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Cyclophosphamide is effective in stabilizing rapidly deteriorating secondary progressive multiple sclerosis
No full textThe fuzzy place of interreligious dialogue in the international community’s intercultural dialogue efforts
No full textThis paper aims to shed light on the diverse role and place attributed to interreligious dialogue in the intercultural dialogue initiatives advanced by a wealth of international organisations over the last 20 years. It claims that the position of interreligious dialogue within these broader international efforts can be either blended, disjunct, autonomous or neglected, and that this variation primarily depends on how each organisation has dealt with both the position of the West-Islam juxtaposition in the definition and implementation of its intercultural dialogue agenda, and on its specific understanding of the relation between the concepts of culture and religion. Analysing the discourse, governance and policy dimensions of a wealth of such international organisations’ initiatives, this paper provides a typology of existing approaches to interreligious dialogue which will further contribute exposing the underlying rationale behind intercultural dialogue efforts in international politics and untangling the fuzziness around this concept
The EU's External Action "Dialogues": A Consistent Foreign Policy Strategy?
No full textThe European Union (EU) is an example of actor in dialogue within itself and worldwide. In the EU’s frantic search of external political unity, dialogue, which the EU embeds in universal human values and in democratic principles, traces the relations with the “others”. This essay aims to discuss the strengths, limits and interactions of EU’s dialogues in the framework of its external action. In particular, it investigates whether and to what extent political dialogue, human rights dialogue and intercultural dialogue form part of a coherent foreign policy strategy in terms of both consistency with their value-paradigm of reference, and sharing of their objectives. This essay argues that, despite the constant efforts made by EU institutions over time to improve the scope of its dialogues and the participation of different types of actors therein, there is yet a substantial gap between the objectives formulated in EU documents and agreements and their application in dialogic practice. Moreover, although the three typologies of dialogue investigated share much in terms of objectives, actors and mechanisms, their level of integration and coordination within EU external action has significant room for improvement. In the era of planetary interdependence, of internationalisation of human rights, and of development of the global civil society, dialogues represent therefore a relevant instrument for the construction of a new international order based on human rights and democratic principles. The EU, however, needs to make a step further to integrate all these dialogues coherently and create the basis to enhance their effectiveness. To this end the essay suggests, inter alia, that the EU creates synergic partnerships in the various “dialogues”, with better division of labour among the actors involved to improve the “dialogues governance”, and increases the transparency of these dialogues and their outcomes to favour the assessment of their impact
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Culture of Peace for the Security of Future Generations. Peace and Human Rights. Volume 1
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Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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