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The role of family in influencing sports behaviour is widely recognized. This article extends this body of knowledge by examining how the family influences young people's responses to sport programmes operating in international development contexts. Recognizing the central role of the family as a social institution, the article highlights the cultural significance and specificity of the family, and the importance of this to sport programmes which aim to foster social change. Drawing on empirical data from studies in India, Zambia and Brazil, the multiple and contradictory roles that families play in relation to three sport programmes are analysed. It is shown that while families may support and even extend the positive impact of programmes, they might equally resist them, and in some cases may even be a source of the problems that such initiatives seek to alleviate. The article concludes that locating young people's experiences of and responses to sport within their family context is an important step in developing a better understanding of the social and cultural environment within which international development programmes operate.

Der folgende Beitrag befasst sich mit der Erfassung islamistischer Radikalisierungsprozesse durch die Rhetorik. Der Protest politischer Islamisten wird anhand von Indikatoren wie Protestaktionen oder einer konfrontativen Rhetorik zur Mobilisierung politischer Gewalt und terroristischer Anschläge gemessen. Das Ziel dieses Beitrages ist, das Gefahrenpotenzial durch politische Islamisten am Beispiel der mobilisierenden Rhetorik der islamistischen Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT) besser einzuschätzen.English AbstractThe following article deals with the analysis of Islamic radicalization processes through rhetoric. The protest of political Islamists is measured by indicators such as protest actions or confrontational rhetoric to mobilise political violence and terrorist attacks. The aim of this article is to better assess the potential dangers posed by political Islamists using the example of the mobilising rhetoric of the Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT). The article was written in German.

Bien que partageant un socle commun, le périmètre statistique de l'économie sociale (ES) varie d'un pays à l'autre. Dans de nombreux pays, l'ES demeure entièrement sous le radar des agences statistiques. Ceci reflète le déploiement historique et progressif de l'ES dans différents contextes nationaux. Des guides ont été développés pour promouvoir et harmoniser les statistiques de différents sous-ensembles de l'ES à l'échelle internationale. Récemment, l'un de ces guides a proposé de couvrir l'ensemble. Il en a toutefois exclu un bon nombre de coopératives et y a introduit des entités privées à finalité lucrative. Cet article s'intéresse au débat que cette situation suscite quant à la vision de l'ES véhiculée par ses représentations statistiques.

Fluctuations in the numbers of visitors directly affect the rates of return on tourism business activities. Therefore, maintaining a firm grasp of the relationship between the changes in the numbers of Chinese tourists and international travellers visiting Taiwan is conducive to the formulation of an effective and practical tourism strategy. Although the topic of international visitors to Taiwan is important, existing research has discussed the issue of the travel demand between Chinese tourists and international travellers visiting Taiwan. This paper is the first to examine the spillover effects between the rate of change in the numbers of Chinese tourist arrivals and the rate of change in the numbers of international traveller arrivals. Using daily data for Chinese tourists and international travellers visiting Taiwan over the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 October 2016, together with the Diagonal BEKK model, the paper analyses the covolatility spillover effects between the rate of change in the numbers of international travellers and the rate of change in the numbers of Chinese tourists visiting Taiwan. The empirical results show that there is no dependency relationship between the rate of change in the numbers of Chinese tourists and the rate of change in the numbers of international travellers visiting Taiwan. However, there is a significant negative covolatility spillover effect between the rate of change in the numbers of Chinese tourists and the rate of change in the numbers of international travellers. The empirical findings suggest that Taiwan should abandon its development strategy of focusing only on a single market, namely China, and to be pro-active in encouraging visits by international travellers to Taiwan for sightseeing purposes, thereby increasing the willingness of international travellers to visit Taiwan. Moreover, with the reduction in the numbers of Chinese tour groups visiting Taiwan, and increases in the numbers of individual travellers, the Taiwan Government should change its previous travel policies of mainly attracting Chinese tour group travellers and actively promoting in-depth tourism among international tourists, by developing tourism that focuses on the special characteristics of different localities. In this way, the government can enhance the quality of Taiwan's tourism, and also attract travellers with high spending power.

A congressional inquiry to the Department of State concerned the practice of signing documents such as the Trilateral Statement concluded at Moscow on January 14, 1994, by President William J. Clinton, Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin, and Ukraine President Leonid M. Kravchuk and the status of such documents under both United States and international law and practice.

"Despite the end of the Cold War, more countries are obtaining more sophisticated weapons from more suppliers than ever before. This is partly due to the growing number of regional and inter-ethnic conflicts around the world, but it also reflects the political and economic difficulties of weaning public and private enterprise away from the highly lucrative defence industry. Charting the history of the arms dilemma and providing an assessment of the myths and recent trends in weapons development internationally, this book describes the twin motives of welfare and security in the arms market - who buys weapons, who sells them, where they are produced, and how they are (or are not) used."--Provided by publisher.

This project breaks disciplinary silos by bringing those who work in climate finance and policy together with development scholars and practitioners to share lessons, understanding, and research with an overall goal of making a contribution to the climate change field so that those at the community level benefit from the multitude of programmes designed for climate impacts. For some 70 years, International Development specialists have been developing programs and delivering funds to those who most need assistance. There is a wealth of knowledge to be uncovered by examining the international development industry for those who are now tasked with delivering climate finance. The academic, policy, and practitioner communities have spent decades researching, examining, and analyzing both development policies and finance independent of each. This volume will seek to bring that research together. Corrine Cash is Assistant Professor in Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University, Canada. Larry Swatuk is Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Canada.

"The Warsaw Pact is generally regarded as a mere instrument of Soviet power. In the 1960s the alliance nevertheless evolved into a multilateral alliance, in which the non-Soviet Warsaw Pact members gained considerable scope for manoeuvre. This book examines to what extent the Warsaw Pact inadvertently provided its members with an opportunity to assert their own interests, emancipate themselves from the Soviet grip, and influence Soviet bloc policy. Laurien Crump traces this development through six thematic case studies, which deal with such well known events as the building of the Berlin Wall, the Sino-Soviet Split, the Vietnam War, the nuclear question, and the Prague Spring. By interpreting hitherto neglected archival evidence from archives in Berlin, Bucharest, and Rome, and approaching the Soviet alliance from a radically novel perspective, the book offers unexpected insights into international relations in Eastern Europe, while shedding new light on a pivotal period in the Cold War"--