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In the field of national security, the decisional problem of the scientific approach consists in proposing strategies that would allow the transformation of human resources management (THRM) in civil and military medical structures, as well as the construction of a research model, built to study the impact of THRM on employees and the management of healthcare organizations. The existing relations between HRM and the management of medical institutions were highlighted, in terms of work climate, organizational structure and managerial efficiency, so the data obtained highlighted the discrepancies between organizations, as well as the difference in approach to medical activity. The results obtained have a favourable impact on the competitive environment in the field of healthcare by offering a portfolio of medical services and quality profile. The practical value is given by the study of the processes of THRM and the formulation of proposals regarding models and strategies for the THRM.
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In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the identification and evaluation of the factors that affect the motivation, attitude and satisfaction of employees working as medical, health or auxiliary staff in health organizations, directly involved in the fight against the pandemic, was a desideratum of this scientific research. The results obtained maintained the conclusions formulated in previous research, the research model developed by the author, in order to facilitate the transformation of human resources management (HRM) in health organizations, proving its reliability in the current pandemic context, with a positive impact, in public health and in terms of national security.
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Turkish Defense Industry is the locomotive of the national technology move. However, there is a need to develop strategies in line with the national strategic objectives to increase the contribution of the defense industry to the national competitive edge. The ever-changing environmental and technological conditions and advances in the understanding of defense and security make it necessary to update vision for the defense industry. Porter’s diamond model has become a generally accepted and frequently used model in terms of providing a more systematic and disciplined perspective in the context of competition strategies, promoting the creation of a value chain on a sectoral basis and supporting national competitiveness. Towards this end, the aim of this study is to analyze Turkey’s defense industry’s competitiveness by means of Porter’s diamond model and present a future perspective. The reports of the Defense Industry Presidency and the Defense Industry Association have been systematically examined and analyzed.
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The question regarding the extent to which foreign policy influences regionalism is subject to debate. This issue is still emotive, fluid, speculative and anchored on conjecture. The study assessed geopolitical factors influencing Kenya and Tanzania foreign policy behaviour since 1967. The study was guided by Two-Good theory, Neoclassical Realism and Neo-functionalism theories. Historical, cross-cultural and descriptive research designs were used. The study area was Kenya and Tanzania and the population was citizens of the two states with the target population being cross border business community, government officials in Ministries of EAC and Foreign Affairs, and EAC organisms - the Secretariat and Legislative Assembly on which purposive sampling was used. A sample size of 384 respondents was created from the total population using the Gomm (2008) formula. The study utilized both primary and secondary data. Instruments of data collection were: questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussions.
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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is composed of countries with a shared heritage that are at various stages of economic growth and are home to extremely diverse natural resources. There have been military or civil wars in the majority of the countries in the region. There were wars that caused extreme human misery, economic displacement, and many developments opportunities were lost by the nations of the region. Therefore, a substantial proportion of national budgets is used for military expenditure. In addition, for the economy, military investments produce both costs and profits. This study investigated the correlation between military expenditures and growth in MENA Countries by applying panel data over the span of 2009-2019. As a result, we found a positive and significant impact of military expenditure on economic growth.
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The development of that strategic environment can create both opportunities and threats for Indonesia. The integration of the main components, reserves, and support is the key to the success of Total People’s Defense and SecuritySystem (Sistem Pertahanan dan Keamanan Rakyat Semesta; Sishankamrata) in defending Indonesia’s strategic interests from all threats. For this reason, efforts are required to direct the development and fostering of the main components, reserves, and support planned in a state defense posture and guided by the concept of Sishankamrata. This study aims at developing a strategy for the Total People’sDefense and Security System to face the development of the 21st-century strategic environment. In this study, the SWOT analysis method, Interpretive structural modelling (ISM), and Balanced Scorecard (BSC) approach were used. Based on the results of the SWOT analysis on the development of Sishankamrata, there were18 (eighteen) sub-strategies. Based on the results of the Interpretive structural modelling (ISM), it was discovered that the ST-1 sub-strategy, the formulation of defense policies expected that they do not overlap and be in line with the world maritime axis policy program, was the beginning of determining the development of the Sishankamrata strategy. Based on the implementation plan of Balanced Scorecard (BSC), it was uncovered that the financial perspective consists of 4 (four)sub-strategies; the internal process perspective consists of 5 (five) sub-strategies; the Growth & Development perspective consists of 6 (six) sub-strategies, and the customer/User perspective consists of 3 (three) sub-strategies.
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Developing a Grand Strategy is never an easy task, as it geared towards building a framework for the use of all the instruments of national power(diplomatic, informational, economic, military) in order to achieve national objectives that ultimately serve to support the national values and interests. The current volatile environment complicates the issue even further, by changing at a fast pace the external and internal conditions in which a country evolves. The aim of this paper is to analyze the main directions of Romania’s security and defense approaches outlined in the current Strategy for the Country’s Defense and to highlight the degree to which the current strategy is suitable for a volatile environment.
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Časopis za kulturno i historijsko naslijeđe “Hercegovina” od 1981. godine, kada izlazi njegov prvi broj, predstavlja za regiju Hercegovinu i grad Mostar respektabilan i najrelevantniji časopis za kulturno- historijsko nasljeđe. Časopis je preživio određene turbulencije i prekide u izlaženju, ali je 2018. godine ponovo pokrenut, čime je na konkretan način otklonjen nedostatak postojanja jedne ovakve publikacije na prostoru Mostara i Hercegovine. Reaktiviranje časopisa “Hercegovina” ima i jednu dodatnu dimenziju u Mostaru i Hercegovini, koja se ogleda u optimizmu, entuzijazmu i novoj nadi da će naučna historijska djelatnost, proučavanje naše bogate prošlosti krenuti uzlaznom i afirmacijskom putanjom.
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The paper investigates the process of providing automotive technical support for the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan by using the synergetic bifurcation theory of system development. Based on expert evaluations and statistical data of the auto-technical support of the Armed Forces during 1991–2019, recorded progress trends of the compound’s elements of auto-technical support are recorded. The paper focuses on studying the conceptual model of improvement of the auto technical support system. The opportunities of development of the auto-technical support of the Armed Forces is investigated based on the phase-time characteristics of the system’s elements in bifurcation space. In this respect, the bifurcation model of the auto-technical support system is constructed and the functional dependence between elements of functioning system factors are defined.
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In 2015, four years after the outbreak of the Syrian conflict, which at the beginning was not on the focus and “interest” of NATO, the new actors have emerged in the campaign. Particularly, Russia’s involvement in the conflict has increased the intensity of military operations and decisively changed the course of the conflict on behalf of Syrian Government Forces. Until September 2015, the main players in the theatre have been the Assad regime, Free Syrian Army (FSA), ISIS,anti-ISIS Coalition Forces, and the Syrian Democratic Forces (affiliated groups). However, today “surprisingly” strengthening players of the conflict is the Syrian regime, Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah that were unimaginable at the beginning of the conflict. Surprisingly – because prior to the Syrian conflict “nobody” anticipated Russian, Iranian and pro-Iranian militia groups hegemony in Syrian territory. On the other hand, the U.S., its Allies in the Middle East, and most of the NATO member countries backed the Syrian Opposition and the Free Syrian Army, which were struggling to overthrow the Assad regime. At the same time, the U.S. and most of its Allies publicly declared the recognition of the Syrian Opposition as a legitimate representative of the Syrian people.
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Technological advances have led to an exponential growth in the amount and complexity of open-source information. The weight of this type of information in the collection base has significantly increased and now we have intelligence services that collect more than 80% of their intelligence from open sources. Therefore, in this article, referring to state-of-the-art technologies in an exhaustive approach, we analyze how the new technologies sustain the intelligence services in their actions for collecting open-source intelligence and increase the efficiency of related processes. Moreover, we analyze how these technologies can supplement and enhance one another throughout the phases of the intelligence cycle to render the intelligence services’ activity more efficient. Finally, analyzing the historical progress, we will foretell what technologies are expected to support OSINT in the next ten years and how they will be integrated into the phases of the intelligence cycle, forecasting how OSINT will advance through technological change.
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In the current age of information, digitalization is offering advantages to organizations proportional to their willingness and determination to integrate technology. Innovative high tech has determined the developments of extremely dynamic and demanding operational environments but is also providing the tools to cope with them. In order to achieve success, modern organizations need to implement highly flexible processes, which can be easily adapted to the permanent changing input variables or to the customizable output requirements. The development of artificial intelligence technology and its integration into the organizational business processes is promising to bring advantages, which could never be reached by utilizing classical human-based processes.
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The Indonesian nation is currently continuing to develop the strength of the Indonesian Navy’s submarine fleet to increase the deterrence of the national defense system and to ensure the security and safety of shipping in strategic maritime routes. The Indonesian Navy submarine is capable of supervising ships sailing or entering and leaving Indonesian waters freely and without being detected by the sonar of warships and submarines of other countries. The limited operational time of the submarine can be caused by several things, both related to the characteristics of the submarine related to the technology used, and the availability of logistics and supporting infrastructure for the submarine’s operations. The Submarine can not continuously dive during its operation to secure and enforce the sovereignty of the Indonesian national jurisdiction. The focus of research is on the determinant influence of infrastructure on submarine operational durability to increase the deterrence of the state defense system at sea. This research uses a qualitative analysis method with the development of thinking through interviews, Focus Group Discussions(FGD), Round Table Discussions (RTD), and semi-structured interviews to obtain data about submarine operational durability.
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Organizational conflict is not based on personal values; it occurs due to dynamic changes within the structure of the organization. When these dynamics are neglected, they generate conflict within the organization. Any organization reunites groups of individuals with different personalities, job outlooks, education, systems of values and different behaviours. The maintenance of perfect harmony is hard to be achieved, conflicts being inevitable.
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This article deals with the pedagogical conditions that ensure the effectiveness of the formation of communicative competence among future officers in the higher education system. They are professional activities by both cadets and teachers; modelling of communicative situations in the learning process, ensuring the free entry of cadets into the communication process; introduction into the educational process of a special course (elective) “Communicative competence in the professional activity of an officer”; an individual and differentiated approach to cadets in the process of developing their communication skills.
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The great challenges of the third millennium are not limited to globalization (or, according to some people, the forced promotion of globalization worldwide by the world’s great powers), the fight against international terrorism or the continuous implementation of state-of-the-art technologies. They culminate in the concept of “Industry 4.0[1], the fourth industrial revolution, represented by the digitization of all aspects of social life. New elements, totally unknown until recently and especially unpredictable such as economic recession, destabilization of the eurozone, political populism, intensification of cyberattacks of Russia or China, the failure of the Trump administration etc. required changes in the current environment. Through the rapid and categorical way of imposition, two of them stand out as cataclysms of social life, as it was perceived at the beginning of the millennium, completely transforming the reality of civilization on the old continent. Thus, the refugee crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic crisis have changed human existence in all its complexity, redefining, among other things, the daily way we make our living through work.
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Interview with the poetess Aksinia Mihailova is presented. It is a confession about poetry, creativity, the perception of her works in Bulgaria and abroad.
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The current bibliography of Nayden Gerov (1823–1900) offers the first complete presentation of the cultural and historical heritage of one of the most prominent educators (philologist, poet, translator, lexicographer, folklorist, diplomat, teacher, director, author of textbooks) of the Bulgarian Revival. The study consists of two parts – 1) books and separate publications by the creator of the first of its kind in our country five-volume “Dictionary of the Bulgarian language” (1895–1904), and 2) books and scientific and literary-historical articles in periodicals and non-periodicals, collections for the Revival author. The bibliography provides an opportunity to evaluate the multifaceted and large-scale work of N. Gerov in the history of Bulgarian science and culture.
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Kerala is a melting pot of cultures and religious influences which translates into a melting pot of cuisines as well. The food trail is extensive. In the past, spice trade brought many communities to the shores of Malabar Coast because pepper was regarded as an asset even more valuable than gold. It was actually called “the black gold.”
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