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The family associations have a particular importance in the comprehension of those new social subjectivities that are emerging within an increasingly decentralized social fabric from a point of view not only institutional and economic but also epistemic and civil. The research conducted so far leave the question open on the new ways of declination of family associations in a supranational horizon. The last few decades have encountered a process of change and differentiation that has affected on different spheres o...

A new awareness around animal welfare has risen in the last decades. While in the past the animal used to be considered as res to exploit, nowadays many people see them as life companions. This new condition of the domestic animal originates, from a legal perspective, significant questions, and it can have non-negligible implications. Some scholars believe that in order to give more effective protection to animals a form of legal subjectivity has to be recognized. Such a relevant change needs anyway a deeper refle...

Due to the growth in qualitative research methods, there has also been an increase in artbased research that looks at concepts or phenomena. This paper reflects on arts-based research methods and how they contribute to give (vulnerable) groups recognition by focusing on shared storytelling. Arts-based methods often serve two main purposes: knowledge production and knowledge translation. We look at three different case studies of arts-based research methods to strive for social change. First case is a photovoice pr...

The subjects of public international law are the states, as primordial subjects of international law and international intergovernmental organizations. The legal status of the individual - the natural person - within the international public law represents an important topic of discussion, both in the specialized doctrine and within the specific institutions that apply the international law. Two points of view have emerged in time: in the first opinion, legal entities are real subjects of public international law,...

The capital companies in order to carry out the activity for which they have been authorized to function have 3 categories of organs: management, administration and control. The management of the companies is carried out by the general meeting, which can be ordinary or extraordinary. The control of the companies is carried out by censors or auditors, as the case may be. The joint stock companies can be managed in a unitary system (of France origin) or in a dualistic system (of German origin). The unitary system as...

The article deals with the current state of cooperation of a selected regional university with practice. The case study focuses on selected aspects of the trilateral relationship of students, the university, and companies. The article describes these relations, their formation, maintenance, and the roles of the individual participants of this triangle. Each member of this triangular relationship has their own visions, goals, and ideas about the form, manner, and intensity of cooperation. Each group of participants...

Social policy of the state is usually identified with the social policy of the government. It focuses on promoting employment, social protection, improving living and working conditions. It creates conditions and participates in balanced development individuals, groups and communities. Social policy is a part of modern society and deals to solve various problems in different areas. The aim of the article is to point out the social policy in election programs of coalition political parties in the Slovak Republic. A...

Objective of the study is to analyse the concept of diplomatic signalling in the context of foreign policy of small states in the literature of foreign policy signalling. In order to achieve his objective author is using the method of literature review, covering literature on diplomatic communication, diplomatic signalling and foreign policy of small and medium states. Research gives insight in several aspects related to concept of diplomatic signalling in foreign policy of small states. The majority of literature...

The region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which unites nineteen Arab countries, is one of the most important areas of foreign economic and foreign policy activities of the Russian leadership. It has an advantageous geographical position and rich natural resources, especially oil and gas reserves. Here are the interests of the leading world powers and the main contradictions of modern international relations of economic, political and military character intersect. The Arab countries have been part of t...

The paper highlights RussiaВ’s economic cooperation with sub-Sahara Africa; it posits that RussiaВ’s present relationship with sub-Sahara African countries is focused on economy rather than ideology as witnessed during the Soviet era. Analyzing secondary data collection, this paper examines the expanding economic ties between Russia and sub-Sahara Africa. The study reveals that there has been a significant increase in trade, foreign direct investment and economic cooperation from emerging economies with sub-Sahara...

In contemporary societies employed parents are often faced with difficulties while trying to balance their work and family obligations. Previous research showed that this negatively influences the quality of family life and results in family stress. Additionally, it causes lower level of job satisfaction and work effectiveness. Recognizing these issues, some work organizations implemented family-friendly policies in order to support employees and to help enhance their family-work balance. For the same reason they ...

This study has assessed studentsВ’ perception in what concern the Erasmus + Placement Program for Recent Graduates, a mobility that allows graduates to do a traineeship placement in an enterprise or organization in the European Community. The participants in this study are graduates of the Politehnica University of Timisoara (N=130) who have benefited from an Erasmus Placement. The research involved a survey based on a questionnaire centered on the sources of information, motivational factors, the relationship bet...

Energy is a key factor that affects all sectors of the economy and is one of the cornerstones of the economy. Energy security is part of national security and is one of the tools to ensure the country's sovereignty, political independence and economic security. The current EU security environment is influenced from a global perspective by globalization and the uneven development of states and regions in the world. There is also a noticeable trend that non-military threats come to the fore and become more burning t...

In Romania, at this moment, the framework for the analysis on water protection is specifically debated, under the effervescent pressure of pollution caused by some natural phenomena, from the sources in industry, transport, agriculture, as well as the existence of certain forms of cross-border pollution that significantly disturbs the quality of the waters by forming and depositing new sediments harmful to the environment. In order to prevent and combat water pollution, Romania, as a member of the European Union, ...

Starting from underlining the actual existence of a human society in full globalization process and from analyzing a phenomenon as old as time, i.e. human migration, we are trying to highlight in this study the relations that exist without any doubt between globalization and migration. At the same time, a review of the relations and effects between migration and the international community, between the religion and the culture of different societies that come into contact with the migratory phenomena, is performed...

The pursuit of security is one of the basic human needs, which at the level of a state-organized society is transformed into the category of national security in the conditions of various social and natural man-made threats. Understanding of national security and the implementation of individual measures to maintain it are based in national interests, which are the national striving for sustainable development, improvement of welfare, improvement of technology, science and culture, strengthening the role in the in...

Most specialists agree with the fact that while the number of employees belonging to the Millennial generation (Gen Me) increases, problems related to their motivation and performance become more complicated because this young generation has different preferences, expectations and attitudes towards work when compared to previous generations. At the same time, as a leader of the organization, the mission to motivate and inspire a Millennial is significantly different from the same mission as a leader of a Baby- Boo...

Landmark preservation is an endeavour to conserve cultural heritage objects for future generations. Necessarily, to protect cultural objects from peril the states impose restrictions on individual owners, namely regarding the way these are to be maintained and repaired. Such constraints are in public interest. However, public interest might be contradicting the individual interests of the owners, or at least it might bring extra costs to them. The contribution seeks to explain what legal provisions restrict owners...

The article examines modern interpretations of the term “behavioral wars” as a variety of information and psychological wars. As a methodical basis the authors applied analysis of modern publications on this theme by both Russian and foreign authors. In modern politics, information wars or information operations are the drivers of interstate relations. Behavioral wars are aimed at changing the behavior of population in the direction favorable for the enemy. Behavioral weapon is a tool of behavioral war. One of...

Economic diplomacy attracts an increasing level of interest from various areas of life ranging from academics in the fields of e.g. international relations, international economics and political economy through public servants responsible for foreign affairs, trade policy and promotion as well as their private and entrepreneurial counterparts to its former and active practitioners – all of them trying to identify its role in foreign and/or economic policy from their own particular perspective. However, many of t...

Persecution measures aimed at the Roma population in the Slovak State had different forms. Initially, the regime did not discriminate openly the Roma population. The main goal was to restrict the nomadism. Persecution measures against the Roma began with the adoption of the Constitutional Act on Citizenship. On 18 June 1940, the Ministry of the Interior issued a decree specifying who should have been considered a Gypsy. An important role in the drafting of regulations against the nomadism of the Roma was the Draft...

Measures against the Roma affected also the army. The first persecution measures began after the first conscriptions that took place in August and September 1939. According to Section 38 of the Defense Act, the Roma, together with the Jews, could not be members of the armed forces or military personnel and they had to work in special working groups. The Arians were conscripts of work service, and the Gypsies, along with the Jews, were members of working obligation. A certain change occurred after 29 May 1940, when...

The study I conducted is an analysis of how the world of jewels and precious stones was perceived in the legal system during the different ages of the Ancient Roman era. My work is therefore a survey through which I explored the Ancient Roman jewelry world under the magnifying glass of property law: from the purchase of a property right to its limitations to its claim in court thus including also a brief history on how this right, including its multiple facets such as possession and the usucapion, has evolved duri...

The article presents the analysis of the topical problems in the practice of Moscow state administrative bodies providing public services to citizens. The analysis of regulatory documents, statistical data and sociological analysis revealed legal, organizational, technological and social problems in the provision of public services. The author argues, that the core of standard and legal problems is in the lack of unified legislative base, inadequately developed order of services provision and quality requirements....

Gert Biesta makes a distinction on three dimensions when he discussed the purposes of lifelong learning, the economical dimension, the democratic dimension, and the personal dimension. In this paper I would like to emphasize on the importance of democratic dimension. But it is necessary to explore some important questions. What kind of content about democracy that we would like to implement through adult education? What is the educational approach to implementing democracy? Generally speaking, democracy is related...

The present paper outlines regional and local self-government bodies represent special management system of public administration, which consists of many interconnected elements, among which one of the most important elements is public-political communication. In this management system such subsystems are functional that are responsible for adaptation of elements of the management system at the time of changes of conditions. These subsystems which get information from outside initiate communication management meth...

The right to mobility is one of the most important rights that form the core of the European union's passenger rights policy. However, the exercise of this right is unfortunately not equally and available to all persons. The right to transportation is not always easy to exercise for people with disabilities and people with reduced mobility. Enabling free movement and accessibility of public transport is necessary for inclusion of persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility in everyday life. Availab...

According to the provisions of Romanian Law no. 85/2014 on insolvency proceedings, the purpose of this procedure is the payment of the debts of the insolvent debtor to its creditors [1]. It is therefore a collective procedure involving all the known creditors of the insolvent debtor. Consequently, such a procedure is carried out under the conditions governed by the above-mentioned law, a law which determines both the ways in which insolvency proceedings are initiated and the conditions under which such proceedings...

which provides a link between the sphere of social relations, cultural norms and political processes. It is a set of principles that influence political behavior and help systemically structure common values, attitudes, beliefs, and orientations that form the basis of the relationship between an individual, society, and the state. The stability of a political culture is based on such factors as the legitimacy of the existing system and political regime. This article discusses the features of the political culture ...

Innovation public policy has an important role influencing the competitive capacity of companies and is strongly associated with their ability to innovate and the way they are organized. As important as the technological and the organization of work is the social dimension, namely, involvement, participation and commitment of the workforce, as these are, par excellence, factors that contribute to create added value and differentiation for companies. In this sense, the concept of innovation depends on an integrated...

The Adinberri strategy (The New Age in the Basque language) is aligned with the overcoming of the shared ageing challenges within the territory of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain). This project arises as part of an innovation project in public policies launched by The Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain) that is named Etorkizuna Eraikiz (Building the Future). This project adopts a government by network approach, where the public institutions produce social value by building and activating the mul...

In the context of the processes of professionalization and modernization of political communication and mediatization of politics, the aim of the article is to show how to use social media in strategies for communicating of party leaders on the Polish political scene. The research questions concerned attempts of the politicians to use social media to implement communication marketing strategies, in particular in the aspect of engaging and mobilizing Internet users not only in the periods of electoral campaigns, bu...

The present case study deals with the trilateral relationship of the student, the university, and the employer. The article describes the current state of the cooperation of organizations with other partners in their contact sphere. The article also includes a basic classification of organizations, their goals, and their ideas concerning the cooperation of organizations in this trilateral relationship. Organizations can be broken down by jurisdiction into the public and the private sector, but also by industry, by...

Modern transport development with an increase in the number of vehicles and increase in fuel consumption as well as building roads is also causing unintended, adverse consequences. Transport adversely affects the air, water, soil, produces noise, creates waste, and harmfully affects wildlife. It is one of the largest polluters of the environment, so it is not surprising that the various stakeholders are interested in topics related to the environmental impact of transport, as well as in measures to reduce the nega...

The article examines the current status and prospects of development of the Russian tax system, analyzes it, considers problems and ways of its improvement. The article includes the following sections: introduction, general characteristic of tax system of Russia; elements of the tax system of Russia; prospects of development of Russian tax system. In each paragraph the essential elements of the current tax system of the state are revealed. The trends developing in the modern tax system of the Russian Federation ar...

The work examines the story of the Lanerossi spinning plant in Foggia, a case of a company that experienced the negative effects of the extraordinary intervention policies for the South of Italy and which, together with other industrial companies, arose in the same years and under the same auspices. a few years after its establishment, all the criteria on the basis of which the firm operated their strategic choices and the ways in which it implemented them had been questioned. The changes in public opinion and in ...

Economic relations between Russia, Mongolia and China were mainly constructed to connect the Chinese Silk Road Economic Belt, the Russian Eurasian Economic Union, and Mongolia's proposed В«Prairie RoadВ», aiming to encourage the three parties to reach their tourism resource potentials, take international cooperative advantages, expand economic development space, and raise the joint competitiveness of the nations involved in the international tourism market. The authors justify why Mongolia plays and could play, an...

Italy has more World Heritage Sites than any other country in the World. This extraordinary legacy needs to be maintained and preserved. The awareness of the importance of this legacy in Italy dates back to the Renaissance, or even earlier. A brief overview of the development of the legal acts aimed at preserving the cultural heritage in Italy in the last centuries shows an advanced approach to the issue. While the pre-unitarian legislation attests a careful awareness and adopts better legal tools in specific area...

The term globalization has defined the reflection on the contemporaneity of the last thirty years, according with two directives: in an interdisciplinary sense, starting from the economic sciences up to the social and political sciences; in a broader sense, in the public opinion, for the affinity between the meaning of expression and the concrete experience of individuals. The globalization represented one of those rare cases of correspondence between science and doxa, so much to seems extremely effective in defin...

The work examines the troubled story of the Lanerossi spinning mill plant, a case of a company that experienced firsthand the negative effects of the economic policy of “extraordinary intervention of the State” for Southern Italy. Lanerossi's affair represents an interesting visual angle both for the analysis, at a macroeconomic level, of the policy of public intervention in the 1960s and, more generally, for reading, at the microeconomic level, an important and suffered chapter in the economic history of the ...

In the past decade, a keen interest in the legalization of euthanasia became rather topical. The article deals with the modern problems and with one of the most debated topics – euthanasia’s legalizing in the institution of the European Union. The debate on euthanasia in modern society stays unresolved. Legal issues relating to euthanasia should be considered in close connection with the right to life, which is one of the basic and inalienable human rights. The right to life is a liberty right and also a positi...

I have conducted a study which is an analysis of the most important laws created during the different ages of the Ancient Roman era, from 212 BC until 391 AD, relating to luxury, fashion and lifestyle matters. My work is, therefore, a survey through which I explored the Ancient Roman world of luxury by underlining the different laws created by emperors to limit luxury and opulence in Roman society which was a serious issue at the time. The methodology used for this paper is based on the reading and the investigati...

The ordinary way of financing government expenditures is through taxation. It is to stress the fact that the “basics” of the budget-making process consists of different types of expenditures and revenues from taxation. The best fiscal system for a country is the one that accomplishes fiscal goal of taxation, i.e. allows maximum revenue in the long run and at least administrative costs, but satisfying both efficiency and fairness. Environmental (green) should be consistent with these criteria. On one hand it is...

The presidential elections in Iran in 2013 were held at a time when the country faced significant challenges in economic, political and foreign policy areas. The economy was under heavy sanctions imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program. Hassan Rouhani, who was elected president at such times, had an aim to improve the image of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the international community and to show that he and the government were ready to deal seriously with the West, for which he created a cabinet of ministers,...

This study investigates the relationship between art engagement and the well-being of high school students from the Czech Republic, Italy and Slovenia. The research is based on data from a questionnaire survey conducted in high schools in those three countries. Five pieces of information were gathered from the students which included: life satisfaction (happiness), self-reported physical health, weekly time spent doing artistic activities, weekly time spent reading and information concerning studentВ’s ability to ...

The article is dedicated to a theoretical study of a person legal status, which is one of the most important entities and, at the same time, an object of environmental legal relations, which occupies a central place in the system of fundamental environmental values. The author considers the features of the of a person status in the theory of environmental law, the problems of legislative consolidation and implementation of its basic environmental rights and obligations. In particular, the scientific discussions on...

East Asia draws the attention of experts in recent years due to the unprecedented economic and political growth of the countries of the region. However, despite the significant role that the region plays in world politics and economics, the absence of security mechanisms and the presence of several potential spots of conflicts, such as the contradiction between China and Japan, make the region volatile. The article makes an attempt to understand the root of the Sino-Japanese relations and their conflicting potenti...

Nobody will contest these days that economic globalization has become a prime target. Thus, for many, it would be the main source of the Brexit victory in the UK, the significant advances of populist parties in Europe, and finally, a big factor of neo-protectionism, largely driven by the election of Donald Trump! On the other hand, if these "political upheavals or anomalies" have found some ground in this phenomenon, their anchoring is clearly elsewhere. In particular, there is a huge perception of the impotence o...

Since the birth of CIS countries in the early 1990s, Turkey has prioritizes a cordial relationship with these states to date. Questions on this type of foreign policy however are on the factors that influence these decisions. Apart from the fact that, Turkey shares some common values with these countries, the region is a home to colossal amount of energy concessions. This paper seeks to analyze Turkey`s foreign policy objectives on energy within the Eurasian region, using Turkmenistan as point of reference. Author...

The article analyzes the Kurdish factor in the context of TurkeyВ’s Middle East Policy from the beginning of the Syrian crisis. TurkeyВ’s Middle East policy has changed from beginning of Justice and Development PartyВ’s governance, but Turkey totally shifted its attention to the Middle East since 2011. The main attention is paid to the role of the Kurdish factor in the Turkish-Syrian relations. The features of the Turkish policy on the Syrian-Kurdish issue are considered in the context of TurkeyВ’s national intere...