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An interview between Dr. Anatoli Kanev and the historician - Prof. Milko Palangurski.
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An interview between Dr. Anatoli Kanev and the historician - Prof. Milko Palangurski.
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This special issue focuses on territorial embeddedness and growth prospects for the fast-growing Business Services Sector (BSS) in Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies. In this editorial, we introduce the topic of the special issue and outline the dimensions of territorial embeddedness of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the sector in question, taking into account the risk of relocation and the linkages between investors and local contractors. With regard to development perspectives, we draw on theory and empirical research in the field of industrial upgrading. The contributions to this special issue include six selected articles that deal with the territorial embeddedness of the business services sector in CEE, the role of human capital, the increasing complexity of services provided by this sector, office location factors, labour costs in the region, as well as the prospects of integrating the neighbouring Ukrainian economy into global value chains.
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The Prescriptum entitled Polonistyka nie tyko po polsku [Polish Studies not only in Polish] explains the origin of the multilingual issue of “Postscriptum Polonistyczne” that crowns the 30th anniversary of the periodical as an international publication. It was thirty years ago, in fact, that the journal, back then still a newsletter of the School of Polish Language and Culture at the University of Silesia, featured the first article by a foreign Polish studies scholar, Halina Klimsza from the Czech Republic. This text provides a very brief historical account of how the periodical became internationalised, describing the stages of its development that led to the transformation from a newsletter to a “journal of Polish and foreign Polish studies scholars”, and reporting on the editors’ most recent decisions to accept papers for publication also in the English language. The Prescriptum explains the motivation for creating this issue as a collection of Polish studies texts in the native/first languages of the foreign Polish studies scholars who wrote them. We wanted and still want to make sure that knowledge about interesting phenomena and research from Poland and in the field of Polish studies can reach all those who are curious about the world and who would otherwise not be able to obtain such information in their respective countries due to the language barrier. Moreover, we keep in mind young members of the Polish diaspora, who do not always understand the language of their ancestors.
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The current issue of Religious-Philosophical Articles is devoted to the analysis of values of Latvian society from a comparative perspective. Given the multidimensional nature of the concept of ‘values’, the description, analysis and classification of values have at all times given rise to debates, controversies and even conflict. Identification of the many facets of the concept of values (as noted by Maija Kūle, professor at the University of Latvia) requires suitable competency within a broad spectrum of cultural history and knowledge of the humanities as well as dialogue in the social sphere and sensus communis. There is an understanding among philosophers that values have an ontological existence and are not evaluationdependent and can neither be destroyed nor abolished, although education and media can influence value orientation (Kūle 2016).
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The current issue of Religious-Philosophical Articles is devoted to the analysis of values of Latvian society from a comparative perspective. Given the multidimensional nature of the concept of ‘values’, the description, analysis and classification of values have at all times given rise to debates, controversies and even conflict. Identification of the many facets of the concept of values (as noted by Maija Kūle, professor at the University of Latvia) requires suitable competency within a broad spectrum of cultural history and knowledge of the humanities as well as dialogue in the social sphere and sensus communis. There is an understanding among philosophers that values have an ontological existence and are not evaluation dependent and can neither be destroyed nor abolished, although education and media can influence value orientation (Kūle 2016).
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This year, the journal "Soudobé dějiny / CJCH" celebrates thirty years of its foundation. On this occasion, we reached out to selected foreign historians with a brief survey. Its purpose is to bring together diverse reflections on the current state of and trends in contemporary history in the Czech Republic. In the current issue, we offer the second set of responses to the following questions: 1. How do you think Czech contemporary history, as a discipline, is doing? How do you perceive the development of Czech contemporary history from the end of the communist regime to today? In your opinion, which topics and research perspectives remain “blind spots” for Czech and foreign historians? Which topics do not resonate much in the research on Czech and Czechoslovak contemporary history, for historians either in the Czech Republic or abroad? 2. What do you think about the current debates and disputes on the Czechoslovak communist past? Do you think they are productive, either in terms of the scholarly knowledge they produce or in terms of social self-reflection? How do you see the situation compared to the country where you live or regularly work (if applicable)? 3. Which research findings, publications or other results by Czech historians have recently delighted, disappointed or outraged you?
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This book forum discusses Ivan Kalmar’s pivotal book on the position of “Central Europe” in the racialized hierarchies of “West”/“Europe” and their not-quite-white Others. The authors debate the main contributions and potential blind spots of the book and its key concepts. The concepts of racism and whiteness answer the not-so-new question on Central Europe and Europ’s “East” anew: How come that the populations of and in this diverse region happen to repeatedly find themselves in the very same marginal position in European historical orders? This question has very contemporary manifestations; Europe’s persistent East-West socioeconomic and socio-cultural hierarchies, among others, co-produce the local populations’ marginalized or marginalizing positioning vis-à-vis each other and the rest of Europe or the world. In this honest discussion, the authors chart new intellectual pathways for utilizing racism and whiteness to help us better understand this question and its many manifestations from within and outside the region.
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