A new model concerning the concepts of host nation security force development, or security sector reform (SSR), is proposed. This model is rooted in scholarly literature and seeks to fill current gaps in United States Army doctrine. The model is mobilized as a dependent variable, changing with different conditions of insurgency and ethnicity. This is a novel approach because it considers distin...

The paper discusses pro-nationalist authors (D. Miller, A. Oldenquist, M.Canovan) who claim that states formed around a particular ethno-cultural nation have been historically sucessful, in terms of economic success, justice, democracy and solidarity. It is argued that their claims fail: in typical and wellknown cases there is an inverse correlation between the strenght of nationalism and the s...

“Mojo Nation” was a network for robust, decentralized file storage and transfer. It was first released to the public in July, 2000, and remained in continuous operation until February, 2002. Over 100,000 people downloaded and used the Mojo Nation software. We observe some surprising and problematic behavior of the users as a group. We describe several specific problems in the design of Mojo Nat...

WORKFORCE AND WORKPLACE Health System Reconstruction and Nation-Building How important is the role of health in nation-building? To answer this question, a RAND team of political scientists, physicians, and economists examined past attempts to rebuild public health and health care delivery systems during nationbuilding eff orts after U.S. military deployments intended to underpin the transition...

Cultural values may influence the extent to which nations care about the well-being of current and future generations of children. The author used archival data to examine this possibility in a sample of 20 wealthy nations. As predicted, after controlling for national wealth, a general pattern was evident such that the more a nation prioritized Egalitarianism versus Hierarchy values and Harmony...

Every nation is concerned with competing effectively in the global market. Competitiveness does not depend only on the effectiveness of individual companies, but also on the industries and the socioeconomic system of a nation. The rapidly changing environments of the free world markets dictate that nations fully utilize their comparative advantages to remain or become prosperous in the future. ...

The article considers the concept of “a new historical community - Soviet people” as a theoretical construction and life practice. authors analyze terms “Soviet people”, “nation”, “nationality”, stressing that they have not received universal definition; distinguish ‘Western’ ‘Eastern’ approaches to interpreting ‘nation’. In Western tradition, progressive approach prevails defines nation phenom...

1. Introduction If a green posture towards the nation-state can be discerned from the diverse writings of green political theorists and fellow environmental sympathizers it is that the nation state plays, at best, a contradictory role in environmental management in facilitating both environmental destruction and environmental protection and, at worst, it is fundamentally ecocidal. 1 From eco-Ma...

This chapter argues that the process of globalisation means that comparative research is no longer a choice but rather a necessity. Since, also, the transnational critiques of cross-national research appear compelling, comparative approaches now require a sound theoretical and political as well as methodological underpinning. Using examples from media and communications research, I argue that a...

INTRODUCTION Two recent articles (both published in Psychological Science) rely on nation-level data to address questions about psychological processes: Oishi and Diener (2014), referred to here as “OD,” and Hershfield et al. (2014), referred to as “HBW.” In our opinion, both articles contain problems with regard to the use and interpretation of nation-level data. The problems are (1) the failu...