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Setting Limits to Europhobia?: Recent Developments in Swiss Euroscepticism

Setting Limits to Europhobia?: Recent Developments in Swiss Euroscepticism

Author(s): Clive H. Church / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Not so long ago Switzerland could be ignored as far as Euroscepticism is concerned. Indeed, it sometimes still is, partly because its non membership of the European Union means that it does not appear automatically in easily available statistics or assessments of ‘Europe’, as the European Union (EU) is too often described. Yet it is actually of real significance. This is both because of what it tells us about the nature of Euroscepticism and because of the increasing strength of the Swiss anti-European movement (Church, 2003, Church, 2004).

The Architecture of Revival

The Architecture of Revival

Author(s): Maciej Gdula / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

The Translational Turn in Modernism Studies

The Translational Turn in Modernism Studies

Author(s): Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: modernism; literary translation; cultural turn; translational turn; comparative literature

The recent historiographic and methodological developments show that modernismstudies has undergone all the stages necessary to diagnose a “translational turn” ina given discipline: the expansion of the thematic field of research to encompass the historyand poetics of literary translation, the increasing metaphorisation of the notion of translationin the narratives on intercultural expansion, transmission and transformation of art,and, finally, the methodological refinement (“conceptual leap”) in the course of which thecategory of translation acquired an epistemological value and transdisciplinary application.Abstract: The recent historiographic and methodological developments show that modernism studies has undergone all the stages necessary to diagnose a “translational turn” in a given discipline: the expansion of the thematic field of research to encompass the history and poetics of literary translation, the increasing metaphorisation of the notion of translation in the narratives on intercultural expansion, transmission and transformation of art, and, finally, the methodological refinement (“conceptual leap”) in the course of which the category of translation acquired an epistemological value and transdisciplinary application.

Translating Translation – Thoughts on “Lost in Translation” by Eva Hoffman

Translating Translation – Thoughts on “Lost in Translation” by Eva Hoffman

Author(s): Anna Szczepan-Wojnarska / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: translation; identity; transcultural; communication; multicultural society

This article presents various aspects of identity of the alien person in the perspective of language and culture as evidenced in “Lost in Translation” by Eva Hoffman. In her autobiographical prose Hoffman tries to articulate what she is struggling with, what is lost in translation and this central metaphor of self-translation determines the relationship between Hoffman’s Polish and Anglophone selves presented as an inner dialogue, at the same time lacking the language for Jewish identity. It is argued that the Hoffman’s book reflects not on translation from one language to another, but on the process of “translating” as an attitude to life or even way of life. Transcultural context of contemporary world emphasises an importance of translating as a necessary tool in search for meaning and its understanding and therefore – for communication.

A Right to Be Free from Religious Hatred?

A Right to Be Free from Religious Hatred?

Author(s): Jeroen Temperman / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Wilders case;hate speech;

Paradise Does Not Smell of Jam of Flowers

Paradise Does Not Smell of Jam of Flowers

Author(s): Mony Almalech / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Word-associations; symbol; Symbolism; Balkan;

The War that was Supposed to End all Wars: Peace in The European Science Between 1918 and 1945

Rat koji je trebalo da okonča sve ratove - mir evropskoj nauci između 1918. i 1939. godine

Author(s): Goran Tepšić,Nemanja Džuverović / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: First World War; peace science; The Hague Conferences; peace education; international relations; pacifism; Einstein and Freud

This essay is a review of the most important European peace science initiatives in the period between the two world wars, including their precursors from the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. In the first part, the authors give an analysis of peace proposals suggested by the prominent pacifists, scientists and politicians of that time, who were deeply influenced by their experiences of the First World War. This section covers the analysis of international (peace education and the science of international relations) and national peace science projects, including both the First World War victorious (United Kingdom, France, etc.) and defeated powers (Austria and Germany). In the second and final part, authors come to the conclusions about correlations of the First World War and development of the peace science, about purposefulness of the respective interwar peace initiatives, and also offer an explanation regarding the alleged failure of those initiatives to prevent the Second World War.

Adjoined in Translation ": Intangible Cultural Heritage in Translating and Implementation of European Policies in Lifelong Education in the Republic of Serbia

"Pridodato u prevodu": nematerijalno kulturno nasleđe u prevođenju i primeni evropskih politikâ doživotnog obrazovanja u Republici Srbiji

Author(s): Ljubica Milosavljević,Miloš Milenković / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

Polazeći od noseće pretpostavke istraživačkog programa antropologije javnih i praktičnih politika, prema kojoj zakoni, strategije, vizije i planovi nisu "čisti" pravno-politički akti proceduralnog karaktera, već da "kriju" neke specifične, izabrane ili neintencionalne, antropologiji tradicionalno zanimljive institucionalne izbore iz obilja nematerijalnog kulturnog nasleđa (poput preskripcije identiteta ili standarda normalnosti), iznosimo preliminarne rezultate istraživanja primene evropskih politika doživotnog obrazovanja u Republici Srbiji. Preliminarna analiza "prevođenja" odnosno specifične glokalne kontekstualizacije, recepcije i instrumentalizacije pomenutih politikâ pokazuje da je na snazi praksa prenošenja, pravne i proceduralne transplantacije bez prilagođavanja kontekstu u kojem politikâ treba da bude primenjena. U slučaju neprilagođene politike doživotnog obrazovanja, izostanak prilagođavanja neophodnog da lokalna verzija a) odgovara međunarodno usaglašenim ciljevima i da istovremeno b) zaživi u praksi, objašnjava se na primerima diskrepancije lokalnih pojmova radnog vremena, neformalnog obrazovanja, "odgovarajućeg" životnog doba za obrazovanje s jedne, i pojmova originalno ugrađenih u tu politiku, s druge strane.

"What good is the right to vote, if it is lost in the country where you vote for?"British Women and the World of the Work, 1914-1918

„Mit ér a szavazati jog, ha elvész az ország ahol szavazhatunk?” A brit nők és a munka világa, 1914-1918

Author(s): Anita M. Madarász / Language(s): Hungarian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: NUWSS; WSPU; Home Front; DORA; manpower shortage; compulsory military service; wartime woman worker; job opportunities for women; economic hardship; electoral inequality;

From the beginning of the call for the first petition in 1866 until 1914 the lesser or greater groups were unable presenting considerable results. The government regarded the potential consequences – sometimes mentioned extremely ridiculous exceptions - and the members declined the suffrage for women until 1918. The breaking out of the First World War (or Great War) and the events of the four years following it contributed the fact that changing in the women’s social role and their political role should occur: the roles were changed, there was a need for the women and their work. It was necessary to say thanks to them for their vague work made in the course of four years and their voluntary willingnesses to make sacrifice somehow. So, the government granted the franchise, the opportunity that the women should be allowed to interfere in the establishment of the country’s politics among other things.

Theatres of war - battles and historiography: Ottoman historians on the participation of the Dragoman reaya in the war between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire (1683-1699)

Театри на войната - сражения и историография: османски историци за участието на раята на Драгоман във войната между свещената лига и османската империя (1683-1699)

Author(s): Dzheni Ivanova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Ottoman empire; Ottoman empire wars; warfare; religious wars; seventeenth century; History; Balkan history

The study is based upon the representative ottoman historical narratives - the histories of Silahdar Mehmed Aga and Defterdar Mehmed Pasha - in search of typology of social behaviour of the Christian inhabitants of the Ottoman Balkan provinces during the war between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire in the end of the 17th century . The Ottoman authors whose reports will be analyzed are part of the historiographic direction that presents the military and political events in the Ottoman Empire during the second half of the 17th century. At the same time the chroniclers involve information about the life in the provinces, as a reflection of the war upon the reaya, and its reactions. The purpose of this report is to present the Ottoman viewpoint in the light of Ottoman historiography, as concrete events, happened in the Ottoman rear during the successful advance of the Habsburg forces. From the presented examples, concerning in particular the reaya of Dragoman, will be outlined some conclusions, characterizing the behaviour of part of the non-Muslim population in the context of the specific political situation.

State of Social Investment: The Possibility of Creating a New Europe?

Država socijalnog investiranja: mogućnosti stvaranja nove Evrope?

Author(s): Branko Bošković / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

General Standards and Competences for Education of Social Workers in Serbia

General Standards and Competences for Education of Social Workers in Serbia

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Alternatives to Representative Democracy: Parallelization of Systemic Paradigm Through Heterotopias

Alternative predstavničkoj demokratiji: paralelizacija sustavne paradigme skroz heterotopije

Author(s): Cirila Toplak / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: representative democracy; heterotopia; Vevčani; Initiative for Citywide Assembly; the Old Believer

Liberal representative democracy is considered the least bad and therefore the only acceptable political system in contemporary global social conditions. However, any discourse that denies alternatives is essentially a conservative discourse, while extraordinary demographic, economic and technological developments of modernity require innovations and progress in the field of political where institutions and systemic solutions of 200 years ago still prevail. As it appears rather obvious that the concepts and practices of representative democracy have been largely hollowed out and compromised in the context of transformed and rapidly transforming social conditions, alternatives to representative democracy also need be considered although this system is a rather recent systemic experiment for the Western Balkan societies. Numerous contemporary representative systems and especially those recently introduced, are actually more or less authoritative oligarchies representing a stage of transition to a „true“ democratic society. On the other hand, consolidated representative democracies also tend to turn into oligarchies, deemed the most suitable political framework to the (global) rule of capital. In other words, some societies have not yet developed a functional representative democratic system and are oligarchies for now, while other societies have gone past the peak of optimal functioning of the representative system and are being perverted into oligarchies according to Michels’s „iron law of oligarchy“. Since the dilemma around more or less or better or worse representative democracy would keep the academic discussion inside narrow ideological confines, and since it appears idealistic to work toward systemic reforms or wait for a (violent) revolution, this paper will seek for a path to a harmonious so ciety of optimal prosperity through analysis of heterotopias or „other (political) spaces“ where, according to Michel Foucault, alternative institutions and social relations are being formed and life is conceived under non-hegemonic conditions.

Between Suicide Bombings and the Burning Banlieues: The Multiple Crises of Europe’s Parallel Societies

Between Suicide Bombings and the Burning Banlieues: The Multiple Crises of Europe’s Parallel Societies

Author(s): François Heisbourg ,Amel Boubekeur,Samir Amghar,Rob de Wijk,Alexei Malashenko / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: parallel scoieties; terrorism;

Chairman’s Summing-up (by François Heisbourg) | The Role of Islam in Europe: Multiple crises? (by Amel Boubekeur and Samir Amghar) | The Multiple Crises in Dutch Parallel Societies (by Rob de Wijk) | Islam in Russia in 2020 (by Alexey Malashenko)

Mini War on the Top of the World - Conflict in Kargil in 1999

Miniháború a világ tetején- az 1999. évi kargili konfliktus

Author(s): Béla Háda / Language(s): Hungarian / Publication Year: 0

A “Constitutional” Coup in Hungary between 2010–2014

A “Constitutional” Coup in Hungary between 2010–2014

Author(s): Imre Vörös / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Constitution; 1989 Hungary;Fundamental Law;Fidesz;Orbán’s government;

The Fundamental Law, drafted in 2011 and instituted on 1 January 2012, was amended no less than five times over a year and a half.Hungary’s sitting prime minister since 2010 had formulated his intent to stay in power for an extended period of time in his state-of-the-nation speech delivered in Kötcse, as early as 9 September 2009. As well, he expounded the necessity of building a system of political institutions that could guarantee the realization of this plan, practically by establishing a one-party state. His idea of a “central field of power,” especially if designed for the long term, was neither reconcilable with democracy, nor with a multiparty system, let alone with the electoral law which was in force until 2010.

From Local Cliques to Mafia State

From Local Cliques to Mafia State

Author(s): Dávid Jancsics / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: corruption;Network culture;Brokers;institutionalized crime;Orbán family;

Network culture and related informal institutions are widespread phenomena in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The network character suggests that not only two but many interconnected actors participate in informal exchanges and circulate different forms of resources through this widespread social infrastructure. Under the communist shortage economy,informal networks were important survival tools for everyday citizens to“get things done.” The relationship structure of family members, friends,acquaintances, ex-classmates, colleagues, and neighbors provided effective channels to obtain different forms of resources, from travel vouchers through home phones and cars to university admissions. Of course, these types of informal networks existed and still exist all around the world but in communist CEE countries they were more widespread compared to their Western counterparts.

Experimental methods at the structural social psychology and group processes

Metody eksperymentalne w strukturalnej psychologii społecznej i procesach grupowych

Author(s): Jane Sell,Murray Webster, Jr. / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Crisis in the Euro Area: Co-opetitive Game Solutions as New Policy Tools

Crisis in the Euro Area: Co-opetitive Game Solutions as New Policy Tools

Author(s): David CARFI,Daniele Schiliro / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: European Monetary Union; co-opetitive games; macroeconomic policy; bargaining solutions

The crisis within the euro area has become frequent during 2010. First, it was the Greek economy that faced a default problem of its sovereign debt; in November, it was Ireland that has been in a serious financial situation at the verge of collapse causing difficulties to the euro. In this contribution, we focus on the Greek crisis and we suggest, through a model of co-opetition based on game theory and conceived at a macro level, feasible solutions in a cooperative perspective for the divergent interests which drive the economic policies in Germany and Greece, with the aim of improving the position of Greece, Germany and the whole euro area, also making a contribution to expand the set of macroeconomic policy tools. By means of our general analytical framework of co￾opetition, we show the strategies that could generate feasible solutions in a cooperative perspective for Germany and Greece, where these feasible solutions aim at offering a win-win outcome for both countries, letting them share the pie fairly within a growth path represented by a non-zero sum game.A remarkable analytical result of our work consists in the determination of the win-win solution by a new selection method on the transferable utility Pareto boundary of the co-opetitive game.

Stuck in the Aegean: Syrians leaving Turkey face European barriers

Stuck in the Aegean: Syrians leaving Turkey face European barriers

Author(s): Deniz Genç,Aslı Şirin ÖNER / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Aegean; Syrians; Turkey; European

In its fifth year, the civil war in Syria has opened Pandora’s Box. In addition to various negative things such as ISIL and its terrorist attacks indifferent parts of the world, the war has triggered a global refugee crisis.Before the war, the population of Syria was 22 million. As the war continues with no end in sight, millions of Syrians have scattered throughout the region.According to the UNHCR (2015a), almost 5 million Syrians are now registered in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Among these countries, Turkey is reported to host the largest number of Syrian asylum seekers.