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This first and only university textbook of human security is intended as an introductory text from senior undergraduate level up and includes chapters by 24 authors,from BC, Canada, and around the globe, that encompass the full spectrum of disciplines contributing to the human security field. It is based on the four pillar model of socio-political security, economic security, environmental security and health security. The chapters include learning outcomes, extension activities,and suggested readings; a comprehensive glossary lists key terms used throughout the book. It can be used in courses on international studies and relations, political studies, history, human geography, anthropology and human ecology, futures studies, applied social studies, public health, and more.

In the article, based on the analysis of the treatise Policraticus, on the Frivolities of Courtiers and the Footprints of Philosophers (1159), the author explores the social and political ideas of the prominent English intellectual, diplomat and writer John of Salisbury (1115/1120–1180), and above all the arguments about the virtuous sovereign, his power, duties and functions, as well as society ("healthy" and "ill"), considered in the context of the medieval theory of the "body politic". The author studies the key ideas of the thinker, including the "middle way" that a pious ruler should follow, avoiding extremes in actions and judgements, and also finds out John's interpretation of law and justice as regulators of life.

Hybrid mismatch arrangements are means of structuring cross-border transactions which result into double taxation or double nontaxation due to differences in the legal qualification of the taxpayer's status or the legal qualification of the type of income. Hybrid mismatches arise due to imperfection of legislative techniques and are often accidental, but in some cases hybrid mismatch arrangements act as a way of committing tax offenses, leading to base erosion and profit shifting. The key provisions against the intentional use of hybrid mechanisms aimed at tax avoidance are being specified at the level of national legislations. One of the problems arising out of such norms' adoption is concluded in providing them with compliance to tax certainty principle, which acts as a guarantee of tax legislation application in accordance with the content of public interest laid down into them, and as the means of protecting the taxpayers' reasonable expectations at the stage of law enforcement. This article analyzes the existing antihybrid mismatch provisions of the certain foreign tax legislations (on the examples of the United States of America, of the United Kingdom and of the members of the European Union) for their compliance with the tax certainty principle.

The article develops models and methods for calculating quantitative indicators of the response of the national state and society to the hazard of spreading COVID-19 coronavirus infection in different countries. There are used the concepts, models and methods in reliability theory to describe the development of the epidemiological situation with probability functions (possibilities) of no-failure operations (survival, health protection), probability density (distribution) of the failure (infection rates), integrated hazard of infection, failure rate (risk to take ill), acceptable risk, and manageability of the epidemic situation. Government control is carried out through pressure on the acceptable risk. Based on the results of statistical processing of data on the number of confirmed cases of the disease in different countries, a comparative analysis of the epidemic process in different national circumstances of the fight against the world pandemic was conducted. The reliability functions are based on a double interpretation of the equation of changes in the hazard measure over time and on the factors of development of the epidemic process, in particular, the age structure of the population is taken into account. The mathematical and statistical analyses are based on the exponential hazard equation, which is represented in a semi-logarithmic scale by a linear dependence on time. Nonlinear distortions are due to variations in the controlled value of acceptable risk and show national features of regulating the epidemic load on the population. The results obtained confirm the model's efficiency in clear terms of reliability theory and determine the direction of its improvement in the context of an ongoing global pandemic on the basis of newly emerging data and circumstances for a better understanding of the features of current processes across countries and continents.

In this article the phenomenon of boredom is considered in a paradoxical way. On the one hand, we have before us the substance of spoiled time, that is, the content of life, which is identical with its emptiness. But human adulthood is largely determined by the ability to deal with boredom, to make it bearable. And the most important way to this is the reception of art as a symbolic production. Boredom allows you to deal with not relevant things. Thus it is in it, in the background boredom, that the art of opuses gets its most reliable support