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National audience ; Dans un contexte régional où la position chinoise devient de plus en plus forte et inquiétante, les Jeux Olympiques de Tokyo auraient pu representer une occasion importante pour Tōkyō de se débarrasser de l'image de Pays en difficulté pour se (ré) attribuer ensuite à une nation économiquement et politiquement solide, avec une vision géopolitique claire à long terme.Cet article part de l'hypothèse que Tōkyō 2020 aurai pu se transformer dans un événement visant à faire comprendre aux gensau reste de la région dans quelle mesure le Japon est encore capable de jouer un rôle décisif en Asie, en tant que principal point de référence sur les plans politique, économique et technologique.

Personalabteilungen gelten traditionell als wenig datenaffin, geraten aber immer stärker unter Druck, die Wirksamkeit betrieblicher Personalmanagementaktivitäten und Mitarbeiterinvestitionen auszuweisen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wächst das Interesse an "Workforce-" bzw. "People Analytics", die innerhalb der Managementliteratur sowie von Beratungs- und Softwareeunternehmen als revolutionäres Tool und Wegbereiter eines datengetriebenen und evidenzbasierten Managements propagiert werden. Über eine algorithmenbasierte Analyse der Zusammenhänge zwischen dem Arbeitsverhalten und den Kompetenzen von Mitarbeitenden, der Personalmanagement- und Führungspraxis sowie unternehmensbezogenen Performancegrössen sollen die Qualität der Managemententscheide und die Ausschöpfung von Mitarbeiterpotenzialen massgeblich erhöht werden. Unser Beitrag analysiert auf Basis von zwei explorativen Unternehmensfallstudien die organisationale Einbettung von People Analytics aus einer kritischen Perspektive. Er arbeitet fünf Problemfelder für das Personalmanagement und die managerielle Entscheidungskultur sowie relevante arbeitspolitische Aspekte heraus. ; Traditionally being considered to have little data affinity, HR departments are coming under increasing pressure to demonstrate the effectiveness of their activities. Against this background, HR managers show a growing interest in "workforce" or "people analytics", which are celebrated in management literature and by consulting and software development companies as revolutionary tools of a data- driven and evidence-based management. By means of an algorithm-based analysis of the relationships between the work behaviour/skills of employees, HRM/leadership practice and company-related performance variables, not only the quality of management decisions, but also the exploitation of employee potential is to be significantly increased. On the basis of two explorative company case studies, our contribution analyses the organisational embedding and application of people analytics from a ...

"Global Studies" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Haiti: Deconstructing Military Entanglements in Politics" published on by Oxford University Press.

The Multilinks project explores how demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being and social integration. The project examines a) multiple linkages in families (e.g. transfers up and down family lineages, interdependencies between older and younger family members); b) multiple linkages across time (measures at different points in time, at different points in the individual and family life course); c) multiple linkages between, on the one hand, national and regional contexts (e.g. policy regimes, economic circumstances, normative climate, religiosity) and, on the other hand, individual behaviour, well-being and values.



The conceptual approach builds on three key premises. First, ageing affects all age groups: the young, the middle-aged and the old. Second, there are critical interdependencies between family generations as well as between men and women. Third, we must recognize and distinguish analytical levels: the individual, the dyad (parent-child, partners), family, region, historical generation and country.



The database aims to map how the state, in form of public policies and legal norms, defines and regulates intergenerational obligations within the family. What is the contribution of public authorities to support and secure financial and care needs for the young and the elderly in the family? In what ways the state assumes that intergenerational responsibilities are a family matter? In order to answer these questions the database includes a dual intergenerational perspective: upwards generations; from children to parents; and downwards; from parents to children. It looks across a variety of social policies and also includes legal obligations to support. It entails over 70 indicators on social policy rights, legal obligations to support, and care service usage. It offers a structured access to the public support for families with children and for elderly people within 30 European countries for 2004 and 2009.





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The research project MULTILINKS (How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being, and social integration: A Multilinks framework) existed from 2009 to 2011. It has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2011) under grant agreement n° 217523.



After the end of the project the results were made available as a web application and as individual datasets together with the documentation files by the WZB (http://multilinks-database.wzb.eu). Since 2020, this website no longer exists. The single datasets and reports are available here unchanged.



However, the web application, together with the documents, is still available through the "Gender & Generations Programme (GGP)" and the French Institute for Demographic Research (INED). There you will find further information, additional descriptive variables and full possibilities to explore and navigate through the database. For more details see: https://www.ggp-i.org/data/multilinks-database/

In the following research, I investigate whether hard offensive counterterrorism results in the failure or success of a counterterrorism strategy. In the second chapter, the academic literature of counterterrorism strategies is examined. Next, a hypothesis is put forth that if a hard offensive counterterrorism strategy is utilized, indicators such as high troop levels, more civilian casualties, more negative public opinion, and an increased rate of terrorism, will point to a failed counterterrorism strategy. Then, I put forth a methodology to test the hypothesis while introducing troop level databases, various public opinion polling sources, and terrorist attack databases to investigate the given variables. In the third chapter, a case study of the Iraq War is utilized, in which the initial invasion from 2003-2006 and the Surge/Withdrawal eras from 2007-2011 are examined. Both time periods are compared to see if hard offensive counterterrorism used in 2003-2006 resulted in a less effective counterterrorism campaign than the softer counterinsurgency strategies from 2007-2011. Data from the Brookings Iraq Index, Iraq Body Count, and Global Terrorism Database are then analyzed to investigate the variables of casualties, public opinion, and rate of terrorism during each era in Iraq. In the fourth chapter, the war in Afghanistan is presented as a case study. I then evaluate whether hard offensive counterterrorism used from 2001-2008 resulted in less terrorism than the counterinsurgency strategies of Surge and withdrawal used from 2009-2016. Data from the Congressional Research Service, UNAMA, Physicians for Social Responsibility, the BBC, the Asia Foundation, and the Global Terrorism Database are then utilized to assess each variable. Finally, I present my findings and conclude that evaluating a strategy primarily using hard offensive counterterrorism strategies is rather complex and then present ideas for future research in counterterrorism strategy.

The essay highlights the role played by the Directive (EU) 2017/1371 (called Directive P.F.I. by the acronym Protection of Financial Interests) in the relationship between disciplinary and criminal proceedings and its consequences for EU officials and other public officials who have committed an offense against the EU's financial interests. Hence, it argues that the exercise of disciplinary powers may well be envisaged by national legislation (autonomously) and concludes about the need to reaffirm the legal autonomy of the disciplinary procedure from the criminal one to protect the social dimension of work.

"Industrial Policy and Development in Africa" published on by Oxford University Press.

Coworking spaces have been affirmed in recent years as a mainstream, 'neo-corporate' model of flexible work in post-recession, urban knowledge economies. However, there is growing evidence of spaces that apply the discourses and practices of the coworking movement in ways that are alternative to the neo-corporate paradigm, both in urban and non-urban contexts. Exploring the ethos and practices of an urban co-operative space in London and a rural innovation hub in Southern Italy, the article illustrates the emergence of coworking endeavours that set in opposition to the neo-corporate model, and describes them as 'resilient'. We show that resilient coworking spaces are organisational actors that interact with the surrounding context much more than their counterparts, blending entrepreneurial logics with forms of political and social activism. We argue their emergence might be the harbinger of a new phase in the evolution of the coworking phenomenon.

In "Deliberating Public Policy Issues with Adolescents," the authors described what they determine to be an unsuccessful attempt at deliberative pedagogy on the topic of immigration in three high school classrooms that differed demographically. Specifically, the authors observed that students failed to engage with evidence, stuck with their initial viewpoints, and only listened politely to those with different views, rather than interacting across differences to reach consensus. While student positionality, as the authors suggest, is important to take into account, there may be ways to reorient deliberations on "wicked problems" such as immigration, which are by their nature prone to polarization, to increase student engagement and learning. By questioning what counts as evidence; reframing the problem of immigration to a specific and more nuanced question relating to the food system; and scaffolding student experiences to provide appropriate historical and social context, the activity may offer more engaged learning outcomes that enable students to cultivate what Swartz and McGuffey (2018) referred to as "moral imagination."

This chapter analyses the Freiburger Bonhoeffer-Kreis's 1943 memorandum "Political Community Order: An Attempt of the Christian Conscience in the Political Hardships of Our Time". Its authors intended the memorandum, dealing with ethical, political and economic foundations of a post-war European order, to serve as a basis for discussion at the 1948 Amsterdam conference where the World Council of Churches (WCC) was established. By conceptualising it as a 'blueprint', the framework it provided for both the role of Christian ethics and that of a social market economy in a new political era will be revisited. Moreover, by introducing the concept of 'emotives', this chapter shows how associations with a specific vocabulary were applied to oppose National Socialism and to pave the way for an alternative conception of community order. By studying the nexus between emotions and informal networks this chapter offers a framework that can shed new light on European integration history. All in all, this chapter explicates how European integration from the beginning also entailed moral and spiritual dimensions.