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Reform of the United Nations Sanctions Regime
Sanctions are undoubtedly a most important tool in the Security Council’s (SC’s) arsenal when working for international peace and security. They are the sharpest instruments short of armed force. Since the mus...
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A few Thoughts and Memories of my Introduction to Siegfried Wagner
It was in the early sixties that I made my first and long awaited visit to Bayreuth. Wilhelm Pitz, the chorus master of the Bayreuth Theatre had most kindly sought permission for me to sit at the back of the o...
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Consociational Democracy, Class Conflict, and the New Corporatism
“Consociational democracy” or “Konkordanzdemokratie” has been described as the response of political elites in certain countries to the challenge of strong sub-cultural segmentation (chapter 1, above; also Iijpha...
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Pakistan: Experiments in Local Governance
Prior to relinquishing their imperial obligations, the British partitioned India along religious lines by creating a new nation in the subcontinent. Pakistan (an acronym created from the names of the territori...
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A Search for Balance: Canada and the United Nations
In early 2002, Canada’s newest Foreign Affairs Minister, Bill Graham, paid a call to Washington, D.C. to meet with United States’ Secretary of State Colin Powell. The next day, he visited the United Nations wh...
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Conservatism and Religion in the United States
In modern politics conservatism and religion have been considered natural bedfellows by many an enlightened political scientist. This point of view explains the overriding interest of European as well as Ameri...
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Evolution of Local Self-Government in India
Scholars of Indian local self-government maintain that autonomous local governance units have existed in India throughout its long history. Mahabharat,Kautilya’s Arthashastra (4th century B.C.) and pre-Buddhist J...
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Similarities and differences between the Austrian and Czech higher education systems — looking at two laws
The paper compares the Czech 1998 Higher Education Act with the Austrian University Act 2002, taking as its basis two Czech Higher Education Acts (the entirely new law of 1990 and the amended Act of 1998), bot...
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Is the basis of exoticism subjective or objective?
As exotic, we usually apprehend something extraordinary, rare, unfamiliar — all of them features that challenge our cognitive instincts. Obviously, exoticism does not exist objectively and can only be defined in ...
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On the nature, annotation and use of shallow parsing structures
Shallow parsing has come into use during the preceding decade under various names and for various tasks. The different approaches vary in some respects but also share many features. This article is intended to...
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Work in Lives: The Interplay of Project and Biography
My professional career in sociology began at the University of California-Berkeley during the early 1960s, a tumultuous time of social change and orientation to research problems in the study of lives. With a ...
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Gender, life cycle trajectories, and their determinants in the Portuguese labour market
Gender inequalities relative to labour market opportunities deserve thorough attention from Portuguese researchers in the fields of labour and human resources economics. Indeed, there is clear empirical eviden...
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Beyond Lock-Step Career Paths
My approach to occupational socialization and structuration, like that of Walter Heinz is grounded in a life course approach (e.g., Elder 1998; Giele/Elder 1998; Moen et al 1 995) in that I investigate the occupa...
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Map** structures onto tags
Named Entity Recognition (NEE) and baseNP chunking are two examples of NLP tasks that annotate chunks, i.e. non-embedding, non-overlap** token sequences. Many approaches to these tasks can be greatly simplified...
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Part-time employment in the Swedish retail trade: A gender perspective on the development of working time patterns
Part-time work is very much on the agenda in Sweden today, as the government has assigned 300 million SEK (=32.5 million euro) for a period of three years in order to reduce part-time unemployment (www.helapro...
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The Evolution of Public Opinion Research and its Significance for the German-American Dialogue
In his monumental work, Walter Lippmann (1922) examined the problems inherent in understanding how citizens in a democratic society make their decisions on public issues. Writing in 1921, in the wake of the Fi...
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Narratives of Agency: The hero’s journey as a construct for personal development through outdoor adventure
I will start with a story. It is an account of a two-day personal development course for a group of work colleagues that took place on the Pembrokeshire coast several years ago. I was one of the facilitators a...
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There is no end to it
The linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is one of the main areas of computational linguistics. Much energy has been devoted to building large syntactically annotated corpora, which are also called t...
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Visions of the City. Introduction
Imagine the ‘ideal’ city. What is it like in order for everyone to live well? What does it look like? These were the questions discussed during the International Women’s University at the University of Kassel ...
