new program for university improvement.

The current study was designed to provide further information on characteristics of adolescent sexual offenders who have and have not experienced abuse. The subjects were approximately 300 adolescent offenders seen in a clinical treatment program. Abused and nonabused adolescent offenders were compared on a number of offense-specific variables and standardized instruments including the MMPI, Interpersonal Behavior Survey, Family Adaptation and Cohesion Evaluation Scale, and Self-Reported Delinquent Behavior Checklist. Results indicated that those offenders who were sexually abused had an earlier onset of their offending, had more victims, were likely to abuse both males and females, and tended to show more psychopathology and interpersonal problems, although no differences were found in terms of self-reported delinquent behavior or family functioning. The data are discussed in terms of their possible etiological significance and clinical implications.

Homeland Security Affairs Journal Special COVID-19 Issue ; The article record may be found at https://www.hsaj.org/articles16533 ; The effects of the novel coronavirus and its related disease COVID-19 have been far reaching, touching American society and its Western partners' health and mortality, economics, social relationships, and politics. The effects have highlighted longstanding societal divisions, disproportionately harming minority groups and the socioeconomically disadvantaged with Black…CONTINUE READING ; Sponsored the U. S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA, CHDS is part of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS).

The article analyses the development of Russian retail networks. Special attention is paid to key issues to win position on the local commercial market, where sales entities set up networks of various complexity. Generalizing the experience of performance of main sales networks on the Russian market, the article points out strengthening of the competitive activity and sets up key trends to improve their functioning. There is It gives trend forecast for expansion of sales networks in Russian regions.

This paper analyses and assesses how existing policies and approaches in South Asia consider long-term climate change adaptation. Presently, it is unclear what approaches are used in the existing policies to cope with the future climatic changes. Our research framework consists of two components. First, we identify and define key characteristics of adaptation policy approaches based on a review of scientific journal articles. The key characteristics identified are institutional flexibility, adaptive nature, scalability and reflexivity. Second, we analyse the presence of these characteristics in the climate change adaptation policies of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Our findings show that the four South Asian countries contribute to only 8% of the total journal articles on adaptation policy, with least papers representing Pakistan and Nepal. Reviewing the adaptation policies, we find that except for the Climate Change Policy of Nepal, none of the policies discusses transboundary scale adaptation approaches. The identified adaptation policies lack focus on shared transboundary resources between the countries, and instead focus at national or sub-national scale. This is reflected by relatively low scores for the scalability characteristic. All the countries show high scores for institutional flexibility, suggesting that changing roles and responsibilities between government agencies for adaptation planning and implementation is accepted in the four countries. We conclude that to prevent a loss of flexibility and to promote scalability of shared transboundary resources, policy approaches such as anticipatory governance, robust decision-making, and adaptation pathways can be useful for long-term climate change adaptation.

I attempt to answer the question about the place of Eurasianism in the Russian intellectual tradition. I reconstruct its historiosophical assumptions as well the political ideology following from them. I share the opinion of certain historians that Eurasianism is interesting for a variety of reasons, but I disagree with those who see in it nothing more than a synthesis of standard ideas often found in the history of Russian thought. Eurasianism's originality includes its acknowledgment of the positive contribution of the Mongols to the history of the Russian state, the radicalism of its critique of the West, the innovativeness of its theory of revolution, as well as the absence, unusual for Russian thinkers of the period, of an eschatological sensitivity. Adapted from the source document.