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Sir Angus Houston reviews the ongoing vital importance and current health of the 1951 Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS) focusing on the defence and security partnership that has developed between Australia and the United States since its inception. He then examines promising progress being made under both Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 of the 2021 Australia, United Kingdom, United States Trilateral Security Partnership (AUKUS). He concludes by considering the likely foreign policy of Donald Trump, president-elect of the United States, who will assume office on 20 January 2025. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the participation of countries in one of the leading international library organizations, IFLA. IFLA has aimed to strengthen libraries for a more literate, informed and participatory society. Its structure includes Sections, a Governing Board, and Regional and Professional Divisions. From an exploratory investigation on the IFLA web pages, the author surveyed the participation of countries in the entire structure, the nationality of the presidents and the headquarters of the World Library and Information Congress. The need for the organization to expand its regional diversity through internal policies stands out, since Global South countries, such as those in Latin America and Africa, occupy few places. Since IFLA is the main global entity in librarianship, it is essential to expand these representations, from participation in its structure to the possibility of a president-elect from these regions or the largest congress being hosted in these areas more often. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 10th International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) Congress took place in Paris, France, in October 2024, with over 800 participants discussing various topics related to physical activity and health. The congress marked the first gathering after the passing of key figures in the field and introduced an expanded definition of physical activity. The event also highlighted important discussions on policy, inequities, and access to physical activity, with a focus on global initiatives and research findings. The congress concluded with a transition in ISPAH's presidency and a look forward to the next event in Mexico City in 2026. [Extracted from the article]

This article ponders Israeli-Druze relations during Lebanon's 1983 War of the Mountain in light of derestricted sources pertaining to the Robert C. McFarlane mission in Lebanon. After the assassination of the Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel in September 1982 and the rise to the presidency of his brother Amine, Israel's relations with Lebanon's Christians soured. By contrast, Israel's connections with the Lebanese Druze intensified, and the Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin threatened to establish a "Druze Canton/Israeli Protectorate" in the Shuf-Aley region. Ostensibly, Walid Jumblatt, the leader of the Druze community, allied himself during the Lebanese Civil War with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Syria. Untapped diplomatic documents show, however, that Jumblatt also courted Israel and developed ties with the Menachem Begin administration. Uri Lubrani, an Israeli official who recruited members of Israel's Druze community to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the 1950s, played an important role in developing Israel's ties with Jumblatt. In this paper, I flesh out the dynamics of Israel's discrete relations with Lebanon's Druze community and their implications on the trajectory of the Lebanese conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Indigenous and campesino groups in Guatemala have launched a national strike to challenge the legal pressure being placed on president-elect Bernardo Arévalo and his Movimiento Semilla party. The strike involves blockades on major roads and the participation of various civil society groups, including university students, healthcare workers, and market vendors. The protesters are demanding the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo Porras and special prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche, who they believe are responsible for preventing Arévalo from assuming office. The strike represents a clash between the communal form of political organization embraced by Indigenous communities and the authoritarian form of the Guatemalan state. [Extracted from the article]

Despite advising on thousands of important decisions, who serves on presidential transition teams in the United States is largely unknown. The secretive and transient nature of transition planning explains why this is the case, but also reinforces why it is important to have a better understanding of who a president‐elect might choose at this critical moment of the transfer of power. This article develops a theory of the transition team as well as a typology based on two factors: expertise and status. Original interviews with members of the 2020–2021 Biden–Harris transition team then demonstrate the utility of this typology for better understanding the transition period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Numerous European leaders have formed cabinets that contain equal numbers of women and men. But forming a gender-equal team at the center of the European Union remains a particularly difficult undertaking. This article analyses the case of Ursula von der Leyen, who, in 2019, set out to form a gender-equal college of commissioners. It analyses why von der Leyen's first leadership project did not initially succeed and assesses the longer-term prospects of gender equality in the European Commission. Employing a framework drawn from studies of Commission leadership, commissioner selection, and gendered executives, it conceptualizes Commission presidents-elect as constrained selectors. Even with personal dispositions that support gender equality and access to powerful institutional resources, treaty-based rules and situational settings obstruct the ability of presidents-elect to achieve their representational goals. In the future, even presidents-elect who are strongly committed to gender equality will likely struggle to achieve fully balanced colleges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the combative drafting process of a new Chilean constitution under the government of left-wing president-elect Gabriel Boric, this paper retrospectively analyzes three documentaries by Patricio Guzmán over the past decade--Nostalgia for the Light, The Pearl Button, The Cordillera of Dreams--to argue that they represent a post-transitional trilogy that departs from Guzmán's previous works during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and transition to democracy. Taking heed of Chile's extended cartography of disappearance of both indigenous minorities and political dissidents, this study steers away from human-centric critique of documentary historiography, instead delving into Guzmán's chronotopic presentations of two nonhuman actors: grand landscapes on the macroscale and small objects at the microscale. This paper demonstrates how their affective materiality, by running through and across human and nonhuman bodies, leads to excavations below History's surface, conjuring up small histories of the abovementioned two categories of los vencidos obliterated from postcolonial-ethnocentric and neoliberal-authoritarian imageries. Relying on non-representational methodology and theory of haptic visuality--respectively these destabilize human/landscape and human/thing dichotomies while converging on nonhuman affect--it proposes that it is through evocation of sensations that Guzmán's post-transitional aesthetics form diligent inquiries into the palimpsest of Chile's collective and individual counter-memories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What explains the electoral difference in Florida between the county-level vote received by Republican (R) President-elect Donald Trump and Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R) in the 2016 Florida general elections? Regression analysis is used to examine both support for Trump and Rubio, and the difference in support between these two once rival candidates in 2015-16 for the U.S. Presidency. The results indicate that President-elect Trump did better in Florida counties with larger percentages of lowereducated Whites, lower-income households and higher-unemployment rate. Instead, Senator Rubio performed better than Trump in Florida counties with larger numbers of Cuban and non-Cuban Hispanics, plus women and voters not registered with either of the main parties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces that small animal practitioner Mary Ergen and Jennifer Quammen, the chief veterinary officer of a veterinary technology company, have announced their candidacies as president-elect of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) for 2025-2026.

On November 7, 2020, after being declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, Joseph R. Biden delivered his President-Elect victory speech to a crowd in Wilmington, Delaware. Through a generic analysis of religious language in Biden's victory speech, I suggest that Biden uses religious language in the tradition of American civil religion in an attempt to unify the country after a highly divisive and contested election, as well as to provide hope and comfort in the midst of a global pandemic. While Biden's address adheres to the themes previous research has associated with the President-Elect victory speech genre, his address appears to utilize religious language more frequently than other victory speeches. I suggest that this is partly due to the unique circumstances in which Biden delivered his address: during a global pandemic, without the concession of his opponent, and at a time when many Americans refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of his election. Because there was no concession speech delivered by his opponent, Biden's President-Elect victory speech attempted to achieve all of the objectives usually accomplished by a victory speech working in conjunction with a concession speech. Biden's decision to utilize "Consoler-in-Chief" rhetoric in his victory speech is also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The AVMA is seeking new leadership candidates and volunteers from District 3 and District 5 to serve on various positions within the Association, including the Board of Directors and the Association of Veterinary Technicians. Nominations are being accepted for president-elect, vice president, and veterinary technician positions, with deadlines for submission in early 2025. The AVMA is also looking for candidates to fill positions on councils and committees addressing a range of veterinary medicine issues, with applications due in the coming months. [Extracted from the article]

The era of free trade seems to be over. Increasing protectionism and new or intensified trade wars are to be expected at the latest with the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump. Tariff threats and geopolitical conflicts are focussing attention on the issue of (supply) security. Political efforts are being made to diversify supply chains and shift the production of critical goods to the domestic market. The vision of prosperity-enhancing free trade and democracy-promoting 'change through trade' appears to be overshadowed by a paradigm of free trade as a zero-sum game. The contributions discuss what effects these developments may have on the export-orientated German economy and what measures Germany and the EU should take in this mixed situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Lee Zeldin to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a choice criticized by environmental groups due to his low rating on environmental issues and potential deregulatory actions.

Over the past six decades, the presidential transition scholarship has grown increasingly rich, yet little systematic attention has been paid to the foreign policy activities of the president‐elect. The idea that the United States has "one president at a time" may be a constitutional reality, but it is also a political fiction, more honored in the breach than in the observance. This article demonstrates how U.S. foreign policy operates along several simultaneous tracks during the formal transition period between the election and inauguration. We develop and illustrate a new framework for understanding the underexplored role and significance of the president‐elect as a foreign policy actor during the era of the "modern presidency." By refuting the notion that the president‐elect is a nonentity, this article lays the foundation for more active exploration of the foreign activities of presidents‐elect and their impact on U.S. foreign policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]