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The Reluctant Debutante: the EU as Promoter of Democracy in its Neighbourhood

The Reluctant Debutante: the EU as Promoter of Democracy in its Neighbourhood

Author(s): Michael Emerson,Senem Aydin,Gergana Noutcheva,Natalie Tocci,Marius Vahl,Richard Youngs / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: EU as Exporter of Democratic Values;

The role of the European Union in the promotion of democracy in its wider neighbourhood can be assessed at different levels, from the broad sweep of the history of Europe through the centuries, to the contemporary history of the European Union as a set of norms, values and institutions, and finally down to the technicalities of democracy promotion programmes. The substance of the EU’s role is bound up with the paradigm of ‘Europeanisation’, which has a strong normative democratic content, and at the same time relates to the empowerment of the EU institutions. There are certainly inhibitions in the system holding the EU back from playing this role, which come from particular sensitivities of individual member states. These reflect a whole collection of syndromes, ranging from different proximities and historical experiences in relation to the various neighbours, to different European visions and world views. The divergences represented by these syndromes sometimes make it difficult or impossible for the EU institutions to pursue active foreign policies, including democracy promotion.

Exploiting Fuzzy Cognitive Maps in Resiliency Related Management Decisions

Exploiting Fuzzy Cognitive Maps in Resiliency Related Management Decisions

Author(s): David Ward,Paolo Trucco / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: fuzzy cognitive maps; disruption; resilience; business continuity; management; decisions; dependency; interdependency

Operational resilience refers to the ability of an organization and its management to prevent disruptions from occurring as well as the aptitude to react quickly to and recover from a disruption of primary business and relative processes. Such scenarios pertain to human-centric collaborative commerce systems. The playing field thus encompasses complex socio-technical-economical systems, risk-crisis management and expert judgments in multi-actor and multi-criteria fuzzy decision making circumstances. Fuzzy cognitive mapping lends itself particularly well to these circumstances and has already been successfully investigated in a wide range of applications, from ecological system modelling to knowledge processing. Operational resilience and business continuity management are a further two ideal applications for FCMs (Fuzzy Cognitive Maps) and are proposed and discussed in detail in this chapter.

Providing a competitive advantage in the context of contemporary dimensions of tour operator business

Осигуряване на конкурентно предимство в контекста на съвременните измерения на туроператорския бизнес

Author(s): Irena Kirilova Emilova,Margarita Misheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: competitive advantage, tour operators activity; business;

The purpose of this article is to identify opportunities for providing competitive advantage of travel agency in the contemporary business environment. Gives specific proposals for achieving them relating to diversify product offerings and adding additional consumer value; changes in management of this specific type of activity; automation of business processes; design of additional activities; image building and others.

An approach to the problems of the common good in the perspective of new institutionalism. On the example of managing shared resources by local communities

Podejście do problemów dobra wspólnego w perspektywie nowego instytucjonalizmu. Na przykładzie zarządzania wspólnymi zasobami przez społeczności lokalne

Author(s): Piotr Chmielewski / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Cities-Worlds

Miasta-światy

Author(s): Monika Rawska / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: utopia;utopia and dystopia;utopia and heterotopia;dystopian film;dystopian city;topography;urban space;urban space and place;

Monika Rawska’s chapter focuses on two modern movies "Equilibrium" (dir. Kurt Wimmer, USA 2002) and "Inception" (dir. Christopher Nolan, USA—Great Britain 2010) with an analysis of the city spaces depicted in these films. Progress is the basis of the analysis. Progress is the impulse pervasive in utopias and it is an important motivator for human actions presently perceived as negative—imperialism, colonialism, racism. Margaret Mead’s notion that Utopia should be seen as a historical category while revealing an essential ambivalence is well summarized in her work, “One man’s dream is another man’s nightmare”. This is also represented in select films depicting a new society with a visual representation of order. For example, in Libria and architect’s city both of which were created with a positive and beneficial premise, though over time they became a burden for the characters. Change in perception of reality is one of the significant elements in dystopian narratives, that are also present in film adaptations, in what Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim calls a „utopiacrime”. Libria is depicted as the only city in the world in the film, "Equilibrium". Libria is a dystopian cityfortress contrasted with the surrounding Nether and an appropriated enclave space of Offenders. It functions as a simulacrum of the past at a time before the war. The film vision of the future is an intertextual collage of conventional representations of the totalitarian organization of both space and society. Dream city is the creation of an architect couple in the film, "Inception". It is a very different space, imagined and fictional and it perfectly captures the impossibility of utopia as revealed by its very name that means non-space. Reality, which the couple created for themselves, demonstrates an interesting tension between the architectural utopia and the solitary eutopia as well as a conflict of planner vs. wanderer (as described by Michel de Certeau). In both movies the city space becomes a threat in spite of its projected function as a safe and/or familiar space. In "Equilibrium", it imposes on and disciplines its inhabitants as tools of the state. In Inception, the city is the accumulation of the protagonists’ entire world and it turns unto its own ruin, a memory maze swallowed by the sea.

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

REPOZITORII INSTITUȚIONALE ALE BIBLIOTECILOR UNIVERSITARE

Author(s): Liubovi Karnaeva,Viorica Lupu,Angela Repanovici,Alexandru Colesnicov,Ludmila Mihailov,Igor Afatin,Lina Mihaluţa,Tatiana Prian,Elena Carpovici,Tamilla Barov,Irina Ciornaia,Ecaterina Zasmenco,Alla Corovai,Ana Gudima,Natalia Cheradi,Ina Nicuţă,Cristina Ungur / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: repozitorii instituţionale; indexare; biblioteci universitare; digitizare;

În acest capitol este subliniată importanţa şi necesitatea iniţierii Repozitoriilor Instituţionale.

East Crimean Imported Glazed Ceramics in Azak, a Golden Horde City. Questions of Chronology

Восточнокрымский поливной импорт в золотоордынском Азаке. Вопросы хронологии

Author(s): Andrei Nikolaevich Maslovskiy / Language(s): Russian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Golden Horde; South-Eastern Crimea; Azak; Caffa; Solkhat; Sudak; bowl; dish; jug; sgraffito; engobe painting; polychrome coloring

The author discusses glazed ceramics manufactured in cities of the South-East Crimea (Caffa, Sudak, Solkhat) in late 13th — 14th centuries. During those centuries, it got spread over the territory of Eastern Europe and therefore can be a good dating factor, much more accurate than many other types of finds and comparable only to coins. Presently, many vessels can be dated precisely within fifty years to one decade. This is possible because of a big number of closed assemblages studied during the digs on Azak and dated by copper coins. For this purpose, the glazed ceramics is classified by series, which group vessels similar by forms and use (for instance, bowls and dishes) with a steady identical design of decorative compositions.

On Some Elements of Costume Decoration and Adornments of the Late 13th — Early 15th Centuries Associated with the Golden Horde Tradition

О некоторых предметах декорировки костюма и украшениях конца XIII — начала XV вв., связанных с золотоордынской традицией

Author(s): Svetlana S. Ryabtseva / Language(s): Russian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Golden Horde; costume decoration; jewelry;cultural traditions;

The items of costume decoration and adornments, produced in conformity with the Golden Horde traditions were spread quite widely, from the Volga region to the Balkans. They were worn by both the elite and the plain people. In some cases, local imitations are presented. Some of them (for example, metal tops of caps, earrings in the form of a question mark, a number of plaques for clothes, belt and bag) could be worn by the Adygei, Polovtsi, Early Russians, Lithuanians, East Romance and mixed Balkan population (up to Bulgaria and Macedonia).

Late Zarubintsi Dwellings: State of Studies and the Problem of Source

Жилища позднезарубинецкого времени: состояние изучения и проблема источника

Author(s): Yuri Yu. Bashkatov / Language(s): Russian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Late Zarubintsi group; housing; blockhouse construction; carcass-pillar design; semi-dugouts; ground dwelling; Kiev culture

The author examines the current state of studies of the Late Zarubintsi culture dwellings and main ideas about them. He also introduces some new evidence from the South Bug River area and gives a comprehensive overview of dwellings belonging to all local versions of the Late Zarubintsi group of sites. Special focus is set on constructive features of the dwellings. He concludes that the blockhouse construction of walls prevailed and had a continuation on the latest sites of the Kiev culture.

Development of global value chains

Development of global value chains

Author(s): Oľga Nosáľová / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: vertical division of labor; fragmentation of production; commodity chains; global value chains; networks; added value in exports;

The main objective of the chapter is to present the basis and development of global value chain and the reflection of this issue in publications in the literature from the time when commodity chains began to change the nature of relations between suppliers and buyers from different countries till present. It explains how and why the fragmentation of production has contributed to the strong interconnectedness of the countries and how different authors and institutions responded to this development. Their approaches and characteristics are summed up according to stages and commodity chain (CC), global commodity chain (GCC) and global value chain (GVC) theories.

The Bildungsroman and Building a Hybrid Identity in the Postcolonial Context: Migration as Formative Experience in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

The Bildungsroman and Building a Hybrid Identity in the Postcolonial Context: Migration as Formative Experience in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

Author(s): Petru Golban,Derya Benli / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: migration; Bildungsroman; hybrid identity; postcolonial context; Monica Ali; Brick Lane;

Focusing on Monica Ali’s novel Brick Lane, and with regard to its major protagonists Nazneen, Chanu, and Karim, the present study reveals the ways in which the author creates characters who face difficulties and are subjected to crises caused by their alienation from their native country, culture and identity, which would lead in turn to their cultural ambiguity, transformation into hybrid individuals, and eventually to experiences of identity crisis in an environment represented by the Bangladeshi community in east London. Monica Ali reveals that identity is under threat within the East End immigrant community; in this respect, she appears to materialize in her fictional discourse various concepts and concerns – such as identity, identity crisis, identity formation, individual subject, developing consciousness, hybridity, ambiguity, mimicry, individual and society – just as Wordsworth would reify in his literary practice his own principles of poetic composition, or as Lawrence would express in his novels the Freudian principles.

The World of Fiction and Myths . On Piotr Wojciechowski’s Prose

Świat fikcji i mitów. O prozie Piotra Wojciechowskiego

Author(s): Janusz Pasterski / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

‘My eyes are fondling your portrait’. A few touches to the portrait of researcher Svetlana Ryabtseva

«Мои глаза ласкают твой портрет». Несколько штрихов к образу исследователя Светланы Рябцевой

Author(s): Roman A. Rabinovich,Nicolai P. Telnov / Language(s): Russian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: archaeology; history; jewelry; female clothing; history of arts; scientific life

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Gold Cloisonné Kolty with Images of Saints: their Manufacturing Manner and Unknown Style Features

Золотые колты с изображениями святых: манера исполнения и неизвестные особенности стиля

Author(s): Ljudmila V. Pekarska / Language(s): Russian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Old Rus; Kiev; Vladimir; 11th—12th centuries; kolts; Cloisonné;Saints;

Jewelry bearing images of saints, publicized in academic circles but without any greater study, are presented here in detail for the first time. Additional information has been introduced where such detail has been lacking on those found in foreign collections. The images, their forms and design compositions, characterizing the work of the Kiev’s princely workshops of the 11th—12th centuries, are analyzed. Attention is focused on separate stylistic features of manufacturing, previously unresearched.The study allowed us to conclude: that there were cases of stencils being re-used; that manufacturing to order of a pair of kolty by two masters took place — the main specialist, who was highly proficient in his drawing and cloisonné technique and his assistant, who was still gaining skills in producing such jewelry. This would explain the reason for stylistic differences in the details of face designs, garment decor and enamel tones.A new interpretation of Vladimir’s kolts of the 12th century is proposed, revising the prevailing school of thought in literature about their provincialism and imperfection.

A Comparison Between Then and Now Why is The Condition of Working Class in England in Many Ways an Actual Critique of Contemporaneity?

Usporedba nekada i sada - Zašto je Položaj radničke klase u Engleskoj nakon 175 godina u mnogočemu aktualna kritika današnjice

Author(s): Maroje Višić / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Engels; 200th anniversary of birth; working class; precariat; communal living; Amazon; WeWork; Google; maternity leave; technology; food insecurity; capsule hotels; smart cities and neighbourhoods;

Author revisits Engels’ study The Condition of the Working Class in England on the occasion of Engels’ 200th anniversary of birth. I examine and compare similarities of what was written 175 ago with contemporaneity. In this endeavour I rely on the same sources as Engels did: newspapers articles, official documents, reports, statistics and scientific studies. Hence the comparison can be made through examining topics such as: precariat and proletariat, migrants and their contribution to the functioning of (neo)capitalism, pregnancy and maternity discrimination, accommodation of workers and working conditions, housing and living conditions, the impact of the technological principle on the architecture and design of cities and districts, starvation and food insecurity and through artificial division of working and leisure time. I do not argue that things have remained completely unchanged. However, my examination reveals that in spite of the advancement in the past 175 years, same conditions that Engels described prevail mutatis mutandis today.

Comparative Economic Systems

Sisteme economice comparate

Author(s): Octavian-Dragomir Jora,Mihai Vladimir Topan,Matei-Alexandru Apăvăloaei / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 2017

Objectives: - To highlight the defining attributes of the “institutional arrangements” (that is of the “economic systems”) that circumscribe the economic activity within a country / jurisdiction, thus giving meaning to the comparisons to be made between the political and legal systems coexisting in the world - To consolidate a critical, analyticalevaluative, apparatus, useful in international business, in which various calculations are made in order to optimize the activity inside and among various national spaces, whose institutions and policies have a significant impact on the results of the economic agents with international exposure

European Economic Integration

Integrare economică europeană

Author(s): Mihaela Cristina Drăgoi,Gabriela Dragan,Mirela Diaconescu,Yvonne Iulia DUMITRU-LACROIX,Irina Mădălina Doroftei,Laura Elena Marinas,Maria-Floriana Popescu,Andreea Maria Paul / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Objectives: - To better understand the way in which the EU emerged and evolved, from the customs union stage to the economic and monetary union - To understand how EU institutions work - To understand the operating and financing mechanisms of EU policies - To identify the role and position occupied by the EU in a global context - To identify the role and position occupied by Romania in the European context

International Business Environment

Mediul internaţional de afaceri

Author(s): Alina Irina Popescu,Ana Maria MARINOIU,Irina Elena Ion,Radu Cristian Mușetescu / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 2017

Objectives: - To present the main components of the international business environment - To develop the competence of analysing the components of the international business environment (of different types of economic, political and legal systems existing on the globe, national culture, sociodemographic and technological factors affecting the development of international business)

Business Internationalization and Modes of Entry into Foreign Markets

Internaţionalizarea firmei şi formele de pătrundere a firmei pe pieţele externe

Author(s): Gheorghe Hurduzeu,Irina-Eugenia Iamandi,Cosmin Silviu Raul Joldes,Bogdan CERNAT-GRUICI,Radu Filip / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 2017

Objectives: - To emphasize the fundamental factors of business internationalization - To study the four strategies of business internationalization - To analyse the stages of business development at international level - To understand the modes of entry into foreign markets

Amfiteatru Economic - Year XX (Full eBook)

Amfiteatru Economic - Year XX (Full eBook)

Author(s): Constantin Bratianu,Dan-Cristian Dabija,Mădălina Dumitru,Valentin Florentin Dumitru,Raluca Mariana Grosu,Raluca Gina Guşe,Nicolae Istudor,Puiu Nistoreanu,Marieta Olaru,Bogdan Cristian Onete,Rodica Pamfilie,Gheorghe Săvoiu,Cristinel Vasiliu,Vasile Dinu,Laurentiu Tăchiciu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2018

Keywords: Amfiteatru Economic Journal; testimonials; scholarly publication; editorial activities; academic journals databases; scientometric indices

The book, Amfiteatru Economic - Year XX, describes the process of becoming an academic publication twenty years after the appearance of the first issue. Testimonies of the personalities who founded the Amfiteatru Economic Journal, as well as some of those who contributed along the way to strengthening its prestige, are evoked. The main important moments in the evolution of the Journal are presented. A turning point was the entry of the journal into the mainstream of academic publications internationally with its indexation in 2008 by Thomson Reuters Services in the most comprehensive and prestigious database for academic publications, known today as the Web of Science Core Collection. At the same time, the paper includes statistical analyses and scientometrics illustrating the qualitative progress achieved by the Journal over time. An important role had, in this respect, the responsible performance of all editorial activities, an active online presence through the Journal's website, consistent respect for the mission and declared values. The book also describes the efforts made by the editorial committee to attract recognized scientific personalities and strengthen the Journal's community, including through meetings and collaborations with different other academic communities, as well as through partnerships with international conference organizers. The volume presents an experience rich in useful lessons for all those interested in academic publishing, especially for the collectives that initiate new publications. In the 108-year history of the Academy of Economic Studies, Amfiteatru Economic - Year XX is a unique book, because it is the only book about a journal.