he modernization project launched by the West two centuries ago, was based on three pillars: State-logic, Capital-logic and Ratio-logic; formulated in part by Montesquieu (France), Smith (Britain) and Kant (Germany). The logic of the State implied centralization of coercive power, tempered by democracy. The logic of Capital implied market forces for economic power, tempered by anti-monopoly cla...

Informatization is one of the most important city development strategies when Beijing oriented toward the 21st century and the information society. The purpose of the informatization is to spur industrialization and modernization through informatization, while developing the capital economy with knowledge economy as its main content, and strengthening the competitiveness of the city and improvi...

and air forces reorganized for “more rapidly responsive, scalable, modular task-organized units, capable of independent combat action as well as integration into larger joint and combined operations” sometime after 2006. How the bureaucratic politics of service-centric operational thinking and single-service modernization will produce this outcome is unclear. This statement also begs the questi...

It has become commonplace to observe that as mortality falls, morbidity levels rise. The question is why? The explanation offered here stresses the multidimensional nature of morbidity, and the important role that diverse cultural forces have on the patterns of behaviour which underlie reporting behaviour during modernization. These forces involve rising health expectations on the part of or...

We analyze convergence across countries over the last half century as a result of globalizing forces. Drawing on theories of modernization, dependency, the world-system, political trade blocs, and the world-society, we consider economic, demographic, knowledge, financial, and political dimensions of convergence. Using a new methodology, we calculate the minimum volume ellipsoid encompassing dif...

Legacy systems modernization is one of the most pressing issues for enterprise organizations. The continuous emergence of new technologies that are proven to be more robust, scalable, and maintainable, such as those using the Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), is currently attracting a lot of legacy systems modernization stakeholders. SOA legacy system modernization projects have induced a l...

The purpose of the study is to have a look into the role of modernization in the changing normative structure of family system. Basic theme is to check the impact of modernization on the family system and its changing norms. Basically we deal with the term of nuclearization, which is the reason of modernization. This case study is done in the village Saligrah (South Punjab). In this village ind...

The purpose of this work is to identify the positive and negative aspects of parties’ participation in the country’s modernization, which in turn, will help a country to determine the necessary steps to improve the social-economic development. The article considers a question of the role of the dominating party of Kazakhstan and ruling party of China in the country’s modernization. Using a comp...