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This paper investigated achieving education objectives in public secondary schools in Oyo West Local Government Area of Oyo State: By adopting the Policies Advocacy Approach. A descriptive survey research design was adopted. The population of the study was all teachers in public secondary schools in Oyo West Local Government Area of Oyo State. The study sampled out ten public secondary schools through simple random sampling technique. In each school, fifteen teachers were randomly selected. A total of 150 respondents were selected. The research instrument adopted was a self-developed questionnaire titled "Education Policy Advocacy and Implementation Questionnaire (EPAIQ)". Reliability of the instrument was carried out and coefficient of 0.85 was obtained using alpha Cronbach. Also, Pearson's Product Moment Correlation analysis as used to analyse the two hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that there was significant relationship between education policy advocacy and education policy implementation among teachers in public secondary schools (r = 0.473; df = 120; at p < 0.05). Also, there was significant relationship between education policy advocacy and achievement of educational objectives in public secondary schools (r = 0.40; df = 118 at p < 0.05). It was therefore recommended that citizen participation should be encouraged, decision-making at all levels of government and the creation of positive change for people and their environment should encouraged and need for awareness among stakeholders.

Russo-Western relations after the declared end of the Cold War, just as on the eve and in the middle of it, have been fraught with developments pointing towards the persisting distrust and disgust in one another's perceptions cast against the background of officially declared truce. Such a decades-long half-truth-balancing has gradually lost its flexibility and acceptability and culminated in what much of the current academic debate calls, since 2014, a "Russian-Ukrainian conflict", but what, in fact, presents an extension to the latent Russo-Western conflict that embarked upon the end of the Cold War – a "cold peace".This article aims to reveal the origins, form and substance of the current Russian hybrid gambling in Ukraine by addressing the essential notions in international but also domestic politics – trust, truth, lies/deception, distrust, war and peace immensely trapped by politics of incremental hybridity and interpretivism.

Russo-Western relations after the declared end of the Cold War, just as on the eve and in the middle of it, have been fraught with developments pointing towards the persisting distrust and disgust in one another's perceptions cast against the background of officially declared truce. Such a decades-long half-truth-balancing has gradually lost its flexibility and acceptability and culminated in what much of the current academic debate calls, since 2014, a "Russian-Ukrainian conflict", but what, in fact, presents an extension to the latent Russo-Western conflict that embarked upon the end of the Cold War – a "cold peace".This article aims to reveal the origins, form and substance of the current Russian hybrid gambling in Ukraine by addressing the essential notions in international but also domestic politics – trust, truth, lies/deception, distrust, war and peace immensely trapped by politics of incremental hybridity and interpretivism.

The European Union (EU) enlargement went through strong processes of Europeanisation that, apart from revealing the regulatory power of the EU, reflect its ability to transform the identity of those countries candidates to membership. Considered as one of the most important and successful instruments of foreign and security action, the succeeding enlargement policies to the East, particularly those of 2004 and 2007, represented a significant contribution for the establishment of an extended security community. An assessment on the countries of the West Balkans is presented, since their processes of accession to the EU now extend for more than a decade. The undeniable geopolitical and geostrategic significance, shown throughout history by the risks of spreading the internal conflicts across the European borders, make this region one of the most vital of the EU's periphery, to its security. In spite of this significance, the current "enlargement fatigue", motivated largely by the lack of consensus amongst member-states, drives away the countries of the Balkans from veering towards the EU, thereby rendering them more susceptible to the influence of foreign players, particularly that of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey. In that context, it is argued that the EU, by setting aside the enlargement politic to the countries of the West Balkans, gives a deeply negative sign to the region, moving them away from the criteria established for the europeanization processes reached so far, and as a consequence, placing themselves under de influence of foreign players, circumstances which jeopardise the stability in the EU periphery.

In dem Beitrag geht es um die Verwendung und den Erklaerungswert des Totalitarismusbegriffes in der politikwissenschaftlichen Diskussion. Deutlich wird, dass Befuerworter und Gegner dieses Begriffes in der Bundesrepublik meist einen nichtwissenschaftlichen Nebeneffekt erzielen wollen. Entweder wird er illegitimerweise auf alle sozialistischen Denkmodelle ausgedehnt oder aber ganz verworfen, um so zu verhindern, dass die sozialistischen Staaten als totalitaer klassifiziert werden. Demgegenueber zeigt die Diskussion der wissenschaftlichen Argumentationsstrategien, dass der Begriff abseits politischer Opportunitaeten einen hohen Erklaerungswert besitzt, auf den in der rein wissenschaftlichen Analyse nicht verzichtet werden kann.

Following the Second World War, Germany no longer enjoyed the trust of other nations. What did West Germany do to rebuild confidence? What was the role of trust, mistrust, and supervision during the East-West conflict as West Germany was integrated into the Western alliance, and how did they affect international relations between the two blocs? This study examines personal ties, rhetorical strategies, and institutional connections