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Europe’S Little Tiger?: Reassessing Economic Transition In Slovakia Under The Mečiar Government 1993-1998, David A. Wemer '14 
Gettysburg College
Europe’S Little Tiger?: Reassessing Economic Transition In Slovakia Under The Mečiar Government 1993-1998, David A. Wemer '14
The Gettysburg Historical Journal
Vladimir Mečiar, the first Prime Minister of independent Slovakia, is often criticized for his suppression of free media, political repression, and the widespread corruption of his government from 1993-1998. Mečiar has also been attacked for his economic policies, which critics suggest slowed down privatization and left Slovakia in a huge debt crisis. A closer look at macroeconomic data, however, demonstrates an impressive economic record for Mečiar, who oversaw several years of strong GDP growth, and relatively low levels of unemployment and inflation. By slowing down the privatization process, retaining control of key industries, and maintaining the social safety net, Mečiar ...
Interview Of John Lukacs, Ph.D., John Lukacs Ph.D., Leo Wong 
La Salle University
Interview Of John Lukacs, Ph.D., John Lukacs Ph.D., Leo Wong
All Oral Histories
John Lukacs was born in 1924 in Budapest Hungary. He grew up in a middle class family raised by a Roman Catholic Father, and a Jewish mother. While he received most of his education in Hungary, he went to high school in Great Britain during his teenage years. During the Second World War, he was drafted into a forced labor battalion for much of the war. When German troops occupied Hungary in late 1944, he had to avoid getting sent to death camps by avoiding German patrols. In addition, he had to avoid being caught in the crossfire during the ...
Interview Of Peter J. Finley, Ph.D., Peter J. Finley Ph.D., Meghan Bassett La Salle University
Interview Of Peter J. Finley, Ph.D., Peter J. Finley Ph.D., Meghan Bassett
All Oral Histories
Peter J. Finley Sr. was born an only child to parents John J. Finley and Margaret Francis Dunn in 1931, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He grew up in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia. Peter attended St. Francis Xavier School for grade school, La Salle Prep School afterwards—located at 1240 North Broad Street at the time—and La Salle College, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in 1953. Peter’s connection to La Salle began early in his childhood; his father, John J. Finley, was in the College’s graduating class of 1924. Peter earned a master ...
To Act And Not Be Acted Upon: Embeddedness, Conformity, And Bad State-Building In Bosnia, Kurt Hepler 
Claremont Colleges
To Act And Not Be Acted Upon: Embeddedness, Conformity, And Bad State-Building In Bosnia, Kurt Hepler
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
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Disadvantages To Turkey’S Eu Accession: Turkish Perspective, Madison Campbell, Elisa DeMartino Claremont Colleges
Disadvantages To Turkey’S Eu Accession: Turkish Perspective, Madison Campbell, Elisa Demartino
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
No abstract provided.
The Eu As A Democracy Promoter: Can The Eu Use Albania’S Ambitions For Membership To Strengthen Democracy In The Balkans?, Joana Allamani Claremont Colleges
The Eu As A Democracy Promoter: Can The Eu Use Albania’S Ambitions For Membership To Strengthen Democracy In The Balkans?, Joana Allamani
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
No abstract provided.
The Kosovo War: Nato’S Opportunity, Sead Osmani Claremont Colleges
The Kosovo War: Nato’S Opportunity, Sead Osmani
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
No abstract provided.
The Issue Of Cyprus In The Eu Accession Of Turkey, Melike Baştürk Claremont Colleges
The Issue Of Cyprus In The Eu Accession Of Turkey, Melike Baştürk
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
No abstract provided.
A False Start: The Role Of Ballistic Missile Defense In Us-Russian Relations, Matthew Elisha Dillon 
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
A False Start: The Role Of Ballistic Missile Defense In Us-Russian Relations, Matthew Elisha Dillon
EURēCA: Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement
Abstract of presentation at the Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement
Stalin’S Boots And The March Of History (Post-Communist Memories), Roland K. Végső 
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Stalin’S Boots And The March Of History (Post-Communist Memories), Roland K. Végső
Faculty Publications -- Department of English
I would like to propose here is precisely the invention of a relation to history and the public sphere of sociality that deconstructs the trauma/nostalgia opposition. The theoretical goal is to separate concrete narrative forms from actual political contents. It follows from the previous point that it might be possible to conceive of historical moments or concrete rhetorical situations in which we need to rely on nostalgic rather than traumatic narratives in order to imagine progressive political change. In these situations, the political task could be the development of a certain “critical nostalgia” that does not try to replace ...
Visual Interventions And The “Crises In Representation” In Environmental Anthropology: Researching Environmental Justice In A Hungarian Romani Neighborhood, Krista Harper 
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Visual Interventions And The “Crises In Representation” In Environmental Anthropology: Researching Environmental Justice In A Hungarian Romani Neighborhood, Krista Harper
Krista M. Harper
Participatory visual research, or "visual interventions" (Pink 2007) allow environmental anthropologists to respond to three different “crises of representation”: 1) the critique of ethnographic representation presented by postmodern, postcolonial, and feminist anthropologists, 2) the constructivist critique of nature and the environment, and 3) the “environmental justice” critique demanding representation for the environmental concerns of communities of color. Participatory visual research integrates community members in the process of staking out a research agenda, conducting fieldwork and interpreting data, and communicating and applying research findings. Our project used the Photovoice methodology to generate knowledge and documentation related to environment injustices faced by ...
A Place Of Uncertainty 
Syracuse University
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