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The growing recognition that happiness and well-being are intertwined with sustainability is leading to new opportunities for enhancing happiness and well-being, sustainably. The education sector has a critical role in advancing this work but has been slow to incorporate sustainability education and applications of positive psychology. The concept of sustainable happiness (happiness that contributes to individual, community and/or global well-being without exploiting other people, the environment or future generations) (O'Brien, 2010a) offers an innovative perspective to re-invigorate sustainability education and shape priorities for 21st century learning – contributing to resilient, sustainable happiness and well-being for all.

THE EUROPEAN FEDERALIST PROJECT WAS FLAWED FROM THE BEGINNING, BECAUSE THE EUROPEAN STATES ARE NOT STATES IN THE AMERICAN SENSE; WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BELGIUM, THE EUROPEAN STATES ARE ALL NATION-STATES. THIS ARTICLE SUGGESTS THAT YOU CANNOT FEDERATE NATIONS, AND WHEN YOU SERIOUSLY TRY TO DO SO, YOU AROUSE NATIONALISM AS IN THE CASE OF MAASTRICHT. THE ARTICLE EXPLORES THE END OF GERMAN DEFERENCE AND OF FRENCH PRETENSION. IT OFFER PARALLELS AND DIFFERENCES TO 1914 AND DEFINES THE SHRINKING WEST. IT CONCLUDES THAT THERE IS STILL A WEST, BUT IT IS SMALLER THAN THE SCOPE OF THE INSTITUTIONS COMMONLY ASSOCIATED WITH IT WOULD SUGGEST.

The manufacturing strategies and practices in a number of newly industrialising countries (NICs) are studied. The IMSS data for four Latin American industrialising countries, referred to as Group 1, are analysed, comparing these with two benchmarks, which represent more advanced manufacturing situations in well established industrialised countries. Comparing results indicated similarities for Group 1 with the two benchmarks, on simultaneously aiming at all their competitive goals. The study also proved a mismatch in their emphasis on the goals and the level of the objectives achieved in this regard. Links for this mismatch were searched for in various areas including human resource and technological aspects. Results also highlighted serious shortcomings for Group 1 in process technology criteria as compared with the two benchmarks. Comparison results with regard to human resources as well as planning and control aspects are also discussed in the paper. Based on this study, it has been concluded that environmental features have to be thoroughly analysed before any manufacturing strategy is developed for the firms in NICs. Further, continual interactions between manufacturing strategies for these firms with their environmental features have to be included in their strategy formulation process.