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The paper deals with the transformation of the French Christian democracy in the 1960s: the emergence of new structures, ideological evolution, and political strategy. The relationship between Christian democracy and the main political currents (Gaullism and Socialism), reaction of the Christian Democrats to the major political crises in France, role played by the center in political life, and inner problems in the functioning of Christian democracy are observed.
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Public administration; to meet the basic expectations as citizens, provision of services to the citizens and in this context the right to use the available resources in the most efficient manner is a science based on understanding. Citizens of the public administration in terms of time requirements and their need for differentiation state is a result of the change, and this difference is still continuing. Both the implementation of government policy, but left both of delivering services to the citizens of repressive regimes prevailing in the first place, especially in the sense of a state policy to citizen centric services with the new harmonization laws and contemporary approach. It can be said is vitally needed reform of public administration as a result. In this study; understanding of public administration reform and the reform process will be discussed by way of literature, it appeared in the new issue will be studied in the context of changing legislation to be produced evaluating solutions
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The fact that the military, one of the means of governments’ superior power of sanction, is kept under civilian control and subject to civilian authority is accepted as one of the key conditions of contemporary democracies. The apolitical position of the military in industrialized Western democracies can be explained by the presence of a liberal-democratic model for civilian military relationships (ignoring the military’s relatively partial effect on foreign policy, national security and defense policies). However, civilian-military relationships are observed to always have the potential to directly and/or indirectly affect politics and governance in incompletely industrialized democracies. This study analyzes the level of and reasons for militaries’ effectiveness on political life in incompletely industrialized or unindustrialized democracies based on the causes of military coups, which represent the peak of military intervention in politics.
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Compared to its past structure, Turkey is now a country with low levels of fertility and mortality. This junction that Turkey now has reached is associated with a number of risks, such as an ageing population, and a decreasing working-age population. The antinatalist policy era of Turkey was followed by a period of maintenance, yet the recent demographic changes formed the basis of a pronatalist population policy from the government’s view. This study discusses the link between demographic change and population policies in Turkey. It further aims to position Turkey spatially in relation to selected countries that are in various stages of their demographic transitions with different population policies, using a multidimensional scaling approach with data on 25 selected countries from the UN. The analysis is based on a 34-year period, 1975-2009, so as to better demonstrate Turkey’s international position on a social map, past and present. Our findings suggest that Turkey’s position on the social map shifted towards developed countries over time in terms of demographic indicators and population policies.
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Instead of forejudging whether or not Turkey is a leader as understood from the title and picking those events that would prove our point we started asking questions and searched for answers looking at the events that are taking place. A leader country does not establish its stance based on the world events and does not assume the role of subcontractor in another country’s project. First and foremost, a leader country determines the policies. Within its own boundaries and with its own free will it first plans the foreign policy actions and by using one or more of its economic, cultural, military, diplomatic forces and resources throws its weight behind the conditions in the arenas it wants to be effective. One cannot speak of leadership of a country when it is powerless to get its way and unable to stop events harming it.
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Primitive human is an exemplary citizen who completely respects the rules of his/her own community and who is ready to obey them at any time. In the same way, following all the rules and restrictions determined by the tribe are accepted as axiom. Primitive human greatly respects own customs and traditions, automatically submits to orders. Everything is based on the fear of supernatural ideas and punishments, in addition to deep loyalty to “group feeling”. However, has there ever been any person -whether civilized or primitive - who followed the undesired, boring rules and taboos without having difficulties? Nevertheless, this understanding is dominant in the studies about primitive order and primitive rules.
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Ideologically, Political Islamism exhibits an opposition against modernism. Because Political Islamism is fed with traditionalism. The emphasis of Political Islamism on nostalgia contradicts with modernism. But these contradictions and discourse has developed and shaped Political Islamism in the future. Political Islamism has used the parameters of modernism within the efforts for the searching of re-existence and identity.
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In the current study, a very old Turkish tribe, the Kirgiz was investigated with their historical stages in a brief form. Even though Kirgizistan declared its independence after the collapse of SSCB and have experienced changes in governments and difficulties in its geo-political status, it is spoken that it succeeded to achieve a parliamentary regime in Asia for the first time. With this article, even though the effects of both “superior powers” and inner dynamics in Central Asia, it was aimed to discuss the struggle Kirgizistan made to turn into a parliamentary regime.
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Kırım Tatalarının 1987 yılında Moskova’da yaptığı gösteri Tataristan’da büyük bir heyecan uyandırdı. Bu heyecan Tataristan’daki milliyetçilik hareketlerini körükledi. Bu milli hareket çok kısa bir zaman içinde büyüdü ve 30 Ağustos 1990 tarihinde Tataristan cumhuriyeti bağımsızlığını ilan etti. Bağımsızlığı ilan ettikten sonra Tatar Milli Hareketi aydınlarının bir kısmı var olan milli ideolojinin halkın ihtiyaclarına tam olarak cevap vermediğini gördü. Bu aydınların “Türk Tatar Halkının Stratejik Yolu” adını verdiği bu ideoloji, 1997 yılında ilk şeklini aldı.
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Bu çalışmada, Azerbaycan Demokrat Partisi‘nin (ADP) Bakü‘de muhaceret hayatından bahsedilmektedir. ADP 2 ekim 1945‘de İran’ın Güney Azerbaycan vilayetinde, Tebriz’de Mir Cafer Pişeverinin başkanlığı ile yaratıldı ve milli kurtuluş uğrunda mücadeleye başladı. 12 aralık 1945‘de Güney Azerbaycan Muhtar Vilayeti‘nin yaratıldığını beyan etdi ve milli hükümet kurdu. 12 aralık 1946‘da İran devleti askeri kuvvetleri Güney Azerbaycan’a sokdu ve mücadeleçilere karşı kanlı katliam yaptı. ADP yönetmenleri ve üyeleri Sovyet Sosyalist Cumhuriyetleri Birligi‘ne, Azerbaycan’a sığınmak zorunda kaldılar. Bakü‘de ve Azebaycan‘ın diger bölgelerinde yurtlandılar, politik sığınık statüsü aldılar. Araştırmada ilk defa olarak arşiv vesikalarına, tarihsel belgelere dayanarak 1947-1991 dönemlerinde ADP’nin muhaceretteki faaliyeti tahlil edilmişdir. İncelemeler sonucu, politik sığınıkların ekseriyetinin zamanla sovyet cemiyetine ithal ettigi kanısına varılmıştır.
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Polish anthropogeography, especially of the interwar period, still remains one of the key periods of reference in studies of geographical variation in research patterns and approaches. These issues are especially interesting in the case of geographers, whose scientific careers were shaped by various events that changed the history of the country and the nation. The main objective of this paper is to identify the guiding concepts of the author,that on one hand formed certain unchanging theoretical and methodological stances in the Second Republic, while on the other served as a modernisation of such assumptions based on political and ideological conditions. Many works referring to the idea of social evolution (e.g. the evolution of the agricultural landscape) had not been completed or published before 1939, while post-war assumptions and conclusions were heavily influenced by the interpretations of variable social and economic structures based on Marxist ideology. This created a methodologically eclectic interpretation of transformations. The work of Maria Dobrowolska discussing the transformation of cultural landscape and the variability in settlement over the ages also adhered to this. Anthropogeography, whose ambitious goal was to strive for a holistic explanation, corresponded well with the concepts of social evolution that used the analogies of organic wholes. Geography’s emphasis on the relationship between the humans and the natural environment reinforced in geographers formed in the inter-war period the feeling that organicism was an adequate method of inquiry into social development in the context of environmental variability and spatial mobility, which was definitely visible in M. Dobrowolska’s works on the evolution of cultural landscape and settlement network, especially following World War II.
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Estimates say up to 10,000 people marched through the Hungarian capital against growing authoritarianism.
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Human Rights Watch says Chechen officials approved the brutal roundup and torture of dozens of men.
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Remembrance is a powerful instrument of social mobilisation, identity construction and political competition. Its impact on individual and shared beliefs or attitudes makes it an object of government’s interest, because remembrance can be used to legitimise ideologies or policies. Theoretical considerations of a government’s role as a narrator lead us to the general definition of the government’s remembrance policy, which we understand as a complex of narratives and interpretations presented to influence citizens’ attitudes, behaviours, beliefs and identities. The paper develops the definition with five theoretical hypotheses on the effectiveness of remembrance narratives. It argues that the government’s remembrance policy is myth-motoric, non-scientific, emotional, based on commitment and that it is a type of social influence. The study is an initial verification of theoretical approach, and I believe that my arguments will motivate other researchers to investigate different aspects of a government’s desire to narrate past events.
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Since the start of the "Arab Spring" ongoing socio-political destabilization of the MENA region, has led to the outbreak of numerous of an intra armed conflicts. An important role in these territorial conflicts play a non-professional armed forces - the militant organizations based on local material and human resources, operating on a specific area. To described type of military organizations include territorial defenseformations, tribal police, national guards and anti-government groups conducting military operations. The conflict, which illustrating in a comprehensive manner the role of these formations and the whole situation in the MENA region is a civil war in Syria. In that conflict in which a significant share of military actions has described formations, which can be found in the composition of each of the six warring parties (government forces, the forces of the Kurdish formations associated around the Free Army of Syria, Sunni groups, al-Nusra Front, the Islamic State). Increased involvement of operational forces of foreign countries and also increase the inflow of foreign volunteers, mainly serving in the armed Islamic State, led to the creation of national alliances in the descriptions formations. The deepening of this process is the expected step in the development of these armed organizations.
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This article examines whether Willard Van Orman Quine’s indeterminacy thesis can be sustained. The argument from above, Quine argues, can derive indeterminacy as its conclusion. I will argue that the indeterminacy claim cannot be sustained. I further argue that Quine changed the formulation of the underdetermination of theory by evidence (UTE) argument from what Duhem said to the Quine/Pierce meaning verification view, in order use the new formulation of UTE to imply indeterminacy. Given all that, we see when we apply the old UTE argument we only arrive at underdetermination of theory by evidence, and that applies to all sciences, philosophy and knowledge, including philosophy of language. Quine’s argument of indeterminacy is one where the premises alone do not make the conclusion obvious, and further difficulty arises because he has not given enough examples of the indeterminacy in his writings. Given that, I will look at how can we draw the particular conclusion Quine maintains on the basis of the single fundamental premise he puts forward, bearing in mind Quine’s other philosophical views and background beliefs. I will look at further ways of approaching the indeterminacy argument, through which I shall try to examine whether Quine’s premise can derive the conclusion of indeterminacy, examining the role of the underdetermination of theories by evidence in the argument from above, and its relation to the indeterminacy thesis.
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The parliamentary elections held in March 2016 led to the victory of Robert Fico’s SMER party and the defeat of the traditional right-wing parties. This earthquake-like electoral change altered the stable but otherwise diverse party scene in Slovakia. Besides addressing the general result of the elections, the paper also tries to explore the party preferences of ethnic Hungarian voters. It examines the share of the votes for the MKP, which is an ethnic Hungarian party and the Most–Híd (’Bridge’ in English), which is a liberal interethnic formation.
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The main aim of this paper is to give a general overview of diaspora policies with an emphasis on kin-state activism in Central and Eastern Europe. The first section of the paper will summarize the main theoretical approaches to diaspora studies, which are marked by the emerging tendency toward typology construction. In this part I will explore the most relevant typologies within this field of study from a critical perspective. The second section of the paper will turn to existing diaspora policies, offering a structural collection of the most commonly adopted diaspora engagement practices in Central and Eastern Europe. I will examine why and under what conditions kin-states in this part of Europe seek to engage co-national communities living beyond their borders, with special regard to the similarities.
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