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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and
Book Synopsis"Featuring a special section on Russian Foreign Policy Towards the 'Near Abroad' Issue 4,2 deals with Russias post-Maidan foreign policy towards the so-called near abroad, or the former Soviet states. This is an important and timely topic, as Russias policy perspectives have changed dramatically since 2013/2014, as have those of its neighbors. The Kremlin today is paradoxically following an aggressive realist agenda that seeks to clearly delineate its sphere of influence in Europe and Eurasia while simultaneously attempting to promote soft-power and a historical-civilizational justification for its recent actions in Ukraine (and elsewhere). The result is an often perplexing amalgam of policy positions that are difficult to disentangle. The contributors to this special issue are all regional specialists based either in Europe or the United States. "
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Age of Fear – The Cold War and Its Influence on
Book SynopsisCzechoslovakia played an important role within the Soviet bloc, yet its history remains under-researched. This monograph blends historical analysis of the superpowers foreign policies with an assessment of their impact on Czechoslovakia and its position within the Soviet bloc. The book thereby places Czechoslovakia on the map of Cold War history, i.e. the era of mutually assured destruction that lasted almost half a century. It provides a lucid introduction to some milestones in international Cold War history in their relation to Czecho-Slovak history. The books novel contribution is to explain Czechoslovakias domestic situation during the Cold War from the outside. Drawing on extensive source materials of Slovak, Czech, American, and Russian provenance, it provides a more comprehensive understanding of post-war Czecho-Slovak history while also contributing to general knowledge about the nature and impact of the Cold War.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and
Book SynopsisSpecial Sections: Remembering Diversity in East-Central European Cityscapes and Russias Annexation of Crimea I. Based on up-to-date field material, this issuefocuses onthe palimpsest-like environments of East-Central European borderland cities. The present shapes and contents of these urban environments derive from combinations of cultural continuities and political ruptures, present-day heritage industries and collective memories about the contentious past, expressive material forms and less conspicuous meaning-making activities of human actors; they evolve from perpetual tensions between the choices of the present and the weight of the past. The contributors address a set of key questions: What is specific about the transnationalization of memory in these urban public spaces? What are the political rationales and ramifications of the different approaches taken to the legacies of perished population groups in different cities? How do these approaches relate to European dimensions of memory and the European vector of identity-making of the contemporary urban populations?
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Journal of Soviet and Post–Soviet Politics and S
Book SynopsisRemembering Diversity in East-Central European Cityscapes. Based on up-to-date field material, this issue focuses on the palimpsest-like environments of East-Central European borderland cities. The present shapes and contents of these urban environments derive from combinations of cultural continuities and political ruptures, present-day heritage industries and collective memories about the contentious past, expressive material forms and less conspicuous meaning-making activities of human actors; they evolve from perpetual tensions between the choices of the present and the weight of the past. The contributors address a set of key questions: What is specific about the transnationalisation of memory in these urban public spaces? What are the political rationales and ramifications of the different approaches taken to the legacies of perished population groups in different cities? How do these approaches relate to European dimensions of memory and the "European vector" of identity-making of the contemporary urban populations?
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Journal of Soviet and Post–Soviet Politics and S
Book SynopsisSpecial Section: Multilingualism in Ukraine. Rory Finnin, Ivan Kozachenko: Introduction: Ukraines Multilingualism. Taras Koznarsky: The Languages and Tongues of Mykola Markevych. Myroslav Shkandrij: Channel Switching: Language Change and the Conversion Trope in Modern Ukrainian Literature. Laada Bilaniuk: Linguistic Conversion in Ukraine: Nation-Building on the Self. Vitaly Chernetsky: Ukrainian Cinema and the Challenges of Multilingualism: From the 1930s to the Present. Iryna Shuvalova: Multilingualism in the Songs of the War in Donbas. Olenka Bilash: Multilingualism in the Academy: Language Dynamics in Ukraines Higher Education Institutions. Alina Zubkovych: Language Use among Crimean Tatars in Ukraine: Context and Practice. Special Section: Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN III. Andreas Umland, Yuliya Yurchuk: Introduction: The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and European Fascism During World War II. Kai Struve: The OUN(b), the Germans, and Anti-Jewish Violence in Eastern Galicia during Summer 1941. Yuri Radchenko: The Biography of the OUN(m) Activist Oleksa Babii in the Light of His Memoirs on Escaping Execution (1942). Tomislav Dulić, Goran Miljan: The Ustaas and Fascism: Abolitionism, Revolution, and Ideology (192942).
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon From the Ukraine to Ukraine – A Contemporary
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this collection explore the multidimensional transformation of independent Ukraine and deal with her politics, society, private sector, identity, arts, religions, media, and democracy. Each chapter reflects the up-to-date research in its sub-discipline, is styled for use in seminars, and includes a bibliography as well as a recommended reading list. These studies illustrate the deep changes, yet, at the same time, staggering continuity in Ukraines post-Soviet development as well as various counter-reactions to it. All nine chapters are jointly written by two co-authors, one Ukrainian and one Western, who respond here to recent needs in international higher education. The volumes contributors include, apart from the editors: Margarita M. Balmaceda (Seton Hall University), Oksana Barshynova (Ukrainian National Arts Museum), Tymofii Brik (Kyiv School of Economics), José Casanova (Georgetown University), Diana Dutsyk (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), Marta Dyczok (University of Western Ontario), Hennadii Korzhov (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute), Serhiy Kudelia (Baylor University), Pavlo Kutuev (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute), Olena Martynyuk (Columbia University), Oksana Mikheieva (Ukrainian Catholic University), Tymofii Mylovanov (University of Pittsburgh), Andrian Prokip (Ukrainian Institute for the Future), Oxana Shevel (Tufts University), Ilona Sologoub (Kyiv School of Economics), Maksym Yenin (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute), and Yuliya Yurchenko (University of Greenwich).Trade Review"This is a superb overview of the most important issues facing today's Ukraine, and of the history that underlies them. It skillfully charts Ukraine's journey from a Soviet republic to a truly independent electoral democracy. More importantly, it explains the attitudesbehind the crucial question of Ukrainian identity, a complexand evolving set of issues that played a central role in Ukraine's rebellion against Russian domination and its rejection of ethnic nationalism in favor of multi-ethnic citizenship. This impressive volume reminds us of the difficult path that Ukraine continues to follow to meet the aspirations of its people, and of the true importance to all of us of Ukraine's future success in solidifying its sovereignty, democracy and independence. Eric S. Rubin, United States Ambassador to Bulgaria from 2016 to 2019
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Unikum The Worst Journey in the World
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V&R unipress GmbH Imperial Desert Dreams: Cotton Growing and
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V&R unipress GmbH Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte Osteuropas /
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V&R unipress GmbH The Last Heroes of Leningrad: Coping strategies
Book SynopsisThe Siege of Leningrad â the History of a Trauma
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V&R Unipress Kulturen der Differenz -- Transformationsprozesse
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Der Hygienische Imperativ: Gesundheitsversorgung
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Sandstein Verlag 1917. Revolution: Russland Und Die Folgen
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Gerlach Press Knowledge and Power in Muslim Societies:
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Limited Liability Company Elk and Ruby Publishing House The Lubyanka Gambit
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Limited Liability Company Elk and Ruby Publishing House Hero of the Pre-War Olympiads: Grandmaster
Book SynopsisOur short life together was fun, fascinating and happy. I accompanied my husband to chess tournaments. We traveled a lot, saw a lot, met the most interesting people. Meeting Alekhine, Euwe, Flohr, Capablanca, Keres was unforgettable. We became friends with many of them. Now, when I turn the pages of my life and remember my family, which was obliterated so ruthlessly, the old wounds open again and start bleeding.This book tells the story of one of the most enigmatic and tragic figures in chess history the Latvian grandmaster Vladimirs Petrovs (1908 1943). His name was struck out of chess literature for decades. His games and biography are largely unknown to the public even though Petrovs defeated Alekhine, Fine, Reshevsky, Boleslavsky and many other great players of the past, gained prizes at supertournaments including joint first at the famous Kemeri 1937 tournament, and performed strongly for Latvia at chess Olympiads. According to the Chessmetrics website, Petrovs was ranked no. 14 in the world in November 1938, and his performance at Kemeri 1937 was 2709. He had a 2.5-2.5 lifetime score against Alekhine.In the first part of this book, grandmaster and chess historian Dmitry Kryakvin instructively analyzes Petrovs' career through 52 games and fragments. As well as the above players, opponents include Smyslov, Euwe, Bogoljubov, Keres, Stahlberg, Flohr, Spielmann, and many other global stars of pre-war chess. In the second part, Petrovs' widow Galina Petrova-Matisa recounts the tragic fate of her husband and family members and her search for the truth of what happened to Petrovs. She further provides biographical details of their short, blissful family life for four-and-a-half years, including unforgettable meetings with the world's strongest chess players and their families. The work contains a large number of rare family and tournament photos.
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Koc University Press First International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studie
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Voces de Chernobil / Voices from Chernobyl
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Maria Lekapene, Empress of the Bulgarians:
Book SynopsisThe book presents the biography of Maria, daughter of Christopher Lekapenos (the eldest son of emperor Romanos I). For about 35 years, she was the tsaritsa of the Bulgarians at the side of her husband, Tsar Peter (927-969). Her character is but dimly visible in the sources; interestingly, the few sources that do mention her are almost exclusively of Byzantine provenance. Most scholars who have dealt with her life—usually as a side note to studies on Peter’s reign—saw in her a representative of the interests of Constantinople and a propagator of Byzantine culture. Some have gone so far as to call her a Byzantine agent at the Bulgarian court.In this book, the first monograph on Maria ever to have been written, Mirosław J. Leszka and Zofia A. Brzozowska construct a balanced narrative of the tsaritsa’s life and her role in tenth-century Bulgaria through meticulous analysis of primary sources, putting aside biases. The publication is supplemented by a translation of the fragments of the Hellenic and Roman Chronicle of the second redaction devoted to Maria and Peter.Trade ReviewZofia A. Brzozowska and Mirosław J. Leszka treat the protagonist of their book with undeniable sympathy (as signaled already in the title). Following the footprints of Maria Lekapene, the authors paint a vivid picture of Byzantium in the first half of the tenth century, as well as present the history of its neighbor – the Bulgarian state; for it is there that the grand political game of the Constantinople court ‘cast’ Maria, daughter of Romanos Lekapenos. The biography of Maria Lekapene is an eagerly awaited publication in the international Byzantinological and Slavicist community; I predict that it will be a scholarly success. -- Ireneusz Milewski, University of Gdańsk
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo The Bulgarian State in 927–969: The Epoch of Tsar
Book SynopsisTsar Peter (927–969), this book’s protagonist, is all too frequently presented in modern scholarship as a weak ruler, devoid of any grander political aspirations, and focused on religious matters—pious, but neglecting the vital interests of his subjects. It was said that during his reign both his court and state became Byzantinized, that central authority was completely helpless in the face of Hungarian raids, and saw the spread of the Bogomilist heresy. According to the Tsar’s critics, it was as a result of his ineffectual rule that Boris II, his son and successor, was unable to defend Bulgaria’s sovereignty in 971.This book—the first monograph devoted to Peter—was written by Bulgarian (Miliana Kaymakamova, Georgi N. Nikolov, Angel Nikolov, and Nikolay Hrissimov) and Polish medievalists (Zofia A. Brzozowska, Mirosław J. Leszka, Kirił Marinow, and Jan M. Wolski). Thanks to a thorough analysis of the sources and an in-depth knowledge of the literature of the subject, they have constructed a comprehensive and balanced image of the reign of their protagonist and the role he played in the history of medieval Bulgaria.Trade ReviewWe are dealing here with a monograph that is exceptional not only in Polish, but also international historiography. Its authors, known for their numerous papers on the history of Byzantium and Bulgaria and other works, undertook the task of creating a synthesis, the world’s first comprehensive study devoted to the Bulgarian Tsar Peter and his times. The authors convincingly present the political achievements of the monarch and his contributions to the development of early medieval Bulgarian culture, and they accurately recreate the image of the Bulgarian society which, during Peter’s times, benefited from the fruits of the second peace. Due to its original theme, the monograph may meet with a lively interest of readers both in Poland and abroad. -- Jarosław Dudek, University of Zielona Góra
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University Press of Southern Denmark Unheard Voices: A tranquebarian Stroll
Book SynopsisOn 16 April 1620, Raghunatha Nayak of Tanjore invited Danes to settle down and establish trade in Tharangampadi known also as Tranquebar. Over the next 225 years, several hundred Danes made Tranquebar their home, and over a thousand found their resting place here. During this period, printing was established by German missionaries, a Protestant mission was founded, science and arts flourished, an astronomical observatory was set up and an exploration of the Nicobar Islands took place. The town had to be rescued several times from impending wars. This book shows glimpses of this exciting period from the remains left by the Danes. Arranged as a walking tour of the town, we pass by places where significant people lived and noteworthy events took place.
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Viella La Diplomazia del Dialogo: Italia E Urss Tra
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Viella Editrice Putin E Il Mondo Che Verra: Storia E Politica
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Carthage, Constantinople and Rome: Imperial and
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Centenario Della Costituzione Sovietica del 1918:
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Peeters Publishers La Faute Et Sa Punition Dans Les Societes
Book SynopsisLes quatriemes Rencontres ont reuni membres du College de France, de la Societe Asiatique et du CNRS sur le theme de La Faute et sa punition, les civilisations orientales, des l'origine, n'etant pas tendres pour ceux qu'elles consideraient contrevenir a leurs commandements. Les contributions n'ont pas masque cette rudesse, tout en prenant soin d'institutionaliser les facons d'amener lentement a la mort les contrevenants. La tonte dans les textes bibliques sert de marquer pour le recit de moments ou la vengeance s'accomplit. Si les Assyriens n'ont pas aujourd'hui bonne reputation, ils le doivent a la facon dont ils ont poursuivi ceux qui leur resistaient. Les recits des sevices ottomans envers leurs coupables ou chez les peuples qu'ils ont conquis, ainsi que les facons qu'ont eues les empereurs chinois d'exercer leur justice, montrent que d'autres civilisations ont eu autant d'imagination qu'eux. Les textes administratifs font rentrer dans la quotidiennete des punitions et, tant qu'il n'etait pas fautif, l'esclave pouvait passer pour un membre normal de la communaute. La punition consiste le plus souvent a infliger au coupable ce qu'il redoute le plus dans cette vie, comme l'exil, ou dans l'autre, comme les supplices infernaux, le refus d'inhumer le coupable etant la perenisation de la punition, theme recurrent dans beaucoup de documentations mais etudie systematiquement a propos de la Bible. Des recits caucasiques montrent la prehistoire du mythe de Promethee, puni par les Dieux pour avoir instaure sa propre justice. Ces textes, loin du recit classique et tres empreints d'ideologie chretienne, s'en tiennent encore a la brutalite d'une demesure assurement condamnable. Du Japon proviennent des recits humoristiques se moquant du maitre de la punition qu'est cense etre le chef des enfers ou comment l'on distribue de facon inopinee des coups de baton pour inciter au mieux. L'horrible fait divers qui clot ces contributions montre jusqu'a l'epoque contemporaine le relativite des sanctions selon les points de vue.
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Alpha Edition Ukraine; The Land And Its People
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HarperCollins India The Ahoms: A Reimagined History
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Fondo de Cultura Economica USA Rusia Bajo los Escombros
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Odyssey Books Kazakhstan: Nomadic Routes from Caspian to Altai
Book SynopsisSpectacular photography, rich historical background, and essential travel information are combined in this indispensable reference for the immense, diverse, remote region at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. A country larger than Western Europe, Kazakhstan's vast expanse encompasses the Great Steppe, the heights of the Tien Shan in the south, the exquisite lakes and valleys of the mystical Altai mountains in the northeast, and the archaeologically rich desert coast of the Caspian Sea in the west. With independence and the discovery of oil has come rapid modernization, and Kazakhstan today stands as Central Asia's most stable and forward-thinking nation.
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Gefen Publishing House Let My People Grow: Hillel and the Jewish
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Gefen Publishing House Here We Are All Jews: 175 Russian - Jewish
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University of the West Indies Press Falmouth, Jamaica: Architecture as History
Book SynopsisFounded in 1769 as a new port town on Jamaica’s north coast, Falmouth expanded dramatically in the decades around 1800 as it supported the rapidly expanding sugar production of Trelawney and neighboring parishes. Many of the surviving buildings in Falmouth are the townhouses and shops of the planters and merchants who benefitted from the wealth of sugar. That same community also built a major Anglican church and a courthouse, both of which still survive and remain in use. In those same years, the town hosted a growing free-black population and this community also left its mark on the historic town. In 1894, Falmouth received an extraordinary gift from the British crown in the form of the Albert George Market, at once a symbol of persistent colonialism, a shelter for the ancient Sunday markets, and a symbol of modernism in the form of its vast cast iron design. Monuments in the city from the twentieth century include an extraordinary round Catholic church and an impressively Modernist school wing. With little investment through the twentieth century, the town was entirely re-conceptualized in the opening years of the twenty-first century with the construction of a vast cruise ship terminal. Spanning from the foundation of the town in 1769 to the opening of the cruise ship terminal in 2008, this book explores the wide range of architecture built by Jamaicans and others in the making of this extraordinary town.
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University of the West Indies Press Port of Spain: The Construction of a Caribbean
Book SynopsisIn this wide-ranging study, Stephen Stuempfle explores the transformation of the landscape (material environment) of Port of Spain from the cocoa boom era at the turn of the twentieth century through Trinidad and Tobago’s independence from Britain in 1962. In addition to outlining the creative work of planners, architects, engineers and builders, he examines depictions of the city in journalism, travel literature, fiction, photographs and maps, and elucidates how diverse social groups employed urban spaces both in their day-to-day lives and for public celebrations and protests.Over the course of the seven decades considered, Port of Spain was a dynamic centre for interactions among British officials; American entrepreneurs, military personnel and tourists; and a rapidly growing local population that both perpetuated and challenged the colonial regime. Many people perceived the city as a vanguard space – a locale for pursuing new opportunities and experiences.By drawing on a rich array of written and visual sources, Stuempfle immerses the reader in the sights and sounds of the city’s streets, parks, yards and various buildings to reveal how this complex environment evolved as a realm of collective endeavour and imagination. He argues that the urban landscape served as a key site for the display and negotiation of Trinidad’s social order during its gradual transition from colonial rule to self-government. For Port of Spain’s inhabitants, the construction of a modern capital city was interrelated, both practically and symbolically, with the building of a society and a new nation-state.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics
Book SynopsisThis book defines Russophobia as the irrational fear of Russia, a key theme in the study of propaganda in the West as Russia has throughout history been assigned a diametrically opposite identity as the “Other.” Propaganda is the science of convincing an audience without appealing to reason. The West and Russia have been juxtaposed as Western versus Eastern, European versus Asiatic, civilized versus barbaric, modern versus backward, liberal versus autocratic, and even good versus evil. During the Cold War, ideological dividing lines fell naturally by casting the debate as capitalism versus communism, democracy versus totalitarianism, and Christianity versus atheism. After the Cold War, anti-Russian propaganda aims to filter all political questions through the simplistic binary stereotype of democracy versus authoritarianism, which provides little if any heuristic value to understand the complexities of relations. A key feature of propaganda against the inferior “Other” is both contemptuous derision and panic-stricken fear of the threat to civilization. Russia has therefore throughout history been allowed to play one of two roles—either an apprentice of Western civilization by accepting the subordinate role as the student and political object, or a threat that must be contained or defeated. While propaganda has the positive effect of promoting unity and mobilizing resources toward rational and strategic objectives, it can also have the negative effect of creating irrational decision-making and obstructing a workable peace.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Theorising propaganda. - Chapter 2. Stereotypes of anti-Russian propaganda. - Chapter 3. Source credibility: Herding the masses. - Chapter 4. Language and narratives in anti-Russian propaganda. - Chapter 5. Selling democracy: All nations are equal, but some are more equal than others. - Chapter 6. Russophobia against the political opposition. - Chapter 7. The conflict in Ukraine as a civilizational choice. - Chapter 8. The Syrian war and humanitarian interventionism. - Chapter 9. Propaganda and the risks from irrationality.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Modernität, Entwicklung und Dekolonisierung des
Book SynopsisDieses Buch fügt sich in die Diskussion über die Auslandshilfe ein, die durch das Aufkommen einer Vielzahl neuer Geber im Bereich der internationalen Entwicklung ausgelöst wurde, und untersucht den Wandel Kasachstans von einem Empfängerland zu einem Entwicklungshilfegeber. Auf der Grundlage von Feldforschungen in Nur-Sultan und Almaty (Kasachstan) zwischen 2016 und 2019 bewertet diese Untersuchung die Philosophie und die Kernmerkmale des von Kasachstan gewählten Entwicklungshilfemodells und erklärt die Faktoren, die für die Konstruktion der Hilfemuster der kasachischen Geberschaft verantwortlich sind. Das Buch ist von Interesse für Wissenschaftler, die sich mit Zentralasien und der aufstrebenden Politik Eurasiens befassen, sowie für Wissenschaftler, die sich mit Politik und Entwicklungshilfe befassen.Table of ContentsEinführung.- Die Voraussetzungen für die Forschung: Theoretische Ansätze zur Entwicklung.- Das Paradigma "Entwicklung": Offizielle Entwicklungshilfe und DAC.- Kasachstan als Geber humanitärer Hilfe.- Neue Akteure durch alte Brillengläser?.- In der kolonialen Matrix der Macht: Die Folgen des Zusammenbruchs der Sowjetunion.- Schlussfolgerung.
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Forlagid History of Iceland: From the Settlement to the
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Independently Published The Beauty and the Beasts: The origin of modern
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Independently Published Iceland: Everything You Need to Know
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