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Kimmerling's and Migdal's book presents the view that Palestinians failed to form a state while the Israelis succeeded because of factionslism in Palestinian politics. The three revolutions, against Egypt in 1834, against Britain and the Zionists in 1936-39 and the Intifada could not succeed because the leaders could not fight for a common cause, rebelling only for vested interests. The authors discuss the political economy of 19th century Palestine, Britain's Mandatory Palestine policies and the Palestinian conflict with European Jew settlers to analyze the reasons for the failure to from a state.

The Fifth Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy where Kateryna Yushchenko speaks about the Holodomor and the Orange revolution in Ukraine. The Orange revolution was an uprising of human spirit where people from different parts of the country rose together to fight against the oppressive Ukrainian political system are presented.

A study was conducted to examine the role of positive competence feedback on middle school students participating in a physical education task. One of the findings reveals that provision of positive feedback enhances intrinsic motivation through satisfying the basic need for competence.

A study was conducted to examine the mediating roles of perceived competence, autonomy and relatedness in the relationship between social contextual factors and motivation in physical education students. Findings reveal the importance of perceived teacher support, mastery climate and relatedness to motivation in physical education.

The examination of partition a way to prevent the recurrence of ethnic war and low-level violence and outcomes of partition by introducing an index as to measure the degree to which a partition separates ethnic groups and applied to all civil wars ending in partition from 1945 to 2004 is presented. As the conclusion states that partition that completely separated the warring groups did not experience a recurrence of war and low-level of violence for the last five years.

The motivational processes underlying goal striving in sport and the role of perceived coach autonomy support in the goal process are examined on the basis of the self-concordance model. Results reveal that autonomous goal motives positively predict effort, which predicts goal attainment linked to satisfaction and finally, psychological well-being.

The article explains the relationship of self-determined motivation of students and autonomy support of teachers in a journalism organization. A survey was conducted on 357 student-advisor pairs, the results of which are explained.

Edwidge Danticat's conceptualization of displacement in 'Breath, Eyes, Memory', is a vision of how women caught in a matrix of power constituted by patriarchal forces could achieve self-determination. She offers a number of astonishingly compelling metaphorical renditions of the idea that transformation is necessary for true freedom.

Recent studies of intellectuals affiliated with indigenous movements in Latin America indicate that those from subordinated minorities, whose objective is to build social movements, are not experiencing the crisis of national intellectuals. A brief examination on the negotiation of ethnic discourse by intellectuals within the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca, a Colombian indigenous cultural activists and politicians are at loggerheads over the nature of indigenous political autonomy.

Principles of self-government using works of political and strategic theory are established. The fundamental principles of warfare and their significance to the problem of preserving a nation's independence are discussed. This view is substantiated using historical examples.

While Canada has moved beyond its colonial relationship with Great Britain, many argue that Aboriginal peoples in Canada continue to be entrenched in colonialism. In recent years, self-government negotiations have [...]