De Stemmen Van Het Volk

Kris Deschouwer

VUBPRESS

A comprehensive analysis of the European Union's foreign policy over 40 years, this study describes how multilateralism has been used in the fields of peace, security, and military crisis management. Relying on detailed case studies, this new research looks at interventions in Macedonia, the Balkans, the Congo, and Chadand assesses EU’s cooperation with NATO and the United Nations during these emergencies.

The European Union as an Integrative Power: Assessing the EU's 'Effective Multilateralism' with NATO and the United Nations (Institute for European Studies, 16)

Politics & Social Sciences

Koops, Joachim Alexander

Politics & Government

Written from the perspective of a financial investor, this account supports Behavioral Portfolio Theory, draws attention to the importance of asset-liability matching, and offers a natural framework for investor-adviser dialogue and mathematical portfolio optimization. In this system, investment goals—and not investor psychology—drive investment advice; "risk" depends on the investment objective and may be different in each sub-portfolio. This comprehensive book presents an extensive overview of existing portfolio theories and behavioral finance, and introduces new theories and its practical applications.

Maslowian Portfolio Theory: A Coherent Approach to Strategic Asset Allocation

Business & Money

De Brouwer, Philippe J. S.

Investing

With microeconomic insights into the functioning of nonprofit organizations, this book focuses on both empirical and theoretical economic aspects of their operation. It considers the possible definitions of nonprofit organizations, the economic rationale behind their existence, and the significance of their work. The final chapters analyze the economic idiosyncrasies of nonprofit organizations' management, highlighting the fields of strategic management, marketing, accounting, and finance.

Managerial Economics of Non-profit Organisations

Jegers, Marc

Economics

<p><div>The Artificial Intelligence fueled transition toward smart cities and network societies has a tremendous impact on the future of humanity. The current narrative of smart cities and data enabled urban systems totally leaves out the components of human experience, feelings, emotions, and real human relationships. However, what makes a city smart is the degree and quality of human connections and social cohesion that individuals feel. Cities are more than just objects, buildings, and fixed entities. They are about people and networks that encompass system of life as a whole. In turn, people's behaviour shapes sustainability, resilience, and inclusivity of the future of cities. This Manifesto for the future design of smart cities explores the existing ethos of practice of smart cities around the world. Combining Eastern philosophies of change and a Western analytical scientific lens with the notion of the Internet of People and the Internet of We, in parallel to the utilitarian Internet of Things, Dr. Shima Beigi calls for a paradigm shift in this rapidly growing area of smart cities.</div></p>

Mindful Smart Cities: Rethinking Smart Cities with Mindfulness Engineering

Beigi PhD, Shima

Sociology

With contributions from scholars in a range of different disciplines, this book reflects upon the achievements and failures to date of integration efforts aimed at Europe's Romani populations. The snapshots provided examine a variety of integration efforts at different levels and involving a range of institutional actors.In doing so, they offer a comprehensive introduction to aspects of human rights and integration within the European Union as well as crucial insights as to the current state of affairs in Europe as policy makers reflect on the current direction of initiatives to combat Romani exclusion.

European Roma Integration Efforts – A Snapshot (Institute for European Studies series)

Social Sciences

By explicitly focusing on the lived experiences of criminology researchers and giving voice to their difficulties, struggles, frustrations, and the challenges they meet during their research, this book places the researcher in the center of the attention, providing a unique perspective to the classical handbook in research methods. These tales of the field witnesses relate the hidden difficulties and pitfalls of doing research and discuss often-neglected questions. What does it mean to do research in a hypermasculine environment as a prison? What are the challenges to getting access to a police organization or to private intelligence organizations and private security companies? How does a researcher cope with her or his own emotions during fieldwork? How does an ex-convict experience the process of becoming a researcher? What are the hidden or unexpected problems of publishing? What are the challenges of doing comparative research? These are only a few questions that are dealt with in this book, which is written by researchers for researchers and students of criminology.

The Pains of Doing Criminological Research (Criminological Studies)

Reference

Age: From the Anatomy of Life to the Architecture of Living (Crosstalks)

<p>This exhaustive collection of essays addresses the historical, cultural, and political views on war and peace worldwide. It gives modern readings of ancient philosophers like Heraclitus, Renaissance writers like Niccolò Machiavelli and Michel de Montaigne, and more contemporary thinkers like Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche. Its cultural analysis spans from ancient China to the middle ages to the present day. By demonstrating that some of our interpretations of famous texts are inherently flawed, this work challenges the roots of our most fundamental ideas about conflict and justice. In addition to the cultural and religious beliefs that underlie a call to arms, these essays consider our contemporary political view of war and peace.</p>

Philosophy of War and Peace

Praet, Danny

History

This is the fourth edition of a book that was, in 2008, the first to bring together the microeconomic insights on the functioning of non-profit organizations, complementing the wide range of books on the management of non-profit organizations by focusing instead on both theoretical and empirical work. Firstly, definitions of non-profit organizations are considered, after which the economic rationale behind their existence is examined, followed by a study of the demand for them and its implications for their functioning. The final chapters look at the economic idiosyncrasies of non-profit organisations’ management, focusing on the fields of strategic management, marketing, accounting and finance. This book will be perfect for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates engaged in the study of non-profit organisations and managerial economics.

Managerial Economics of Non-Profit Organisations

Finance

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