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Spider Diplomacy as a complementary explanation of the new international circumstances
Get PDFThe new century with the dynamics of international relations has challenged theories, as it called Popper ‘strict universality’ and the need for ‘numerical universality' theoretical explanations. In the twentieth century, theories of international relations developed, but these theories are in the battle with explanation changes rather than expanding the theoretical framework. The need for new explanations doesn’t reject old theories, only requires their axioms to be more inter-theoretical and with new variables that explain the course of the deliberate actions of state actors to the intended purpose. So this theoretical change and the acquisition of some realistic axioms, by adding inter-theoretic variables (pragmatism, foreign policy analysis, offensive realism, and defensive realism), sends us to a theorization we have called “spider diplomacy”.
Almond in the 1960s considered that “with the decline of the norms and traditions of political sciences, the need for political theory and theories has increased”, where we find the same situation today for explaining the new geopolitical and geostrategic circumstances. Therefore, these circumstances we try to explain, through “spider diplomacy” as a hybrid theory for empirical, inductive, probable and testable studies based on three initiatives of international subjects (from state actors to non-state actors, from state actors to other actors’ state, and mix).
In this research, we have analyzed the causes and the chronology of a diplomatic network, the wild stretch that Russia is trying to make today and Serbia in the new state of Kosovo. But for the illustration, we have taken another example from the past. One of Israel's wars with Arab countries. We have found verifiable, pragmatic and analytical results that prove the "spider diplomacy" scheme is needed
Cooperation of preschool institutions with parents toward early childhood education
Get PDFPreschool education, especially institutionalized preschool education, is exceptional for early childhood. In this context, cooperation with the parents is considered vital for children‟s education. Very often, parents are not aware of their fundamental role in their children‟s education and development, through different ways of cooperation. This research addresses the partnership between parents and preschool institutions (hereafter: PSI), and the relation of this partnership with factors such as communication, school environment, parents transferring their professional experience to children, and parents’ access to preschool education curricula and policies, all of which serve to improving children‟s early education. The research is carried out through a quantitative approach with parents (N=60) and a qualitative approach with educators, examining the challenges and needs for the improvement of this cooperation, as well as the role and the opportunities of both parties towards the realization of a more effective cooperation
The Administrative System of Cities in Kosovo during the XVI-XVIII centuries
Get PDFThe period from the 16th to the early 18th century marks a new stage with new historical conditions and circumstances for the Albanians. The Albanian society had lost a significant part of the human vital forces and had been stripped to some extent by the craftsmen, traders, and cultural ones. On the other hand, the new economic and political phenomena that originated and acted after the Ottoman conquest, such as the generalization of the timar regime as units with separate natural economies, the ongoing wars and military expeditions to strengthen Ottoman power, the putting into service of the enemy and the Albanian feudal lords, the great political-administrative fragmentation, etc., became the main causes that slowed the pace of the country's economic, social and cultural development, which influenced the slowdown in the dynamics of different aspects of life.
Archival research on writing this study also focuses on funds of Oriental, Cyrillic and Latin manuscripts stored in the libraries of Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia etc. The study analysis is also based on archival research of oriental funds in Pristina, Sarajevo, and Skopje. However, first-hand sources for drafting this paper remain the ones that have been researched in Turkey's archives, especially in Istanbul and Ankara. In the context of this scientific research, a special interest is also the confrontation of the historical theses of Albanian historiography with Serbian historiography.
The work of this research suggests that it offers rich source material. It deals with a chronology and approach to the use of contemporary scientific-methodological techniques
Marketing Management design of the organizational demand in promoting competitiveness and prosperity of decomposition
Get PDFThe authors of this paper analyzed the marketing management and design of the organizational demand for improving the competitiveness and prosperity of decomposition from two aspects. First, what is the highest possible level of demand for all products in which a certain amount of time is achieved? The
answer can be found looking at the potential of the market intended for that product, the impact of design and marketing conditions in the external environment. Second, what level of sales can be expected, as a real indicator and its realization, with the special consideration which will have external factors and efforts in achieving marketing design. The authors of this paper will give details and explain the answer to this question, through
assessment in improving the competitiveness and economic assessment of subjects for future sales. However, such an analysis and assessment of competitiveness will be processed through an open partnership which will indicate ho
Institutions' PR versus the right to information, Albanian reality
Get PDFThe evolution of public relations is interrelated with the development of the various practices and the relation between institutions and media, where a distinct issue is the fulfilment of the right to information, or more specifically the access to information. Thus, the relation between media and institutions has often been subject of discussion and an ongoing debate about the informing role of public relations regarding topics and issues of public interest.
Are institutions‟ PR oriented to respect the right to information and qualitative information to citizens? What facilities provide the press offices of central and local institutions for access to information to the media? Do media make use of the law on the right to information? How much media use the right to information to promote and provide transparency of public institutions? What is the role of information and communication technology to increase transparency and reliability of information? How Albanian institutions have responded to the media, civil society organizations to meet legal obligations regarding the right to information? These are some of the questions argued nowadays at a time when evolution of practices and relations between the institution's public relations and media have occurred.
The use of new information technologies and social media has increased significantly the level of communication between the institutions and the public, the political actors with the public and vice versa. In this new reality is more than relevant the discussion about the impact of public relations on the accuracy of the information and information covering various areas of society. This research aims at studying specific aspects of the relation between public relations on one hand and the approaches to fulfil the right to information on the other hand, which is a constitutional right and regulated by a specific law, along with the relation between press offices and the media in the framework of the right to information, and treatment of official requests from journalists
The image for Albanians from the reflection of Mother Teresa’s sanctification in Italian media
Get PDFThe image is a phenomenon that has always been an interest to human beings, although in recent years it has become a primary subject of conservation. What other people think about us or even what we think of them is based on the interaction we have with others in our daily lives. In this paper, the image will be seen beyond the interpersonal level, and the aim of a country’s image as part of a country’s public diplomacy will be explained. The purpose of this paper is to understand the way in which the coverage of Mother Teresa’s consecration has affected Albania’s image. The research question here is what the Italian media have had in influencing Albania’s image using their point of view. The main Italian newspapers: Corrieredella Sera, La Stampa, and La Repubblica have been selected for this paper within a two-year period, analyzing 41 articles published about Mother Teresa. Findings testify that these three newspapers have had great media coverage and in most cases, did not hide the origin of the Saint Mother Teresa, writing in the title that she was Albanian. Such an event of a person with powerful universal values positively affects the image of Albanians throughout the world
Strategies of manipulation through political communication and the use of Spin Doctors
Get PDFPolitical Communication occurs through various methods. It includes individuals involved directly in politics or others who work and serve other people. Throughout history there have been numerous examples of advisors and individuals who are responsible for the image of political leaders. In Albania, the communication through the so-called Spin Doctors has widely been practiced, and it has been seen as a necessity by both sides of the Albanian politics.
Experiences show that public information mainly passes through political communication in the form of distortion and in the worst scenario as a manipulation of the reality and truth. This study will explore the ways used for the distortion of the truth, including the problematic itself: manipulation through communication strategies. The paper also includes some other research issues, from which the strategies of information are found and these strategies pass through political communication.
The study is based on a descriptive analysis, but sequentially analyses some specific cases to enable the inclusion of existing national framework.
This study aims to conclude that regarding the manipulation through public communication, Albanian politics has followed the same pace with other countries of the world, but within its specifications, conditioned by numerous factor, there are included a lot of well-known names that carry for the image, its protection and development
The electoral news in the first page of newspaper
Get PDFIt is known that during election periods the political commitment is a high level. Daily newspapers with a different construction, as much as the same function, address to the readers with headlines and it seems this is more apparent during the electoral campaign. Besides the multitude of titles that express a summary of current affairs, news has orientation function for the readers. The interdependence of the political agenda with the media is a function of the orientation of political discourse and policy-making function in society, but in addition, is added overemphasis on the political agenda while avoiding civic problems. What is the content of some newspapers during the elections? What are the main issues of this period and is there a thematisation of the headlines itself? What are political figures in this discourse?
This study presents quantitative and a qualitative data analysis of the problems of the front page headlines of newspapers in 2015 during the local elections. These data will be analysed and structured, the headlines on the front page function in order to come to a conclusion regarding the discourse
Social networking and Kosovar political actors
Get PDFSocial media are changing the nature of mass communication, challenging traditional media. They are used as a powerful platform for sharing and spreading of information, activities, promotion of institutions, of certain interest groups and individuals, but also political actors for different purposes. Sharing and spreading of information through possibilities provided by social media enables to mobilize wider audience in different ways. Politicians are using these opportunities, without any need to share information across journalist or traditional media. This paper aims to analyse use of social networks as a mean of sharing of information by Kosovan political actors and content shared. The paper analyses posts of three Kosovo politicians, prime minister Isa Mustafa, president Hashim Thaci and president of Kosovo Assembly Kadri Veseli in their profiles on social networks Facebook and Twitter, over a period of monitoring of fifteen days, during the month of December 2016
Public relations office of religious institutions - the media's role religious communities since 2010-2016
Get PDFThe religious institutions in Albania suddenly flourished in the 1990 with the return of freedom of worship and religion, which had been cancelled (1967) by an article in the constitution that turned Albania into the only atheist country in the world; something that was reverberated throughout the international media. Regaining their institutional forms the religious communities in the nineties started to develop their offices of communication and public relations, their own media to this very day, which operate with special programs in the public and private media for different occasions.
As an important instrument of communication between institutions as a transmitter of religious messages to the faithful audience the broadcasting today is realized by dozens of different channels. Starting from the traditional media as reception offices, offices of public relations, newspapers and magazines, radio, television, internet, onto the social media nowadays who have become a pretty concrete means to channel all kinds of messages.
But, how many and how these messages are followed? Where remains the „spasm‟ in some of those religious institutions? How many of those messages are public and are meant for everybody, and not only for the own crowd? Which are the external interventions? Cooperation with organizations in the civil society, business? These and others are some of the themes, which the complexity of public relations and the media of religious institutions confronts these last years in the public they address