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In this interview, development economist Kari Polanyi Levitt, author of Silent Surrender, the influential 1970 study of US corporations in Canada, revisits the political circumstances from which the book emerged, and its reception in various contexts. In English Canada, the book resonated with a spirit of Left nationalism, while the French edition of the book touched on the political unrest in Montreal. In the Caribbean, newly independent governments made use of similar arguments in their bid to regain control of their economies. The ways in which Levitt interacted with these different political movements are discussed, including her work with Caribbean scholars based in Canada.

Представлены основные подходы, бытовавшие в ранней советской историографии по вопросам русско-английских отношений второй половины XVI в., главным образом времени Ливонской войны, показано, что трактовки двусторонних связей эпохи Ивана Грозного и Елизаветы Великой испытали очевидное воздействие политической конъюнктуры 1940-х середины 1950-х гг. ; The article presents mainstreams typical for early Soviet historiography concerning the Russian-English relations in the second half of the XVIth century, particularly at the time of the Livonian War. The author shows that the interpretation of the bilateral contacts in the epoch of Ivan the Terrible and Elisabeth the Great in Soviet historiography was apparently affected by the political state of affairs in the 1940s middle 1950s.

В статье рассматривается проблема взаимоотношений Великобритании и североамериканских колоний накануне войны за независимость на основе анализа взглядов английского публициста, радикала-реформатора майора Джона Картрайта. Особое внимание обращено на причины появления англо-американского кризиса и поиск путей его разрешения, также даётся оценка теории Д. Картрайта. ; The article is devoted the problem of mutual relations of Great Britain and North American colonies on the eve of the War for Independence. The author analyzes and assesses the views of the English publicist, radical reformer, Major John Cartwright. Special attention is paid to the reasons of the occurrence of the AngloAmerican crisis and attempts to find ways to solve it.

In the young Turkish Republic which has rather adopted the French system of laicism as a model instead of the English secularism it is now necessary to evaluate the evolution of each of these systems. At the time of the centenary of the French laicism and the law of 2004, covering the ostentatious display of religious symbols at schools, the author looks into the history of laicism and its application in France so as to make it more understandable but also to criticise the system. He further analyses whether this system can be adapted to the Turkish Republic which is preparing to become a Member of the European Union.

J.M. Coetzee made an early career out of ambivalence. Restrained and impersonal, he mined the caverns of despair from the safe distance of allegory and literary appropriation. Life and Times of Michael K , his 1983 Booker Prize winner, tracked the itinerant life of a slow-witted gardener in the sparse prose of Kafka. Foe, a work of revisionist and feminist genius, challenged the rugged masculinity of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe by inhabiting the voice of an imagined female companion. Master of Petersburg occupied not only the melancholic timbre of a Dostoevsky novel—it was, after all, about the great master—but also the stilted Victorian English of a Constance Garnett translation.

The aim in this study was to examine the role of self-regulation as volition in English vocabulary learning on EFL learners. A discussion of diverse theories of self-regulation showed that volition appeared to be the core element of the construct of self-regulation. Nevertheless, it
was noted that the view of volition as aptitude in vocabulary learning had not yet been empirically tested, thus in this study a 10-month prospective longitudinal design was adopted to collect data at several different time points. A First-Order Autoregressive Model and a Latent Growth Curve
Model were formulated respectively to track the stability and change of volition. Results showed that the latter had better fit than the former.

The New Deal for Communities (NDC) programme is an ambitious English area-based initiative which aims, over 10 years, to transform 39 deprived neighbourhoods in relation to six outcomes: crime, education, health, worklessness, housing and the community. Data indicate modest programme-wide change against benchmarks. Evidence is used to examine the validity of the programme's four design parameters: a 10-year horizon is necessary to achieve change; holistic regeneration can help to achieve cross-outcome change; working with other agencies and having other overlapping ABIs helps change; and, having the community at the heart of the initiative enhances outcomes. Findings in relation to these design features have wider applicability across area regeneration policy.

This essay on "Thought in Culture" was published twice in Russian, in 1989 and 1990, both versions being transcriptions of Mamardashvili's lectures delivered orally. This English translation, by the Dutch philosophical scholar, Evert van der Zweerde, is the first to be published. The question of thought is considered in the context of the question of suicide, albeit not in the sense Albert Camus spoke of it, but, in the sense of the old philosophers, as the existence of the primordial evil in human nature. This primordial evil is in Man's powerlessness (немогота), in that which is beyond Man's capacity. Through this dialectic of power and powerlessness, Mamardashvili explores the relationship of the structure and function of thought in culture.

This study investigates the effects of red tape and strategy on organizational performance. Data come from 135 English local government authorities. Data are collected on several dimensions of red tape, three types of strategy (prospecting, defending, and reacting), and internal and external perceptual measures of organizational performance. The findings show that red tape lowers performance. The harmful effects of red tape are, however, mitigated by a strategic stance of prospecting. Defending has no effect on the impact of red tape on organizational performance, whereas reacting tends to amplify the harmful effects—thus worsening organizational performance. The primary implication of these findings is that public organizations should move toward more proactive strategies.

The substantive underpinnings of Max Weber's `Sociology of Law' and the standing of judges therein are discussed. Foregrounding his conception of the administration of justice, perennial concern with the correlation between personality and the structure of domination, and account of legal rationalization, his discernment of the vital adjudicative role assumed by judges and the bearing of their personal qualifications is elucidated. The focus is placed on Weber's putatively negative assessment of the Common Law. Reading his appraisal of precedent and the charismatic stature of the judge in light of his theory of casuistry and critique of bureaucracy, it is shown that his examination implicitly extols the English administration of justice.

Irish Sign Language (ISL), an indigenous language of Ireland, is recognized by the European Union as a natural language. It is a language separate from the other languages used in Ireland, including English, Irish, and, in Northern Ireland, British Sign Language. Some 5,000 Deaf people use ISL. Given the history of suppression of signed languages across the EU, the average Deaf person leaves school with a reading age of 8.5 to 9 years. Given this, it is no surprise that Deaf people are the most under-represented of all disadvantaged groups at third level. This poses two challenges: (1) getting Deaf people into third level and (2) presenting education in an accessible form.

J.M. Coetzee made an early career out of ambivalence. Restrained and impersonal, he mined the caverns of despair from the safe distance of allegory and literary appropriation. Life and Times of Michael K, his 1983 Booker Prize winner, tracked the itinerant life of a slow-witted gardener in the sparse prose of Kafka. Foe, a work of revisionist and feminist genius, challenged the rugged masculinity of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe by inhabiting the voice of an imagined female companion. Master of Petersburg occupied not only the melancholic timbre of a Dostoevsky novelit was, after all, about the great master, but also the stilted Victorian English of a Constance Garnett translation. Adapted from the source document.

In launching a new journal we feel the need to explain the reasons why the Centre for Studies on Federalism takes this initiative, characterised by a range of specific features. Several interesting scientific journals in English devoted to federalism are already issued all over the world. They are generally focused on one geographic area in particular, on certain levels of government or on specific academic disciplines. Therefore we believe there is room for a new interdisciplinary journal to consider federalism – federal institutional arrangements as well as potentially federalising processes - at all levels of government. The very name Perspectives on Federalism stresses that the journal will consider federalism from different disciplinary, geographic and theoretical perspectives.