Attempts to constrain the spread of Covid-19 included the temporal reintroduction of travel restrictions and border controls within the Schengen area. While such restrictions clearly involve costs, their benefits have been disputed. Using a new set of daily regional data of confirmed Covid-19 cases from the respective statistical agencies of 18 Western European countries Matthias Eckardt, Kalle Kappner and Nikolaus Wolf suggest that border controls had a significant effect to limit the pandemic.

Re-Creation, Fragmentation, and Resilience tells the story of post Second World War Canada by exploring ten themes key to the Canadian experience since 1945. Dimitry Anastakis helps students to look at the period not only through the lens of traditional themes such a politics and foreign policy, but also through new, innovative themes such as the environment, the family, and technology.

Outbreaks of severe virus infections with the potential to cause global pandemics are increasing. In many instances these outbreaks have been newly emerging (SARS coronavirus), re-emerging (Ebola virus, Zika virus) or zoonotic (avian influenza H5N1) virus infections. In the absence of a targeted vaccine or a pathogen-specific antiviral, broad-spectrum antivirals would function to limit virus spread.

We live in a time of crises - economic turmoil, workplace disempowerment, unresponsive government, environmental degradation, social disintegration, and international rivalry. In The 99 Percent Economy, Paul S. Adler, a leading expert on business management, argues that these crises are destined to deepen unless we radically transform our economy.

Marius Calu investigates how the management of plurality is a fundamental element of contemporary state-building seeking to build social cohesion, while for the new-born Kosovo it stands as vital symbol for its domestic sovereignty and legitimisation.

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Rick Sarre discusses the relationship between the private sector and criminal justice. The private sector has become an increasingly important 'partner' in contemporary criminal justice with the unprecedented growth of public sector 'outsourcing' arrangements. This has resulted in an increasingly pluralised and marketised landscape of contemporary criminal justice.

Problematic interactive media use (PIMU) is a real and growing health problem among children and adolescents of the digital age. In the digital age, we may have encountered a new pathology, or group of pathologies, to which we must develop a thoughtful, responsive, and structured systemic response. Children and adolescents are the sentinel cases of PIMU; they are early and enthusiastic adopters of new technologies and they have yet to develop self-regulating executive brain function.

Alison Carrol examines French policies to reintegrate the recovered region of Alsace into France after the First World War. As integration programs became increasingly contentious, administrators sent from Paris to Alsace read the situation through the lens of German influence. No French administrator used the term ‘national indifference’, but their worries bear a striking similarity to those expressed with regard to so-called nationally indifferent populations in East Central Europe at the turn of the twentieth century: bilingualism, intermarriage, and Catholicism each represented alternative points of loyalty to the French nation, as well as sources of concern to the French government.

For most Anglophone countries, the history of grammar teaching over the past 50 years is one of contestation, debate and dissent: and 50 years on we are no closer to reaching a consensus about the role of grammar in the English/Language Arts curriculum. Debra Myhill discusses differing perspectives on the value of grammar for the language learner and opposing views of what educational benefits learning grammar may or may not accrue.

Gareth Loudon discusses the physiological response of participants during a creative activity and compares the results to their physiological response during states of high attention and relaxation.