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The environment, which is defined as the externality of nature against human in every human civilization, has become a problem when the nature-human balance is disturbed. With the destruction of advanced industrial societies; The need for political change has increased in the sense of protecting the environment, which has entered the transformation process. In this context, the changing role of the nation state in the process of restructuring environmental policy has been questioned on the axis of governance. Environmental problems, which emerged at the local level with the ecological crisis of modern society and humanity, have gained a global character. As a matter of fact, with the increasing importance of environmental rights on an international scale, multilateral environmental conventions have built the foundation of environmental law in a global context. How the natural resources and assets will be divided and shared by nation-states on a global scale has necessitated the multi-faceted cooperation of nations in the legal sense. In this framework, the aim of the study is to deal with the legal and institutional structure that has emerged with the increasing importance of the environmental right in terms of multilateral environmental agreements. Therefore, in the study, in terms of evoking mutual interaction of global environmental ethics, international environmental policies are discussed in the axis of the legal mechanism of governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, interpersonal relationships maintained in real space are declining. Increasing spatial differences reduce the frequency and level of relationships. However, sociality, which is a result of being human, finds its different satisfaction points. One of them is gift shopping. Gifts/gratuity creates a reciprocal function and linkage between people in every social structure. Gifts take place as gifts in studies related to primitive societies. In these works, the gift is not only a refresher of the community bond/linkage but also referred to by names such as the kula rıng and potlatch and it obliges the same value to be given. In today’s societies, the concepts of gift and gift are used interchangeably. Gifts serve as an important tool for maintaining relations between individuals, communities, societies. With virtual and real shopping opportunities in post-industrial societies, gift shopping has accelerated and has become multidimensional. The bond of the gift, which establishes contact between people through real and mostly virtual shopping, offered an alternative for the continuity of social relations. This study aims to understanding the binding effect and change in relations between individuals, communities as well as the qualification of the gift. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Developments in post-industrial societies shaped by the factors of globalization and the speed and diversity of information and communication technologies have been subjects to various conceptualizations along with different approaches and paradigms. The concepts of information, information society, information age, digital divide, information poverty and chronic information poverty are the main examples of these tendencies. The editorial of this issue aims to provide a general and conceptual framework for the mentioned issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Soft power has gained a status that the concept has been perceived as an alternative to hard power. Yet, soft power is not soft enough to become the alternative of the hard one as it is in most cases nothing more than the extension of hard power, namely an industrial advanced capitalist society. The fact that all of the soft powers are also hard powers and there is not any soft power that is not hard power are adequate enough to demonstrate the realities of the international systems of today. Power in international politics is an indivisible concept. There can only be a transformation in the power concept if there is a true transformation in the power centered logic of the international politics, yet currently soft power is not be able to meet the requirements of a true power concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technology and society have always interacted with one another throughout the history. This interaction between the two has led to some significant changes in the world. Developed each new technology in the society has been accompanied a new revolution such as the Agricultural Revolution, Industrial Revolution and Informatics Revolution. The latest one took place in the world; Informatics Revolution has emerged as a result of the developments in information and communication technologies (ICT). The structure of modern society has also turned into the information society by undergoing change in company with IT revolution. Consequently, ICT began to be perceived as the main factor in the transition of the information society. Here in this research, is discussed the role of ICT in the construction of information society. This study has been carried out on basis of a literature review and assessment upon the theories of post-industrial society that deals with the emergence of information society. According to the results of this theoretical analysis, it was found that the construction of information society is a complex societal process which will not be able to explain by only the extent of technological factors. Within the scope of the study results, the research assumption which propounds that the information society rose as a result of the interaction between society and information technologies was proved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]