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Are the United States still the «God’s Country»?

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
Arriving to the «new world» across the Atlantic Ocean from England, the Founding Fathers, as an act of thankfullness to God’s guidance, called the United States the «God’s Country». On the other hand, serious scholars would call them the «unfinished country» and quite a few political scientists woul…
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Typology of think tanks: A comparative study in Finland and Scotland

Neil Freshwater, Markus Mykkänen · Queen Margaret University, Scotland, UK
This paper provides a comparative analysis of current Finnish and Scottish think tanks and reviews how think tanks in these countries have evolved, how think tanks seek to influence decision making and engage with their stakeholders. To address the ways of influence this paper looks how Finnish and …
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The culture of modern public administration. The case of Greece.

George Aspridis, Louisa Pouliana · University of Thessaly, Hellenic Open University (HOU),…
The period stretching from 1974 till now has been characterized as the most stable period of the political and administrative history of Greece. However, the appropriate organizational culture which can contribute to the creation of a strategic vision for Greek public administration has not yet b…
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COVID-19 and Social Control

James Chriss · Cleveland State University, USA
The COVID-19 pandemic has once again brought into relief and tension the delicate balancing act modern governments must strike in assuring individual liberties of its citizens, while at the same time dealing with infectious diseases and other public health risks. It is not clear how best to strike t…
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Judicial Independence in Kosovo. A Critical Analysis of Select Provisions of the Law on Courts

Haxhi Xhemajli, Xhevdet Halili, Tristin Kilgallon · Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, Slovenia
As the Republic of Kosovo continues to develop as independent state, the world watches closely. Of particular interest to many is whether Kosovo will truly embrace the rule of law or whether it’s growth will continue to be hampered by the long shadow of corruption. As the judiciary plays a central r…
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Internationalization and Human Resource Management: Having intercultural understanding in the ages of globalization

Geoffrey Ditta · Universidad Nebrija, Spain
This paper examines the international management of human resources. People have been one of the first challenges of any company wishing to work and develop an activity in other regions. The various movements of these human resources and competencies have implicated the phenomena of culture exchange…
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Religion in census, the 2011 Albania experience and its flaws

Ilir Akshija · University of Medicine Hospital Center, Albania
The sensitive topic of religion in the Albanian 2011 census and the coming one is the focus of this study. The country majority is composed of ethnic Albanians, sharing the same nationality; blood, language, culture, territory while religion differs. It was found a flaw in categorization under the c…
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Shamballa - A short essay on the relationship between the city, the world and the expansion of consciousness.

Davide Crimi · Independent Researcher, Catania, Italy
Starting from the images of the myth of the city of Shamballa, this essay intends to examine its sources and above all the power of vision which, by combining different exegetical lines, ends up assuming complete existential indifference with respect to the traditions of extraction. From this change…
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Milestones in forging the contemporary perception of CSR. An overview

Christos Tsilikis · Panteion University, Athens, Greece
Acting in a socially responsible manner did not simply materialize in modern times. Social Responsibility has been of concern to mankind since antiquity, being intertwined with the need to help people whose economic and social circumstances may be dire. Adam Smith was the first to introduce the noti…
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Religion and Individualism in Modernity. Reflections on the Occasion of a Pandemic.

José María Vázquez · Magnificent Rector, Universidad Internacional de La Rio…
Modernity in the West had, among other things, the effect of encouraging people to distance themselves, especially from the more cultivated classes, from ecclesiastical structures, at first, and then from the Christian religion itself. This distancing had incidence on individualism, which also led t…
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Transcendental Philosophy, The History of Psychology Kant and Freud.

Michael James · PhD Uppsala University, Former Representative of Sweden…
Kant is not generally recognised to be an Aristotelian hylomorphic Philosopher because of his extension of logic into Philosophical Psychology in the form of Transcendental Logic. This extension is a natural articulation of hylomorphic metaphysics. Aristotle’s 4 kinds of change, 3 principles, and 4 …