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Факультет международных отношений ; The paper focuses on the specificity of extraterritorial applicability of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It states that throughout practice of judicial and quasi-judicial bodies extraterritorial application of the Covenant is expanding, depending on the special character of power over the enjoyment of human rights, which is exercised by State Parties outside national territory. This expansion is clearly shown in the paper, giving a coherent view on the issue and determining key problem areas.

During the formation of the economic system in Russia in family settings and values changed. Great changes in the political, economic and cultural spheres of our society entail a radical change in psychology, valuable orientations and actions of people. Special urgency acquires today the studying of changes in the minds of today's youth. Inevitable under the existing foundations breaking of values, its crisis is mostly manifested in the minds of people of this social group

"This book explores encounters and interactions between international students and local civil society organizations (CSOs) in Japan. Based on results of a cross-case analysis, this study reveals the possibilities for international students in Japan of creating social capital in the short term in culturally and socially diverse groups. While a conventional approach sees universities as the main support providers, this research shows the role of local CSOs as alternative actors offering international student support. Unlike the long-standing paradigm viewing Japanese civil society as top-down and closely following the government, this book uncovers many decentralized and bottom-up organizational types. Furthermore, it highlights an active part taken by foreign staff and volunteers in Japanese CSOs, which challenges the guest-host dichotomy of the previous literature. Presenting a reconsidered insight into the role of international students and their interaction with CSOs in community building this book will appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies, migration studies as well as organizers of CSOs and faculty of international higher education institutions"--

"A revisionist history of UNEP that recounts previously untold stories, corrects misperceptions, and reveals the life within what is often considered a lifeless bureaucracy"--

This paper discusses the narratives regarding (un)employment which emerged before, during and after German reunification in the East German town of Zwickau. Previous research in the anthropology of postsocialism has argued that the experience of work in socialism provided a foundation for East Germans to contest the viability of modern capitalism. However, I argue that such a "social" alternative has been to a large extent defeated by neoliberal hegemonic discourse. I do so by focusing on the narratives of worth and worthlessness in relation to employment, as well as the processes that shaped these narratives. First, I briefly present my field site and elaborate on the methods of my field research on the automotive industry in Zwickau. Second, using the life story of one of my informants, I show the disparity between personal experiences of dispossession and individual moral economic dispositions. Finally, I discuss the heightened moral and social importance of work in postsocialist former East Germany, the turbulence of its labour market since 1989, the process of welfare state retrenchment, and the narrative of labour shortage as factors which paved the way for the establishment of neoliberal hegemony. These developments, I argue, also contributed to framing issues of employment in individual rather than structural terms.

The stories - subject of this book - were invented in different latitudes during different historical periods, from different societies and different political situation. They tell about the same process - the adoption of Islam in the Balkans, thought somewhere and once as a liberation and national awareness elsewhere and at other times - as a catastrophe. The only official history tells many fragmented stories produced by larger or smaller groups, by more or less people. The stories are alike and not alike. They sometime match. And sometime they repel each other. Or disagree.