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to MPs without endangering the existing division of power. Finding this balance enhances the consolidation of legislative future organs, but it simultaneously limits their conventional political impact. ... -level policymaking, political executives have carried out most of this activity, and expert-driven governmental foresight units can now be found on all continents [ 43, 46 ]. However, as scholars of
“Autonomous weapon systems” (AWS) have been subject to intense discussions for years. Numerous political, academic and legal actors are debating their consequences, with many calling for strict ... widely used in philosophy, psychology, human cognition and other disciplines and carries (often contested and contradictory) meanings that range from anthropocentric understandings to political contexts or
This article reports on a political game played between November 2021 and February 2022 at a European university in the frame of an elective course open to students from all disciplines. It started ... discuss whether the Mammoth game had a positive effect on students' abilities to think about the future. Introduction Political games are simulations of political processes that have as their primary
proposes that political action that involves large sociotechnical ventures with the potential of contamination needs to consider the local collective perceptions of the future. ... . Javiera Barandiarán [ 8 ] explains that governments need to legitimize political programs based on science and technologies. Therefore, new totalizing imaginaries around the undertakings can emerge
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected workers’, especially women’s, ability to combine their paid work and care obligations in an unprecedented way. However, it has also raised the political relevance ... also raised the political relevance of the work-life balance issue. The moment is timely as the Work-life Balance Directive adopted by the European Union (EU) in 2019 comes to its implementation deadline
political agenda and the EU aspires to have a leading role in the efforts to deal with global warming. Along with EU climate action, the number of climate-related court cases on the European landscape, both ... relating to climate litigation. Climate change; Climate litigation; Human rights; National courts 1 Introduction Climate crisis has emerged as an increasingly salient issue on the global political agenda
collection of microfiction, which weaves together strands of prose, poetry, drama, philosophy, and pop culture references, the present is estranged by future reflections on a seemingly unfamiliar past. The ... private city of Lempira Siglo XXII emerges is one marked by violence, economic insecurity, and political instability. La Puente frames the founding of the city within the context of a series of
meanings ascribed to technologies in terms of their potential and future implications as “game changers” are often contested, and driven by contradictory political, economic, and other interests (e.g. [ 1–3 ... technologies. By opening up such dialogues, vision assessment serves as an actor in politicisation processes, as it makes the technology and its futures an issue of political negotiation in society. The
level dence that fosters the shaping of the industry’s future Coordination of interorganizational collaboration at the network level Finding opportunities to create a type of momentum or political will is ... . Midgley G ( 2003 ) Science as systemic intervention: some implications of systems thinking and complexity for the philosophy of science . Systemic Practice and Action Research 16 ( 2 ): 77 - 97 41. Miller R
días” (2013, US tit. “The Last Days”), it is not difficult to find several socio-political areas of intersection which converge on a biological issue at the end of both works: the pregnancy of one of the ... or unitarianism. Those were times of extreme political and social unrest not only in Spain, but in the rest of Europe as well, as it was becoming obvious most nations were preparing for what seemed an
parliaments are peripheral within the EU Polity, and that EU legislation lacks legitimacy amongst its citizens. Protocols 1 and 2 of the Treaty of Lisbon promote a horizontal political dialogue between national ... other ‘softer’ ways with national parliaments taking greater control of their political responsibilities. By changing their modus operandi for both policy and legislative scrutiny, partly in response to
solutions could emerge from the retrieval of the idea of including a European Dimension in Education, as a joint political strategy of the European Union and the Council of Europe, given that two separate ... by the economical crisis, the political programmes of only one way and the political disaffection of the citizens with the European project, it is a matter of urgency to find new proposals, also for
annual general meetings being better implemented (in Italy), of legislation being amended with temporary rules (in Germany) and of political momentum being used to bring about fundamental changes (in
reality? Ljubisa Bojic 0 0 Digital Society Lab, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade , Belgrade , Serbia New technologies are emerging at a fast pace without being properly ... sponsors and political agenda setters, hopes are rarely proportionate to what will occur in the future. Expectations are used to provide a sort of “mandate” to innovators, which is essentially the trust in
, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and United States. It focuses on the political and social trends impacting on defence and military issues. In global terms, the following can be discerned ... Political Science, University of Granada , Granada , Spain 1 Javier Jordan The present paper provides a meta-study of security and defence foresight documents by the Atlantic Alliance, European Union and
November 2022, there were 7.111 staff members employed in the Secretariat, 1.110 in political groups and 2.059 as accredited parliamentary assistants. 2Regulation No 31 (EEC), 11 (EAEC), laying down the ... established by its Bureau, as they have the utmost relevance to the work of the Secretariat and refer specifically to the internal life of the institution. The Bureau is Parliament’s highest political body
discussion of political issues.27 In recognition of their public watchdog role, this heightened level of protection has been extended to human rights defenders,28 academics,29 NGOs, and whistle-blowers.30
more flexible. The legislative history55 shows that these exceptions were necessary in order to reach political consensus on the adoption of the Directive. For that reason, the exceptions can be seen as ... Agency Labour: Back to Square One?” Industrial Law Journal (2002/2); Zappala, “The Temporary Agency Workers’ Directive: An Impossible Political Agreement?” Industrial Law Journal (2003/4). 56Davies, op
country is being invaded by “dissidents” paid by the U.S. government, though there is no political or military U.S. presence in the film beyond the symbolic presence of the country’s flag. In Valencia’s ... antiimigrante por el culo!” (I.2, unpaginated) Both texts propose the idea of contagion as a double-edged sword that can be an instrument of resistance or oppression; as such, they underline the political and
domestic renewable energy (RE) production and evenly distributed costs of promoting resilience are found in one of the clusters. Enablers and barriers from techno-economic, political-institutional, and ... means to build a more resilient system at the national level. Third, it was found that the political framework emphasised market-oriented and demand-centric means in food policy, which was manifested as