Purpose: Human resources (HR) management has encountered unforeseen obstacles and issues in recruiting, retaining, training and developing workforces under the "new normal" due to pandemic circumstances followed by the Russo-Ukrainian War and global economic turmoil. As the world is now well-equipped with technological advancements and…

The goal of this essay is to provide Higher Education institutions with suggestions for maintaining both economic viability and organizational credibility in a Post-Covid 19 environment. Three practical, yet important, objectives for both colleges and universities are identified in light of the pandemic and its aftermath. In particular, the essay…

Today it is imperative that preservice teachers become globally competent specialists to effectively work in diverse classrooms and school environments. The author briefly focuses on the contemporary globalization, characterizes the essence of global education, concentrates on some issues of developing future elementary teachers' global…

The United Nations (UN) Population Division monitors fertility, mortality, and migration trends for all countries as a basis for producing the official UN population estimates and projections. Among recent demographic trends, two are prominent: (1) population decline and (2) population aging. Focusing on these two critical trends, a study…

Presents supportive statements from a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and a Nobel Peace Prize winner that the scientific community has an obligation to inform the public fully about the impact of scientific developments. Autobiographical data concerning the author is also included. (CS)

Historically, the cold war was a watershed that separated two epochs: the time of abnormal, although compelled, partnership of two political systems and the period of peaceful coexistence with barely hidden hostility. The peacefulness of the latter, however elusive and vulnerable it was from time to time, has to be credited to the cold war, a…

Throughout history, a society's economic and power relations and the resulting division into unequal strata have strongly influenced the system of information flow.1 Every civilization has generated its own information system, which functions to foster the integration of society, to standardize its values, and, in the long run, to legitimate the…

Reports on the Soviet Union's role in the Korean War using the resources of the Soviet-era archives in Russia. Provides historical background about the pre-Korean War era, the start of the war, the Soviet-Chinese relationship, the air and ground battles, and the reasons for ending the Korean War. (CMK)

Considers issues involved in the Korean War. Examines who was responsible for the war's onset, Soviet and Chinese involvement in North Korea's plan for war, the reasons why the United States and China entered the war, the effects on the rapprochement between the United States and China, and longer-term implications. (CMK)

This "Crisis Paper" examines the events of October, 1973, relating to the Middle East war. A chronology of events during the month is established, followed by short editorial commentary. A multi-national view of the situation is developed, quoting newspapers and journals from France, West Germany, USSR, China, Switzerland, Austria,…

Asserts that the guiding principles of the United Nations and the issues it faces are a major part of the interdisciplinary program at Morristown-Beard School in New Jersey. Describes the Model UN club and how it reinforces the content and values presented in the regular curriculum. (CFR)