Much has changed since the publication of the first edition of Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations in 1991. While the Cold War, the focus of most of the scholarship in the field, was winding down, the field of foreign relations history seemed under attack. “We have been told again and again,” the very first sentence of the volume noted in an injured tone, that foreign relations...

translation is an effort toword a global creation of equalizing knowledge and steps into communication amongst nations, thereby creating a cultural relationship. translation reflects a cuttural interdependency amongst nations, iran and russia being amongst them. in this paper, the author tries to show the role of translation in establishing relation between iran and russia by mentioning example...

This study has reviewed the lived experience of social and cultural active Kurdish women using qualitative methods and the Grounded Theory. The purpose of this study is identifying their attitude and practical responses to "gender inequality". Due to comparing two different aspects of these women's lived experience, at the end of the study, two paradigmatic models are obtained. The analysis of ...

Most of the world's population has knowledge of at least two languages. Many of these bilinguals are also exposed to and identify with at least two cultures. Because language knowledge enables participation in cultural practices and expression of cultural beliefs, bilingual experience and cultural identity are interconnected. However, the specific links between bilingualism and cultural identit...

PURPOSE The authors critically examined the quantitative measures of cultural competence most commonly used in medicine and in the health professions, to identify underlying assumptions about what constitutes competent practice across social and cultural diversity. METHOD A systematic review of approximately 20 years of literature listed in PubMed, the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied H...