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The global spread of Remote Air Warfare expresses the emergence of a riskless unilateral war, aseptic for the offensive, lethal to the enemy and with reduced collateral damage This is the promise and the reality of employment of drones Accepting the objective operational advantages of Remote Air Warfare, this articles aims to determine which strategic differentiators contribute to its future preeminence. We argue that the growing preeminence of Remote Air Warfare will have effects at the operational level, with impact on the conduct of war; genetic effects reflected in the change in the characteristics and capabilities of airpower, and political effects which impact the decision making process about the use of force. Adapted from the source document.

This paper discusses two recent speeches by President Obama and the two different types of changes they introduce, identifying the decision processes they reflect. The first speech implies a move away from the continuity of the security policy adopted by the previous administration, embodied by the Authorization to Use Military Force, announcing changes of the global strategy in the fight against terrorism, a greater judicial and political control on the use of drones and asking Congress to review the legal obstacles it created to the closure of Guantanamo. The second speech appears to invert the promises of the non-interventionist stance adopted by this administration, announcing the intention to use military force to punish the government of Syria for its repeated use of chemical weapons, without a United Nations mandate. Adapted from the source document.

Suggests that US use of airfields in the Azores in 1997 Desert Storm operations and in the 1998 intervention in Kosovo was of marginal military benefit, but did enhance Portugal's political and diplomatic relations with the US. Summary in English p. 256.

The elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council had a foreseeable result, but one that was a bucket of cold water for Israel & for the international community. The election of Hamas generated a predicament, difficult to surpass. The President of the Palestinian Authority then threw a challenge to the Hamas government: the calling of a referendum on the creation of the Palestinian State, should Hamas not accept to the establishment of political negotiations between the Government & the Presidency. However, in the meantime, the abduction of an Israeli soldier brought radical change to Israel-Palestinian setting. Further abduction of two other Israeli soldiers in Lebanon, resulted in Israel deploying military operations in Gaza & in Southern Lebanon. Adapted from the source document.

The UN has a large experience in conflict management, including preventive diplomacy, peacemaking, peacekeeping & peacebuilding. It faces serious difficulties in several cases of prevention & peacemaking, namely when it has to lead military operations where the use of force goes beyond self-defense. It has, however, immense comparative advantages in peacebuilding & the UN should concentrate its resources where its conflict resolution capacities are most efficient. Figures, References. Adapted from the source document.

This article analyses differences between scientific & technological co-operation & collaboration. International cooperation represents opportunities for partners, mainly strategic alliances. In North-South collaborations usually developed countries define the project/program & become the sole owner of the results. Opportunities & risks for countries such as Brazil are to recognize these differences. Tables. Adapted from the source document.

Both NATO & Turkey are going through considerable changes regarding their place in the world. The former is in the process of defining a New Strategic Concept, whilst undertaking its most demanding military operation to date, in Afghanistan. The latter is redrawing its map of alliances, strategic partnerships & overall foreign policy priorities, in both its neighborhood & among the new international emerging powers. It is under this context of mutual changes that this article proposes to analyze the relationship between NATO & Turkey. Adapted from the source document.

The Spanish-American war was the dominant subject of the Portuguese press between April and July of I898. This article analyses the Portuguese reactions to the I898 war. On one hand, it will focus the manner in which the commentaries about the military operations developed into an exercise in cultural critique. And, on the other hand, the way in which the war was used to open a debate on the relations between Portugal and Spain, through which the old Iberian federalism of the liberal left was finally put to rest. Adapted from the source document.

The article aims to find points of approximation on the definition of subjectivity that Sartre exposes in 'Being and nothingness' to the analogue conceptualization from Fichte in 'Science of knowledge'. In order to do so, the strategy adopted here, first, is to analyze how the notion of I as ground arises in the Fichtean thought and culminates in a theory of practical reason that implies in the ontological primacy of action. From this, it will be possible to draw certain points of convergence (and divergence) with the Sartrean operation of founding the cogito in a pre-reflective instância, whose deployment is close to that drawn by Fichte. In a word, the intention is to show how the thought of both authors results in a practical philosophy whose 'leitmotiv' is the purge of any index of reification of consciousness, thus, in the proclamation of the absolute freedom of the subject.

Through this study, we develop a descriptive and comparative analysis of metaphorical sentences which contain verbs with iterative and cursive aspectual meanings. The corpus analyzed in this qualitative and quantitative research has a total of 129 metaphors of Brazilian Portuguese and English. The analysis and description of the data were performed from the Semantic Interaction Theory by Max Black (1993), because it understands and emphasizes that metaphor is a special phenomenon in which the terms that make up the statement interact creating a mental operation, in a view that the language creates reality and ways of thinking (Fossile, 2008a, 2008b, 2008c, 2011a, 2011b, 2012b, 2012c; Dias and Fossile 2014). The methodology used for this descriptive and comparative analysis of the metaphorical occurrences of Brazilian Portuguese and English was developed by Moura (2007) and Fossile (2008a; 2008b; 2008c, 2011a, 2012b, 2012c). We can conclude that there is regularity in interpreting metaphors of Brazilian Portuguese and English and when we interpret a metaphor we do not perform a casual or random interpretation, but it seems to us that we recourse to a structure designed cognitively, in which aspectual values along with the interaction between the topic and the vehicle of a metaphorical sentence seem to be the most important point.

Maternal mortality attracts a lot of discussion and concern in Paraná seen that reflects
the quality of care in health services, as well as the operation of public policies for
women"s health. The aim of this study was to understand the epidemiology of maternal
mortality in the State of Paraná, through review of studies on the subject. It is a
systematic literature review conducted by electronic search of scientific articles
published between 2000 and 2010 in the databases LILACS and SciELO. Initially, it
was identified 30 articles. After application of inclusion and exclusion criteria left 09
articles. The comparison of the data showed a decrease of MMR in the State. Prevailed
direct obstetric causes, with a prevalence of hypertensive diseases. It was concluded that
despite its importance, few articles on maternal mortality in the State of Paraná. The
MMR, although declining, remains at high levels. Such data are necessary to have a
view of the epidemiological situation. They can identify problems and/or failures and
allow for formulating interventionist proposals and order to reduce maternal mortality
rates. More effective actions to reduce preventable maternal deaths in the State are still
indispensable.