Jean Buttigieg demonstrates the necessity to make it a legal principle of international law that the human genome is a common heritage of mankind.
This book places Czechoslovakia on the map of Cold War history, blending historical analysis of the superpowers' foreign policies with an assessment of their impact on Czechoslovakia and its position within the Soviet bloc.
A central contention of this book is that to judge the place of ideas within Beckett's art, we should ignore questions of their theoretical persuasiveness and consider their role as purely aesthetic devices, the value of which is revealed ...
Die ,,Französische Sprachgeschichte" ist aus Vorlesungen und Seminaren hervorgegangen, die Prof. Johannes Klare seit 1957 am Romanischen Institut der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin gehalten hat.
Belarus and Ukraine received proposals of integration from both the EU and Russia. Alla Leukavets analyzes how the simultaneity of European and Eurasian integration challenged the two countries to make a major strategic choice.
The ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume argue that global paradigms of world literature, often referencing the major metropolitan centres of cultural and literary production, do not always accommodate voices from the margins and ...
By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls "the international literary space," their power does not operate ...
This timely book provides a detailed analysis of Russia's national interests in the Arctic region.
Western academics, experts, and journalists specializing in Eastern Europe and Eurasia have grappled with two fundamental analytical crises in connection with the 1991 disintegration of the USSR and Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine.
This book includes studies of music and politics in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, including the sounds of Euromaidan, parodies of the Russian national anthem, the Eurovision contest as a geopolitical battleground, and the ...
The book reveals the ways in which cooperation with Europarties has paradoxically contributed to the ossification of the status quo and impaired the development as well as the consolidation of democracy in the three Eastern Partnership ...
This collection of essays explores malign Russian influence operations that aimed to advance Moscow's strategic and tactical objectives in European countries as well as particular African states.
Both academics and practitioners have kept up a continuing interest in advancing their understanding of organizations. This is the first of two volumes dedicated to the state of the art of theories and practices of organizations.
Against this backdrop, the book's three sections investigate (a) the emergence and development of Eurasianism as a form of (post-)imperial ideology, (b) the crucial role Ukraine has historically played for the Russians' self-understanding, ...
This timely volume is a great resource for anyone interested in contemporary mass culture.
What useful insights can an advertiser learn from a taxi driver? Alexey Ivanov, one of the best advertisers and copywriters in Russia, gives convincing answers to these questions and more.
Raymond C. Barfield discusses conditions that would be necessary if the universe is meaningful as a whole, and then develops a theory of philosophical imagination in light of that starting place.
Behind the curtain, the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church looms large. Lincoln E. Flake explains the church's hostility to nontraditional groups as a consequence of historical-structural and immediate strategic factors.
Juxtaposing the Ukrainian government's official representation of the OUN's leaders with international scholarly research, Rudling illuminates the deliberate blind spots of Ukraine's new national memory.
This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen.