Standardization was the scheme that replaced meritocracy in Sri Lanka education, with positive discrimination to increase majority Sinhalese community’s university enrolment. It did so by minimizing better-qualified minority Tamils’ entry, even as quest for Tamil separatism gaining ground. The government claimed justified create a more balanced representation science-based fields, but it among ...

the collapse of the soviet :union: in 1991, and the transformation of the old security arrangement created a new geopolitical environment in the caucasus region. in fact, the unique geographical conditions, ethnic- racial and religious diversity, the heritage of socialism in the cultural, political, economic and social structures, strategic position, competitions between regional and extra-regi...

events of september the 11 and then us invasion of iraq resulted in wide formal and substantial alterations in political and security equilibriums of the middle east. by eliminating sadam hussein, us was trying to engineer a new government and power structure in iraq, within which the nature of a new constitution is considerably important. the author believes that the method of the approval of ...

In recent years, a number of nation states have signed peace protocols and entered processes reconciliation. This has led to an increasing pool literature on history education in these divided diverse societies emerging from violent conflict. article provides review the latest developments this field which focuses often counterproductive objectives developing critical thinking skills students w...

This paper considers the role of historical context in initiating shifts word meaning. The study focusses on two words – translation equivalents separatist and separatism discourses Russian Ukrainian parliamentary debates before during Russian–Ukrainian conflict which emerged at beginning 2014. employs a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse analysis to investigate way wider socio-politica...

This study discusses whether the concept of societal security is embedded in Russian official and informal discourses as well strategic documents on national Baltic Sea region. Particularly, paper describes four paradigms international relations (neorealism, neoliberalism, globalism postpositivism) theoretical approaches to formulated them. On a practical plane, Russia managed develop — togethe...