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Classroom Struggles
In this timely collection of news and feature articles originally published by Transitions and its companion education website, TOL Chalkboard, young journalists in Transitions' traditional coverage areas - Eastern Europe and the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Russia - with the added insights of Chalkboard contributors in other regions, expose the political and sociocultural roadblocks education faces in those regions. This collection is a compelling source for understanding, discussion and even a tool to open closed minds, for readers interested in these regions, political scientists, and journalists.
Dropping out of Socialism
The essays in this collection make up the first study of “dropping out” of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian Muslim madrassa students and Romanian yogis, groups and individuals across the Eastern Bloc rejected mainstream socialist culture. In the process, multiple drop-out cultures were created, with their own spaces, music, values, style, slang, ideology and networks. Under socialism, this phenomenon was little-known outside the socialist sphere. Only very recently has it been possible to reconstruct it through archival work, oral histories and memoirs. Such a diverse set of subcultures demands a multi-disciplinary approach: the essays in this volume are written by historians, anthropologists and scholars of literature, cultural and gender studies. The history of these movements not only shows us a side of state socialist life that was barely known in the west. It also sheds new light on the demise and eventual collapse of late socialism, and raises important questions about the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western subcultures.
Castle on a Hill
This recasting of modern European history offers new insights into the Visegrad Group's significant role in changing political mind-sets and refashioning the continent Rick Fawn has written the first book-length account of the Visegrad Group of states, which consists of the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Poland, and Hungary. Named after Hungary's Visegrád Castle, the group's significance includes changing international perceptions of Central Europe since the fall of communism and securing membership in NATO and the European Community. It plays an ongoing role today in regional solidarity and politics within the European Union and NATO. Castle on a Hill is built on years of uniquely ob...
China's Belt And Road Initiative's Impact on Europe
This book not only discusses the uniqueness of the Belt and Road Initiative in the history of global integration, but also analyzes the reasons why the BRI conforms to European interests and maintains the stability of the world order. Jasna Plevnik believes that the BRI has a positive and farreaching influence on the economic cooperation and cultural exchange between Europe and China. If the European Union follows the United States’ policy to contain China, it would be a serious strategic mistake, as it would weaken its ability for economic and strategic transformation in the new landscape of international relations. She proposed that China and Europe, as the advanced and nongeopolitical powers, should continue to strengthen their partnership through financing, multilateral cooperation, and management of new projects to increase their prosperity. China and the EU have a moral duty to redefine global politics by acting in conformity with the principles of peace, mutual understanding, free trade, and cooperation.
Entrepreneurship in the Raw Materials Sector
The Entrepreneurship in the Raw Materials Sector proceeding is a collection of papers focusing on the macroeconomic aspects of green growth, the business opportunities in the raw materials sector, and the challenges in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship training. These papers were presented during the closing conference of LIMBRA (‘Decreasing the negative outcomes of brain drain in the raw materials sector‘), a project funded by EIT Raw Materials in the period of 2019-2021. LIMBRA primarily aims at generating new entrepreneurial ideas in the raw materials sector, and to encourage engineering students graduating in raw materials-related programmes to start their own businesses. This proceeding offers a good summary of our approach, and our results: identify the critical trends in the macroeconomic environment; learn about the specifics of the raw materials markets; develop new business ideas, and rely on your local ecosystem for extra knowledge, mentoring; and finally, help students to "Become stay-at-home entrepreneurs".
Europe's Role in Nation-building
The European Union and its member nations have proven adept at mounting small-scale nation-building operations and should be ready to handle more substantial missions. Building on prior RAND work, this volume presents six case studies of recent European-led nation-building missions, in Albania, Sierra Leone, Macedonia, Côte d'Ivoire, the Congo, and Bosnia, as well as a review of the Australian mission to the Solomon Islands.
Fenomén Dijon
Jiří Voskovec, Václav Černý, Čestmír Císař, Zdeněk Troška – čtyři obecně známá jména, jež spojuje francouzská maturita. Tento základní fakt je ale často překryt nejasnosti a snad až mýtem. Kniha Fenomén Dijon chce mýty dekonstruovat a představit první, ucelenou a kritickou historii českých (československých) sekcí na francouzských středních školách, v jejichž rámci studovalo ve Francii do dnešní doby na tisíc studentů. Tato svou tradicí bez nadsázky jedinečná vzdělávací instituce je studována ve třech vzájemně se prolínajících rovinách. Na prvním místě z pohledu kulturně-politických vztahů mezi Československou (Českou a Sl...
