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This paper examines macroeconomic policy coordination between Japan and the United States under the locomotive strategy from 1977 to 1979. Previous studies have described the strategy as a fiasco because of its negative economic impact. In fact, the Japanese government, after two years of stimulus packages, quit trying to be a locomotive bringing other developed countries out of their economic difficulties and the u.s. government admitted it in 1979. On the other hand, as this article shows, bilateral cooperation with the United States under this strategy expanded the roles and burdens of Japan, an emerging economic superpower, in international economic policy coordination. Japan's efforts to implement the strategy made the u.s. government believe that Tokyo would continue to respond to its request to bear larger international responsibilities, while it also increased awareness of Japan's global role in Tokyo. These bilateral perceptual changes paved the way for subsequent policy coordination and Japan's assumption of greater burdens, notably the adoption of large-scale stimulus packages under belt-tightening budgets.

This paper analyzes the theoretical and pragmatic implications for international relations and world politics of the new holistic approach to climate change articulated by Pope Francis in the Encyclical Laudato Si&rsquo ; particularly through the notion of &ldquo ; integral ecology&rdquo ; . It is not my intention to offer an exegesis of the Papal document. I will rather try to illustrate and discuss its planetary hermeneutics. I emphasize that the Encyclical&rsquo ; s perspective is not exclusively normative, and that, within the dynamic interplay between social structure and human agency, it can also be considered as a call to action. In this context, I suggest that both International Relations Theory and global politics have much to learn from the fundamental claims of contemporary religions in relation to climate disruption. In particular, Pope Francis&rsquo ; document, far from being just a new chapter in the unfolding process of the &ldquo ; greening&rdquo ; of religions, raises the issue of the sustainability of the present world system. Therefore, I contend that the perspective of the Encyclical calls for a radical transformation of international relations, since it emphasizes the deep implications of environmental issues on the entire spectrum of security, development, economic and ethical challenges of contemporary world politics. Against this backdrop, my objective is to connect the main tenets of the Encyclical to the environmental turn in International Relations Theory and to the new epistemological challenges related to the paradigm shift induced by the new planetary condition of the Anthropocene and the relevant questions arising for a justice encompassing the humanity-earth system. The Encyclical seems to suggest that practicing sustainable international relations means exiting the logic of power or hegemony, while simultaneously operationalizing the concept of care.

How Latino youth cope with stressors may have implications for their adjustment. We examined how a temperamental characteristic (effortful control) and a contextual factor (economic hardship) were associated with Latino youth's coping. Individual differences in effortful control, a core facet of self‐regulation, may contribute to coping as effortful control is consistently linked to adaptive behaviors during adolescence. We examined relations of effortful control and economic hardship to active coping in a sample of Mexican‐origin youth (N = 674) across three time points (fifth to ninth grades). Although economic hardship negatively predicted coping and effortful control, effortful control positively predicted coping (controlling for prior levels). Findings support a resilience perspective by suggesting that effortful control may contribute to coping and thus counteract the negative effects of economic hardship.

The study aimed to measure the effects of the Covid-19 epidemic on global growth rates in vital sectors around the world specially – Agriculture – Construction – Manufacturing – Mining -& Transport, because it is the sectors that most to the formation of the GDP and has been directly affected by the Corona pandemic, the study proved too that the Corona virus epidemic has affected, to varying levels and degrees, the economies of the countries of the world. In most different sectors, especially developing countries, but the regional and local impact of the COVID-19 crisis was highly variable, with important economic and social dimensions in addition to the implications for crisis management and political responses to deal with it... Therefore, this paper takes an in-depth look at the impact. Linked to the COVID-19 crisis, the global growth rate at the time of lockdown, which led to the emergence of very difficult fateful challenges in many economies in the world, especially the developed ones, as well as the surprise of the emergence of emerging economies that surfaced and showed positive and significant recovery in growth rates for many of their sectors Vitality at a time in which a number of advanced economies surprised us by achieving a negative growth rate in light of their enormous economic potential, so we were interested to choose a heterogeneous package from the countries of the world (9 countries )to represent the diversity required for the different impact of the Corona virus on the different world economies and the expectations which the world economy will be appear in the global growth rates after the end of this pandemic.. So we exclusively selected 9 countries: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, India, China, Germany, France, the United States of America and Australia, as examples. Stratification on this research

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