As liberal democracies, what can the United States, Europe, and Japan be expected to embrace as “democratic” solutions to global environmental problems such as climate change? It is our argument that contradictions in liberal democratic politics lead these states to advocate solutions that are nature-ascommodity oriented and that idealize the notion of “managed nature.” In the case of climate c...

Political parties in Western democracies with large immigrant populations have become increasingly interested nominating immigrant-origin candidates. This paper investigates how contextual factors explain parties’ effort of representation. I argue that nominations candidates are shaped by strategic calculations weighing out potential vote gains among voters compared to a native backlash. conten...

Throughout Africa, there has been a rising amount of civil unrest. The continent has been plagued with genocide, resource wars, ethnic conflict and civil war. In recent years, the world has seen multiple efforts to create peace throughout Africa. While there have been many peace accords signed throughout the region, the success of creating stable peace has not been achieved. In response to the ...

This article explores the relationship of theorizing about responses to ending conflict, more specifically a broad understanding of peacebuilding, with debates about globalization. The tension between aspects of globalization which have raised public and political pressure and awareness in the West to respond to conflicts, humanitarian disasters, and inequalities on their periphery and beyond, ...

BACKGROUND The hemoglobin threshold for transfusion of red blood cells in patients with acute gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is controversial. We compared the efficacy and safety of a restrictive transfusion strategy with those of a liberal transfusion strategy. METHODS OBJECTIVE The objective was to prove that the restrictive threshold for red blood cell transfusion in patients with acute...

Political communication research has become more international over the past decades, but this mainly meant expanding scope of our discipline from very United States-centric perspective that characterized its founding years to broader realm liberal Western democracies. As a result, wide gap remains between knowledge political in countries so-called Global North and South. Besides outlook, conte...

The paper asks how parenting desires are associated with the construction of sexual identity and what factors most influence whether gays/lesbians, bisexuals, heterosexuals declaring same-sex attraction want to have (more) children. subject has been explored mainly in Western liberal gay-family-friendly legislation social environment so far. Our study was conducted Czech Republic, a CEE country...