The National Shipbuilding Research Program. 1989 Ship Production Symposium. Paper No. 24: Designing the Future U.S. Naval Surface Fleet for Effectiveness and Producibility

This essay is a comment on the research program launched by Frank Adloff and Sighard Neckel. My comment is specifically focused on their research agenda as outlined in their trend-setting article, ‘Futures of sustainability as modernization, transformation, and control: A conceptual framework’. The comment is also addressed more generally to the research program of the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Futures of Sustainability’. I raise three issues: the first relates to the very idea of the future; the second concerns the notion of social imaginaries and the third question is focused on the idea of social transformation.

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Realismo Neoclássico e o Nível Doméstico: A dança das variáveis intervenientes

Brazilian Journal of International Relations ◽

10.36311/2237-7743.2020.v9n1.09.p147 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 147-169

Author(s):

Gustavo Fornari Dall'Agnol

Keyword(s):

Key Words ◽

Research Program ◽

Critical Review ◽

International Politics ◽

Neoclassical Realism ◽

The Future ◽

Realist Ontology ◽

Domestic Level ◽

Do So

O presente artigo visa a explorar teoricamente o nível doméstico no programa de pesquisa do Realismo Neoclássico. Para tal, revisa-se o programa desde suas origens na década de 1990 até seu desenvolvimento mais atual, aqui analisado na obra de Ripsman, Lobell e Taliaferro (2016). Faz-se uma revisão crítica do emprego das variáveis domésticas, de maneira, aqui argumentada, indiscriminada e prejudicial ao futuro do programa de pesquisa. Ademais irá propor-se que o Realismo Neoclássico, como possível solução, reorganize as variáveis de nível doméstico empregadas em suas análises e construções teóricas, de maneira a dar primazia a variáveis mais ligadas à ontologia e epistemologia realista. Conclui-se que essa é uma maneira para superar as críticas feitas ao programa de pesquisa, que do ponto de vista do presente estudo, vem contribuindo decisivamente para o estudo da política internacional e pode continuar a fazê-lo. Abstract: The present paper aims at theoretically exploring the domestic level in the Neoclassical Realist research program. In order to do so, it analyzes the program since its origins in the 1990 towards its most recent development, expressed by the work of Ripsman, Lobell and Taliaferro (2016). A critical review of the employment of domestic variables is realized, arguing that they are introduced in a non-systematic manner and are an obstacle for the future of the research program. Beyond that, it will be proposed, that Neoclassical Realism, as a possible solution, reorganizes its domestic level variables employed in their analysis and theoretical constructions, in a manner of giving primacy to variables closer to the realist ontology and epistemology. The conclusion is that this is one way of overcoming the critics towards the research program, which from the perspective of this work, has been contributing decisively to the study of international politics and can keep doing so. Key-words: Neoclassical Realism; Domestic Variables; Realpolitik. Recebido em: junho/2019 Aprovado em: dezembro/2020

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Research Program to Sustain the FM Professional

Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value ◽

10.37265/japiv.v7i1.56 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 86

Author(s):

Dean Kashiwagi ◽

Alfredo Rivera ◽

Jake Gunnoe ◽

Jacob Kashiwagi

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Research Program ◽

State University ◽

Arizona State University ◽

Honors Program ◽

School Students ◽

The Future ◽

Facility Manager

Arizona State University has been involved in identifying the future Facility Manager (FM) paradigm which results in a sustainable FM profession. The $16M, 20-year international research program has identified, created and tested out a solution to the almost impossible task of replacing the aging FM professionals. The research has identified the future FM as one who is leadership based and leads the entire supply chain from inside the organization. This paper will cover the three year results of finding the future FM by accessing the top 10% of ASU’s 85,000 students through Barrett’s Honors Program, 7th – 10th graders through the Barrett’s Summer Honors Program, and culminating this year in placing the education in one of the top private schools in the state of Hawaii for high school students, testing the approach on 116 Brazilian engineering undergraduate students and getting approval for testing a 14 week program in the Tempe High School. The model is proposed as a prototype for future FM professionals and how the FM professional can become sustainable.

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