ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS AND PARADIGMATIC MECHANISMS OF PERSONAL SECURITY MANAGEMENT

The purpose of this article is a complete, comprehensive, bibliometric, doctrinal and empirical study of the general theoretical foundations of economic dimensions and paradigmatic mechanisms for managing personal security. The methodological basis of the work is a pluralistic and complementary combination of modern general philosophical and legal approaches, general scientific and special scientific methods, techniques and principles of scientific knowledge, due to the uniqueness of the subject of research, necessary to ensure its objective study. By means of bibliometric analysis, the trends and key areas of personal security research in the context of financial and economic security are determined. For the first time, a comprehensive analysis of the general theoretical foundations of economic dimensions and paradigmatic mechanisms of personal safety management is presented using a wide range of general and special scientific methods, techniques and principles of scientific knowledge. The generalization of the paradigmatic mechanism of the empirical study of the components of personal security made it possible to distinguish the following components: motivational one – the need for security, emotional one – the sensitivity to dangers, cognitive one – the beliefs about security, and behavioural one – the forms of response to hazards. The authors proved that there is a correlation between the indicators of the personal security component "Beliefs about security". In particular, it can be assumed that the significance of a person to himself determines the degree of his self-control and, accordingly, the reaction to external factors in the context of ensuring security. Besides, the benevolence of the world directly affects the self-esteem of the individual and his ability to control the processes around him

Managing inequality: the political ecology of a small-scale fishery, Mweru-Luapula, Zambia

This paper starts from the perspective on resource management approaches as based upon a body of environmental knowledge. By analysing fisheries management in Mweru-Luapula, Zambia, we argue that this body of environmental knowledge has (i) remained largely unchanged throughout the recent shift to co-management and (ii) is to a great extent based upon general paradigmatic conventions with regard to common property regimes. We therefore simultaneously studied the historical trajectories of both resource management as the political ecology of Mweru-Luapula’s fishing economy. Using a relational perspective – by looking at interaction of the local fishing economy with external developments, but also by examining socioeconomic relations between individual actors – this study exposes constraints and incentives within the local fishing economy that are not absorbed in the current co-management regime. These findings challenge both policy goals as community-based resource management itself. We therefore argue that governance of small-scale fisheries – in order to close the gap between locally based understandings, policy and legislation – should always be built upon all dimensions (social, economic, ecological, political) that define a fisheries system

[How] Can Pluralist Approaches to Computational Cognitive Modeling of Human Needs and Values Save our Democracies?

In our increasingly digital societies, many companies have business models that perceive users’ (or customers’) personal data as a siloed resource, owned and controlled by the data controller rather than the data subjects. Collecting and processing such a massive amount of personal data could have many negative technical, social and economic consequences, including invading people’s privacy and autonomy. As a result, regulations such as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have tried to take steps towards a better implementation of the right to digital privacy. This paper proposes that such legal acts should be accompanied by the development of complementary technical solutions such as Cognitive Personal Assistant Systems to support people to effectively manage their personal data processing on the Internet. Considering the importance and sensitivity of personal data processing, such assistant systems should not only consider their owner’s needs and values, but also be transparent, accountable and controllable. Pluralist approaches in computational cognitive modelling of human needs and values which are not bound to traditional paradigmatic borders such as cognitivism, connectionism, or enactivism, we argue, can create a balance between practicality and usefulness, on the one hand, and transparency, accountability, and controllability, on the other, while supporting and empowering humans in the digital world. Considering the threat to digital privacy as significant to contemporary democracies, the future implementation of such pluralist models could contribute to power-balance, fairness and inclusion in our societies

The politics of agribusiness and the business of sustainability

The sustainability and the prospects of contemporary agribusiness are discussed taking into account trends, controversies, ideologies, practices and pending demands. The growing hegemony of agribusiness in the world today is analyzed making use of a conceptual framework of agro-neoliberalism that embraces three main areas of interaction, namely, renewed public–private alliances, novel techno-economic strategies that intensify socio-ecological exploitation and the containment of critical reactions. The critical importance of export-led agribusiness for the Brazilian economy provides a paradigmatic opportunity to apply this conceptual framework and investigate the foundations and geographical specificities of agro-neoliberalism. The article also discusses recent politico-economic adjustments and early signs of the exhaustion of Brazilian agro-neoliberalism, despite its undisputed hegemony. Neoliberal agricultural policies in Brazil have enabled the mobilization of agricultural resources, not for the purpose of domestic food security, but primarily for capital accumulation and the reinforcement of long-term social and economic trends that, ultimately, undermine prospects for sustained agricultural growth and broader sustainable development

East, West, Best

Address given in shortened form at the occasion of accepting the appointment as Full Professor of "Cross-Cultural Management" at the Rotterdam School of Management / Faculteit Bedrijfskunde of Erasmus University Rotterdam on Friday, September 28, 2001cultural encouters;beliefs;globalization;emergence;internet

Theorizing EU trade politics

This special issue aims to take the first step towards an inter-paradigmatic debate in the study of European Union trade politics

The merits of the human security paradigm : a materialist account of peasant insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa

Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-76).Contemporary food security concerns in sub-Saharan Africa centre on the pertinence of food versus fuel forms of production. As the global energy market enters into the postfossil-fuel epoch, the demand on land for commercial biofuel and feedstock production threatens the livelihood of sub-Saharan Africa's sizeable peasant community. This paper examines the theoretical and paradigmatic attributes of the human security and food security rubric, and its pertinence in accounting for the social threats which threaten individuals within an increasingly interconnected global economic system. While the emergence of these neologisms of the critical security studies school represent a marked divergence from that of the traditional approach of understanding security threats, they remained mired in contestation due to their lack of theoretical parsimony

LOCALIZATION OF MULTINATIONAL FIRMS, TERRITORIAL ATTRACTIVITY AND INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENT IN THE EURO-MEDITERRANEAN AREA

The global economy has established new game rules with regard to both the strategies of multinational companies (MNC) and the competition exerted between the territories competing for the localization of companies. The internationalization of firms is not a new phenomenon and the explanations of this process are legion. In fact, the novelty of certain works lies in the interest taken regarding the effectiveness of the various approaches which make it possible to increase the efficiency of a firm’s localization strategies. From this point of view, the works of Hofstede, D' Iribarne and Hall are essential, being at the origin of the founding of intercultural management. These works shed light upon and allow one to interpret the cultural behaviors found in the management methods of numerous countries. Accordingly, this contribution will attempt to analyze the strategic impact of intercultural management on the binomial localization of MNC/ territorial appeal in light of the emergence of a Euro-Mediterranean area.localization strategies of MNC, Euro-Mediterranean area, intercultural management, FDI.

The European Union's human security discourse : where are we now?

The language of human security has been prominent in the European Union's (EU) official discourse for a number of years. However, whilst it has been promoted as a new approach for the EU in the development of its security and defence policy, the aim of this article is to assess the extent to which it actually features in the EU's contemporary strategic discourse and practice. It seeks to uncover where and how the concept is spoken within the EU's institutional milieu, how it is understood by the relevant policy-makers in the EU and the implication of this across key areas of human security practice. It is argued in the article that human security has not been embedded as the driving strategic concept for Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) in an era of crisis and change in Europe and beyond and that the prospects for this materialising in the near future are rather thin