Market Forces (Journal of Management, Business and Economics, College of Management Science, PAF-KIET)
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DEMOCRACY SUPPORT IN EU CANDIDATE COUNTRIES
No full textIn the EU candidate countries the citizens' support for the democratic process is important for domestic democracy as well as the integration process.Many factors contribute to explain democratic support (Dalton 2004), and many aspects should be considered in order to have a good understanding of the democratic processes that characterize the new democracies.Focusing on economic expectations, political knowledge, political discussion and education, in this paper democracy support in Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Turkey is analyzed using two specific measures: support for political community and public institutions.The principal results show weak ties between citizens and State. This is more evident in ex-communist countries where the effects of past totalitarian regimes linger as mistrust of citizens towards their public institution and low support for the democratic process. On the contrary, in Turkey the explicative models of democracy support are significant and consistent with citizens' support for the democratic process
CHALLENGING THE EU'S CAPACITY TO GOVERN, FINANCE AND DEFINE ITS BORDERS: IF UKRAINE ACCEDES TO THE EU
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CHALLENGES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN ERITREA IN THE POST-INDEPENDENT PERIOD TO THE PRESENT- A CASE OF ASMARA UNIVERSITY
No full textEritrean higher education faced numerous challenges over many years. It was particularly suffered during the colonial periods. Eritrea exerted its efforts to develop its dilapidated educational system with the advent of its independence. Eritrea celebrated its sixteenth birthday recently. However, the educational challenges in higher education still remain high. The government of Eritrea established different colleges in different administrative regions. The University of Asmara is the only university in the country that had to be revitalized after its devastation by the 30:year war of independence. Since independence, the University has been able to contribute to the nation's skill manpower considerably. This paper examines higher education of Eritrea for about 60 years period. It delves the University of Asmara and its birth, development and apogee. The paper also gives some insights on recent educational development in Eritrea.Keywords: Higher education, Eritrea, Asmara University, Colonial period, Educational development, etc
THE EAST ASIAN 'TIGERS': FOLLOWING RUSSIA AND LATIN AMERICA?
No full textProbably, the title of this paper is surprising for many specialists in various fields of economics, politics and other social sciences. Indeed, despite the financial-economic crisis of 1997-98, the newly industrialized countries (NICs)' of East Asia (East Asia' herein refers to East and Southeast Asia together) have been symbolized the successful development's pattern for the non-western regions while neither Russia (and the other CIS countries, formerly republics of the USSR, as well) nor Latin American nations demonstrate fascinating achievements in development over the last fifteen-twenty years, good rates of the economic growth in some periods not with standing. By dynamics of the social indicators, such as a life expectancy, infants' mortality, or human development index, the both regions lose competition to the East Asian countries, too. Therefore, it is seemingly difficult to find real foundations for a comparison of Russia and Latin American countries, on the one hand,2 and the East Asian NICs, on the other, if such a comparison is not used for banal conclusion about rather negative than positive results of reforms in the first case and acquired success in the second one. However, as Karl Marc once noted, "all science would be superfluous be the outward appearance and the essence of things direct# coincided" (Marc K, 1959, p. 797]. In the recent study, a matter of comparison can consist not only  in a recognition of predominantly extensive character of the economic growth in the both groups of countries under consideration, as Paul Krugman argued in his famous paper of 1994 [Krugman P., 1994]. Also, it concerns some other invisible similarities bidden beyond the formal statistical indicators. Respectively, the object of this paper is threefold. At first, to find out such similarities; secondly, to propose the proper assessment of the Asian crisis of 1997-98 and the regional post-crisis recovery in light of Russian and Latin American experience over the last decades, and, thirdly; to stimulate discussion aimed at re-thinking widespread approaches to a complement of development studies
THE FUTURE OF COMMUNAL IDENTITIES: INHERENT CONTRADICTION BETWEEN HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES
No full textThe Human rights framework is presumed to be the most reasonable, workable and institutionally realizable mechanism to protect communal identities in multi-ethnic, religious and culturally diversified societies. Multi-culturalism acknowledges the differences among different cultural, religious and ethnic particularities due to the incommensurability of their comprehensive doctrines. Thus it cannot offer any overriding socio-political mechanism which transcends the sphere of cultural particularity. It is genera& believed that human rights framework provides the basis of a just political order and establishes socio political harmony in a multi-cultural society. Ironically there is an inherent antagonistic relationship between human rights struggles and collective identities of specific communities. Human rights are the rights of individuals and not of the community, therefore communal disintegration is the unintended consequence of the institutionalization of the human rights mechanism. In this paper we will try to explain the inherent contradiction between communal identity and human rights framework.This paper has been divided into two sections. The first section deals with the ontological justification of human fights and the priority of right over good. The second section will try to indentify the inherent contradictions in this prioritization of right over good and also discuss the role of the community and history in the constitution of individual selfhood. In conclusion the implication is that communal disintegration is the unintended consequence of human rights politics
THE LIBERAL METAMORPHOSIS WITHIN A HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK: THE FUTURE OF THE NATION STATE
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Peter T. Leeson's The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
No full textPeter T. Leeson's "The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates" is a book that will appeal to the economist, historian, or layperson with interest in the seemingly disparate topics of economics and the world of pirates and buccaneers. Leeson is clear and methodical in his writing, skillfully building his argument from the bottom up. His discussion of economics is thorough and comprehensible to both a Ph.D. economist and a high school student. Personally, I had little interest in early 18th century pirates and piratical behavior and thus I expected to find little of interest in the volume. Instead I found a fantastic explanation of economics within the unusual backdrop of the world of pirates