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What changes when a young child begins to leave toddlerhood behind? How do you keep track of your child's good and bad experiences at nursery and kindergarten and support her through them? What is the best way to cope with temper tantrums, and why do they happen?. Louise Emanuel presents practical tips and a great deal of emotional reassurance for both the first-time and the experienced parent. She offers helpful guidance on a range of topics, from managing sibling rivalry and ensuring everyone in the family gets a good night's sleep, to encouraging conversation and imaginative solitary and so

In Emanuel Adler's distinctive constructivist approach to international relations theory, international practices evolve in tandem with collective knowledge of the material and social worlds. This book - comprising a fresh selection of his journal publications, a substantial new introduction, three previously unpublished articles - points IR constructivism in a novel direction, characterized as 'communitarian'. Adler's synthesis does not herald the end of the nation-state; nor does it suggest that agency is unimportant in international life. Rather, it argues that what mediates between individual and state agency and social structures are communities of practice, which are the wellspring and repositories of collective meanings and social practices. The concept of communities of practice casts new light on epistemic communities and security communities, helping to explain why certain ideas congeal into human practices and others do not, and which social mechanisms can facilitate the emergence of normatively better communities.

Es gibt noch kein republikanisches Europa, und eine "Republik Europa" steht auch in Zukunft nicht zu erwarten. Aber die Entfaltung republikanischer Elemente in der Europäischen Union ist notwendig, um ihren anhaltenden Demokratiedefiziten abzuhelfen. Das Buch legt die normative Elle einer zeitgemäßen Theorie des Republikanismus an die gegenwärtigen Verlaufsformen der europäischen Integration und zeigt damit in einer neuartigen Pointierung die demokratischen Defizite der europäischen Einigung auf - den eklatanten Mangel an europäischem Republikanismus. Es setzt sich aber auch mit den vorhandenen Ansatzpunkten und Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten einer partizipatorischen Demokratie in der Europäischen Union auseinander und entwickelt auf der Basis des republikanischen Modells konkrete Handlungsanleitungen, die zu einer größeren Entfaltung von Demokratie erforderlich sind - im Sinne einer nachholenden Zivilisierung Europas

The various sociability concepts of the 18th century made a decisive contribution to the transition from medieval social structure to early modern society. After the religious wars of the 17th century, there emerged a concept of peaceable, tolerant, and self-determined coexistence born of unremitting interplay between literary models, experimental group-formation, and cultural values. The tension immanent in that concept between untrammeled development of the personality and socially required norms of behaviour has remained a characteristic feature of the modern age to the present day.

I. Das Ausmaß politischer Herrschaft und die Demokratie -- II. Das Ideal demokratischer Herrschaft im kleinen Raum -- III. Die Apologie der räumlichen Ausdehnung -- IV. Die Widersprüche zwischen einer grenzenlosen Vernunft und einem begrenzten Herrschaftsgebiet -- V. Die expansive Herrschaft der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft -- VI. Die verlorene Autonomie des Staates -- VII. Die Expansion der Herrschaft und die politische Praxis -- VIII. Neues Heimatgefühl oder Modernisierungskritik? Von der Theorie der Staatsgröße zur Aufklärung über die Regelungsdichte.

In a country with a deep-rooted Catholicism such as Malta, cases and stories about the 'misbehaviour' of priests and clerics have always attracted the attention of one and all. One of G. Wettinger's most widely read works is in fact a paper on clerical concubinage between 1420 and 1550, not least because of the on-going debate in Catholic countries as to whether or not Catholic priests should be allowed to marry. In late medieval and sixteenth-century Europe the clerical estate extended far beyond those in priestly orders and contained a vast underbelly of men who were technically clerics, but who in effect lived as laymen. The effect of this was severely to blur the line which in theory separated the clerical estate from the rest of society. In this vein, the unfolding of Joannes Matheo Camilleri's life presents a clear-cut example of those practices which the Tridentine Church would be vigoursly addressing from the second half of the sixteenth century. ; peer-reviewed

En un mundo cada vez más convulsionado, en donde día a día se suscitan conflictos armados de índole interno como internacional, la población civil se convierte en la más afectada en todos los casos. Sin embargo hay un sector de la misma que se presenta mucho más indefensa en estas situaciones: los niños. La educación no formal y el trabajo de la Organización Mundial del Movimiento Scout y de la Asociación Mundial de Guías Scouts se plantean como una alternativa en la educación de aquellos niños afectados en los conflictos armados de manera directa o indirecta. La educación en valores en diferentes zonas del planeta mediante convenios con UNICEF y ACNUR propone una opción diferente en el trabajo con niños protegiendo su niñez y respetando la identidad propia de su pueblo. En la actualidad, no cabe la importancia de los programas de "peace building" como método para la solución pacifica y definitiva de los conflictos, y es esta alternativa una opción para construcción a largo plazo de una mejor juventud ciudadana fortalecida en valores como la paz y la democracia. ; Área temática: Política internacional. "Teorías y prácticas de las relaciones internacionales globales, nacionales, locales" ; Instituto de Relaciones Internacionales