Title:Stranded flagship. 50 years of People's Friendship University in Moscow
Author(s):RUPPRECHT, TobiasDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2010. This showpiece of Soviet internationalism cultivated the ideal of being ideologically neutral & rendering pure development assistance. ...
Title:German volunteers in the armed conflicts of the Italian Risorgimento 1834-70
Author(s):GÖHDE, Ferdinand NicolasDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Between 1834 and 1870, Germans participated in the armed conflicts of the Italian Risorgimento in the ranks of both Mazzini and Garibaldi and of the Pope and Francis II of Naples. While acknowledging the difficulty in ...
Title:A European answer to the Spanish Question: the SPD and the end of the Franco dictatorship
Author(s):MUÑOZ SÁNCHEZ, AntonioDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article deals with the position of the SPD vis-à-vis Franco's Spain since the mid 1960s, and explains it in the context of the party's foreign policy agenda aimed at promoting European détente. It is argued that SPD ...
Title:Lionello Levi Sandri: his service to Europe
Author(s):BECHERUCCI, AndreaDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article outlines the career of Lionello Levi Sandri, a lecturer in industrial law, as vice-president of the European Commission in charge of Social affairs between 1961 and 1970. As a member of the Hallstein Commission ...