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Consequence Management, Critical Infrastructures and the Art of Military Operational Planning

Author(s): Daniel ROMAN / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: societal domains; consequence management; operational planning; military operations; critical infrastructures; crisis; hybrid war;

The complexity of the essential areas of life at a societal level and the difficulty of identifyingthe elements threatening them are the main issues that the contemporary societies haveto face, regardless of their economic development. Thus, the dynamics of changes in thedefining environments of a society set a specific rhythm of the societal activities that areinterdependent and determine a network behaviour specific to all the actors involved.According to the importance of the outcome of the totality of actions in these fields, a certainextrapolation on the future results, namely a possibility of expressing those scientificallyargued predictions, such as the ones belonging to the field of consequence management.The notions of peace and security at the societal level are directly influenced by the complexityof the cooperation and the coordination between the pillar factors: political/diplomatic,military, economic, social, infrastructural, informational and environmental, with majorimplications on the population and the space, calculated within a specific time frame. Takingadvantages of the weaknesses and capitalising on the possible occurrence of a risk or a majorimpact negative event can degenerate under certain conditions to border situations, crisis,armed military conflict or even a hybrid war. The art of the operational planning in the militaryfield can be considered the reference point in the development of the societal threat scenarios,according to the established level of particularisation, be it tactical, operational or strategic.The joined approach to the operational planning on several levels and on societal domains of acrisis or hybrid war occurrence can be one of the solutions for solving the standstill situations orthe societal throw-back. Therefore, we considered it was necessary to clarify those theoreticalaspects regarding the possible bi-univocal conceptual undertaking of the operational art ofplanning the military operations to other fields such as consequence management and criticalinfrastructure protection.

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COVID-19-Shock:Considerations on Socio-Technological, Legal, Corporate, Economic and Governance Changes and Trends

Author(s): Julia M. Puaschunder,Martin Gelter,Siegfried Sharma / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Access to healthcare; Artificial Intelligence (AI); Behavioral economics; Behavioral insights;

: This article tries to grasp our contemporary Zeitgeist to serve as historic landmark how pandemics can influence the individual decision making, the social compound, national order, economic structures and the larger-scale international compound. The ongoing COVID-19 crisis accounts for one of the most unpredicted economic disruptions in the history of humankind. Little would we all have expected how our lives have changed since the outbreak of the pandemic if we consider the deep impact the novel Coronavirus has on all our lives, the legal, economic and political spheres. Featuring national policy strategies to cope with the pandemic grants insights about precautionary and reactionary governance during health crises balancing between medical, economic and social well-being. Concurrent with an already ongoing digitalization trend, the COVID-19 pandemic implies widespread changes for individual decision makers in their adoption of technological assistance but also in giving up decision making to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Economic facets of collective learning processes during the crisis are outlined with a special emphasis on the currently ongoing digital disruption. As a widespread external shock to the world economy and legal order, COVID-19 affects corporate conduct profoundly. The legal implications and societal changes’ impetus on corporate conduct will be depicted in order to derive future corporate governance prospects. From an evolutionary dynamics market perspective, a trends prediction sheds light on what kind of firms are likely to fail, which ones may survive and which ones could thrive in the following years and decades to come. International differences in the handling of COVID-19 are highlighted in order to envision future global public healthcare. The recommendations address the importance of well-calibrated goals to cure our contemporary humankind and protect our future common world population.

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The Impact of Social Media on Personnel Recruitment in the Organizations

Въздействието на социалните медии върху набирането на персонал в организациите

Author(s): Kiril Dimitrov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Human Resource Management; Human Capital; Corporate Culture; IT Management

This report reveals important specifics in employee recruitment by means of social media. The contradictory role of the last in relation to improving company’s position in the strenuous talent war on the contemporary labor market is discussed. Social media are considered as a strategic management instrument in the firm too.

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Role and Influence of Environmental Awareness on the Development of Environmentally Responsible Tourism

Ролята и влиянието на екологичната култура върху развитието на екологично отговорния туризъм (анкетно проучване)

Author(s): Sonia Stefanova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Tourism; Ecology; Ecologically Responsible Tourism; European Union; Foreign Policy

The present scientific announcement focuses on the problem area, outlining the parameters of the tourism industry worldwide and environmental awareness of the citizens. The fact is that international tourism these days is a business with very large scale. Every year about 800 million people depart on a trip abroad. In addition, almost 2.8 billion spend leaves and holidays in their home countries. Estimated by the World Tourism Organization, the income from the tourism sector amounts to over $1.5 trillion annually. As one of the major sectors of economy, tourism is severely affected by all the changes occurring in the environment. Of course the relation is two-way – on the one hand, tourism has an impact on the social and cultural environment and ecology, on the other – socio-cultural and environmental factors affect it. Overcoming the antagonism between man and nature is possible only in a society, characterized by a high level of environmental awareness of the people and their willingness to contribute to the harmonious development of the environment. In this connection, the attention of the competent governmental and industry bodies is directed towards the search for innovative ways to shape and improve the environmental awareness of citizens, emphasizing not only utilitarian but also the ethical and aesthetical aspects of it.

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EU Budget Reform and Further Integration of European Union

Author(s): Biljana Bogicevic,Jelena Tešić / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: EU Budget; European Integration; EU Budget Reform; Fiscal System; Fiscal Functions

After the latest accessions of new member states, the EU budget reform is one of the biggest challenges that the EU should face. Discussions on the EU budget provide enough evidence to conclude that there is a substantial gap between the budget and current and future needs of integrated EU. The main objective of this paper is to identify shortcomings of the present EU budget and to explore possible ways of its reform. The main research question is: Can the EU budget respond to the needs of deepening and broadening of the integration process? Furthermore, through the analysis of characteristics of the present EU budget, characteristics that obstruct the EU integration are set aside. Finally, paper identifies possible ways of the EU budget reform and gives recommendations for better usage of the EU’s own resources in order to fulfill the set objectives.

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Engels — Lexicographical Note

Engels — leksikografska bilješka

Author(s): Miroslav Artić / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Engels; encyclopedia; reception; socialist culture; political sign; socialist worldview; values;

The paper aims to examine how Friedrich Engels was assessed in encyclopedias, professional lexicons and philosophy textbooks at the time when Croatia was a constitutive part of the former Yugoslavia. The methodological basis for the perception of Engels in Croatia is positioned within the framework of a predetermined concept according to which socialist culture was to be built in Yugoslavia, in all its parts, in the spirit of the ‘socialist worldview’ asserting ‘socialist values’. (Viskovic 2001). The aim of this paper is to evaluate this specific political and cultural period, marked by systematic attempts to create a comprehensive encyclopedic knowledge that would shape and finally define the dominant cultural and political sign empowered by Engels’ work. At the same time, its symbolic power had the task of illuminating the direction for the construction of complex Yugoslav socialist culture. This is only a sketch, but also an incentive for a more complex research of this unique conceptual project on the construction of socialist culture.

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Tax Exemptions for Beginner Entrepreneurs in Serbia

Пореска ослобођења за почетнике у пословању у Србији

Author(s): Suzana Dimić / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Tax exemption;Income tax;Compulsory social security contributions;

In the conditions of large movements of young people in search of employment, it has proven necessary to take measures to create a favorable business environment for beginner entrepreneurs. In addition to the numerous administrative and financial obstacles that may be encountered in the initial phase of running a business, the tax system can be a significant burden. Hence, an increasing number of countries are opting for the introduction of various forms of tax incentives, which achieve tax relief for certain factors of production. As the fiscal burden on labor affects the demand for labor, and thus indirectly employment, measures are most often taken to exempt from paying payroll taxes and contributions for compulsory social insurance. Also, in order to provide beginner entrepreneurs with easier access to capital, which they lack in the initial phase of running a business, tax incentives are introduced for potential investors in the form of a tax credit. Significant positive effects are expected from the introduction of such tax reliefs in the tax system of Serbia, because the problem of youth unemployment in recent years is not only a social and economic problem, but also a major demographic problem.

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Asymmetrical Conflict and Gender Perspectives: Covid-19 Case Study

Author(s): Zoran Duspara / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: gender; security; Covid-19; BiH; armed forces; conflict;

Although more than thirty years passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the event which we often regard as the historical reference point for the end of the Cold War, the geopolitical, geostrategic and especially global security scene has still not had its more prominent and more permanent dimensions. In the scientific sense, there is a lack of clearer quantification of the fundamental security factors, i.e. of the entirely evident new security paradigm. Why is that the case?

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Behind the Statistics: A Feminist Take on Militarisation

Author(s): Jasmina Čaušević / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: gender; security; military; feminism; UN; Security Council; Resolution 1325;

Although many feminists, including anti-militarist feminists, argue that gender mainstreaming has blunted the blade of feminism and opened the door to donor policies and non-governmental organisations, which simplified feminist fight and weakened transnational nature of the feminist movement, we must wonder what equality situation would be like and where women would be today had it not been for the ideas that promote gender mainstreaming. We understand this term the way it was explained by Jadranka Rebeka Anić citing the Glossary titled: 100 Words for Equality – in essence, it is about gender-conscious policy making, in other words: The systematic integration of the respective situations, priorities and needs of women and men in all policies and with a view to promoting equality between women and men and mobilising all general policies and measures specifically for the purpose of achieving equality by actively and openly taking into account, at the planning stage, their effects on the respective situations of women and men in implementation, monitoring and evaluation (Anić, 2011, p. 26)

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US perspectives on Europe's migration crisis

Amerikan gözüyle Avrupa’nın göç krizi

Author(s): Philip L. Martin / Language(s): Turkish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Migration Series; Text books; Turkish Book Series; biopolitics; lecture notes; migration; migration theories; immigration policy; identity; protection; refugee; international migration; harmony;

Avrupa dünyadaki uluslararası göçmenlerin üçte birine ev sahipliği yaparakuluslararası göç kıtası olmuştur. Birleşmiş Milletler (BM), 2015 yılında 7.3 milyarlıkdünya nüfusunun yüzde 3.3’ünün yada 244 milyon insanın doğdukları ülkeyiterkedip başka bir ülkeye bir yıl veya daha uzun süreli yaşamaya gittiğini duyurdu.76 milyon dolayında uluslararası göçmen Avrupa’da ikamet etmekteler ve en çokgöç alan ikinci ve üçüncü ülkeler olan Almanya ve Rusya da bu kıtadadır ve bu ikiülkenin her biri de 12 milyon civarında göçmene ev sahipliği yapmaktadır (UNDESA, 2015).

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Anxiety in Adolescence

Author(s): Remus Runcan / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Anxiety;adolescence; psychology and health;

Anxiety is one of the most complex nervous disorders affecting adolescents. Half of the studies on anxiety concern anxiety in adolescents. The review of articles on anxiety shows that most studies forms of anxiety disorders are social anxiety and generalised anxiety disorders associated, most often with the use of the Internet, in general, and the use of social networking sites and of Facebook, in particular. Anxiety in adolescents was studied mainly by North American and European researchers, but Asian, African and Australian researchers also contributed to this field.

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Social Research Methods: Migration in Perspective

Author(s): Akm Ahsan Ullah,Akram Hossain,Muhammad Azizuddin,Farah Nawaz / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Social Research Methods; Migration in Perspective; Migration; phenomenon; migrants; interdisciplinary;

Migration research is newer than the phenomenon itself owing to the fact that the phenomenon per se received delayed attention from researchers, academia, policymakers and international communities. This resulted in deficiencies in unified-but-suitable migration research methods for various socio economic settings and geopolitical locales. As migration connects both developed and developing worlds and the recent proliferation of migrants all over the world suggests the importance of migration research at multidisciplinary level (Vargas Silva, 2012). The striking fact is that scholarly interest in migration studies unprecedentedly increased over the last two decades. Two decades ago, migration research had a negligible presence in social scientific inquiry. Today, however, growing scholarly interest in migration is undisputable (Yalaz & Zapata-Barrero,2017). ‘While half a century ago, migration research was a peripheral area of study within traditional academic disciplines, today it has become a firmly established interdisciplinary field (Yalaz & Zapata-Barrero, 2017:3).’

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Bordering Practices across Europe: The Rise of “Walls” and “Fences”

Author(s): Burcu Toğral Koca / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Bordering; Practices across Europe; Rise Walls; Fences; prominence; migrants; immigrants;

In the wake of the geopolitical changes that have roiled the globe since the1980s—notably the fall of the Berlin Wall–a “borderless and deterritorialised world” discourse rose to prominence (Newman 2006). Pioneered by the advocates of globalization, this discourse envisaged a new era in which the world would seethe free movement of capital, goods and people. This discourse has also become a dominant theme in analysing the European integration process. The so-called“ borderless” Europe debate emerged with the introduction of the Single Market and Schengen area which called for the free movement of capital, goods and people within the European Union (EU). Within the process of the EU enlargement, nationals of EU member states (and of some privileged non-member countries belonging to the Global North) enjoy this freedom without much interruption. However, at the same time, we have witnessed that same Europe has become characterised by a hardening of existing borders and the construction of new ones for certain groups of people, especially for those migrants coming from poor and Muslim countries, refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants. As widely discussed in the literature, this hardening of borders has become moreevident following the September 11 and subsequent attacks, which provided auseful pretext to justify the introduction of more sophisticated and draconian measures for border policing (see Vallet and David 2012).

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The Case for a Foreign Worker Advisory Commission

Author(s): Ray Marshall / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Foreign Worker Advisory; Commission; immigration; United States;

This paper outlines the case for an independent Foreign Worker Advisory Commission (FWAC) to assemble and develop data and research to assist the administration and Congress make better and more timely decisions on employment-based migration (EBM), a relatively small (14% in 2010) component of total immigration. The FWAC also would recommend the numbers and composition of temporary foreign workers (TFW) admitted each year, which constituted about 1.7 million (of 46.5 million) US foreign visitors in 2010.

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Hishām ibn al-Kalbi’s Kitāb al-Khayl

Author(s): Hylke Hettema / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Arabic; Ibn al-Kalbi; genealogy; Arab Identity; pedigree; horse

This chapter explores the content of the premodern Arabic document Kitāb al-Khayl and the modes of transmission which resulted in it being frequently referenced in popular narratives of the history of the Arab horse. Contextualising the work shows that it is part of early Islamic reimagining of the past in order to create a history for emerging Arab identity during the early Islamic period. Contrary to the modern idea that this work represents the first Arab horse stud-book, the “Book of Horses” by Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (d.ca. 819 CE) cannot be viewed as evi-dence of an ancient breeding tradition among the Arabs.

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EU Regulations on Herbal Medicines and their Impact on the Industry's Business

Author(s): Oana Iuliana Rujoiu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: regulations; plant-based medicines; phytotherapy; economics; European Commission;

The research focuses on the European Commission's regulations for herbal medicines marketing registration and its impact on its businesses. The following study uses empirical research, which includes the analysis of several articles and technical documents. The study will examine the European Commission's directives for standardizing herbal medicines' registration procedures on the European market. According to WHO, of the 500,000 species, only 22,000 plants are used in traditional medicine, while only 3,000 have been scientifically evaluated. These data highlight the need to simplify the registration procedure, allow the process to be streamlined, and launch on the European market as many herbal medicines as possible. The costs involved in herbal medicine manufacturing sum to between € 90,000 and € 140,000 for each medicine plant. A large part of the costs is generated by the clinical tests required for the product registration process. However, the simplified registration procedure exempts products that can prove a 15-30 year history of components usage in the European space.

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Some Reflections on Local Public Engagement Platforms as a New Universal and Democratic Vaccine

Author(s): Raluca Onufreiciuc / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: civic engagement; online platforms; public participation; local governance; transparency; technology;

In an international context of serious low trust between citizens and governments, the role of participatory platforms becomes crucial in the following years. Citizens consultation and participation in decision making processes especially at the local level must have a constant character and transform into a good practice providing new improved tools of two-way interactions. In the article we explore and analyze the use of these platforms and other practices for local innovation in the European Union and US, underlining their main goal and activities which need to be implemented.

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Is Kitsch in Local Public Administration an Effect of the Discretionary Power?

Author(s): Valentina Cornea / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: administration; kitsch; opportunity; ophelimity; social utility;

The role of local administration is to develop good policies and decisions in order to satisfy the public interest. In the present study, the principles of aesthetical analysis are related to the criteria of opportunity by which the local public administration guides in appreciating the opportunities of the administrative acts and the strategies of action. The idea that the administrative practices of the local public authorities, legal and justifiable by admitting the discretionary power are in the position of being caught by kitsch is argued for. Inadequacy, overcrowding, mediocrity are the main manifestations of kitsch in the administration and is often confused with modernization. By replacing the aesthetic ideal of “beauty” with that of “pleasure” or “attractiveness”, the phenomenon leads to populist decisions to the detriment of those having social utility. The paper points that aesthetic judgement raises the probability of finding valuable arguments and solutions that are good for the process of debating and adopting decisions. In this study the concept is approximated by examples. This methodological strategy is applied in order to ensure the passing from a concrete connotation to the explicit scientifically stated. By aesthetical analysis the characteristics of kitsch in public administration are identified, as well as its premises and consequences.

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Returnees’ Reintegration “Back at Home” and Sustainability of Return

Author(s): Mihaela Misheva,Antoaneta Getova,Maria Bakalova / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Reintegration; Return Migration; Sustainability of Return

The paper focuses on sustainability of return migration within the broader frame of returnees’ reintegration “back at home”. Building on the understanding that it is important to deeply understand how return and reintegration are conceptualized and interconnected, and what they entail both socially and economically, we start with a reflection on current definitions of return and reintegration. Proceeding from the recognition that there is no single type of return or integration, we highlight the crucial importance of reintegration for the sustainability of return. On the basis of this discussion we develop a model for analyzing the linkage between sustainability of return and the reintegration of returnees “back at home”. The model is empirically tested through an index-based tool and data from a national representative survey among return migrants in Bulgaria.

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Aelian on Tortoise Sex and the Artifice of “Erotic Love Magic”

Author(s): Naomi Janowitz / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: love magic; Ancient Greek; rites of sexuality; literary anecdotes

For the Roman author Claudius Aelianus (Aelian, ca. 175–235 CE), intercourse is not a simple issue for animals. In his book On Animals, Aelian introduces the tortoise as follows: “Tortoises are the most lustful land animals but the males only, the females do not willingly mate.” Luckily, nature offers a solution to this dilemma. Male tortoises, Aelian states, use a plant to stimulate an appetite for sex in reluctant female tortoises. Christopher Faraone, in a sophisticated analysis of the anecdote, considers it evidence of “love magic.” He connects the anecdote with much earlier Greek rites via their standard classification in this category. Ancient Greek love magic includes agape-inducing formulas/rites used by men to turn women into passionate lovers and philia-inducing formulas/rites used by women to attract men. The category “love magic” is widely used to evaluate and classify rites, adopted recently by Radcliffe Edmonds. Evidence includes the use of lead tablets with cursing formula (fourth century B.C.E.), rites related to intercourse or sexuality found in the Greek papyri (first-fourth centuries C.E.), and numerous Greek and Roman literary anecdotes about goddesses or women who poison or attempt to poison men for marital or love interests.

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Consequence Management, Critical Infrastructures and the Art of Military Operational Planning

COVID-19-Shock:Considerations on Socio-Technological, Legal, Corporate, Economic and Governance Changes and Trends

Въздействието на социалните медии върху набирането на персонал в организациите

Ролята и влиянието на екологичната култура върху развитието на екологично отговорния туризъм (анкетно проучване)

EU Budget Reform and Further Integration of European Union

Engels — leksikografska bilješka

Пореска ослобођења за почетнике у пословању у Србији

Asymmetrical Conflict and Gender Perspectives: Covid-19 Case Study

Behind the Statistics: A Feminist Take on Militarisation

Amerikan gözüyle Avrupa’nın göç krizi

Anxiety in Adolescence

Social Research Methods: Migration in Perspective

Bordering Practices across Europe: The Rise of “Walls” and “Fences”

The Case for a Foreign Worker Advisory Commission

Hishām ibn al-Kalbi’s Kitāb al-Khayl

EU Regulations on Herbal Medicines and their Impact on the Industry's Business

Some Reflections on Local Public Engagement Platforms as a New Universal and Democratic Vaccine

Is Kitsch in Local Public Administration an Effect of the Discretionary Power?

Returnees’ Reintegration “Back at Home” and Sustainability of Return

Aelian on Tortoise Sex and the Artifice of “Erotic Love Magic”