The impact of terrorist events on human behaviour has been explained based on six variables: (1) Incertitude situation, (2) Preventive beliefs, (3) Community sense, (4) Risk perception, (5) Attribution motive and (6) Heuristic Behaviour. The causal relation among those six variables is modelled....

The purpose of this paper is to analyze from a critic and systematic approach, and in the assumption of a governance crisis, the transformation of institutions towards new shapes, structures and processes and mechanisms in a emergent global economic [em]governance[/em]. It is described briefly...

This paper is an attempt to critically assess the 1999 United Nations intervention in East Timor, including subsequent peacekeeping and administrative operations, in order to ascertain firstly whether the intervention can be categorized as a humanitarian operation, and secondly whether the...

This article examines the place occupied by the Cuban Revolution in the British New Left by contextualizing the historical and ideological parameters that conformed the British New Left in the 1960s and exploring the extent to which the Cuban Revolution participated in its formative process....

This is to underline the effect of natural disaster in Latin-America cities, for they were and are the agents of society evolution. Above all, this work intends to be a contribution to reflection and an invitation to analysis production on natural catastrophes in Latin-America, due to the...

Family Development is focused from two parallel lines: On one side, as a social field subject, supplied by the University of Caldas (Colombia). Secondly, as a social practice by professionals who are interested in working with families and thus with the engaging of social and economic policies...

This paper concerns the problem of justice in health care. As costs have escalated they constitute a considerable "bite" out of a national budget or of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The question of whether health-care and education are simply private goods like cosmetics, vacation trips or...

The aim is to find out about the quantitative and qualitative representation of Christianity in different countries of the Middle East. On the basis of this investigation we try to encourage an open discussion on education for religious tolerance and peace as we believe that there will be no...

The present work approaches us to the discussion of the term constructivism in the environment epistemologist, to its theoretical derivations and the application in the contexts of the knowledge. It is a boarding whose profile of dialogue samples a reference on the vision of the constructivism...

This study aims to analyse, the general power structure of Turkish society. On a general basis "Elite Theory" was used in this study to understand, to examine and to explain the power structure of Turkish society. Elite theory highlights power, control and influence for examining it's subject...