Volume 2 Issue 5
In This Issue
The article presents a critical analysis of the imposed construct of ‘The Arab Spring’. It presents an analytic description of a more realistic picture of what happened in the Arab World. There was discontent fomenting among the Arab peoples following what they saw had happened to them, not initiated by them...
Lead Articles
The article presents a critical analysis of the imposed construct of ‘The Arab Spring’. It presents an analytic description of a more realistic picture of what happened in the Arab World. There was discontent fomenting among the Arab peoples following what they saw had happened to them, not initiated by them...
Managing Uncertainty – A Challenge for Contemporary Society
The certainty-uncertainty binomial expressed across history is the contradictory human nature and its struggles. Totalitarian systems have exaggerated the value of certainty ...
Planning as the Art of Collective Anticipation
The definition of planning changed several times over the course of the 20th century. Anticipation, on the other hand, is a new science, though the problems that it confronts are as old as humankind ...
A culture organizes social relations in a way that maintains the group’s ability to effectively respond to conditions imposed by reality. However, cultural researchers ...
Ajay Tejasvi Narasimhan and Anand Pillai
A Paradigm Shift in Public Service Delivery: The Malaysian PEMANDU
There is widespread agreement that improvement in service delivery is the key for sustainable development. One of the major challenges in making this happen has to do ...
Julio Vargas and Joanílio Rodolpho Teixeira
Based on an institutional heterodox approach, in which the role of institutions is central to understand the different ...
Big Government and Global Governance: Managing Complexity for the New Society
The paper offers an innovative and original proposal as a solution to the problem of multiscale ontological uncertainty management of the complex interaction between big ...
Juliana Sandi Pinheiro and Danielle Sandi Pinheiro
Social Power and Stabilization Strategies: A Case Study of Brazilian Troops Deployment in Haiti
The actions of gangs in the urban area of Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, contributed to political instability and polarization of Haitian society ...
Inspirational Thinking: A Manifesto
We now face a Global Paradox. The internet has increased human abilities to global proportions, while at the same time our life systems, such as government, security ...
Mastering What Transforms: Dream the Impossible Dream and Go for It
For a long time, we have been operating in ways that are used up and do not adequately address contemporary issues and concerns. People everywhere know it ...