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There Will be no Strength. (In)coherence and (Im)potency

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2016
In 1949, Czesław Miłosz spent a few days in Wroclaw, which was still in ruins after WWII. Six years later Miłosz wrote an interesting poem entitled Pokój (The Room) and created a symbolical vision of the city.
Mateusz Antoniuk
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The Enemy Who Never Went Away: Memory, Nationalism and China's Japan Policy During the Cold War

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study reassesses the relationship between war memory, nationalism and Sino–Japanese relations during the Cold War. Contrary to the dominant view in existing scholarship that China's nationalist remembering of the war emerged during the 1980s and 1990s, this article, drawing on an extensive survey of the People's Daily, demonstrates that ...
Yi Wang
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Recovered Cities.

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2007
There is a large group of cities in Poland, which lost and re-gained their urban status. Many of those cities lost their urban status as the result of administrative reforms introduced by partitioning states in the 19th century, and after WWII ...
Barbara Miszewska
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Pension Systems (Un)sustainability and Fiscal Constraints: A Comparative Analysis

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an overlapping generations model, two new indicators of public pension system sustainability are proposed: the pension space, which measures the capacity to pay for pension expenditures out of labour taxation, and the pension space exhaustion probability reflecting demographic uncertainties.
Burkhard Heer, Vito Polito, Michael R. Wickens   +2 more
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Osis 9

, 2013
Newspaper picked up by Ilga Dzidrums (married name Osis) en route in Germany during ...
Athabasca University Library (Creator)et al
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Value Change and the New Wave of Fertility Postponement in Western Europe

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Since 2010, Western Europe has experienced a renewed wave of fertility postponement, contributing to declining fertility rates and rising childlessness. Although multiple explanations have been proposed, the role of ideational factors remains underexplored. This study examines whether broad changes in values help explain contemporary fertility
Oskar Lindström, Raffaele Guetto, Daniele Vignoli   +2 more
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Deníky Viktora Fischla z jeho londýnského exilu v době druhé světové války

Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Slavica Wratislaviensia
Viktor Fischl byl česko-izraelský spisovatel a diplomat. Na začátku německé okupace emigroval z Československa do Anglie, kde se aktivně zapojil do československého zahraničního odboje.
Bohumil Jiroušek, Martina Halamová
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The Urban Planning Institute building in Belgrade [PDF]

Nasleđe, 2020
The building of the Urban Planning Institute in Belgrade, designed by architect Branislav Jovin, is one of the most significant achievements of the post-WWII architecture in Belgrade.
Merdanović Teodora B.
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Territorial Rights and the Debate About the Morality of Zionism

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the view that, beyond particular wrongs committed by Zionism, the Zionist project was itself inherently wrong. I argue that the most plausible basis for this claim is the contention that Zionism disrespected the territorial rights of the local Arab population. By examining leading contemporary theories of territorial rights
Daniel Statman
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Frank van Riet, De bewakers van Westerbork.

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2017
Frank van Riet, De bewakers van Westerbork (Amsterdam: Boom, 2016, 367 pp., ill., ISBN 978 90 587 5607 7).
Martijn Lak
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