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The article presents abstracts on topics related to development economics including microfinance in Latin America, child labor policies in India, and the consequences of the lack of a precise definition of the notion of developing countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO).

This article focuses on reconciliation as a process of strengthening Malaysian and Indonesian relations, specifically in the context of Southeast Asian regionalism. Malaysia and Indonesia have many historic interconnections and share many similarities in language, religion, belief and culture. Terms such as nusantara, the Malay world and bangsa serumpun, reflect their socio-cultural closeness and numerous familial networks work to bind the countries together. For the past 50 years however, their relationship has been unstable. As globalization has increased international interdependence, many nations have been encoraged to move towards a process of reconciliation to improve relations with their neighbouring states. Reconciliation is one of the strategies commonly used to resolve interstate conflict and is widely practiced in international politics. The eventual goal of reconciliation is to create an intimate and lasting harmony between the respective governments and citizens of neighbouring countries in the quest for prolonged peace. The process involves far more than signing an agreement; it works on developing a mutual understanding between governments and encouraging national programs that engage all levels of society in the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Growing up in Toronto, Phillip Buckner was a British-Canadian cultural hybrid but with a strong sense of Canadian nationalism that led to his interest in Canadian history. In high school and at the University of Toronto he absorbed a vision of Canadian history that was Ontario-centric and emphasized Canada's British roots but his experience as a graduate student in Britain and as a lecturer at the University of New Brunswick challenged his youthful assumptions. As the founding editor of Acadiensis he sought to promote a more inclusive vision of Canadian history and when he returned to the study of Canada's connection with the British Empire he sought to promote a more balanced understanding of Canada's place within a wider British World. What he did retain was the view that Canadian history matters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on Croatian identity and the redefinition of ethno-national identity caused by the social crisis and nationalist reconstruction in Croatia at the end of the 1980s. The author discusses the effectiveness of nationalist discourse during ethno-nationalist mobilizations, the role of the Christian democratic and conservative political party Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), and identity discourse on the Istria Peninsula, which is part of Croatia and Slovenia, since the 1990s.

The article discusses social and cultural aspects of housing in Bretagne, France. Topics mentioned include the changes brought by modernity, the differences between the popularity of communal or individual housing among French and Breton people, and the sense that the Breton identity and traditional Breton culture were being lost.

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Laws are bound in a complex relationship with society as they should ideally reflect its social necessities and objectives as well as mould and influence these objectives. The regulations regarding labour relations are no different and possess an even greater social appeal than those applicable to other de facto situations. The 1988 Federal Constitution included various workers' rights accordingly, elevating them to the condition of fundamental rights. Among these is the right to strike. This alteration in the legislation was not accepted by employers without a fight, and the present study therefore regionally analyses the impact that the right to strike outlined in the Brazilian Magna Carta exerted on two practical cases to occur in the city of Passo Fundo in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Shortly after the Constitution's promulgation, employees of an abattoir participated in a strike and were promptly fired. It was up to the court to decide if the recentlyrecognized right to strike would be applied to the situation, revealing the relationship between the legislation permitting the strike, the social actors who operated in light of the regulation and the court, left to decide between different interpretations of the same law. Key-words: Federal Constitution; strike; regionalism; work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Balancing a legitimate fear that carbon leakage could undermine the impact of any global climate change agreement is a countervailing fear that leakage could be the excuse for protectionism in the guise of 'border carbon adjustments'. This would be dangerous for the world trading system, risking disputes due to ambiguities in the details of World Trade Organization rules over what types of border measures are potentially and actually admissible. Even with good-quality data, there is considerable potential for judge mental discretion, and hence opportunistic manipulation, in estimating the carbon charges to levy on an imported product. This is true even given agreement on whether to use importer or exporter coefficients. A clear distinction needs to be made between environmental and competitiveness motives for border adjustments. The key argument is that the traditional symmetry, between origin (production) based taxes and other charges (e.g. due to a cap-and-trade scheme) and those based on the destination (consumption) principle, breaks down in the case of carbon charges. The potential is explored for regional agreements to ensure origin as the basis for carbon levies, while recognizing the challenges this poses for the mutual recognition of emissions regimes in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper focuses on the 2006 season of the reality television show Canadian Idol and the manufacturing of Canadian identity. Our analysis looks specifically at the way Canadian identity was articulated in the production of the show, the comments of the judges to contestants, the comments in news releases, and the viewers' discussions on the message board accompanying the show. We argue that the show produces a version of Canadian identity that sustains a logic of regional difference, with a key point of distinction between urban and nonurban Canadians. However, we also indicate that this representation is ruptured by the viewers' debates on their feelings of Canadian identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rad obraduje pojmove kao što su regionalizacija, tipovi regionalizacija, regionalizam, načelo supsidijarnosti, centralizacija i decentralizacija. Rad se bavi pojedinim problemima s kojima se susreće Reublika Hrvatska od osamostaljenja - prilično centralizirano uredenje, još uvijek dominantna politička regionalizacija, velike razlike izmedu pojedinih regija i sl. Takoder, spominju se i europska iskustva na ovom polju, počevši od samih početaka regionalizma u Europi do novijih iskustava u Europskoj uniji te izazova i zamki regionalizacije u EU. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper considers legal aspects of cross-border cooperation in the Republic of Croatia. Crossborder cooperation in the Republic of Croatia has been referred to regional development policy and the Government of the Republic of Croatia estimates cross-border cooperation as one of the great possibilities for balanced and sustainable development of the Republic of Croatia but also as a part of the general strategy for EU accession. The author defines basic terms such as region, regionalism and cross-border cooperation and then gives historical survey of how cross-border cooperation came to being. Furtheron it gives a survey of legal framework for cross-border cooperation in the Republic of Croatia with special reference to date experience of Slavonia and Baranja in connecting neighbouring areas, first of all within the framework of Euroregional cooperation of the Danube-Drava-Sava rivers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the concept of decentralization in Europe since 1945, and the fact that the island of Corsica, France, has not been granted regional legislative powers, contrary to other regions of the western Mediterranean. The article states that the predominant political culture in Corsica is based on institutional management and that it might not change in the short term, despite the minority support given to nationalists trying to gain power.

This essay focuses on the model of ‘Tout-monde’ (or Whole-World) developed in Gisèle Pineau's 2005 novel Fleur de Barbarie. Édouard Glissant's theories, as developed in Tout-monde and Traité du Tout-monde, inform our interpretation of Pineau's novel. Like Glissant's, Pineau's ‘Tout-monde’ is a totality that does not lead to totalitarianism, which establishes a series of links between international minor events that challenge the center/periphery model. However, Pineau adds to her Whole-World the crucial element of gender and sexuality absent from Glissant's theory. The study demonstrates how Pineau builds a feminist model of totality, in which women's bodies and sexual politics play a crucial role. Pineau, for instance, constructs a network of feminist intertextual relations by entering into a transnational dialogue with Hélène Cixous's texts and Josephine Baker's songs. Moreover, this essay shows how Pineau's novel extracts Guadeloupe from its peripheral status as ‘Overseas Department’ by exoticizing the rural region of Sarthe, and by depicting Guadeloupe as a Cosmopolitan Center. Pineau calls her ‘Tout-monde’ ‘barbarie’ deconstructing the word ‘barbare’ before reclaiming it as a pride. Cette étude a pour objet le roman de Gisèle Pineau, Fleur de Barbarie (2005). Dans son æuvre de fiction, Pineau met en pratique la théorie du ‘Tout-Monde,’ élaborée par Édouard Glissant dans Tout-Monde et Traité du Tout-Monde. Tout comme le ‘Tout-Monde’ de Glissant, celui de la romancière guadeloupéenne est une totalité non-totalitaire, fondée sur la mise en relation de réseaux internationaux construits autour d'événements mineurs, qui défie le modèle de centre/périphérie. Cependant, le Tout-Monde de Pineau met en pratique une totalité-monde féministe, au sein de laquelle les corps de femmes sont cruciaux, dimension absente de la théorisation de Glissant. Pineau construit notamment un réseau de relations féministes en instaurant un dialogue transnational avec les textes d'Hélène Cixous et les chansons de Josephine Baker. En outre, cet essai démontre comment Pineau extrait la Guadeloupe de son statut marginal de Département d'Outre-Mer, en rendant exotique la campagne profonde française de la Sarthe et en faisant de la Guadeloupe une capitale cosmopolite. Pineau nomme son Tout-Monde ‘Barbarie,’ barbarie qu'elle érige en fierté après avoir décliné et déconstruit le mot ‘barbare.’ [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After a period of obscurity, especially for economic integration, regionalism has again awoken an enormous amount of interest both at an academic and international institutional level. There are several explanations for this and the present work pauses to consider them. The study stresses the profound transformation—normative and institutional, evident during the 1980s and 1990s —caused by globalization. On this question, it proposes an original definition which, beyond its multiple expressions, above all in the economy, focuses essentially on the phenomenon as a historical process. The worldwide dissemination of regionalism has given rise to a debate on the relationship between regionalism and multilateralism, a question that has come to be complex and challenging, and which will therefore require a specific treatment later to be integrated into the sketch that has already been made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Despite the creation of a variety of environmental building tools, it remains difficult to select existing tools or to develop new tools to address specific needs in many regions. This is largely due to insufficient transparency and complexity surrounding existing tools as well as the vague understanding of regionally specific conditions and requirements. An approach is proposed for developing regionally specific environmental building tools for China. Two new conceptual frameworks are established to classify environmental building tools and their related factors. Based on the new frameworks, a survey was conducted to understand local Chinese architects' perceptions about the relative importance of environmental building factors, and their expectations about the character, orientation, function and styles of environmental building tools in China. Based on these results, a suite approach to developing regionally specific environmental building tools is proposed and the implications of their applications in China are considered. En dépit de la création de divers outils de construction environnementaux, il reste difficile de choisir entre la sélection d'outils existants et le développement de nouveaux outils pour répondre aux besoins spécifiques de nombreuses régions. Cela est largement dû au manque de transparence, à la complexité des outils existants concernant l'environnement et à la connaissance insuffisante des conditions et des exigences propres aux régions. L'auteur propose une méthode de développement d'outils de construction environnementaux propres aux régions chinoises. Deux nouveaux cadres conceptuels sont définis afin de classer les outils de construction environnementaux et leurs facteurs associés. Sur la base de ces nouveaux cadres, une enquête a été menée visant à comprendre la perception par les architectes chinois de l'importance relative des facteurs de construction environnementaux et leurs attentes concernant le caractère, l'orientation, la fonction et les styles des outils de construction environnementaux en Chine. Sur la base des résultats de cette étude, il est proposé une méthode de développement d'outils de construction environnementaux propres aux régions et d'évaluation des conséquences de leur application en Chine. Mots clés: outils d'évaluation évaluation environnementale régionalisme construction durable développement durable Chine [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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