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The Nordic Region offers innovative interpretative approaches and models to overcome the "dilemma between security and prosperity". In this region, integration and fragmentation have been well-balanced and grounded on diversity. The first aim of this article is to explain the reasons for peace in Nordic Europe, a task sometimes more difficult than explaining wars. Historical cases of pacific resolution of disputes and the possible reasons for those policies are considered. Finally, the theoretical foundations of these approaches and how they influenced the political institutions are also analyzed.

Cover -- quartino -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. The Renewed Attention for the Protection of the Cultural Expressions in Crisis Areas -- Countering the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property. Implementation Experience in Argentina -- SESSION 1 Protecting Cultural Heritage to Maintain International Peace and Security: Key Points -- Antiquities Trafficking and Conflict Financing: The Fight Against Looting and Smuggling of Cultural Property Goods in a Global Perspective of Peace -- Assistance by Peacekeeping Forces to Protection of Cultural Heritage and International Criminal Responsibility -- SESSION 2 Protecting Diversity of Cultural Expression and Cultural Heritage to Maintain International Peace and Security: Contemporary Issues -- Cultural Protection Policy in the Syrian Arab Republic An International Law Perspective -- Contrasto del terrorismo e protezione dei beni e delle espressioni culturali: l'esperienza della Tunisia -- Cultural Heritage in Oman Forts, Castles and Fortifications as Models -- SESSION 3 Peacekeeping and Protection of Diversity of Cultural Expression and Cultural Heritage -- UN Security Council Approaches to the Global Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage: An Evolving Role in Preventing the Illicit Traffic of Cultural Objects -- Closing Remarks -- The Protection of Cultural Heritagein the Context of the Maintenance of Peaceand Security: The Way Ahead -- After the Workshop Steps Forwards -- Exploitation of Natural Resources in Timesof Armed Conflict: The Contributionof the United Nations and Peace Operationsin Addressing Resource-Related Conflicts -- The Relationship Between the Protection of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage under International Law -- Reflecting on the Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage as a War Crime in Light of the ICC Judgement in the Al Mahdi Case -- Cultural Genocide

This article explores Max Weber's ideas about a «successful peace» that he exposed during World War I. For Weber, a successful peace depended essentially on important domestic reforms and a fundamental reorganisation of the German Reich, more than on the foreign policy dimension. Analysing Weber's "ideas of 1918" – opposed to the so-called "ideas of 1914" – this paper focuses on three aspects: (1) nation and citizenship, (2) Prussia, (3) German tradition, history and political culture. ; Questo articolo tratta delle idee di Max Weber su una «pace di successo», da lui esposte durante la Prima guerra mondiale. Per Weber, una pace di successo dipendeva essenzialmente da importanti riforme inter-ne e da una riorganizzazione fondamentale del Reich tedesco, più che dalla dimensione della politica estera. Analizzando le "idee del 1918" di Weber – in contrapposizione alle cosiddette "idee del 1914" – questo contributo si concentra su tre aspetti: (1) nazione e cittadinanza, (2) Prussia, (3) tradizione, storia e cultura politica tedesca.

Plurality of cultures has always existed, but only in modern times of quick & easy communication has it become part of daily human experience, creating a new type of awareness. Diplomacy & intercultural dialogue gain a brand new value & responsibility when it is possible to access massive quantities of information through the Internet & citizens of a country come from all over the world. Diplomacy ensures peaceful relations ultimately affecting the overall well-being of a country even though it cannot rely on a system of rules & a criminal code. Diplomats' main instrument is a respectful & civil behavior even when facing pressing issues such as fundamentalism, nationalism, & war. M. Williamson

Discusses the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union, designed to maintain peace in Europe, as stated in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, its intergovernmental and federal features, and relationship to the Western European Union (WEU) and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Summary in English. Some focus on the potential CFSP contribution to maintenance of peace worldwide.

In the first part, the essay provides a general overview of Italian foreign policy towards Southeastern Europe in the 1920s. In its second and more detailed part, it deals with the year 1928, which was particularly troubled in the Balkans and mainly in Yugoslavia, and with the political and diplomatic initiatives implemented by Rome towards the area and in particular towards the SHS Kingdom. The study highlights some of the uncertainties of this policy (e.g., regarding the support given to the Croatian and Macedonian national movements) that stemmed from the opinions of Mussolini, but also of Dino Grandi, un-dersecretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from those of the network of Italian diplomats in the Balkan capitals. Particularly significant information and suggestions came from Minister Galli, the Italian representative in Belgrade.

In the aftermath of the triumphant victory of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli nationalist rightist-center LICUD party absorbed the great majority of the rival leftist-center MAARACH party, led by Shimon Perez. The merging of the parties & reconciliation of these adversaries ruling jointly in the name of national unity are explored. Topics include the legacy of Prime Minister Ehud Barak, problems with the Oslo Peace Accords, Peres's role in explaining Sharon's policies in the US & Europe, political errors made by both Peres & Sharon, & the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. J. Sadler

La presente tesi costituisce uno studio di caso sociologico avente come oggetto la Croce Rossa Italiana ed il suo ruolo nella welfare society, alla luce della recente riforma che l'ha trasformata da ente pubblico in Ente del Terzo Settore. Si intende rilevare se gli effetti della riforma (2012), intersecatasi con quella del Terzo Settore (2017), abbiano avuto ricadute prevalentemente positive o piuttosto negative in termini di interesse pubblico, per la CRI, per lo Stato e per la società italiana in generale. Inoltre la tesi ha lo scopo di iniziare ad esplorare un ambito di studi sociologici finora scarsamente considerato. Il lavoro si articola in tre parti. Nella prima il tema della ricerca viene inquadrato teoricamente nell'ambito della sociologia del welfare: si analizzano i modelli sociologici di welfare state, i più recenti indirizzi di politica sociale europei, nonché il ruolo del Terzo Settore nei sistemi di welfare. Nella seconda parte il focus si concentra sull'Ente Croce Rossa, dapprima tramite la disamina delle caratteristiche distintive del Movimento e di alcune delle più importanti Società Nazionali, ed in seguito tramite una ricostruzione della storia della CRI. La terza parte dell'elaborato è dedicata all'esposizione dei risultati della ricerca empirica, nel corso della quale sono state impiegate diverse tecniche di indagine di carattere prevalentemente qualitativo. In particolare: a) l'analisi della documentazione ufficiale della CRI, che ne mette in luce gli aspetti più rilevanti (status giuridico, organizzazione, finanze, personale, obiettivi); b) l'illustrazione ed il commento di venti interviste semi-strutturate rivolte a testimoni privilegiati (dirigenti CRI, rappresentanti di Istituzioni pubbliche, esponenti del Terzo Settore, sociologi esperti di welfare). Le risultanze emerse, seppure non definitive, mostrano un sostanziale esito positivo della riforma: la CRI attualmente è un'organizzazione umanitaria vitale, ben strutturata, al passo coi tempi, benché ostacolata da alcune criticità, di cui si dà conto dettagliatamente nel lavoro. ; This thesis is a sociological case study about the Italian Red Cross (IRC) and its role in the welfare society, in light of the recent reform that transformed it from a public body into a Third Sector Body. It is intended to note whether the effects of the reform (2012), intersected with that of the Third Sector (2017), have had mainly positive or rather negative consequences in terms of public interest, for the IRC, for the State and generally for the Italian society. Furthermore, the thesis aims to start exploring a so far rarely considered field of sociological studies. The work is divided into three parts. In the first one, the research topic is theoretically framed within the welfare sociology: the work analyzes the welfare state sociological models, the most recent European social policy guidelines, as well as the Third Sector role in welfare systems. In the second part, the focus is concentrated on the Red Cross Body, first through the examination of the distinctive features of the Movement and of some most important National Societies, and then through a reconstruction of IRC history. The third part of the paper is dedicated to the exposition of the empirical research results, during which various investigation techniques, mainly qualitative, were used. In particular: a) the analysis of IRC official documentation, in order to highlight several structural dimensions (legal status, organization, finances, staff, objectives); b) the illustration and comment of twenty semi-structured interviews addressed to privileged witnesses (IRC executives, public Institutions representatives, Third Sector members, welfare sociologists). The emerged results, although not definitive, show a substantial positive outcome of the reform: the IRC is currently a vital, well structured, up with the times humanitarian organization, although hampered by some critical issues, which are considered in detail in the work.