Strategic SurveyPub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.1080/04597230.2018.1533081
{"title":"South Asia and Afghanistan","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/04597230.2018.1533081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04597230.2018.1533081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35152,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Survey","volume":"118 1","pages":"110 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/04597230.2018.1533081","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42354598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Strategic SurveyPub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.1080/04597230.2018.1533083
{"title":"Middle East and North Africa","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/04597230.2018.1533083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04597230.2018.1533083","url":null,"abstract":"The humanitarian crises in the Middle East and North Africa continue to affect a staggering number of people. More than 71 million vulnerable people, including over 35 million children, are in need of assistance.1 The conflicts in the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen, volatility in Libya and upsurges of violence in the State of Palestine are exposing children to extreme risks, including death, injury and displacement,2 as well as forced recruitment into armed groups and early marriage. In Yemen, where the response is challenged by the collapsing health system, millions are facing acute food insecurity, the country is confronting one of the largest cholera outbreaks on record, and nearly half a million children are at risk of severe acute malnutrition. In the Syrian Arab Republic, years of conflict have left more than 2 million children out of school3 and 3.3 million children4 exposed to explosive hazards. In Iraq, nearly 1 million children remain displaced, mainly in Ninewa, Dahuk, Erbil, Kirkuk, Salah al Din, Sulaymaniyah and Baghdad.5 Against the backdrop of ongoing violence, the region is also confronting natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks, including in Djibouti and the Sudan. In 2018, Djibouti was affected by both drought and a cyclone.","PeriodicalId":35152,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Survey","volume":"118 1","pages":"200 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/04597230.2018.1533083","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47443152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Strategic SurveyPub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.1080/04597230.2018.1533082
S. Hassim
{"title":"Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"S. Hassim","doi":"10.1080/04597230.2018.1533082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04597230.2018.1533082","url":null,"abstract":"* Current US $. World Bank 2016. ** US Department of State. Bureau of Democracy. International Religious Freedom Report for 2016. (1) The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law. (2017).Civic Freedom Monitor: Kenya. This number includes both societies and non-governmental organizations. (2) USAID. (2016). 2016 CSO Sustainable Index for Sub-Saharan Africa. The Corporate Affairs Commission provides data only about the national civil society organizations, therefore registered organizations operating at the state and local level are not included. (3) The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law. (2017). Civic Freedom Monitor: Senegal. This number includes both registered associations and non-governmental organizations. (4) Department of Social Development. Republic of South Africa. 2014 statistics. (5) USAID. (2016). 2016 CSO Sustainable Index for Sub-Saharan Africa. This number includes all registered civil society organizations. According to the European Union (2016) as well as Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (2016) the number of registered NGOs is only 4,000. (6) The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law. (2018). Civic Freedom Monitor: Zimbabwe. The number based on unconfirmed statements provided by government officials is 20,000. There is no publicly available record or database of registered legal entities in Zimbabwe.","PeriodicalId":35152,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Survey","volume":"118 1","pages":"148 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/04597230.2018.1533082","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48889493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Strategic SurveyPub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.1080/04597230.2018.1533075
F. Scholz
{"title":"Preface","authors":"F. Scholz","doi":"10.1080/04597230.2018.1533075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04597230.2018.1533075","url":null,"abstract":"Self-organization is one of the most important and most general features of nature, being practically omnipresent in our world, viz., in physical and inorganic systems, in organic and living systems, and even in social systems. Already 200 years ago, self-organization phenomena have been observed in electrochemical experiments and much later a vast number of carefully designed electrochemical experiments have been described where self-organization plays a role. Electrochemistry lends itself for such studies in a very special way, as it allows easy control and measurement of the electrode potential and current. Therefore, it is no surprise that the quantitative data of electrochemical experiments have given a very sound basis for mathematical modelling of self-organization. Professor Dr. Marek Orlik is an experienced electrochemist who now specializes in the physical chemistry of self-organization. His profound knowledge of mathematics, physics, and chemistry, together with his clear-cut thinking and his experimental abilities, enables him to present the theoretical background and the experimental details of self-organization in electrochemistry in a very lucid and appealing way. Professor Orlik is a disciple of the Warsaw electrochemical school. He did his PhD with Zbigniew Galus, and worked as postdoc with Gerhard Gritzner (Linz), and he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow with Karl Doblhofer and Gerhard Ertl in Berlin. The publishing house Springer and the editor of the series Monographs in Electrochemistry regard it as a big fortune that Marek Orlik accepted the invitation to write this monograph because it is the first comprehensive description of that topic, and it is clearly a very seriously needed monograph. When starting to write this monograph, the author quickly realized that the topic cannot be adequately covered in one volume because the mathematical and physical background needs careful and extended explanations. We are thankful to Springer for agreeing to publish this monograph in two volumes, allowing the author to present both the theoretical and the experimental side in detail. Writing such 2-volume monograph is a task which absorbs all energy for several years, and it is not only an intellectual achievement, but also physically very demanding, especially when considering that","PeriodicalId":35152,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Survey","volume":"118 1","pages":"5 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/04597230.2018.1533075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48193297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Strategic SurveyPub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.1080/04597230.2018.1533079
Ulan Bator
{"title":"Asia-Pacific","authors":"Ulan Bator","doi":"10.1080/04597230.2018.1533079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04597230.2018.1533079","url":null,"abstract":"The Asia/Pacific Committee covers the Asia/Pacific region, including Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bnimei, Cambodia, the Cook Islands, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. This article highlights selected 2013 legal developments in the Asia-Pacific Region, specifically with regards to Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Japan, Korea, Republic of the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.","PeriodicalId":35152,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Survey","volume":"118 1","pages":"109 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/04597230.2018.1533079","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43348028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}