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Trade, Most-Favored-Nation Status: The 1975 Agreement With Romania On Trade Relations, Thad W. Simons Jr. Dec 2016

Trade, Most-Favored-Nation Status: The 1975 Agreement With Romania On Trade Relations, Thad W. Simons Jr.

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


The Electoral Success Of Communist-Successor Parties In The Czech Republic And Romania, Harley L. Roe Dec 2016

The Electoral Success Of Communist-Successor Parties In The Czech Republic And Romania, Harley L. Roe

Master's Theses

Communist-successor parties are impacted by six social and political factors: party reimaging, coalition building, corruption and scandal, party leadership, EU accession, and social indicators. This project explores how the descendants of the totalitarian communist parties in the Czech Republic and Romania are influenced by each factor by analyzing election result data against these indicators. Party reimaging and coalition building are the most influential in determining voter turnout, while the other four work in conjunction to influence election results. This project contributes to the literature on electoral volatility, post-communist countries, voter behavior, and seeks to offer a model that can predict …


The History, Memory, And Representation Of The Holocaust: Reflections On A Yearlong Freshman Seminar And Study Trip, Brian Vetruba, Cecily Hibbs, Talia Wazana, Abigail Wippel, Erin Mcglothlin, Anika Walke Nov 2016

The History, Memory, And Representation Of The Holocaust: Reflections On A Yearlong Freshman Seminar And Study Trip, Brian Vetruba, Cecily Hibbs, Talia Wazana, Abigail Wippel, Erin Mcglothlin, Anika Walke

WashU Libraries Presentations

Presented at the Lessons and Legacies conference on Holocaust Studies in November 2016, these posters document a year-long freshman FOCUS seminar held at Washington University in St. Louis in 2015-2016 that aimed to give incoming college students a sophisticated understanding of the causes, dynamics, representation, and memory of the Nazi genocide. Created and co-taught by Anika Walke and Erin McGlothlin, this intensive academic engagement featured two semesters of coursework focusing on the history and the literary and filmic representation of the Holocaust and a twelve-day trip to Germany, Poland and Lithuania. The group visited important Holocaust-related sites to deepen their …


Bethlehem Chapel: How A Place Can Be Reinterpreted By Government, Maya Lemaster Nov 2016

Bethlehem Chapel: How A Place Can Be Reinterpreted By Government, Maya Lemaster

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

An important source of legitimacy for all types of government is the creation of or building up of a sense of nationhood for the citizens of the state. This can be achieved in many ways, including through the use of physical nationalist symbols. In my paper, I address this topic by exploring how the Communist government of Czechoslovakia reinterpreted and changed the traditional meaning of the historical Bethlehem Chapel in Prague in order to fit their own ideology. I found that the Communist government emphasized the communal aspects of the Hussite movement and ignored religious associations. My research is primarily …


The Politics Of Electoral Systems In The Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia, Dardan Berisha Nov 2016

The Politics Of Electoral Systems In The Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia, Dardan Berisha

Indiana Journal of Constitutional Design

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (“FYROM”) experienced four major changes to its electoral system in the eight parliamentary elections held between 1990 and 2014. The Macedonian 1990 and 1994 parliamentary elections were held under a majority system, in which 120 members of the Parliament were elected from 120 constituencies, one member per constituency. A mixed-majority/proportional representation (“PR”) system was adopted for the 1998 elections, in which eighty-five seats were elected under the majority system from the constituencies, and thirty-five seats were elected proportionally from a nation-wide electoral district. Yet another system was adopted for the 2002 elections, in which …


Independent Study Project: Investigation Into The Implications Of Zooarchaeological Studies For Climate Reconstruction In The North Atlantic; Zooarchaeological Research At The Agricultural University Of Iceland, Reykjavík, Hazel Cashman Oct 2016

Independent Study Project: Investigation Into The Implications Of Zooarchaeological Studies For Climate Reconstruction In The North Atlantic; Zooarchaeological Research At The Agricultural University Of Iceland, Reykjavík, Hazel Cashman

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Zooarchaeology, the study of animal remains from archaeological sites, is crucial to the understanding of human interaction with the environment in the North Atlantic region and in Iceland, where the archaeological record is quite rich (Dugmore et al., 2005). Since its inception, zooarchaeology has drawn methods and concepts from both the natural and social sciences, as well as from history and the humanities, to inform an interdisciplinary understanding of the interactions between humans and their environments and the consequences of these interactions for humans and animals (Reitz and Wing, 2008). In this way, zooarchaeology can inform discussions about historical anthropogenic …


Proxy Dating In Iceland Testing The Validity Of Silene Acaulis As A Phytometric Proxy, Madelyn Grant Oct 2016

Proxy Dating In Iceland Testing The Validity Of Silene Acaulis As A Phytometric Proxy, Madelyn Grant

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Climate change is causing drastic changes in the cryosphere, particularly in the Arctic region where average warming is 1.9 times greater than in the rest of the world due to Arctic amplification. Understanding the response of essential climate variables such as glaciers and ice caps to rapid Arctic warming is essential to predicting future changes in the Arctic region and around the world. Proxy dating methods can help construct a record of warming-induced glacial retreat in areas where long-term monitoring systems are not in place. In Arctic regions, the cushion plant Silene acaulis represents one of the only feasible proxies …


Ethnic And Religious Homogenization In The Bosnia And Herzegovina And The Process Of Reconciliation, Zorica Kuburić Oct 2016

Ethnic And Religious Homogenization In The Bosnia And Herzegovina And The Process Of Reconciliation, Zorica Kuburić

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Review Of Morris' "When Brothers Dwell In Unity: Byzantine Christianity And Homosexuality", Nonka Bogomilova Oct 2016

Review Of Morris' "When Brothers Dwell In Unity: Byzantine Christianity And Homosexuality", Nonka Bogomilova

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Frontmatter, Paul Mojzes Oct 2016

Frontmatter, Paul Mojzes

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


The Significance Of The Role Of Religion In The Bosnian Conflict Of The 1990s: The Town Of Foča As A Case Study, Louis Tozer Oct 2016

The Significance Of The Role Of Religion In The Bosnian Conflict Of The 1990s: The Town Of Foča As A Case Study, Louis Tozer

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Review Of Murzaku's "Monasticism In Eastern Europe And The Former Soviet Republics", Robert P. Marko Oct 2016

Review Of Murzaku's "Monasticism In Eastern Europe And The Former Soviet Republics", Robert P. Marko

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Review Of Raber's "Ministries Of Compassion Among Russian Evangelicals", Sharyl Corrado Oct 2016

Review Of Raber's "Ministries Of Compassion Among Russian Evangelicals", Sharyl Corrado

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


The War In Ukraine As A Test For The Global Christian Community: A Trail Of Solidarity, Freedom, And Peacekeeping, Mykhailo Cherenkov Oct 2016

The War In Ukraine As A Test For The Global Christian Community: A Trail Of Solidarity, Freedom, And Peacekeeping, Mykhailo Cherenkov

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


The Romanian Iron Guard: Fascist Sacralized Politics Or Fascist Politicized Religion?, Jordan Meale Oct 2016

The Romanian Iron Guard: Fascist Sacralized Politics Or Fascist Politicized Religion?, Jordan Meale

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Minority Protection And Democratic Consolidation: The Role Of European Integration In The Republic Of Macedonia, Eltion Meka Oct 2016

Minority Protection And Democratic Consolidation: The Role Of European Integration In The Republic Of Macedonia, Eltion Meka

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

The purpose of this article is to take stock of the European integration literature in reference to Eastern Europe in order to better understand how international forces affect minority rights. The article will focus on the status of the Albanian minority in the case of the Republic of Macedonia and attempt to illustrate how European integration has contributed to or hindered ethnic reconciliation between the ethnic Albanian minority and Macedonian majority through a historical-sociological analysis. Additionally, by linking the protection of minority rights to democratic consolidation, this article will show how the former is largely dependent on the latter.


National And Confessional Image Of Bosnia And Herzegovina, Ivan Cvitković Oct 2016

National And Confessional Image Of Bosnia And Herzegovina, Ivan Cvitković

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Religion In The Formation Of Ukrainian Identity In Galicia?, Jan Ladzinski Oct 2016

The Role Of Religion In The Formation Of Ukrainian Identity In Galicia?, Jan Ladzinski

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Are European Union Sanctions “Targeted”?, Clara Portela Oct 2016

Are European Union Sanctions “Targeted”?, Clara Portela

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The emergence of targeted sanctions in the mid-1990s was due to the humanitarian impact of embargoes, which were deemed unacceptable and compelled senders to shift to measures designed to affect only wrongdoers. Twenty years on, the present paper considers the extent to which autonomous sanctions are designed to affect those individuals and elites responsible for the behaviour the EU aims to condemn. How faithful has the EU remained to this concept in its sanctions policy? The enquiry scrutinizes diverse practices in three established sanctions strands of the EU, development aid suspensions, Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) sanctions and Generalised …


Table Of Contents Sep 2016

Table Of Contents

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

No abstract provided.


Foreword, David Andrews Sep 2016

Foreword, David Andrews

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

No abstract provided.


Visegrad Revival: Where Less Is More, In The Prospect Of Smaller Numbers, Aaron G. Sander Jul 2016

Visegrad Revival: Where Less Is More, In The Prospect Of Smaller Numbers, Aaron G. Sander

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This project began a number of years ago, in 2011, as a final paper for a class on the topic of Europe and the world, for which I wrote what is effectively the chapter on European defense and the formation of the Visegrad battlegroup. The topic interested me as I was perplexed when, on the matter of inter-state cooperation set against the backdrop of the formation of the EU, it was possible that the four states of Visegrad were able to agree and formulate a plan on how to get this battlegroup off the ground, all the while not having …


“The Agent Of Jesus Christ”: Participation Of Fr. Vitali Borovoy In The Second Vatican Council As An Observer From The Roc, Anastacia Wooden Jul 2016

“The Agent Of Jesus Christ”: Participation Of Fr. Vitali Borovoy In The Second Vatican Council As An Observer From The Roc, Anastacia Wooden

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

This is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Russian Orthodox theologian and church diplomat Fr. Vitali Borovoy (1916-2008). He actively participated in almost all external engagements of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in the second half of the twentieth century: from inter-Orthodox relations to work in the World Council of Churches (WCC). His ecumenical career unfolded during challenging times for his church. Internally, it was determined by the tension between the Soviet state’s continual persecution of the ROC and its simultaneous demand that the ROC work for the state’s benefit in external relations. Externaly, it was affected by …


Review Of Radeljić And Topić'S "Religion In The Post-Yugoslav Context", Branko Bjelajac Jul 2016

Review Of Radeljić And Topić'S "Religion In The Post-Yugoslav Context", Branko Bjelajac

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Review Of Daniel's "Russia’S Uncommon Prophet: Father Aleksandr Men And His Times", Michael Plekon Jul 2016

Review Of Daniel's "Russia’S Uncommon Prophet: Father Aleksandr Men And His Times", Michael Plekon

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Frontmatter, Paul B. Mojzes Jul 2016

Frontmatter, Paul B. Mojzes

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Historical And Cultural Implications Of Bogomilism, Maja Angelovska, Ruzhica Cacanoska Jul 2016

Historical And Cultural Implications Of Bogomilism, Maja Angelovska, Ruzhica Cacanoska

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

Bogomilism represents a spiritual manifestation, dualistic in nature, of a religious expression, and a social and philosophical orientation. The essence of Bogomilism can be followed on the basis of several key postulates, such as dualism, a specific theological and dogmatic characteristic, the support of ethical principles within their social life, and finally the political dimension of teaching the determinants which rise from the overall social and political processes in medieval times. The aim of this article is to present the historical and cultural aspects of this movement, which left visible traces in the spiritual culture of Macedonia, Balkans, and Byzantium.


Review Of Sergeev's "Theory Of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity, And The Bahá’Í Faith", Maria Kaplun Jul 2016

Review Of Sergeev's "Theory Of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity, And The Bahá’Í Faith", Maria Kaplun

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


No Country For Foreigners: Christian Praxis In Croatian Migration Crisis, Branko Sekulić Jul 2016

No Country For Foreigners: Christian Praxis In Croatian Migration Crisis, Branko Sekulić

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.


Review Of Sergeev's "Theory Of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity, And The Bahá’Í Faith", Natalya Shelkovaya Jul 2016

Review Of Sergeev's "Theory Of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity, And The Bahá’Í Faith", Natalya Shelkovaya

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.