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У статті на основі аналізу теоретичних та методологічних основ оборонного менеджменту, як складової державного управління; зарубіжного досвіду застосування оборонного менеджменту, а також сучасних бізнес-практик: висвітлено генезис його нормативно-правового закріплення та впровадження у діяльність вітчизняного оборонного відомства; обґрунтоване і запропоноване нове термінологічне тлумачення основних понять державного та оборонного менеджменту; сформовані підходи щодо розроблення функціональної моделі оборонного менеджменту та запровадження її в Міністерства оборони України, Збройних Сил України та інших складових сил оборони.
Впровадження оборонного менеджменту і, зокрема, його функціональної моделі забезпечить створення ефективного механізму досягнення спільних цілей військової політики, а також інтеграцію та формування ефективного оборонного планування, управління та бюджетування.
Це сприятиме ефективному використанню обмежених ресурсів (матеріальних і нематеріальних), збалансуванню бюджетних видатків на розвиток та утримання сил оборони і формування реалістичних бюджетів, як в МО України, так і в інших складових сил оборони.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Popular Biopolitics: A Theoretical Outline -- Chapter 2. Estonia: Bare Life between Geo- and Biopolitics -- Chapter 3. The Screen and the Street: Two Face(t)s of Ukrainian Popular Biopolitics -- Chapter 4. Pastorate and ``Somatic Sovereignty'' in Russian Popular Biopolitics -- Populations, Popular Biopolitics, Populism: Concluding Thoughts -- Index.

This book examines the wide range of multilingual devotional performances engaged in by young Muslims in the UK today. It evaluates the contemporary mosque school in the UK and contrasts this with practices from the past and with prevailing discourses (both political and other) which suggest that such institutions are problematic.

"Asking clear, direct and theoretically informed questions about the relationship between federalism, decentralisation and authoritarianism, this book explores the political survival of authoritarian leaders, the determinants of policy formulation and theories of federalism and decentralization to construct new frameworks for studying territorial governance across a range of authoritarian political systems"--

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this study explores the ideas of belonging and citizenship among former pro-autonomy East Timorese who have elected to settle indefinitely in West Timor. The study follows different East Timorese groups and examines various ways they construct and negotiate their socio-political identities following the violent and destructive separation from their homeland. The East Timorese might have had Indonesia as their destination when they left the eastern half of the island in the aftermath of the referendum, but they have not relinquished their cultural identities as East Timorese. The study highlights the significance of the notions of origin, ancestry and alliance in our understanding of East Timorese place-making and belonging to a particular locality. Another feature of belonging that informs East Timorese identity is their narrative of sacrifice to maintain connections with their homeland and move on with their lives in Indonesia. These sacrificial narratives elaborate an East Timorese spirit of struggle and resilience, a feature further exemplified in the transformation of their political activities within the Indonesian political system.

This monograph presents a novel numerical approach to solving partial integro-differential equations arising in asset pricing models with jumps, which greatly exceeds the efficiency of existing approaches. The method, based on pseudo-differential operators and several original contributions to the theory of finite-difference schemes, is new as applied to the Lévy processes in finance, and is herein presented for the first time in a single volume. The results within, developed in a series of research papers, are collected and arranged together with the necessary background material from Lévy processes, the modern theory of finite-difference schemes, the theory of M-matrices and EM-matrices, etc., thus forming a self-contained work that gives the reader a smooth introduction to the subject. For readers with no knowledge of finance, a short explanation of the main financial terms and notions used in the book is given in the glossary. The latter part of the book demonstrates the efficacy of the method by solving some typical problems encountered in computational finance, including structural default models with jumps, and local stochastic volatility models with stochastic interest rates and jumps. The author also adds extra complexity to the traditional statements of these problems by taking into account jumps in each stochastic component while all jumps are fully correlated, and shows how this setting can be efficiently addressed within the framework of the new method. Written for non-mathematicians, this book will appeal to financial engineers and analysts, econophysicists, and researchers in applied numerical analysis. It can also be used as an advance course on modern finite-difference methods or computational finance.--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1. 'There are more important things than where the border runs': the other side of George Kennan's containment theory -- A tiny flame of hope -- Greatness and power -- Princes and masters -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2. The crisis of spheres of influence in the EU-Russia relationship -- The concept of an international relationship -- The constitution and tension of Common Spaces -- The relative crisis of spheres of influence -- Conclusion -- Notes

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Baltic Sea Region-Scars, Seams and Stitches -- References -- Part I: Security Resurfaced: Rebordering on the Horizon? -- Chapter 2: The Baltic Sea Region: Practicing Security at the Overlap of the European and the Post-Soviet Society of States -- Introduction -- The English School at the Regional Level -- Regionalism Within and Across Regional International Society -- Security in (Regional) International Society

Front Matter /Andrey Maidansky and Vesa Oittinen -- Introduction /Andrey Maidansky and Vesa Oittinen -- Activity and the Search for True Materialism /David Bakhurst -- 'Praxis' as the Criterion of Truth? The Aporias of Soviet Marxism and the Activity Approach /Vesa Oittinen -- Reality as Activity: The Concept of Praxis in Soviet Philosophy /Andrey Maidansky -- The Category of Activity in Soviet Philosophy /Inna Titarenko -- The Activity Approach and Metaphysics /Edward M. Swiderski -- Abstract and Concrete Understanding of Activity: 'Activity' and 'Labour' in Soviet Philosophy /Sergey Mareev -- The Kiev Philosophical School in the Light of the Marxist Theory of Activity /Elena Mareeva -- The Evolution of Batishchev's Views on the Nature of Objective Activity, and the Limits of the Activity Approach /Alexander Khamidov -- The Activity Approach in Soviet Philosophy and Contemporary Cognitive Studies /Vladislav Lektorsky -- The Concept of the Scheme in the Activity Theories of Ilyenkov and Piaget /Pentti Määttänen -- The Ideal and the Dream-World: Evald Ilyenkov and Walter Benjamin on the Significance of Material Objects /Alex Levant -- Bibliography /Andrey Maidansky and Vesa Oittinen -- Index /Andrey Maidansky and Vesa Oittinen.

It is common practice to estimate the volatility-growth link by specifying a standard growth equation such that the variance of the error term appears as an explanatory variable in this growth equation. The variance in turn is modelled by a second equation. Hardly any of existing applications of this framework includes exogenous controls in this second variance equation. Our theoretical findings suggest that the absence of relevant explanatory variables in the variance equation leads to a biased and inconsistent estimate of the volatility-growth link. Our simulations show that this effect is large. Once the appropriate controls are included in the variance equation consistency is restored. In short, we suggest that the variance equation must include relevant control variables to estimate the volatility-growth link.