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The articles included in this book reflect a diverse range of research and theoretical reflections on the Internet and information and communication technologies. The articles are grouped into four chapters reflecting the main areas of research interest, covering such topics as electronic government, electronic business modeling and programming, management information systems, and information and communication technologies in education. The book should prove useful to students, teachers, researchers, and scientists in helping them to acquire knowledge as well as to build new research plans in the field of internet and information technology.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, newly formed transitional regimes took up the challenging task of democratization. Democracy promotion in some cases produced unintended consequences. A retrospective evaluation of the Georgian case shows that democracy emerged in Georgia partly as a result of competition between the West and Russia. This important book explores the conditions under which external pressures can lead to democracy and argues that competition between great powers incentivizes the emergence of policy compromises between local and external actors.
110th Congress, 2nd Session. Jacket 41-228PDF or 41-228 PDF. The promotion of human rights is an essential piece of our foreign policy. This effort will be a global one that reaches beyond government alone. The reports in this volume will be used as a resource for shaping policy, conducting diplomacy, and arranging assistance, training, and other resource allocations. The reports will also serve as a basis for the U.S. Government’s cooperation with private groups to promote the observance of internationally-recognized human rights. The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices cover internationally-recognized civil, political and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These rights include freedom from torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; from prolonged detention without charges; from disappearance or clandestine detention; and from other flagrant violations of the right to life, liberty and the security of the person.
Dieses Buch widmet sich der Zeitgeschichte Georgiens von Stalins Tod im Jahre 1953 bis zur Gegenwart. Die Herausgeberin erschließt diese Geschichte über Interviews, die sie in den Jahren 2015 und 2016 geführt und aus dem Georgischen und Russischen ins Deutsche übersetzt hat. Sie adressieren das Georgien des Nachstalinismus, den dramatischen Weg Georgiens aus der Sowjetunion, sowie die Kriege der 1990er Jahre, die den Verlust Abchasiens und Südossetien brachten. Vor allem aber bieten sie einen aus Alltagserfahrungen geprägten Blick auf die Zeitgeschichte Georgiens.
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Now in its first English edition, this text focuses on the Japanese concept of "kaizen," or "continuous improvement," to demonstrate how smaller, easily adopted improvements can increase performance and reduce production costs.
Analyzes security challenges facing Georgia since a more democratic government took over in 2003, including secessionist crises within its borders and regional instability in the Caucasus.