One of the more significant developments following the 9/11 attacks is the growing realization in the United States and elsewhere that domestic conditions throughout the Middle East are a major cause of radicalization. More specifically this view sees radicalization and the growing terrorist threat in the region as stemming from a failed modernization process that has created weak states.[4] In...

Many of the countries of the Pacific region (including Australia and New Zealand) have a British colonial legacy. This history has had wide implications for the development of the region: economically, politically and socially. The cadastral (property based) systems in theses countries have been influenced by British land conveyance and registration practices, and by colonial history. To date, ...

A well-educated work force is essential for economic growth. The development (reform) of the education system is needed, both to give workers more transferable, marketable skills and to develop informed citizens, capable of participating actively in civil society. The primary purpose of the education system is to impart knowladge and skills and, just as important, to transmit certain values. Ac...

In 1973 Dr. Halfdan Mahler was elected Director-General of the World Health Organization. During 15 years he initiated a large number of new policies and programmes – a clear break with those that had governed WHO earlier. Dr Mahler was deeply concerned about “the existing gross inequality in the health status of the people particularly between developed and developing countries as well as with...

structure and function of socio – economic systems present different spatial effects in different countries of the world. in this study, structure and function of social and economical systems is analyzed to identify of changes within urban spatial structure. in tehran, effects of political and economic factor is analyzed for identification of changes of its spatial structure and its periphery ...

Abstract The Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) was a political-military organization of Marxist ideology which between 1978 and 1990 defined deployed in Chile strategy armed struggle to confront the dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. Its objective prevent from completing its project re-founding Chilean society (economically, politically, socially culturally) and, this way, ...

urban management in any context has a different economic, social and political structure, which is in harmony with the existing models of organization. in spite of these differences, in order to reach a sustainable urban development, several different conferences should be referred to. in the “brundtland commission 1987” about urban sustainable development these definitions have been given: “pr...