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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
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
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) provides that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, including the freedom "either individually or in community with ... political philosophy. See JOSEPH RAZ, THE MORALITY OF FREEDOM 165-216, 321-366 (1986) [hereinafter RAz, MORALITY OF FREEDOM]. 7. For discussion of value pluralism as a moral theory in political philosophy
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
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
intellectual and geopolitical currents highly reminiscent of those that gave birth to the New Haven School. On the one hand, the New Haven School was a response to Cold War realism, a philosophy "which ... Constitutional and Political Theory] , SELA - II. CONCLUSION: TOWARD INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PLURALISM ...................................................... 419 I. INTRODUCTION I am struck by the similarities
continue to pose serious challenges for achieving national integration and political stability. In the past, the vast majority of African states have carefully avoided coming to terms with the heterogeneity ... Liberal Theory of Secession, 32 POL. STUD. 21, 21 (1984) ("Secession is a forgotten problem of political philosophy."); Yael Tamir, The Right to National Self-Determination, 58 Soc. Rns. 565, 565 (1991
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
The precise causes of the "resource curse"-the relationship between natural resource extraction and an increase in poverty, violence, and political instability-remain unknown. Yet the relationship ... sense, the failure of the project manifested itself in the design 2011] details but was caused by the World Bank's more fundamental failure to consider the social and political context of its lending
influence and are influenced by social, economic, and political shifts. Nowadays, in view of ever intensifying foreign investments and other cross-border ventures, the institution of property may face its ... Tobin & Susan Rose-Ackerman, When BITs Have Some Bite: The Political-EconomicEnvironmentfor Bilateral Investment Treaties, REV. INT'L ORG. (forthcoming), available at http://www.springerlink .com/content
the world. When institutional failures and international pressures threaten the democratic accountability of elected institutions, as they do in most countries in political transition, jurists may ... a common feature of judicial life."); see also Yasuo Hasebe, ConstitutionalBorrowing and Political Theory, I INT'L J. CONST. L. 224, 235-36 (2003) (describing the process by which "[tihe Japanese
As the global economic crisis deepens, even the governments of major market economies are susceptible to domestic political pressures to adopt protectionist trade policies. In a speech given at the ... domestic constituents through an orderly political or administrative process is a challenge for both mature democratic societies and rapidly democratizing countries like Korea. If the domestic decisionmaking
GHSSS, this analysis is both relevant and necessary because there are crucial political and economic disagreements between the government and the opposition about: its quality, financing, stability, and ... council, which will be in charge of the political coordination and governance of the system. The health secretariats and territorial health councils will guide the formation of integrated and comprehensive
at the international level is changing. Whereas conventional wisdom assumes that international law reduces state sovereignty, this Comment argues that international political organizations and legal ... bodies" broadly to include not only international political organizations, such as the U.N. Security Council and the U.N. General Assembly, but also international courts, such as the International Court of
-reviled Insular Cases a century ago, and technically unchanged by the adoption of a constitution and "commonwealth" status in the 1950s. Broad dissatisfaction with this constitutional and political limbo ... political system and the U.S. Constitution. Harder to imagine is how the constitutionally unique arrangements in the different territories, just like those on American Indian reservations and in the District
