In modern states, mobilization policy has been used to awaken people to new ideas such as national identity, industrial capitalism, and civic society. However, it has long been debated whether mobilization in new countries or in countries under reconstruction creates an integrated identity or...

The goal of this paper is to describe and analyze the theories of political organization of Central Europe during the interwar period, especially from the Czechoslovak perspectives. Some connections between the European integration process, and a national and a civil identity are outlined, in...

The birth of the First (Socialist) International in 1864 will provide the opportunity for three political thinkers of the Nineteenth Century, each with their own specific societal vision, to cohabit and work together in the same organization. The three historical figures were Karl Marx, Mikhail...

Regardless of any particular historical timeframe, the usage of legal arguments has represented an efficient means of shaping a national consciousness and of tuning to the European trends within the Transylvanian School. The representatives of this current have succeeded in imposing themselves...

Industrial structures in the “catching up” type of countries usually are not too competitive in nature, and mainly they differ in the low share of high-technology products in the international trade. The aim of the conducted studies was an attempt to search for directions, as well as the...

There is perhaps only one broad certainty in the contemporary debate on climate change: not only does climate change affect different nations and communities differently, but the responses of individual stakeholders and institutions are also quite different, primarily because of their different...

Wirtschaftliche und technologische Überlegenheit ermöglicht eine Vormachtstellung, doch welche Faktoren erklären ökonomische Prosperität, und was entscheidet über Armut und Reichtum von Nationen? Zu diesem Thema fand am 23. und 24. Mai 2014 eine wissenschaftliche Tagung unter der Leitung...

Our hypothesis is proposed to introduce the idea of ​​Leviathan weak, the classical conception of the state is problematized; primarily in regions suffering public violence, lack of legitimacy and sovereignty. This paper is the first part of a project that distinguishes three components that...

In this millennium, managing turbulent economic environment has become an important task for the nation, whose essential and primary purpose is to obtain competitive advantage. The progress of developed countries contributed to the formation of the new economy, knowledge economy, innovation, new...

The goal of this paper is to describe and analyze the theories of political organization of Central Europe during the interwar period, especially from the Czechoslovak perspectives. Some connections between the European integration process, and a national and a civil identity are outlined, in...

Over time there have been diverse and continuous evolution ways of financial and economic development at the nation level. Today, the world development level results from an ongoing investment, in various forms. The different ways to invest and measure the effectiveness of investments have been...

Wirtschaftliche und technologische Überlegenheit ermöglicht eine Vormachtstellung, doch welche Faktoren erklären ökonomische Prosperität, und was entscheidet über Armut und Reichtum von Nationen? Zu diesem Thema fand am 23. und 24. Mai 2014 eine wissenschaftliche Tagung unter der Leitung...

Prologue : into the wild -- Introduction : impermanence -- People matter -- The circle of life -- Good billionaires, bad billionaires -- Perils of the state -- The geographic sweet spot -- Factories first -- The price of onions -- Cheap is good -- The kiss of debt -- The hype watch -- The good,...

Exploring the state of Nigerian leadership, there is a clear indication that the nation is in distress and therefore needs a leader who would be able to get the best out of Nigerian followers and lead the nation to stability. This leader must be trustworthy, emotionally intelligent, firm,...

A scientific, economic relationship among self, society and nation is still not clearly known in philosophy, sociology and economics because of lack of concrete historical human data that would enable to substantiate it. Humanity experienced many conflicting economic and political systems....

The identitary discourse cannot avoid the origins of the national group, and the reference to „the ancestors’ cult” is intrinsec to some argumentation which has as finility the mention and the characterization of its own identity. Trying to support its own interests and to obtain an...

Literature has long argued that the nation is a community, either “imagined”, ”invented”, or of “sentiment”. The existence of such a “national community” has strongly relied upon the assumption that members share –or feel/believe that they share-- something/s in common. It...

Through a qualitative analysis of selected street names in Masvingo‘‘s Mucheke suburb (Zimbabwe), the paper undertakes an interdisciplinary engagement with urban studies, communication, cultural, historical, linguistic and nationalist discourses to show that the urban landscape has been...

The aim of this paper is to determine which country-specific characteristics promote and which impede the adoption of institutions. On the basis of a broad panel of 183 countries for the period between 1996 and 2010, we test whether there are tendencies towards a general improvement and towards...

Competitiveness increase has become a primordial framework of the social and economic development strategies of most world countries (mainly the most developed ones) over the last decades. The vigorous boost of the contemporary phenomenon of globalization, which has widened the global area of...

The succession of the crises back in the years '90, in Mexico, followed by Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, continuing with Russia, Turkey, Brazil and the last but not the least, Argentina, let many analysts to allege that these financial crises are an inevitable result of the globalization. The...

Die Heterogenität der zugewanderten Bevölkerung in Deutschland spielt bei der Analyse migrations- und integrationsbezogener Fragen eine wachsende Rolle. Seit der Welle Y ist im Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) die Variable MIGBACK enthalten, welche die Identifikation des Migrationsstatus der...

The paper discuses the relationship between the economic, political and social forces that influences the globalization and reconsiders the concept of globalization assessing all the faces of it.

The present article introduces the reader to the concept of nation provided by the great Romanian jurist George Sofronie. Sofronie can be seen as the ”father” of the Romanian international public law school, because he is the one, who has written in Romania an handbook in these field....

Die Heterogenität der zugewanderten Bevölkerung in Deutschland spielt bei der Analyse migrations- und integrationsbezogener Fragen eine wachsende Rolle. Seit der Welle Y ist im Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) die Variable MIGBACK enthalten, welche die Identifikation des Migrationsstatus der...

The Republic of Ireland became a country of net immigration for the first time in 1996 and a large body of literature has since examined, at macro and meso levels, migration rates and flows, impacts on the economy, and issues around integration. However, there is a paucity of sociological...

Wang Hui is a significant contemporary Chinese thinker and a key representative of Chinese New Left thought. This article provides a critical review of some of the themes that emerge from Wang’s The End of Revolution as a means of situating his position in China’s intellectual...

В статье рассматриваются проблемы решения национальных интересов России на современном этапе развития,отражен подход к толкованию понятия «национальный...

Adolescents (10-19 years) constitute about one fourth of India's population and young people (10-24 years) about one third of the population. This huge section of population represents a great 'demographic dividend' and offers a dependable potential to drive and sustain economic growth that...

Review of the monograph: Aspinall, Edward (2009), Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia, Stanford/Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press ISBN 978-0-8047-6045-4, 288 pages

In Antiquity the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, sustained that the purpose of the State is to be, within the possibilities, a society of equal human beings. Our days the democracy answers the need of different components of the society to express themselves in the means of respect towards...

Globalization and competitiveness are two of the most common presences in the public discourse. But, surprisingly (or not), both of them mean different things for different people (and the meanings of the concepts themselves evolved in time), they are analyzed and evaluated by specific methods...

This study proposes a biobibliographical approach on Traian Brăileanu, one of the most interesting theoreticians of the elites, one of the most important European sociologists of the nations who had a systemic vision about society, the first Romanian author of a work dealing with the science of...

Методика выявления базовых институтов малых наций (этносов) может быть основана на комплексном анализе формирования политических, экономических и...

Südafrika wird als erster afrikanischer Staat eine Fußballweltmeisterschaft ausrichten. Dies ist eine große Aufgabe für eine junge Nation, die zwar wirtschaftlich prosperiert, aber immer noch schwer an den Lasten der Apartheid trägt und in vielerlei Hinsicht der Dritten Welt angehört. Der...