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AbstractThe war in Chechnya, the challenges it poses for Russia's identity as a federal, multinational state, as well as the explanations Russian leaders give themselves for the Chechen conflict, have clear and noteworthy influence on their reading of international crises and the threats they hold for the security of their state. Thus, to the extent that it is seen as support for Kosovar separatism, which was explained as the work of a minority terrorist movement supported by Islamist terrorist networks, military action by the United States and nato against Serbia in 1999 was felt by the Russian authorities to be particularly dangerous and threatening. In the same way, they perceived American reactions to the attacks of September 11 2001 as waking up late to Russian warnings and to the dangers of international terrorism and Muslim fundamentalism and largely explain Russian support for the United States in the war in Afghanistan.
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AbstractThis article explores the terms in which the British state has constructed the core values of ‘British national identity' in the changing global context since Tony Blair's New Labour party came to office in 1997. It traces the ways in which the Blair government has invoked national identity in the elaboration and implementation of a new national security doctrine from Kosovo to Iraq. The analysis provides a partial answer to the question of how a government rhetorically committed to an international agenda stressing the peaceful resolution of conflict, multilateralism, order, justice, and respect for international law, has resorted to war on three occasions in the space of four years, a frequency and alacrity surpassing that of any British government since 1945.
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This article lays the groundwork for a new research field, law and pedagogy, by compiling and exploring the publications that could be included in and form the basis for the new field. The domain may be tentatively explored from three angles : the law of pedagogy, the law as pedagogy and the law in pedagogy. Each angle leads to the examination of a single dimension of the relationship that links, or could link, the public institutions of justice and education, responsible among other things for regulating individual behaviour. The article ends with a critical analysis of Violaine Lemay's Évaluation scolaire et justice sociale, the only book by a Quebec author to focus specifically on the topic of law and pedagogy.
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2048.More information
The analysis of the defense related to economic activities shows a geographic concentration that makes the disarmament issues a challenge for a number of limited regions and localities. In Québec, disarmament is a special concern for the Montréal region that concentrates 63 % of the defense economy of the province. The adjustment of the defense economy is a junction of several economic problems; because it is linked to the high technology manufacturing sectors and high skilled labor force and affects the most dynamic sectors in research and development.
Keywords: Montréal, économie, armement, développement régional, reconversion, développement technologique, emploi, Montréal, economy, armament, regional development, conversion, technological development, employment
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2049.More information
Nordicity is a concept for understanding high and middle latitudes around the world, inside the boreal hemisphere. 1. The lexical unit expresses a global view on natural and cultural northern matters. In the sense given here, nordicity is taken as a canadianism, both in English and French. 2. To study the question of limits and establish a definition of the frigid zone, a ten factors index is devised (1963). Using that tool, one may quantify the number of "Polar Values", or vapos, for any location. The 200 vapos isoline may be used as the southern end of the cold world. Nordicity values applies to three zones, respectively called Middle North, Far North, Extrême North. 3. The nordicity complex is also pertinent inside the temperate zone. That area may be divided into a seasonal nordicity (3 to 5 winter months), south of which is a light hivernity (series of cold days which might be present down to latitude 30). A socio-climatic notion of winter is discussed. The nordicity concept deals with all spatial and thematic areas of the circumnorthern world.
Keywords: nordicité, indice nordique, zonation circumterrestre, hiver, nordicity, northern index, global zonation, winter