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The following words were written by an MS W student as she anticipated her transition from the role of graduate student to that of professional worker:

Die Geschäftszahlen der Nexus AG können sich sehen lassen. Das Schwarzwälder Unternehmen ist mittlerweile in 25 Ländern aktiv. Der Börsenwert der Software-Schmiede ist in den vergangenen Monaten rasant angestiegen.

Existing research on alternative forms of political participation
does not adequately account for why those forms of participation at
an "everyday" level should be defined as political. In this article we aim to
contribute new conceptual and theoretical depth to this research agenda
by drawing on sociological theory to posit a framework for determining
whether nontraditional forms of political engagement can be defined as genuinely
distinctive from traditional participation. Existing "everyday politics"
frameworks are analytically underdeveloped, and the article argues instead
for drawing upon Michel Maffesoli's theory of "neo-tribal" politics. Applying
Maffesoli's insights, we provide two questions for operationally defining
"everyday" political participation, as expressing autonomy from formal political
institutions, and building new political organizations from the bottom
up. This creates a substantive research agenda of not only operationally defining
political participation, but examining how traditional governmental
institutions and social movements respond to a growth in everyday political
participation: nexus politics.

A political-criminal nexus, the concentration and fusion of politicaland criminal power, is increasingly reaching the highest level ofmany nation-states. Organized crime groups develop collaborative relationshipswith state authorities to gain access to, and to exploit fortheir own purposes, the political. Economical and social apparatus ofthe state. To increase the security of their operations, they also try todevelop arrangements with local and/or national, political and legalauthorities. For their part, state authorities seek cooperative relationshipswith criminal elements for various reasons such as personalbenefits, securing votes, money, or to control enemies.The study seeks to identify the factors that facilitate the entrenchmentof the political-criminal nexus, such as rapid technologicalchange, privatization or political transition.The objectives of this paper are to determine with precisionhow this relationships are established, what collaborative activities areundertaken by this nexus, and to identify the methods of disrupting this ties.Key words: POLITICAL-CRIMINAL NEXUS, POWER, SECURITY,ORGANIZED CRIME, CORRUPTION

The article investigates the nexus between security and development in Nigeria. To do that, the article reviewed some security challenges in Nigeria and examined how they undermine the developmental aspiration of the country. Security of life and property is tied with the fundamental human rights partly because both security and freedom are indicators of development and partly because lack of individual and group freedom is squarely implicated on their ability to do everyday life activities within the context of all social structures- political, economic, socio-cultural, and religious. The paper adopted Conflict theory and Amartya Sen's (1999) Development as Freedom thesis to explain the nexus between security and development in Nigeria. The article finds that there are different cases of security challenges in Nigeria, such as kidnapping, terrorism, cultism, political violence, and assassination of some serving and retired political leaders, as well as religious priests. The nexus between the two concepts is practical because the absence of security in a country will not allow a country to develop. The article concludes that the developmental challenges of Nigeria can be attributed to the myriad security challenges in the country. Thus, the article recommends that policy formulations on national development should not focus only on increasing GNP and GDP of the country's economy as a strategy for development, but should design security measures as criteria for national development. Keywords: Security, Development, Security Challenges, Security-Development Nexus

AbstractIn historical studies of Chinese diaspora, an increasing focus is currently being placed on Chinese "organizational genius," that is, Chinese are said to have been adept at providing mutual aid and promoting economic ventures overseas, and also effective in governing their own internal affairs and fending off racial discrimination in the age of Euro-American imperialism. This paper examines Chinese migration to West Borneo in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It argues that Chinese social imaginaries and organizational forms ultimately relied on two cardinal institutions: the Chinese deity cults and ancestral cults, with their associated rituals. By studying an early case of Chinese migration to Southeast Asia, this paper hopes to lay a foundation for comparative research on similar organizations developed by Fujian and Guangdong people in Taiwan, China and other parts of the world; and argues that the nexus of Chinese mobility and Chinese people's relatively successful economic achievements should be located in these symbolic institutions.