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The need for an effective public-private partnership, in which the civil society plays an active role in development agenda, has been stressed upon by researchers and global institutions alike since the 1990. Using the social contract theory and the structural functualist theory, the paper reviews existing literature on statesociety synergy for development and further draws on the concepts of s...

Oil-rich regions frequently fight separatist civil wars, consistent with the broader hypothesis that oil wealth diminishes prospects for civil peace. Although existing “greed” and “grievances” hypotheses highlight important attributes of oil production that may contribute to violence, we have few insights into a basic question about mechanisms: what prevents governments from strategically using...

This paper is devoted to the theoretical conceptualization of political-economic processes within the Eurasian Economic Union. The author elaborates on this project within the framework of “global regionalization” and regards it as a fledging “global region.” In this paper, the European Union is analyzed as a model of the existing global region. The Eurasian region also has its own specific tra...

Governance is broader notion than government. It involves governments but also civil society (citizens, civic institutions, etc). In the urban management context, governance refers to all the laws, regulations, frameworks systems and processes that shape the way in which the local government operates. These frameworks, processes and systems may be formal or informal. The formal governance struc...

"Governmental authority and civil society are increasingly threatened by transnational networks of crime, narcotics, money laundering and terrorism. Access by underworld groups to sophisticated information technologies and weaponry as well as to the various instrumentalities through which the global market economy functions is vastly increasing the potential power and influence of these groups,...

The dominance of English common-law countries in prospects for financial development in the legal-origins debate has been debunked by recent findings. Using exchange rate regimes and economic/monetary integration oriented hypotheses, this paper proposes an “inflation uncertainty theory” in providing theoretical justification and empirical validity as to why French civil-law countries have highe...

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was established as a parliamentary democracy in 1991 when, after 45 years as part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a peaceful secession took place. The Constitution of 1991 determines the basic principles of the democratic system, establishing civil freedoms and dividing power into legislative, executive and judicial branches. The execut...

The article presents the basic elements of our model development value-based attitude to person’s health among representatives students higher educational institutions, using studying for specialty “Civil Security” as an example. effectiveness and efficiency this bull was tested a comprehensive experimental pedagogical method, results which are also given. These studies will allow institutions ...