The book contains stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means.
As part of the Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe project, funded by they European Research Council, Bajormi-Lazar explores the impact of political systems on media systems in the forme
This book provides a broadly managerial perspective on key trends that affect business decision-making in Central and Eastern Europe twenty years after the beginning of the region's transition to mark
Political scientists specializing in foreign affairs explore the role of Europe, particularly the European Union, in the context of the US turning more of its attention to Asia, and Europe's gradually
Citing the interrelationship between nation-formation and empire-building in the nineteenth century in Europe as an eminently complex and novel theme, Berger and Miller present three arguments: 1) nat
Famagusta is an archeological walled city on the island of Cyprus, containing art-filled churches and major buildings from the Frankish, Crusader, and Venetian periods. Experts and visitors agree that
This study of the comprehensive educational policy of the Dualist Hungarian state analyzes factors that contributed to the failures and partial successes of the policy. The policies examined relate to
Bibby, a writer and communications coach in the UK, offers a guide to educational debate and the skills needed by debaters. He explains core skills like structure, argumentation, rebuttal, evidence, c
These 12 research papers are the work of professors and graduate students of sociology, criminal justice and related fields. Rather than debate whether ethnic profiling is right or wrong, they seek to
This collection of writings on intergenerational justice focuses on a number of issues relating to the future and the current generation’s obligations to consider its actions in terms of their potenti
Law scholars and people researching or practicing national security explore the conflict between national security and access to information in terms of the tension between secrecy and democracy; stri
In this anthology for students and scholars interested in examining argument from a holistic perspective, readings by major figures in the classical discipline of argument are grouped in chronological
In their book To Plead our Own Cause, Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd estimate that there are 27 million victims of human trafficking worldwide, a figure that is actually larger than the 19th century slave
Looks at the sources of stability and instability in post-Soviet authoritarian states through the case study of President Lukashenka's firm hold on power in Belarus. In particular, it seeks to underst
The chapters of this volume explore the ways in which ethnographic knowledge about Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union's diverse peoples was created, contested, and changed, stressing throughout the
This work examines the education policies of the former Yugoslavia and its successor states, focusing on three main periods: vocation-oriented education reform in socialist Yugoslavia, the introductio
Elsie presents his translation of the memoirs of Austro-Hungarian aristocrat Baron Franz Nopsca, a well-traveled Transylvanian palaeontologist and geologist. Nopsca writes of his travels in the Balkan
This volume provides a comparative exploration the economic and sociopolitical effects of forced agricultural collectivization under the communist regimes of Eastern Europe. It includes country case s
The first volume in a series to be brought out by the middle of 2007 in altogether four books. The series is a daring undertaking of CEU Press, presenting the most important texts that triggered and s
The ten articles selected for this collection were originally published in Policies and the Life Sciences, Journal of Human Rights, Human Rights Quarterly, and Denver Journal of International Law and
The research of the folklore genre of charms became extremely dynamic around the turn of the millennium. A number of academic disciplines allied themselves to explore manuscripts healing texts and oth
Pike, an assistant professor of journalism, supplies tools for young adults to analyze and understand media messages. She wants them to become media critics. The framework used is to ask the three que
This book explores the influence of the Christian churches in Eastern Europe's social, cultural, and political history. Drawing upon archival sources, the work fills a vacuum as few scholars have syst
Three papers from a 2011 workshop held near Bucharest address the potential roles and consequences of Roma activism and policymaking; integration and politicization of Roma identity; and issues of val
Rybold (debate coach, Irvine Valley College) and Harvey-Smith (communication consultant, Garnett & Simpson) say that for non-native English speakers, participating on debate teams can be the most
The theoretical analyses and interpretations contained in the studies of this volume focus on key-concepts such as: politics, politician, democracy, Europe, liberalism, constitution, property, progres
Having found in an earlier book--Democracy and Deficits: The New Political Economy of Fiscal Management Reforms in the European Union, 2007--that there was a relationship between trust in government a
The contributions of some of the most eminent scholars interested in Giordano Bruno present an exhaustive overview of the state-of-the-art research on Bruno's work discussing Bruno's epistemic and lit
Before collectivization of agriculture in Estonia, "kulaks" (better-off farmers) were persecuted and many of them were finally deported in March 1949. This book is situated on the local level; the aim
Selected by Zompetti (communication, Illinois State U.) to illustrate historical developments in rhetoric, these readings include pieces from Ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Enlighte
This collection of essays explores how history and national memory in Eastern Europe, but also Turkey, Japan and Germany, have been used as political tools or else the site of contestation. They consi
Part of a series that showcases work on controversial science in the history of European medicine, this volume on blood science in Nazi Germany examines the nexus of politics and research in the searc
This collection of essays presents an array of perspectives on the changing status of privacy and issues of security. Several essays challenge assumptions or conclusions of the others, such as those w
This book assesses the impact of existing policies on young people's access to information, rights, and opportunities in Kyrgyzstan. How feasible is it to apply a rights-based approach to evaluating y
Although segregation of Roma students has not been publicly debated in Central and Eastern Europe, Roma rights have emerged on the political agenda of the region due to pressure from international bod
This book by journalism professor Melissa Wall (California State University, Northridge, US) looks at the rise of ordinary citizens functioning as journalists, usually via blogs and social media. The
This collection of essays responds to the need to approach questions of race and racism from a feminist perspective, focusing on the intersections of race, class and gender. Only a thorough exploratio
This is a sourcebook on the legal and human rights of young people as defined by regional agreements all over the world. The book looks first at general instruments. First, it goes over two African an
This book includes a range of case studies conducted in eight countries that once were in the Soviet Union and have made the journey to market capitalism and membership in the European Union since the
