Governance and artificial intelligence: the use of artificial intelligence in democracy and its impacts on the rights to participation by Moussa Theodore Zidouemba

“…This paper describes the mitigated impacts of AI by positing the advantages and the risks that may hamper the rights to political participation. It argues that a responsible use of AI that does not hamper technological advancement is needed, to protect the rights to participation. …”
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A cooperative governance framework for sustainable digital transformation in construction: The role of digital enablement and digital strategy by Ahmed Mohammed Shirwa, Abdiqani Muse Hassan, Abdiqani Qorane Hassan, Muslum Kilinc

“…Drawing on institutionalism and political systems theory, the study identifies five aspects and 36 criteria, using a hybrid approach of the Fuzzy Delphi Method and Fuzzy Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory. …”
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Transparency as a democratic control in citizen councils: The case of the municipality of Leon, Guanajuato, 2009-2012 by José de Jesús Godínez-Terrones

“…During these 23 years it generated and consolidated the regulations and operations of the citizen councils as the expression of citizen participation of the political party that governed the municipality. This research is quantitative and descriptive and uses the samples of the regulations and proceedings that appear in the portal of transparency of the municipality of Leon, Guanajuato. …”
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Les nouvelles relations entre l’Inde et les pays du Maghreb by Isabelle Saint-Mézard

“…The article first looks at state to state political relations, showing how relations once structured around a pro-Arab policy of non-alignment have been recomposed on a pragmatic basis with priorities fixed by economic and Indian energy interests. …”
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VOLUNTEERING IN RUSSIAN REGIONS: SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES, PROBLEMS OF REALIZATION AND ITS SOLUTION by T. I. Filippova, E. I. Khachikyan, I. I. Patsakula, I. V. Ivanona

“…Based on the results of the study, the authors propose practical recommendations to increase the effectiveness of volunteer activities in the regions, which can be integrated into the processes of making political and organizational and methodological decisions.…”
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Specifics of the EU development policy by Yana M. Toporikova

“…The background the EU is delivering its aid against is outlined. It involves political and economic crises, competition with the «rising» donors, including China, discussions on strategic autonomy, rise of the far-right parties. …”
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Bridging the gaps for a thriving Black Sea Blue Economy: insights from a multi-sectoral forum of Turkish stakeholders by Kadir Seyhan, Ömerhan Dürrani, Lydia Papadaki, Ebun Akinsete, Şebnem Atasaral, Koray Özşeker, Hatice Akpınar, Ercan Kurtuluş, Rahşan Evren Mazlum, Phoebe Koundouri, Phoebe Koundouri, Phoebe Koundouri, Phoebe Koundouri, Adrian Stanica

“…Stakeholders from the research sector, academia, civil society, industry, business, competent authorities, and government shared their thoughts on various sectors of the Blue Economy, covering 17 areas. They discussed political, environmental, social, technical, legal, and economic aspects, revealing opportunities, challenges, and areas where more research is needed. …”
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Les territoires du football en Tunisie (1906-2015) by Ali Langar, Myriam Baron, Claude Grasland

“…This leads to be interested in the way this sport became established and spread during the French protectorate, the political role which it played whether it is in the walking towards the independence or, more recently, during the big demonstrations of the revolution of jasmine during winter 2010-2011. …”
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How Peace Operations Work: Power, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness by Jeni Whalan by Umair Khalid Ameen

“…The book also emphasizes the psychological and political dimensions of peace operations, outlining essential factors for their success. …”
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Historical narrative, decoloniality, and polyphony in Management and Organization Studies: a theoretic-methodological approach by Ítalo da Silva, Elisabeth Cavalcante dos Santos

“…Also, we articulate the ethical-political option of decoloniality for the co-construction of historical narratives about translocal practical-knowledge in management - towards pluriversal transmodernity. …”
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La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow by Timea Lönhardt

“…This paper proposes to study the correspondence that Saul Bellow’s novels establish between the urban crisis and the human condition in the United States of the second half of the twentieth century, which will eventually entail a discussion of the writer’s conception of the modern world in its social, political and intellectual aspects. After defining the place and the role of the city in Bellow’s fictional universe, we will note the influence of the research conducted at the Chicago School of Sociology in the first decades of the twentieth century on Bellow’s view of the modern urban environment. …”
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Le Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park by Nadia Belaidi

“…The logic of construction of these parks is based on the idea that the articulation of conservation areas facilitates the resolution of territorial conflicts – of all kinds – by transforming the environmental concerns into object of cooperation between several political jurisdictions. It is the plan of the ecological public order concept. …”
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Les solutions fondées sur la nature dans les territoires littoraux : une adaptation au changement climatique sans transformation ? by Julien Pelet, Guillaume Rieu

“…Proposed only where the solution of dikes cannot be implemented or when they serve political interests, the development of NBS in Charente-Maritime leads to incremental changes in the public policies that they ultimately fail to transform.…”
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La nouvelle loi organique sur l’information de 2012 en Algérie : vers un ordre médiatique néo-autoritaire ? by Chérif Dris

“…Unlike other Arab authoritarian regimes, the Algerian government has allowed the emergence of private media and contradictory political debates. They have also democratized the use of Internet and have never stopped its access. …”
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La politique de l’Art au musée national de Katmandou (Népal) by Élise Fong-Sintès

“…In this place, art, which has become national, assumes a political character as the medium of a homogeneous and prestigious image of Nepal. …”
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Challenges Faced by the Lithuanian State from Regional Identities by Petras Kalnius

“…The authors of such demands, due to a multitude of historical, political, and social reasons, still do not have many supporters in central government bodies, and even in local communities, although in Žemaitija their number is greater.…”
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« A Woman’s Answer » : Adelaide Procter et la poésie face au genre by Fabienne Moine

“…Converted to Catholicism in 1851, Procter, as a Tractarian, uses her poetry, both religious and feminist, as a weapon against the construction of political and poetical patterns. Being Anglo-Catholic, she can create a feminine and autonomous space from where she gives her own interpretations and turns away from official discourses.…”
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Regional Dimension of history of Organs of GPU-OGPU: to the analysis of monograph by A. B. Gularyan and A. Yu. Sarana by A. V. Sushko

“…It is emphasized that it contributes to the study of the political, social and everyday history of the early Soviet society. …”
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A NEXT GENERATION? YOUNG DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH MINISTERS AND THEIR VISION FOR THE CHURCH IN SOUTH AFRICA by G.J. Van Wyngaard

“… For the foreseeable future, the Dutch Reformed Church will be remembered for its role in the theological justification of apartheid and spiritual support for the leaders driving this political process. Questions on the faith, theology, and spirituality that made this theological and spiritual support possible have been analysed in detail over decades. …”
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Le paysage dans la fabrique de la ville réunionnaise : le défi d’une coconstruction pour un mieux-vivre ensemble by Angélique Begue, Esméralda Longépée, Gilbert David

“…On Reunion Island, subjected to new needs for public spaces, we investigate the landscape as a political issue by asking how the use of the landscape by planners as a tool to rethink the city may or may not make it possible to renew collective action in urban design. …”
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