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:Taking Off the Soft Power Lens: The United States Information Service in Cold War Belgium (1950-1958)
Author(s):GERITS, FrankDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In the 1950s, the Cold War became a battle for hearts and minds in which public diplomacy became the most important weapon. Public diplomacy can be broadly defined as an international actors’ attempt to conduct its foreign ...
Title:The 'real' puzzle of sharecropping: why is it disappearing?
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Ce qui s'écrit à propos du métayage traite pour une bonne partie des raisons pour lesquelles on se trouve adopter une forme de contrat apparemment aussi irrationnelle. Les hypothèses que formule la théorie à ce propos n'ont ...
Title:The Educational Effects of 19(Th) Century Disentailment of Catholic Church Land in Colombia
Author(s):FAZIO, Antonella; SANCHEZ TORRES, FabioDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of land concentration prompted by the distribution of disentailed church land during the second half of the 19(th) century on the accumulation of human capital in early 20(th) ...
Title:The evolution of the Palestinian leadership (1993-2007)
Author(s):CHALLAND, BenoîtDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:L'article analyse les mutations du leadership palestinien depuis Oslo, mutations qu'il faut placer dans une double perspective historique (querelles intestines à l'Organisation de libération de la Palestine depuis sa ...
Title:The German Spring Reprisals of 1917: Prisoners of War and the Violence of the Western Front
Author(s):JONES, HeatherDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The First World War was marked by a series of violent reprisals against prisoners of war which have long been overlooked by historians. This article explores one such sequence of collective reprisals, instigated by the ...
Title:The Italian Role in the Construction of the Concept Pole-Catholic
Author(s):JUREK, LidiaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In considering the concept of Pole-Catholic, it might well be asked not if it had real grounds but in what circumstances it was constructed. Although the Polish national identity in its current shape was Catholicized mostly ...