About Security in Contemporary World

Consanguinity in the contemporary world.

The rarity of consanguineous marriage in much of the industrialized world, and the current restriction or outright prohibition of first-cousin unions in a majority of US states and in East Asian countries such as China, North and South Korea and the Philippines, has led many commentators to overlook the fact that the Out-of-Africa migration some 60,000–70,000 years ago had been undertaken by qu...

Democratic Challenges in the Contemporary World

Globalization in the Contemporary Cuban Art World

As the Cuban revolution approaches its fiftieth anniversary, Cuba has become a more consumer-oriented society. The island country stands at the crossroads of several systems, each associated with alternative models of political economy and cultural policy. One of these models involves the pursuit of socialism at any fiscal or social cost; another entails the implementation of policies conducive...

World Developments in Social Security

Almost without exception the nations of the world are committed to programs of social security-programs that vary from country to country but have in common the establishment of protection, generally through compulsory social insurance, against such risks as sickness and the economic consequences of unemployment, disability, old age, and death. The following survey, based largely on a longer re...

Transcultural Literature and Contemporary World Literature(s)

In her article "Transcultural Literature and Dagnino argues that within the emerging field of transcultural literary studies and despite the inevitable issues raised by categorization, we may classify transcultural literature domain of world literature(s). Dagnino presents transcultural perspective in the fields of proceeds by outlining the main conto respect to (im)migrant and postcolonial lit...