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A Georgian researcher sets out to probe the link between physiology and addiction but learns more about the limits of her own community.
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As a giant Jesus rises over the Polish countryside, arguments over the right and wrong way to procreate multiply.
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What are the origins of political consciousness? How does our understanding of political power and its exercise originate in literature? What do we reveal about the nature of corruption and the rule of law rethinking Machiavelli and Shakespeare? In this article, focus will be on conflicts of loyalty and the sociogenesis of corruption, as depicted in early modern litreature. In addition, corruption will be analysed as a watershed between premodern and modern political and moral sensibilities.
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The Nord Stream, previously known as the North European Gas Pipeline, which later changed its name , received great attention when it was announced at a trade fair in Germany on 11 April 2005 that Russia and Germany had signed an agreement on constructing the pipeline. The official aim of the project is to bring Russian gas to the European consumer markets, especially Germany. While the environmental and energy political concerns of the Nord Stream project are widely debated, this article aims to shed some light on the security political concerns of the project. The main objective is to analyse and discuss some of the key points that have been debated during 2006–2007 in order to tackle some common misinterpretations of the project. The point of departure is two-fold. Firstly, Russia is moving away from democracy, market economy and the rule of law and, secondly, the institutional stability and predictability of Russia is low today. It is against this development the Nord Stream project has to be seen.
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The article aims at giving an in-depth analysis of the dynamics of military alliance of Russia and Belarus, its structure, potential and future perspectives. A military integration as a new independent variable in political science has been employed to explain the modalities of military cooperation between Russia and Belarus. Military integration has been divided into four stages – legal, institutional, instrumental phases and functional dependency. The article concludes that military integration between Russia and Belarus has almost reached the last stage – functional dependency. The countries created a joint infantry unit, the so-called “regional western grouping” and the system of common air surveillance and defense. The united defense industry, joint mobilization plans, threat assessments, joint strategic documents imply that the forces are becoming interdependable. Moreover, there have been intense negotiations on the use of air forces on the territory of the allies with no political command, demonstrating that military integration has become a decisive factor within the alliance, leading the countries to a deeper military cooperation despite misunderstandings in other fields.
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European Development Policy is one of the fields of the European Union’s activity that are relatively unknown and underestimated in the so-called new member states which Lithuania belongs to. Therefore, the main purpose of this article is to introduce the main objectives and instruments of this policy in the field of food security and rural development and to reveal some important flaws of this policy by critical analysis.
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This article deals with the main legal issues of international law related to the implementation of the Nord Stream project, as well as with the possible legal issues that could arise under the EU law if the project will be implemented. The focus of the article is whether the Nord Stream project has been launched in compliance with customary rules of international law, in particular the precautionary principle as reflected in the 1991 Espoo Convention and other applicable treaties. The main conclusion is that both Germany and Russia promoting the Nord Stream project have failed to comply with the precautionary principle, including the Espoo Convention, as well as with other related duties because the existing realistic alternatives to the project have not been assessed; on the contrary, the project has been actually launched even before the necessary assessment of its impact thus trying to leave no aternatives to its implementation. This means also that the parties concerned have not fulfilled their legal obligations in good faith as required by international law. However, no effective legal measures to redress the situation exist under international law, therefore only concerted political actions of all the third parties concerned, including the Baltic States, could help in preventing continuation of the Nord Stream project until an objective assessment of its impact is carried out.
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-Etimológiai szótár. Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (főszerk. Zaicz Gábor) -Etymological Dictionary -The origins of Hungarian words and suffixes edited by Gábor Zaicz
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-Fontos könyvek – A BUKSZ válogatott bibliográfiája 2007. I. negyedév -Important Books The BUKSZ Selected Bibliography Spring 2007
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- Viktor Binzberger-The Nature of the Internet by László Ropolyi - Kinga-Koretta Sata-‘The Dominant Ideas’ by József Eötvös Context and critique by Gábor Gángó - Gábor Kármán-The Burden of My History Anthropological approaches to interpreting the texts of early modern Hungarian literacy by Zsombor Tóth - Tamás Bauer- The New Political Economy of Emerging Europe by László Csaba - Mihály Laki- The Economics of Postcommunist Transition by Olivier Blanchard - Kálmán Mohácsi- The Transformation of Agrarian Trade in Hungary and Other East-Central European Countries by Imre Fertő - Nóra Schleicher- The Relationship Sustained by Language by Márta B. Erdős - Judit Nóra Pintér- Burdened edited by Zsuzsanna Kulcsár - András Jakab- The Perspectives of Contemporary Legal Positivism Selected papers by Tamás Győrfi
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Architects’ Profiles Careers begun in the 1970s and 1980s by Ibolya Váriné Szilágyi Váriné Szilágyi Ibolya: Építészprofilok Akik a ’70-es, ’80-as években indultak
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-A nemzeti és etnikai kisebbségi jogok forrásai (szerk. Balázs Katalin és Ódor Bálint)
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Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town by Rogers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt, Jon Fox, and Liana Grancea
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