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The Long End of the First World War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

The Long End of the First World War

Eigene und Fremde Welten Herausgegeben von Jörg Baberowski, Stefan Rinke und Michael Wildt Mit dem Gedenken an den Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs hat sich die Art der Erinnerung an dieses welthistorische Ereignis verändert. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes zielen darauf ab, Verknüpfungen zwischen individuellen Kriegserfahrungen, Geschichtsschreibung und Erinnerung herzustellen und so den Begriff eines statischen, klar definierten "Endes" des Ersten Weltkrieges zu hinterfragen, eines Konstrukts, das hauptsächlich auf europäischen Entwicklungen beruht.

National Purpose in the World Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

National Purpose in the World Economy

How do national identities affect the world economy? Building on the insight that nationalisms and national identities endow economic policy with social purpose, Rawi Abdelal proposes a novel theoretical framework, a distinctively Nationalist perspective on international political economy, to answer this question. Using this framework, and drawing on field research in Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus, he provides an in-depth look at the link between national identity and the economic policies of the new states formed by the breakup of the Soviet Union.All these states, from the Baltic coast to central Asia, were economically dependent on Russia during the 1990s. However, they reacted very dif...

The Odyssey of Communism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

The Odyssey of Communism

This volume looks into the ways in which film has contaminated and re-shaped culture(s) and the collective unconscious, at both local and global levels, arguing that our lives have been impacted by the ‘then’ that we keep revisiting, lest we forget. It takes the reader from the Berlin Wall to China, and from the terror of communist political prisons and labour camps to the rosy image promoted by propaganda. A key point throughout the text is its interdisciplinary nature, as it brings together literature and film scholars, directors, sociologists and philosophers, whose overall conclusion is that communism, lingering in mentalities, still needs interrogation. Structured along four parts w...

Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War

This edited collection explores memories and experiences of genocide, civilian casualties, and other atrocities that occurred after the Second World War.

Potentials of disorder
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Potentials of disorder

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book deals with the institutional framework in post-socialist, after-empire spaces. It consists of nine case studies and two contributions of a more theoretical nature. Each of these analytical narratives sheds some light on the micro-politics of organised violence. After 1990, Serbs and Croats were competing over access to the resources needed for institution building and state building. Fear in turn triggered ethnic mobilisation. An 'unprofessional' riot of Serbs in the Krajina region developed into a professional war between Serbs and Croats in Croatia, in which several thousand d...

A Pandemic of Populists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

A Pandemic of Populists

  • Categories: Law

Explores the rise of populism in power, focusing on its causes, characteristics, impact on democracy, and how to fight back.

State and Legal Practice in the Caucasus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

State and Legal Practice in the Caucasus

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-09
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Legal pluralism and the experience of the state in the Caucasus are at the centre of this edited volume. This is a region affected by a multitude of legal orders and the book describes social action and governance in the light of this, and considers how conceptions of order are enforced, used, followed and staged in social networks and legal practice. Principally, how is the state perceived and how does it perform in both the North and South Caucasus? From elections in Dagestan and Armenia to uses of traditional law in Ingushetia and Georgia, from repression of journalism in Azerbaijan to the narrations of anti-corruption campaigns in Georgia - the text reflects the multifarious uses and performances of law and order. The collection includes approaches from different scholarly traditions and their respective theoretical background and therefore forms a unique product of multinational encounters. The volume will be a valuable resource for legal and political anthropologists, ethnohistorians and researchers and academics working in the areas of post-socialism and post-colonialism.

Citizenship Education in a Divided Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 167

Citizenship Education in a Divided Society

This book examines the possibilities and realities of promoting citizenship, peace, and reconciliation through schooling in divided and post conflict societies. With specific attention to the case of Northern Ireland and the Local and Global Citizenship (LGC) initiative, the book investigates the faltering progress to develop and teach school curricula aimed at promoting citizenship as well as peace, tolerance, and mutual understanding. Following an overview of the scholarship on citizenship education, the author provides a broad social and political historical context within which to understand the educational reforms and changes that have taken place in Northern Ireland, highlighting vario...

Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Countries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-01-23
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book sets the experiences of former communist countries as they head towards capitalism against the 'varieties of capitalism' paradigm, and provides a framework for comparing transformation processes, demonstrating how differing heritages of communist and pre-communist pasts are leading to different kinds of capitalist economies.

Education for Sustaining Peace Through Historical Memory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 127

Education for Sustaining Peace Through Historical Memory

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Aims, Questions and Methodology -- 1.2 Structure of the Book -- References -- 2 Conventional and Critical Approaches to Peace Education -- 2.1 Conventional Approaches to Peace Education -- 2.2 Critical Approaches to Peace Education -- 2.2.1 Comparative Features of Conventional and Critical Approaches to Peace Education -- 2.3 Peace Education in Colombia: Context and Challenges -- References -- 3 Historical Memory and Its (Dis)contents -- 3.1 History and Memory -- 3.2 Historical Memory -- 3.3 Historical Memory Work in Colombia -- References -- 4 Historical Memory-Oriented Peace Education and the Sustaining Peace Agenda -- 4.1 Historical Memory-Oriented Peace Education: Why and How -- 4.2 The Sustaining Peace Agenda: What Is in a Term -- 4.2.1 Historical Memory-Oriented Peace Education and Sustaining Peace: Connecting the Dots -- References -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Bibliography -- Index.