From Stalin to Putin, An Insider's View: Talking with Georgi Arbatov

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Vol. 24, No. 3, Pages 83-88

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0740-2775

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World Policy Journal

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Domestic Violence and Mandatory Arrest Laws: To What Extent Do They Influence…

Current research on domestic violences indicates that intimate partner violence arrest rates have risen as a direct result of the implementation of mandatory and preffered arrest domestic violence laws. However, this research also suggests that part of this increase can be attributed to an increase in the arrest rate of females i case of domestic assault. In addition, the arrest of both parties…

The Cartagena Protocol: Implications for Regional Trade and Technology Develo…

The majority of African countries have ratified or acceded to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and many have received support through the Global Environment Facility and the UN Environment Programme for development of their National Biosafety Frameworks. This article examines the extent to which these frameworks are aligned with the goals of the Regional Economic and Regional Research Commu…

Central versus Local Service Regulation: Accounting for Diverging Old-age Car…

In Sweden and Denmark, the development of old-age care has followed markedly divergent paths over the past 20 years. In both countries, the level of old-age care universalism was exceptionally high in the early 1980s. Since then it has dropped sharply in Sweden, while remaining constantly high in Denmark. These divergent trends are clearly irreconcilable with the common image of a coheren…

The UK's gamete donor `crisis' - a critical analysis

Since April 2005, individuals donating sperm, eggs or embryos for the treatment of others in the UK have been required to agree to the disclosure of their identity to any child conceived as a result of their donation on reaching the age of 18. The main arguments advanced against the removal of donor anonymity are: first, it is responsible for a dramatic decline in the number of donors; se…

Single-Mother Families and Air Pollution: A National Study

Objective. This study uses tract-level demographic data and toxicity-weighted air pollutant concentration estimates for the continental United States to determine whether (1) single-mother families are overrepresented in environmentally hazardous Census tracts and (2) the percentage of single-mother families in a Census tract is a significant predictor of tract-level toxic concentration estimat…

Exploring the Roles of Extracurricular Activity Quantity and Quality in the E…

This longitudinal study examines how extracurricular activity involvement contributes to "educational resilience" —the unexpected educational attainments of adolescents who are otherwise vulnerable to curtailed school success due to personal- and social-level risks. Educationally vulnerable youth characterized by significant risks and an absence of assets were identified during early ado…

Partisan Politics, Globalization, and the Determinants of Privatization Proce…

The 1990s have witnessed unprecedented attempts at privatizing state-owned enterprises in virtually all OECD democracies. This contribution analyzes the extent to which the partisan control of the government can account for the differences in the privatization proceeds raised by EU and OECD countries between 1990 and 2000. It turns out that privatizations are part of a process of economic…

Calibrating Prejudice in Milliseconds

Psychological social psychologists have devoted great effort to measuring the elusive construct of unconscious prejudice. However, recent work underscores both the psychometric flaws of these measures and the weaknesses in claims that they predict behavior in realistic organizational settings. Before accepting unconscious prejudice as an inevitable source of individual-level disparate treatment…

Citizens and Resource Allocation: Improving Decision Making with Interactive …

Collective consumption and benefit characterize many government services. Moreover, government services are mostly paid for collectively through taxes—there is little or no relationship between the taxes paid by a household and its use of a particular service. Public sector decision makers face complex budget problems with difficult solutions. Involving citizens meaningfully in these deci…

Postponed Marriage: Exploring Women's Views of Matrimony and Work in Japan

Sociologists have argued that marriage today is based on individual desires, democratic contracts, and self-development. However, feminist scholars have criticized such a view of modern marriage, arguing that it obscures persistent inequality and social restrictions in marriage. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 26 highly educated Japanese women, this article argues that persistent gend…

Using Cumulative Risk to Screen for Mental Health Problems in Child Welfare

This study tests the hypothesis that information typically collected during a maltreatment investigation can be used to screen children for mental health problems. Method: Data are from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. Cumulative risk scores were created for 3,022 children and compared to reports of clinical-level problems using standardized measures. Bivariate, mul…

Place Branding: The State of the Art

This article examines the relevance of place branding as a political phenomenon in international politics. After setting place branding in a historical and conceptual context, it maps out the connections between branding and international politics by looking at three examples. First, it examines the challenges facing the European Union to strengthen its image as a global player. Second, i…

Harmonizing the Resistance, Resisting the Harmony: A Critical Discourse on th…

In Hong Kong, even though the Bill of Rights Ordinance (the localized version of ICCPR), Sex Discrimination Ordinance and a series of legal reforms were enacted and introduced respectively in 1991 and 1994, gender discrimination in legal discourse still persists. Chinese customary law, which only recognises the male's right to build small houses in the New Territories, remains an exceptio…

The ambivalent dynamics of loyalty in mentorship

This investigation shows that mentorship loyalty is an ambivalent source of tension in the relationship. Data from in-depth interviews show that the mentoring attachment that is rooted in a protective, devoted, affectionate side of loyalty can also compel conformity, suppress dissent, and curb professional growth. The ambivalence stirred up by loyalty issues manifests itself in the nuts a…

Contextual factors affecting the utility of surrogates within exploratory search

In this paper we investigate how information surrogates might be useful in exploratory search and what information it is useful for a surrogate to contain. By comparing assessments based on artificially created information surrogates, we investigate the effect of the source of information, the quality of an information source and the date of information upon the assessment process. We als…

Users can change their web search tactics: Design guidelines for categorized …

Categorized overviews of web search results are a promising way to support user exploration, understanding, and discovery. These search interfaces combine a metadata-based overview with the list of search results to enable a rich form of interaction. A study of 24 sophisticated users carrying out complex tasks suggests how searchers may adapt their search tactics when using categorized ov…

A review of the characteristics of black alder (Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn.)…

Black alder is a scattered, widespread and short-lived species that thrives in low-lying damp and riparian places. It has a use in flood control, stabilization of riverbanks and in functioning of the river ecosystems. To thrive, precipitation must exceed 1500 mm if access to groundwater is not possible. Alders are unusual among European trees in that they fix nitrogen. To regenerate naturally, …

Managing multi-ungulate systems in disturbance-adapted forest ecosystems in N…

Understanding how interactions among ungulate populations and their environmental dynamics play out across scales of time and space is a principal obstacle to managing ungulates in western North America. Morphological similarity, forage-base homogeneity and increasing animal density each enhance the likelihood of competitive interactions among sympatric populations. Competition is an interspeci…

Stratification, germination and emergence of mazzard seeds following 15- or 2…

Two seed lots of mazzard cherry (Prunus avium L.) seeds in stones with a 10–11 per cent moisture content (fresh weight basis) were stored in sealed containers at –3°C for 15 or 20 years. The seed lot stored for 20 years were stratified either in or without a substrate. Those stored for 15 years were stratified in a substrate. All seeds were kept at 25/3/25/3°C (2 + 2 + 2 + 14 weeks) or 3/25/3/2…