Meaning in Life and the Metaphysics of Value [PDF]
According to subjectivist views about a meaningful life, one's life is meaningful in virtue of desire satisfaction or feelings of fulfilment. Standard counterexamples consist of satisfaction found through trivial or immoral tasks.
Evers, Daan
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> Context • Society is faced with “wicked” problems of environmental sustainability, which are inherently multiperspectival, and there is a need for explicitly constructivist and perspectivist theories to address them.
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted, Noe, Egon
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Asian Regional Institutions and the Possibilities for Socializing the Behavior of States [PDF]
Departing from the traditional yardsticks for measuring the performance and effectiveness of regional institutions, this paper proposes a new framework to investigate their effect in the socialization (i.e. internalization of group norms by newcomers) of
Acharya, Amitav
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Sovereignty Reloaded? A Constructivist Perspective on European Research [PDF]
This paper addresses three issues. Beginning with the sovereignty puzzle that emerges from multilevel governance analyses (in terms of the endurance of sovereignty within structures of overlapping authorities), it suggests supplementing the static view ...
Tanja E. Aalberts
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Disaggregating U.S. Interests in International Law [PDF]
The Constitution is so central to American identity that any concession of external constitutional constraints may constitute a threat to national self-determination.
Spiro, Peter J.
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International Organizations as Corporate Actors: Agency and Emergence in Theories of International Relations [PDF]
In this paper, the implicit and explicit conceptualizations of international organizations found in the three major theories of international relations are outlined and compared.
Remi Maier-Rigaud
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E-Learning as a Cultural Artifact. An empirical study of Iranian Virtual Institutions [PDF]
Choice, design and use of technology in education settings can be dependent on culturally embedded norms, i.e., assumptions about the nature of knowledge, ways of communications, kinds of teaching and learning strategies\ud and methods, etc.
Lindström, Berner, Masoumi, Davoud
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Explaining surprises in Asian regionalism : the Japan-Korea-China trilateral cooperation [PDF]
Why has the scholarship on ASEAN Plus Three not anticipated the emergence of the trilateral cooperative framework among Japan, Korea and China? The trilateral ‘dialogue’ that in 2008 took shape in a format separate from ASEAN has become a key surprise ...
Pieczara, Kamila
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Multilateral security in the Mediterranean post-Cold War: NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue and the EuroMed Partnership. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 7 No. 10 May 2007 [PDF]
[From the introduction]. In this paper I will compare and contrast how the multilateral efforts in terms of NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue (“Dialogue”) program, involving i.a. U.S.
Boening, Astrid B.
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Towards Praxes of the Region: Agential Constructivist Approaches to Regionalisms. [PDF]
Grant JA.
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