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NATIONALISM AND SCHOOL ATLASES OF HISTORY

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Kamusella T.
Sprawy Narodowościowe
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2007
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issue 30
109-129
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The genre of the school atlas of history originated during the first half of the 19th century in the German Confederation, but it began to flourish only in the other half of this century in the German Empire and Austria-Hungary. Although such atlases made a fleeting appearance in France, the United Kingdom, or Spain, they never gained a permanent place in school curricula. Nowadays in Italy, Germany or Austria atlases of this kind are of auxiliary nature in schools. Quite on the contrary, the school atlas of history remains an obligatory textbook in Central Europe, from Poland through Turkey, and in the European post-Soviet states, whereas schools in the Asian post-Soviet states utilize Soviet school atlases or single-page maps of history. The author proposes that an explanation of this phenomenon lies in the fact that the ethnolinguistic kind of nationalism constitutes the legitimizing base of statehood in this region. This nationalism entails the isomorphism (or tight spatial overlapping) of national language, nation, and nation-state. Not only is the ideal notoriously hard to achieve, but the simultaneous juggling of linguistic and demographic arguments alongside changes in political borders is equally hard for a schoolchild to grasp without a graphic prop.
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IDEAS, CULTURE, AND HISTORY IN TRANSITION STUDIES

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Blokker P.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2004
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vol. 40
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issue 6
869-878
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In recent years it has been possible to observe a historical and cultural turn in the studies of transition in Central and Eastern Europe. Whereas until the late 1990s the field was dominated by 'transitology', which endorsed the convergence of the post-communist countries with Western Europe (both in a normative and an analytical sense), more recently there have been an increasing number of studies dedicated to obtaining an understanding of political and cultural diversity in the region. The two publications reviewed in this essay significantly contribute to the latter and are reviewed here with a view to their contribution to the understanding of the cultural, ideational and historical aspects of transition (such as collective identity formation, nation building and state formation, and discursive legacies). It is noted in conclusion, however, that although there is increasing sensitivity towards the diversity of post-communist societies, major steps are still required in order to overcome modernisationist, Western-centric and economic-determinist thinking.
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VPLYV PRÍLEVU PRIAMYCH ZAHRANIČNÝCH INVESTÍCIÍ NA HOSPODÁRSKY RAST V NOVÝCH ČLENSKÝCH ŠTÁTOCH EURÓPSKEJ ÚNIE ZO STREDNEJ A Z VÝCHODNEJ EURÓPY

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Ferenčíková S., Dudáš T.
Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
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2005
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vol. 53
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issue 3
261-272
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The positive effect of the foreign direct investments (FDI) on the economic growth is a generally accepted fact in Central and Eastern Europe. The aim of this article is to analyse this axiom on the set of eight new EU member states. The analysis is based on correlation analysis and regression analysis of the FDI inflow on the GDP growth in the time period 1993 - 2003. The results of the correlation analysis are mixed - definite positive correlation can be noted only in three countries. The regression analysis brought controversial results. Regression tests show that the inflow of FDI failed to support economic growth and large FDI inflows are accompanied by slow GDP growth. The main factor behind these results is possibly the nature of the FDI inflows - more than 70 % of the total FDI inflows came through privatisation and the short-term positive effect of these FDI are limited.
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THE NOTION OF MULTICULTURALISM IN THE ANALYSIS OF ETHNIC ISSUES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

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Jendrzej-Gawlicz K.
Sprawy Narodowościowe
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2007
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issue 30
95-107
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Multiethnic issues in Central and Eastern Europe are very often perceived from the point of view of interethnic conflict and the renaissance of nationalism. Not many European social scientists would describe this part of the world using the terminology of multicultural theory. These terms seem to be reserved for immigrant countries such as Canada or Australia and are gaining popularity in the academia of Western Europe as the number of immigrants grows and the need for a coherent multicultural policy becomes obvious. However the basis of ethnic conflicts are still present in Eastern Europe, as well as the tradition of peaceful cooperation between the ethnic groups; hence there is a solid basis on which to discuss the history and the future of cultural pluralism in Central and Eastern Europe. The article presents the theory of multiculturalism and its theoretical potential for explaining ethnic problems in Central and Eastern Europe. The text starts with a review of conceptions defined by the common names of cultural pluralism and multiculturalism. Next, the authoress considers some historical and present examples of the unique mosaic of nations and ethnicities on the Eastern European borderlands where 'everyday practices of multiculturalism' are created without support from the state. In conclusion, she emphasises that these phenomena provide a research area that can present ethnicity in Eastern Europe from different perspectives as well as enrich our knowledge of the nature of multiculturalism.
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