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As a rule, the dominant research strategy of the ethnicity politicization factors includes case-study analysis or comparison of small number of cases. There are no cross-regional comparative studies. In this paper, a statistical analysis is carried out to determine the degree of influence of various factors on the ethnic minorities' politicization in the regions of the EU countries. It is proposed to understand the ethnic minorities politicization as a presence and an electoral success of ethnic parties in the regions. 113 ethnic minorities living in the regions of 16 countries of the European Union were selected for the analysis by the methods of logistic and linear regression. The research found that the share of ethnic minority in the population of a region, the historical past of ethnic minorities, the size of their area of residence and the degree of separation have positive influence on the politicization. However, it was not possible to identify a positive influence of the religious character of the ethnic minority and the level of its economic well-being on politicization.

In recent years, the South China Sea area has become the arena of competition between the countries of Southeast Asia that set up claims to maritime areas and the islands, and, all the more, want to control and exploit what can be found under the seabed, namely the deposits of oil and gas. The situation in the area cannot even be resolved by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego Bay, 1982). Apart from the resources found in the sea and under the seabed, this body of water is an important shipping route, which makes it a strategically significant area for each of the countries located there, or those whose interests involve the South China Sea. In this work, I describe the current situation in the waters of South China Sea: whether the countries bordering it strive for conflict or just secure their interests. It turns out each of the states will set up demands to the islands on this sea and especially to everything that lives in the sea and is to be found under the seabed. Minor, and also more significant incidents will happen, but it does not seem likely that any serious open conflict between the states of the region will break out in the close future. None of the countries pursues it and they do everything they can to maintain the status quo.

The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to the understanding of the domestic patterns of the political competition in Turkey. Moreover, the paper will also focus on the new doctrine of Turkish foreign policy implemented after the electoral victory of the pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP) in November 2002. In this article the AKP political platform is analyzed as a moderate pro-Islamic party because of its past connections with the Islamic National Outlook Movement of Necmettin Erbakan. In literature on the topic, all the Islamic political parties were connected to the political thought of N. Erbakan and known as the organizations of the National Outlook Movement tradition (Milli Görüş Hareketi). It should be noted that on this point, the first party was the National Order Party (Milli Nizam Partisi), second, the National Salvation Party (Milli Selamet Partisi), third the Welfare Party (Refah Partisi) and fourth the Virtue Party (Fazilet Partisi).

Book review of Serious Whitefella Stuff: When solutions become the problem in Indigenous affairs by Mark Moran.

"A fascinating new study in which John McAleer explores the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope and its critical role in the establishment, consolidation and maintenance of the British Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Situated at the centre of a maritime chain that connected seas and continents, this gateway bridged the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, which, with its commercial links and strategic requirements, formed a global web that reflected the development of the British Empire in the period. The book examines how contemporaries perceived, understood and represented this area; the ways in which it worked as an alternative hub of empire, enabling the movement of people, goods, and ideas, as well as facilitating information and intelligence exchanges; and the networks of administration, security and control that helped to cement British imperial power"--

First published in 1984. The Study Group on U.S.-Cuban Relations was organized under the auspices of the Central American and Caribbean Program (CACP) at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. The Study Group on U.S.-Cuban Relations met on three separate occasions. The first meeting on January 24 and 25, 1983, was devoted to discussion of U.S.. interests and policy objectives in Cuba. The second meeting on February 28 was dedicated to analysis of the current U.S. policy toward Cuba, and the final session on March 25 focused on policy options. The following report is a synthesis of the three discussions

The article presents the results of a theoretical analysis of the political worldview as part of the subjective space of politics in a network society and its empirical verification. The author shows that the integration of phenomenology and the network approach allows researchers to advance their understanding of content and parameters of the political worldview of network communities as part of the subjective space of modern public policy. The analysis of the discourse of network communities makes it possible to identify, describe and analyze the features of their political worldview. The author presents an original methodology, created within the framework of the RFBR research project "Subjective Space of Politics: Opportunities and Challenges of a Network Society", for studying the political world view of network communities and the empirical results obtained with its usage. In particular, the typology of political worldviews existing in network communities is described. It reflects the structural and substantive components of the political worldview in the discourse of network communities: the core of the political worldview (reflecting the ontological level of the political worldview, including images of the Motherland, state, power), political roles, political institutions (the last two clusters reflect the basic level of the political worldview elements), political participation (reflects the instrumental level of the political worldview), socio-political problems). The typology of political worldviews of network communities identified (zero, horizontal, non-political, activity and political world view of active resistance) requires verification in further research. An important result of the empirical analysis is the identification of two political worldview profiles (closed and open) and their connection with the dominant type of participant socio-political activity in network communities. Further study in this direction will improve analytical and predictive tools for research and practical work with network communities.

In Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, interdisciplinary scholar André Brock, Jr. offers a timely and powerful examination of Blackness in the digital age. The book centers Black technology use from Black perspectives and investigates the online distribution of Black discourses. In six exploratory chapters, Brock reconceptualizes Black technoculture in a way that corrects deficit models of Black digital practice.

ABSTRACTObjectivesPopulation subgroups can be been used organize health services and understand the quality of health care. Most commonly, populations are have been by specific diseases (e.g., health care received by diabetes patients), patient age (e.g., elderly populations), or life-stage (e.g., end-of-life care). However, these subgroups may not adequately capture the complexity and/or health care needs of different patient groups (e.g., multi-morbidity, frail elderly). Our objective is to use health administrative data to develop population segments based on patients' primary health care needs.
ApproachOur development process occurred in three stages. First, we examined examples of population segmentation in the peer reviewed and grey literature to develop principles for our population segments. Second, we held a workshop with primary care patients, decision-makers, clinicians and researchers to seek their input on important considerations for the population segments. Third, we used health administrative data (physician claims, hospitalisations) to develop population segments for the British Columbia (BC, Canada) population. Segments were based on diagnosis codes over a two year period; for each segment we examined health care use and costs, overall and by service type, in 2014-15. ResultsWe designed our segments to be mutually exclusive, capture the vast majority of people who use primary care services, and range from healthy patients (fewer primary care needs) to more complex patients (more extensive needs). Stakeholders were supportive of population segmentation approach and suggested incorporating patient vulnerability and primary care involvement such that segments would range from patients whose needs could be fully met in primary care to those who require additional services such as specialists/acute care. Our first iteration includes three segments: stable (≤1 chronic condition, needs met by primary care); multi-morbid (≥2 chronic conditions, needs mostly met by primary care); and complex (≤1 chronic condition and presence of a health care event associated with the management of this condition suggesting the patients' needs not fully met by primary care). ConclusionWe developed population segments designed to account for patient complexity and primary health care needs; as such, segments provide more information than traditional indices of morbidity burden based on counts of chronic conditions. These segments will be used to report information on the quality of primary care. We plan to include conduct validation studies using additional variables (e.g, socio-economic factors, level of vulnerability from patient surveys) so that segments more accurately represent the level of complexity and patients' primary health care needs.

The article concerns the study of municipal practices of the winners of the All-Russian competition "Best Municipal Practice" 2018–2022 in the category "Strengthening of international peace and harmony, implementation of other activities in the fi eld of national policy at the municipal level". This question is of both scientifi c and practical interest, as it makes it possible to use this experience to harmonize international and interreligious relations in municipalities. Th e process of growth of competition participants in this nomination, which indicates the interest of the population and local governments in the development of this type of activity, is considered. Based on the study of the practices of the competition winners, the main areas of practical activity of municipal authorities, which are the most significant for the effective solution of problems of state national policy, are identified. Examples of successful implementation of practices in all identified areas, which can be used for replication by other municipalities of the country, are given.

The aim of the study is to provide the reader with an insight into the transformation of Russia's economic space under the conditions of "new reality/normality". In this regard, the author summarizes theoretical and methodo-logical approaches to understanding the term "economic space", among which the territorial, resource, infor-mation, process, reproductive and institutional approaches are highlighted. Based on the thesis that changes in the contribution of production factors to the formation of wealth, the decline in economic rationality and the in-crease in the uncertainty factor lead to a significant transformation of economic space, the authors analyzed its properties and features of formation. The analysis of population density and the volume of gross regional product per unit area made it possible to draw a conclusion about the growing heterogeneity of economic space in the conditions of the "new reality". There is a high digital divide between Russian territories and an increase in ESG inequality.

The modern era emphasizes new types of subjectivity, including digital genera­tion and its radical transformation in the image of a virtual person. The values aimed at "network success", "digital footprint", the desire to consume ready-made content, come into collision with traditional values based on reflexive comprehension. The article analyzes the problem of transferring humanitarian values to the digital generation. Attention is focused, firstly, on the characteris­tics of a virtual person; secondly, on the use of the "online platform" metaphor as a pattern for communicating cultural values; thirdly, on the analysis of the pro­gramming impact of digital technologies. The research relies on A. Clark's the­ory of expanding capabilities of mind, on the conclusions by D. Haraway regard­ing cyborg, on J. Urry's views on modern society, represented by complex socio-natural hybrids, on H. Tolu's view on cyber-luddism. The article demonstrates that the translation of cultural values is based on the effect of "datafication" and the "data is essential" criterion. The effects of the digital world are viewed as be­ing ambivalent by nature. The adoption of human-digital integration is accompa­nied by a sharp opposition to the world created by computers and networks. Conclusions are drawn on the need for humanitarian protest against the tendency to destroy human values.

The article analyzes the role of Leningrad in the structure of scientific and technical cooperation between the USSR and SRV in 1976– 1983 on the basis of archival data. The author comes to a conclusion about high quality results of Leningrad institutions collaborating with SRV, successes of Leningrad leadership in cooperation with regions of Vietnam, involvement of most large industrial enterprises, leading higher educational institutions, design and research organizations of the city in scientific and technical cooperation between the USSR and SRV.