in the process of modernization, traditional dress is usually the first issue which changes in traditional societies. undoubtedly, western societies, benefiting from their worldwide cultural industry, are leading the globe to a great uniformity which peoples’ dress is one of its apparent out comes. today, in our society emergence of west culture through the process of globalization on one hand,...

Research on Eastern European dissidents has had an interesting trajectory in the last couple of decades. During Cold War, became heroes to Western observers as they criticized rights abuses, pointed out socialist states’ failures fulfill their promises or deviation from Marxist teachings, discussed crimes committed under Stalin and after also seemed be living proof for existence independently m...

This article starts by reviewing the negative account of utopian thinking in dominant liberal western political theory, through the positing of a link between utopianism and totalitarianism, as present in the writings of liberal writers like Hayek, Popper, Berlin and others. As such, this article constitutes a critique of the liberal theories of utopianism and totalitarianism as well as positin...

The article studies the transformation of Western liberal democratic model and international relations amid Cold War II. Sources authoritarianism are identified, West’s ongoing authoritarian turn is conceptualized in terms postliberalism. latter scrutinized through political efforts to protect democracy its values, establish global Gemeinschaft democracies containment, deterrence, encirclement....

Una Osili. " Africa and the common Market, " published in the working paper series of Northwestern University. 2002.

Norms have been extensively studied to coordinate multi-agent systems, and the literature has investigated two general approaches to norm synthesis: off-line (synthesising norms at design-time) and on-line (run-time synthesis). On-line synthesis is generally recognised to be appropriate for open systems, where aspects of the system remain unknown at design-time. In this paper we present LION, a...

The Doctor of Liberal Arts (DLA) is designed for the experienced adult learner who wishes to pursue rigorous interdisciplinary study along with independent, scholarly reading and research. The degree is designed to cultivate interdisciplinary skills, intellectual habits, analytical and critical reasoning, effective writing, and broad-based decision making. The DLA is primarily for working profe...

Since 1990s, the liberal globalization exposed Arctic to economic hardships but also spurred broad international cooperation, creating a new holistic macroregion. However, U.S. arranged in 2022 for its politicized breakup along NATO vs Russia axis, with an active involvement of third parties. In Western this is likely result stringent limitations on business activities climatic reasons, while n...