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This year-in-review ebook analyzes the key events and trends that shaped 2011 in Turkey, Romania, Greece, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and Montenegro, and also includes chapters on general EU-Balkan developments and movement in the regional energy sector during 2011.
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This fascinatingly varied collection of interviews with persons ranging from World War II Partisan veterans and CIA agents to European diplomats, businessmen and Balkan officials captures important moments in the region's modern history. It provides an invaluable glimpse into the local realities of the region as well as some unique experiences and commentary from people who have affected the history and events of the region, in often unexpected ways.
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Collected together into one comprehensive book, this compendium of field accounts, iterviews, situation reports and analyses chronicles the major political events in and involving Macedonia between 2009-2014. For anyone interested in the country, and in its subsequent political crisis, The Macedonian Mosaic provides valuable context, insight and historical data from a dedicated and ong-term investigative perspective.
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This collection of essays constitutes a mosaic. Romans were fond of mosaics, for instance, at the entrance of their houses. The numerous little tiles could make up a skeleton, for instance, but that did not imply that one should ”flee this place for this is the dwelling place of Death”, but rather that ”Death, you do not belong here”. Let us attempt to read this book in this spirit.
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The Digital sources of information in their traditional meaning – radios, televisions, press and new medias (online platforms, websites, digital blogs etc.) in the spatial trajectory of internet, receive a total comprehensiveness and phenomenal effective power at present days. They influence on people’s understanding and behavior, people’s socialization and emotions, their needs and interests. Work on fundamental changes in all social spheres, institutions, communities and organizational structures, in relations within and between them. At the same time digital sources of information reorganize the existing communication spaces, „revolutionize” long-lived models of culture and practices, advantaging the foundation of new socio-cultural conceptions. They cause modern professions and spheres, cross-media realities. This collective monograph is dedicated to topical subject. It includes academicians from three continents with a significant presence of their respective countries – Asia, Africa and Europe. From Bulgaria participate well-known scientist, as well as young researchers from four universities: Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, The University of National and World economy, New Bulgarian University, South West University “Nеeofit Rilski” and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Practically all the dimensions and fundamental reflexion of digital sources of information are presented starting from the changes of interpersonal, group and mass communication, through changes of labour, culture, education, politics, health and the emergence of a new sections and professional options/choices. These issues are especially innovative, because in everyday activities individuals are placed under conditions of coherence with others that is achieved with the mediation of digital sources, developing permanently and comprehensively. Every current events in the group of professional community and organization is easy, when it is stimulated from the new media. However, at the same time digitization require knowledge and use of different searching tools, finding and extracting information, as well as its interpretation and foundation of a new meaning. People become founders of a new meaning and this as a matter of a principle is the unique and the creative that change human form into active social subject. Hopefully this collective monograph to be not only scientific reflexion of the postmodern transformation, but also a useful reading mater for students of all educational levels, as well as young researchers.
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The publication of the present Festschrift volume was suggested and initiated by the Department of Bulgarian Literature and Theory of Literature, School of Letters at Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski. It is dedicated to the seventieth anniversary of assoc. prof. Atanas Buchkov, long-term head of the department. This volume includes papers of literary scholars in various areas from Bulgarian and foreign academic centres – Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, The Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, The South-West University Neofit Rilski in Blagoevgrad, Queen Mary University London, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Tver State University Russia. The papers are published in honour of the literary scholar and teacher who merits a place amidst the most prominent representatives of Plovdiv philological community, a person of incontestable contributive influence and renoun in nurturing and solidifying the philological and humanitarian education at Plovdiv University. This Festschrift unites scientific researches devoted to issues representative of prof. Atanas Buchkov’s scholarly interests – the theoretical heritage of M. M. Bakhtin; the dialogic principle of/in literature and culture; author and his aesthetic and social roles; methodology of literary theory and of the humanities; the possibilities, premises, and routes of interpretation.
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The Polish Institute of International Affairs, in cooperation with the Indian Council of World Affairs, held the third bilateral seminar entitled India and Poland: Vistas for Future Partnership, on May 17, 2012. The event gathered around 50 diplomats, officials, analysts and academics from both countries, including Poland’s Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Jerzy Pomianowski, and the Indian Ambassador to Poland, Ms. Monika Kapil Mohta. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss perspectives on strengthening bilateral cooperation between Poland and India. The conference addressed the following three crucial issues: prospects for a “strategic partnership”, defence and economic cooperation, and perceptions and policies regarding major regional and global challenges.
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An instructive introduction to the theory of evolution and its applications in biology, physics, chemistry, geology and humanities. The author shows that evolution is a physical process, occurring in geological time dimension, describes how the Darwin’s theory of natural selection works in immunology, neurobiology, sociology as well as in certain aspects of culture and political institutions. He also shows the effects achieved through the action of selection in different areas of biological and social life. He discusses such problems as: the ambiguity of the term “theory of evolution”, the falsifiability of evolutionary hypotheses, connection between evolution and thermodynamics, the concept of reductionism, methodological background of phylogenetics, cladistics, evolutionary developmental biology and homeotic genes, as well as the cumulative nature of social and cultural evolution.
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The second volume of Andrzej Gronczewski’s essays (the first one, Time’s Palms, was published by WUW in 2019) is characterized by a very personal, innovative and modern look at literature and its contexts: arts, music, history, social life and nature, which is given much thought by the author. Andrzej Gronczewski problematizes the works of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, whose Diaries are a key culture text for Dark Paths and Bright Glades.
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Published in 1937 by Querido-Verlag (Amsterdam) the author offers an essay about the situation of Modern Civilization facing the results of sociographic, technical, intellectual, cultural and political development since the industrial revolution. // Konrad Heiden (born August 7, 1901 in Munich, † June 18, 1966 in New York City) was a German-American journalist and political writer who wrote Hitler's first substantial biography in 1936. // The social democratic journalist has been writing about the political scene in Munich since the early 1920s and thus became one of the earliest observers and a staunch opponent of the Nazi movement and Adolf Hitler. After Hitler came to power, Heiden fled to the USA via several stations and obtained American citizenship in the 1950s. Heiden dealt primarily with the ideology and character of National Socialism. // After his death, Heiden and his writings were quickly forgotten. Since 2007, however, his works on Hitler and National Socialism have been reprinted or re-edited in German for the first time.
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Today’s youth are challenging the older political class around the world and are forming new political generations. Examples from South Africa and elsewhere where peace processes were deemed to be successful show signs of youth disapproval of the current post-conflict conditions. Moreover, the Arab Spring witnessed numerous youth movements emerge in authoritarian and illiberal contexts. This book was prepared in light of these discussions and aims to contribute to these ongoing debates on youth politics by presenting the situation of youth in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) as a case study. It will be the first book that specifically focuses on the Iraqi Kurdish youth and their political, social, and economic participation in Kurdistan. The contemporary history of the KRI is marked by conflict, war, and ethnic cleansing under Saddam Hussein and the tyranny of the Ba’ath regime, significantly affecting the political situation of the Kurds in the Middle East. Most of the recent academic literature has focused on the broader picture or, in other words, the macro politics of the Kurdish conundrum within Iraq and beyond. There is little scholarship about the Kurdish population and their socio-economic conditions after 2003, and almost none about the younger generation of Kurds who came of age during autonomous Kurdish rule. This is a generation that, unlike their forebears, has no direct memory of the decades-long campaigns of repression. Studying and examining the rise of this generation of Kurdish young millennials—“Generation 2000”—who came of age in the aftermath of the United States invasion of Iraq offers a unique approach to understand the dynamics in a region that underwent a substantial socio-political transformation after 2003 as well as the impact of these developments on the youth population. Pursuing different themes and lines of inquiry the contributors of the book analyze the challenges and opportunities for young men and women to fulfil their needs and desires, and contribute to the ongoing quest for nationhood and nation-building.
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The purpose of this edited book is to look at work and migration from multiple viewpoints and illuminate challenges faced by immigrants in the labour markets around the world. It takes an approach that listens to the voices of different migrant groups in different countries, based mostly on qualitative research. In addition to the main themes of discussion centred on labour markets, this book also makes reference to a wide range of discussion topics which often intersect with employment, labour markets and the work experience of migrants. These include themes such as migrant integration, remittance transfers, relations established and maintained with home countries, legal and institutional arrangements and policy making processes in the host countries, through the concepts of employment and work. The chapters highlight immigrants’ experiences both theoretically and empirically in the contributions around the world. “This book, which includes the experiences of specific groups like qualified, unskilled, and female migrants, makes reference to a wide range of discussion topics such as migrant integration, remittance transfers, relations established and maintained with home countries, legal and institutional arrangements and policy making processes in the host countries, through the concepts of employment and work.”
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The series ,,Romanian Rural Tourism in International Context. Present and Prospects" explore some of the main concerns of both theorists and practitioners on the following topics: rural tourism, agritourism, ecotourism, tourism in the context of sustainable development at national, regional, and global level, traditionalism vs modernism in tourism, national and regional strategies for rural tourism development and marketing, e-tourism, etc. The series of ,,Romanian Rural Tourism in International Context. Present and Prospects" traditionally approaches the tourism phenomenon from a multidisciplinary perspective: economics, anthropology, ethnography, low, etc.
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In his foreword to World Report on Violence and Health, published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2002, Nelson Mandela states that “the twentieth century will be remembered as a century marked by violence”. Now we are nearly at the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, but violence still permeates in our lives at various levels. Various forms of violence occurring at levels of interpersonal, self-directed, collective, state, warfare, child and youth violence, intimate partner violence, environmental violence, and animal violence lay bare the complexity and pervasiveness of the phenomenon, yet it also brings along the necessity to discuss violence from multiple perspectives. Nelson Mandela Dünya Sağlık Örgütü’nün 2002 yılında yayınladığı Şiddet ve Sağlık Hakkında Dünya Raporu’nun önsözünde “yirminci yüzyılın şiddetle mimlenen bir yüzyıl olarak hatırlanacağını” söyler. Bizler, neredeyse yirmi birinci yüzyılın ilk çeyreğinin sonlarını yaşamaktayız, ancak şiddet hayatımıza hala çeşitli düzeylerde nüfuz ediyor. Kişilerarası, öze yöneltilen, kolektif, devlet, savaş, çocuk ve genç şiddeti, yakın eş şiddeti, çevresel şiddet ve hayvan şiddeti gibi çeşitli düzlemlerde vuku bulan şiddet biçimleri olgunun karmaşıklığını ve yaygınlığını açıkça ortaya koymakla beraber şiddet kavramının farklı açılardan tartışılması gerekliliğini de ortaya koymaktadır
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A small thing: four oikological essays, preceded by an introductory word, on our entanglement in the “home-world.” If we were to take the title as the question, “Where does the home meet the world?”, the answer would be: “In the points that require our attentiveness of life.” Attentiveness requires discipline and precision, and it is not only about precision in actions and observations, but about our being at home and in the world, in the changing rhythms of being rooted and wandering. Being mindful guides us towards a place, and concern extends over time to finally lead us home. Home is a peculiar time(lessness); it is a dynamically understood and open place that allows us to direct our desire to what is distant, inconceivable, and unimaginable. When we say ‘home,’ we do not mean a familiar and closed stronghold but a home rooted in the idea of the cosmos. It corresponds also to the idea of Heimat. The four points of contact between home and the world are found through (1) the humanities, (2) man, (3) friendship with the place, and (4) the university. The four oikological essays look into the entanglements, overlaps, but also the truest lack of the indeterminate at the boundary of home, around the threshold that symbolically not only testifies to the boundary in rituals, but delineates the space of attentiveness. At these points where home meets the world, our entanglement in the "home-world" is brought out.
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This book makes a major contribution to educational research and literature in exploring process of educational reform in the period of Political transition in Palestine. It is aimed at describing the journey of changing Palestinian primary education and the legacy of establishing the first national education system in Palestine as well as the introduction of a number of educational reforms. The introduction of new educational reforms was urgently needed in order to achieve quality education in Palestinian schools. This was particularly crucial after the prolonged military occupation, which left the education system in a perilous situation and lowered education achievements for a whole generation. The book explores an attempt to retrieve Palestinian education after a prolonged period of military occupation and to rescue the education system from collapsing. It tells the story of reshaping national identity and reviving Palestinian heritage and culture.Therefore, this book is the first one of its kind that captures the story of education reform against a background of struggle that should not be forgotten. It documents a unique period of time in Palestinian history and highlights the beginning of an education system in Palestinians’ hands. Moreover, this book presents real life stories from Palestinian schools and shows the real struggle over power and control in the education system in Palestine.
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Turkish science fiction dates back to the early years of the twentieth century and serious development has been seen ever since. The writers, who escaped from the darkness of the First World War and took refuge in utopian science fiction, added the excitement created by science and technology to their texts over time. Turkish writers, who followed the science fiction works from the West and made efforts for the development of this genre, produced very qualified works that could compete with their contemporaries at some points. However, due to some historical, social, and economic problems, it was not possible for these works to meet readers in the West. In this anthology, the works of Turkish science fiction writers are brought together for the first time in English. Contemporary science fiction writers have written short stories for this anthology. Hence, the resulting diversity of stories represents a contribution to science fiction literature. An important feature of the anthology is that it includes examples showing how science and technology are perceived philosophically by authors outside of Europe and America. Since literature is an indispensable resource to investigate the equivalent of science fiction, which was born with modernism, in “post-modern” societies. This anthology of Turkish science fiction will be an important Non-Western SF source for both science fiction readers and researchers.
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Embark on an enlightening journey through the vast expanse of space law and policy with "Space Environment and International Politics". Authored by experts in the field, this comprehensive volume explores the intricacies of international space law, from the development of legal frameworks to the challenges posed by space debris and the regulation of space activities. Delving into the space policies of international organizations such as the United Nations, NATO, and the European Space Agency, the book offers invaluable insights into efforts to ensure outer space security and foster sustainable space politics. Examining key issues surrounding space security and warfare, including cyber security threats and the militarization of space, the authors provide a nuanced understanding of the evolving geopolitical dynamics. With its meticulous research, insightful analysis, and balanced discussions, this book is an indispensable resource for policymakers, scholars, and practitioners navigating the complex terrain of international space law and politics. Whether you're a seasoned professional or an aspiring student, "Space Environment and International Politics" offers a captivating glimpse into the legal, political, and technological dimensions of politics beyond Earth.
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The Arctic is a harsh geography that has historically been misconceived as a large ice mass, ignoring the complex strategic salience of the region. Its cold waters and frozen lands have attracted the attention of people for many years and have been the centre of discoveries and adventures. Today, however, the strategic importance of the Arctic has gone beyond discoveries and adventures. Factors, such as environmental erosion, climate change, and national or regional security complicate geopolitical dynamics in the region.This book begins by delving into the issues that have led Arctic countries to reorient their foreign policies. The geopolitical structure of the Arctic, the expansion of NATO, the emergence of new energy reserves, and the impact of climate change on the Arctic are some of the factors directly affecting the region. Then, within the framework of these influences, the policies of the eight Arctic countries are re-assessed from the perspective of international relations.This volume not only emphasises the geopolitical and strategic importance of the Arctic region, but also discusses conflicts of interest, international cooperation efforts, and possible future scenarios. The Arctic is not just a geography, but also an important part of global politics and security. This book is a guide to understanding the complex and dynamic nature of the Arctic region.
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