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This article refers to the masculine-feminine opposition, starting from elements related to mythology to linguistic symbols. Starting from Greek mythology, which depicts the dynasty of deities, telling extraordinary adventures and which has not ceased to feed the imagination of artists for centuries. Throughout Greek and then Roman Antiquity, these stories evolved. Many contributions have been added, variations have been made according to places, times and the inspiration of the authors, new interpretations have constantly come to enrich an initial content. Bringing together elements of mythological and sociolinguistic research, my article presents how the collective mind has established that language, the words we use, is a cultural mirror, which symbolically fixes prejudices and stereotypes from the past.
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Today’s challenging, unpredictable, and volatile international security environment and recent developments in Ukraine require the states of Eastern Europe, especially those that are not members of powerful military alliances, to focus on strengthening the most important instrument of national power, military power, in order to be able to defend their national interests. Enhancing military capability is usually associated with an increase in funding for defense programs. However, having a significant defense budget does not guarantee security, and the main question is how efficiently and effectively defense funds are allocated to particular programs, projects, or activities. The way to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of managing defense funds is through the introduction of the performance-based (program) budgeting approach. At the same time, it must be kept in mind that programs cannot disregard the structure of the MOD departments and services, since budgets are implemented by allocating resources to organizational units to use for conducting activities aimed at producing outputs. In this paper, I proposed some structural changes in order to place the organizational structure of the MOD of Georgia on more of a “product line” basis; bring it more in line with the basic principles of management , and improve capability planning and program development processes.
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Social media has become a powerful force. t exerts influence by shaping the public’s perceptions of various issues, including defense-related topics. Public opinion, in turn, has effects on war, military policies, and budgets. Thus, understanding the public discourse and associated sentiment on defense-related issues and identifying influencers in social media is important. Techniques such as text mining are relatively inexpensive and efficient means to achieve these objectives. This study employs these techniques to empirically analyze Twitter references to the United States Air Force (USAF) over a seven-month period and provide recommendations for potential changes to current USAF social media operations.
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Russia’s recent aggressions against Ukraine have resurfaced the importance of NATO’s Eastern Flank. Modern capabilities with allied presence are considered essential in order to assure deterrence for not just Eastern Europe but for the entire continent. However, the actual areas that pose a risk and threat on the Eastern Flank have longed been deemed differently. For the Northern part of the Flank, around the Baltic Sea, due to Poland’s geopolitical agenda and the Baltic States' geographical position NATO has always considered strengthening this area a priority. Romania is part of the Eastern Flank but is situated in an area that has not always been considered a major strategic challenge, that of the Southern part of the Eastern Flank, around the Black Sea. The aim of this paper is to present Romania’s view to the importance of the Black Sea, from a political, military, and economic point of view, to analyze the country’s push during NATO summits for strengthening this area, and to understand what the future is for this region, after introducing the Black Sea area in the NATO Strategic Concept, following the NATO summit from Madrid.
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The article provides a mathematical solution to the problem of determining the coordinates of the target discovered during the reconnaissance of the area by a reconnaissance drone.
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The need for organizations to become agile in terms of their structure, people competencies, processes, and technology employed has been ascertained since the 2000 Agile Manifesto. The most recent developments around the world in recent years, namely a global pandemic dramatically impacting all walks of life and old ways of work, and a war repositioning power vectors and geo-strategic interests have made the requirements for focusing more on people and their interactions, finding working solutions to stringent problems, establishing collaborative relationships with major stakeholders and working with change rather than following a set plan even more prominent. Consequently, identifying and working adequately with key areas within an organization calls for a renewed interest in the role played by organizational leadership in managing change. All of the above considered, this article overviews leadership prerequisites as informed by a select number of traditional change models, revisits the actions required on behalf of leaders as informed by Kotter’schange model and briefly y identify es a number of change management principles which can be used as standards for measuring leadership behavior.
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For the first time we will outline the perimeter of scholarly work in communication and media scholarship in Bulgaria from the beginning of democracy in 1990 to the present 2022 г.We offer a bibliographic corpus of the more significant results of the scientific of the research, expressed in three publication formats - collections, monographs, studies and articles.These works are not only the visible result of our work as scholars during the years. They have had and continue to have a significant impact on higher education, on research, on the professions, on political decisions, and on shaping the public image of media and communications among the lay readership.
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This publication is the first topical bibliography of the scientific publications by university scholars and researchers in Bulgaria regarding the specific topics of Communication, Media, Journalism, Public Relations and Publishing. For the first time since the beginning of democracy in 1990 the scientific foundations for the education of journalists and other media and communication professions in Bulgaria has been outlined. It should be noted that in all former socialist countries in Europe the period after 1990 is considered as the more significant one in the field of journalism training.
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