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For the past 10 to 15 years, Dutch policy makers and researchers, the general public, and minority organizations have been preoccupied with the marital choices of the children of Turkish and Moroccan immigrants. This concern was prompted by both the continuously high incidence of transnational marriages (to a spouse who has grown up in and usually migrates from the country of origin, i.e., Turkey or Morocco) leading to marriage migration, and the low incidence of ethnic intermarriage with Dutch natives. This is because their partner choice is—rather unquestioningly—considered as an indication of their level of integration in and orientation toward Dutch society. My qualitative research into the mechanisms of partner choice, courtship, and family formation by young people of Turkish and Moroccan origin calls into question the ease with which policy makers and researchers assume partner choice and cultural integration to be linked.

The ongoing popularity in some second and third generation migrants in Western Europe of marrying a partner from the countries of origin of their (grand)parents is considered to be problematic for micro and macro level societal integration of some migrant populations. Partner choice and marriage practices in migrant communities are problematized in public, media and political discourses by discriminating them from marriage practices in the 'native' population on the basis of three related dichotomies: (1) agency versus structure, (2) us versus them and (3) romantic versus instrumental marriage intentions dichotomies. By means of in-depth qualitative research methodologies on the partner choice processes of women and men of Turkish, Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Punjabi Sikh, Pakistani and Albanian descent in Belgium and an intersectional theoretical approach, this article aims to deconstruct popular and simplifying dichotomous representations of partner choice processes in these migrant populations. Our study reveals how religious, gender and social class boundaries are stretched to meet personal/individual desires and preferences. Individuals do experience social restrictions when it concerns social group boundaries and the potential partners that they can look for. At the same time individuals are never fully determined by their social environment, they creatively develop strategies to by-pass certain restrictions and to some extent are able to meet their personal needs while being sensitive to the desires of their social environment.

'Mit der Zunahme nichtehelicher Lebensgemeinschaften als 'neue' Form der Partnerschaft wächst die Vermutung, daß die alleinige Untersuchung der ehelichen Partnerwahl als Indikator für sozialstrukturelle Veränderungen nicht mehr ausreicht. Der Artikel geht deshalb der Frage nach, inwieweit sich - hinsichtlich des Bildungsniveaus der Partner - die Wahl von Lebensgefährten für nichteheliche Lebensgemeinschaften von der Wahl von Ehepartnern unterscheidet. Die Untersuchung zeigt nahezu identische Muster der ehelichen und nichtehelichen Partnerwahlen. Daher kann die eheliche Partnerwahl als Indikator abgelöst werden durch Partnerwahlen insgesamt, ohne daß die Möglichkeit des Vergleiches mit früheren Untersuchungen hinfällig würde.' (Autorenreferat)

People benefit from being perceived as trustworthy. Examples include sellers trying to attract buyers, or candidates in elections trying to attract voters. In a laboratory experiment using exchange games, in which the trustor can choose the trustee, we study whether trustees can signal their trustworthiness by giving to charity. Our results show that donors are indeed perceived as more trustworthy and they are selected significantly more often as interaction partners. As a consequence of this sorting pattern, relative payoffs to donors and non-donors differ substantially with and without partner choice. However, we do not find donors to be significantly more trustworthy than non-donors. Our findings suggest that publicly observable generosity, such as investments in corporate social responsibility or donations to charity during a political campaign, can induce perceptions of trustworthiness and trust.

Although networked collaboration is often linked to positive outcomes, choosing suitable partners for collaboration can be difficult. Actors often only have limited information about the preferences, capabilities, and trustworthiness of prospective collaborators, meaning that considerable uncertainty may underlie collaborative choices. This article analyses the decision-making uncertainty associated with collaborative choices and assesses factors that potentially mitigate such uncertainty. Based on qualitative research, it presents a conceptual model that brings together and specifies mitigating factors at the network-, organizational, and individual-levels of analysis. The developed conceptual model provides a clearer theoretical understanding and presentation of the cross-level factors important to consider when studying collaborative behaviour. In addition, through its focus on uncertainty, it provides more consideration of the challenges that individual officials face when choosing collaborators in complex networked environments.

ThemeFollowing the 2023 call results, Spain is performing positively in the European Defence Fund. SummarySince 2021 there have been three calls of proposals under the European Defence Fund (EDF). The 2023 results publicly released by the European Commission in May 2024 reveal that Spain continues to perform well as to the Fund. This can be […]
La entrada A partner of choice? Spain's performance in the European Defence Fund in 2023 se publicó primero en Elcano Royal Institute.

In a bid to help Pacific island states become more resilient to cyber attacks such as the one Vanuatu suffered in 2022, Australia outlined a vision to become the partner of choice for cyber security ...