The Human Security Paradigm and Cosmopolitan Democracy

This paper discusses the relation between the human security paradigm and the cosmopolitan democracy scenario as models for humanizing and changing the current international system and transforming it in a global security and development system centered on the individual rather than on the nation state. The main idea for which I argue is that the human security paradigm and the changes it determined in international relations (especially through the responsibility to protect principle) are compatible with the cosmopolitan democracy scenario for changing and transforming the current international system

Implications of Narcissism in Pornography and Masturbation Behaviors Among Depressed Individuals

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Conflicts and Compatibilities in the Priorities Axes in the Architecture of the Production Systems

In an economic environment where more and more emphasis is being placed on increasing company’s performance and on the continuous improvement of business processes, companies face new challenges. On one hand they must address the existing market demand strictly observing the requirements of customers and the conditions imposed by competitors, on the other hand they should use the resources available in an effective manner in terms of lowest incurred costs and highest efficiency level. From this perspective, the article outlines the need to introduce systems of priority management in order to ensure the balance between the decisions in company's internal environment and the external environment’s restrictions. The approach of priorities by companies’ management has an overwhelming role in the process of correlating the available resources and capacity with the set objectives. Considering these aspects, the present article aims at defining a coordinate system as a reference point for identifying and managing companies’ priorities.priority management; priority axes and rules; long-term thinking; the goal of the business.

The Impact of soft drug legalization on Romania

This article approaches the problem of soft drugs legalization, from a liberalist point of view, underling the impact that this will have on Romania. Each year, in Romania, the number of soft drug users is increasing. Drug consumption exists and it will continue to exist, Romania being able to take advantage not only from an economic point of view. Another important thing that we have to take into account is that soft drugs do not lead to addiction, and however, continue to be prohibited by law.soft drugs, legalization, prohibition

Direct Proof of Termination of the Kohn Algorithm in the Real-Analytic Case

In 1979 J.J. Kohn gave an indirect argument via the Diederich-Forn\ae ss Theorem showing that finite D'Angelo type implies termination of the Kohn algorithm for a pseudoconvex domain with real-analytic boundary. We give here a direct argument for this same implication using the stratification coming from Catlin's notion of a boundary system as well as algebraic geometry on the ring of real-analytic functions. We also indicate how this argument could be used in order to compute an effective lower bound for the subelliptic gain in the $\bar\partial$-Neumann problem in terms of the D'Angelo type, the dimension of the space, and the level of forms provided that an effective \L ojasiewicz inequality can be proven in the real-analytic case and slightly more information obtained about the behavior of the sheaves of multipliers in the Kohn algorithm.Comment: 33 page

From Moral Responsibility to Legal Responsibility in the Conduct of War

Different societies came to consider certain behaviors as morally wrong, and, in time, due to a more or less general practice, those behaviors have also become legally prohibited. While, nowadays, the existence of legal responsibility of states and individuals for certain reprehensible acts committed during an armed conflict, international or non-international, is hard to be disputed, an inquiry into the manner in which the behavior of the belligerents has come to be considered reveals long discussions in the field of morals and theory of morality, and, especially, regarding the different manner of establishing the elements to whom obedience is rather owed (the divinity, the sovereign, the law) and the relations between these. Hence, the present paper aims at analyzing the connections between moral responsibility and legal responsibility for wrongful behaviur during war in a diachronic approach, along with the major shifts in paradigm (codification and individual liability). Understanding morality as practice, convention, custom, we are arguing that the nowadays requirement of liability for war crimes appeared due to an assumed intention and practice of the decision-making entities (the sovereign, the state) and, ultimately, to a decision-making process of the most influential states