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, collaboration with stakeholders, preparedness, risk analysis, digitalization, and the political framework. Empirical findings collected in Europe during and between the main pandemic peaks of 2020 and 2021 were ... , and (e) administrative and political frameworks. Chapter 5 discusses the implications for policymakers and civil protection organizations based on the answers provided by the interviewees. In the
The article reflects on the stop-and-go procedures of re-opening the event sector under pandemic circumstances in a case study for difficult political and administrative governance, confusing ... fulfil important societal functions. They enable social exchange, cultural innovation, and political participation and provide socio-psychological relief. The contribution of events to these elementary
, introducing resilience into the national security sphere is not unproblematic. Resilience is “a highly political concept that is being translated from a variety of disciplines into security. Therefore, its ... ” appears as an adjective in the title of the strategy (Federal Foreign Office 2023) . This shows that resilience is now a widely used political buzzword. Many scholars hint at the potential of resilience
health policy are non-justiciable political questions. The ruling was a significant blow to advocates for the judicial enforcement of social and economic rights and proponents of public interest litigation ... of Uganda. The role the political question doctrine will play in the Supreme Court's treatment of the case is anyone's guess. However, regardless of the ultimate outcome, the decision of the
0 1 0 Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) , Oslo , Norway 1 Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU ... attacks in a wider socio-political context, and in relation to health contingency specifically. The point of departure for the present study was an overarching need to learn more about why countries plan
. While this shows that the use of personal data in risk-based border checks raises severe ethical, political, and legal issues, it also shows that the construction of information patterns for traveler risk ... collection of personal data about political or religious convictions … is generally prohibited, for example, because of the potential that it could be misused by the state to discriminate against certain
hunger,3 but often goes hand in hand with violence and political instability: In 2015, the Global Hunger Index (GHI) (Welthungerhilfe 2015) , annually calculated by the International Food Policy Research ... Institute (IFPRI), took particular interest in the question of how hunger and armed conflict relate.4 While there is overwhelming empirical evidence for the argument that violent conflicts and political
rationally by the more effective allocation of police patrols. However, in addition to technical and economic factors, the rise of predictive policing in Germany is above all a political phenomenon, involving ... above all a political phenomenon, involving the discursive shaping of domestic burglary as a security problem. Furthermore, the ways, how the technologies utilised for predictive crime data analysis are
deep animosity and suspicion, which heighten during election periods. This is so largely because individuals hailing from a few ethnic communities dominated the political structures and economic ... the 2010 Kenyan Constitution by creating 47 counties, sub-national territorial and political units, has enhanced the opportunities for the political inclusion of hitherto excluded communities. Moreover
common social, political, national, international and transnational history. This observation is anything but trivial. Rather, it highlights the way both merged at the genesis of modern global ... security as one political road map to environmental policy in Europe and the United States as well as in NATO's ''Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society'' (North Atlantic Treaty Organization/NATO CCMS
fundamental rights in history. Judicial proportionality tests are the place where facts and normativity meet in order to subject the political process to scrutiny. Despite their criticism and depth of ... Protection Act (§4 IfSG) assigns the RKI the task of supporting political decision-making within the framework of prevention and control of communicable diseases through its own research. In the course of the
theory and political philosophy. According to Thomas Hobbes, it is the perpetual fear of death in the anarchic state of nature that makes the establishment of statehood necessary and possible in the first ... representatives to describe the enemy in armed conflicts. The expression of a “cowardly attack” has become quite common in political communication after attacks against Western forces in violent confrontations
order, keeping the political economy going, and to the safeguarding of essential social functions, addressed, for instance, as critical infrastructures. Moreover, especially in European contexts, protests ... . (in-)security and social and political claims of (in-)security—often termed ‘securitization’—it is especially suited for analyzing complex security conditions that involve public statements
trends, the selection and interpretation of scientific expertise itself is a politicised value, and court rulings confirm and reproduce a political strategy that shows a balance of interests with a
solutions. Second, the effort to harness the emotive power of nationalism to help mobilize environmental awareness and action may prove counterproductive by undermining globalist political sensibility ... initial political purpose is replaced with the ultimate aim of war—victory. 2 Features of the state by Weber (1978) . international system, but within the structure of the state.3 To speak of individual
, provide political authorities or public health organizations with an information basis to enable them to provide psychosocial support more effectively to those affected (Beerlage 2021) . On the other hand ... disaster (Rao 2006) . However, the extent to which psychosocial aspects play a role in the work of Corona crisis management in Germany remains unclear. Research in political science and public
political domains, describing a general social condition for which the state is (at least partially) responsible. “Safety”, on the other hand, tends to be more individualistic and related to the condition or ... —namely, a movement toward violent, anti-democratic extremism, particularly among youths; in other words, “political extremism”, which “refers to positions and movements that are directed against the
point in the philosophy and practice of cancer drug research.
a form of algorithmic regulation. It scrutinizes the political debate about the establishment of the use of PNR for security governance in Germany. Along the three phases of the regulatory process ... algorithmic regulation is challenged by systemic opacity, which poses conceptual and political problems. The articles ends with a reflection upon the power of the (seemingly unchallenged) promise of big data
backlashes (for an overview see Flood et al. 2021) . Has the strong political promotion of feminism in the security policy domain evoked any reactions in Sweden, perhaps even a backlash? There is a lack of ... is at the very heart of that movement and the political agenda is often formed in response to ‘elitist’ security agendas, accusing the elite of not understanding, or acting upon, threats to the ‘people