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106-2: Religious Liberty: the Legal Framework in Selected Osce Countries
Author: Religious Liberty: The Legal Framework in Selected OSCE Countries: Briefing of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437901905
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Religious Liberty
Author: United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in EuropePublisher:
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Category : Ecclesiastical law
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK IN SELECTED OSCE COUNTRIES... COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE... 106TH CONGRESS, 2N.
Author: United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in EuropePublisher:
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Religious Liberty
Author: Religious Liberty
Author: United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in EuropePublisher:
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Category : Ecclesiastical law
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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Religious Liberty
Author: The Geopolitics of Culture
Author: John Van OudenarenPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501775774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Through the lens of James Billington and the institution he led as Librarian of Congress during a key period of US-Russian relations, The Geopolitics of Culture examines culture as a neglected area of US foreign policy. Billington advised presidents and members of Congress and mobilized the resources of the Library of Congress to promote reform in Russia. He believed that rather than preaching to the Russians, the United States should expose the rising generation of Russian leaders to what was best in America and encourage them to rediscover positive elements in pre-Bolshevik Russian culture. The Geopolitics of Culture is the first book to chronicle Billington's influence on US engagement with Russia as it transitioned from communism to democracy under Gorbachev and Yeltsin and back to authoritarianism under Yeltsin and Putin. Drawing on published and archival sources (including recently released papers) and interviews with current and retired Library of Congress staff members, John Van Oudenaren casts new light on this era. Billington's efforts led to a remarkable degree of cooperation between the Library of Congress and Russian cultural and political institutions. Yet these efforts ultimately failed as Putin turned back toward authoritarianism. The experience of the Library of Congress during this period nonetheless holds important lessons for today. Billington believed that a transition to democracy in Russia was essential if the United States was to head off the geopolitical nightmare of a Eurasia dominated by an alliance of hostile authoritarian powers. The "geopolitics of culture" thus remains a challenge for US foreign policy.
Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE
Author: United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in EuropePublisher:
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Category : CSCE Meeting on the Human Dimension
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Poland's Transformation
Author: Bjorn KurtenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351499327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
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Poland has carried out two peaceful revolutions in the span of one generation: first, the self-limiting movement of Solidarity, which undermined the legitimacy of Communism and then a negotiated transfer of power from Communism to free market democracy. Today, while Poland is seen as a success story and is joining political and economic associations in the democratic West, Poles themselves seem downcast. They ask: is social anomie a price worth paying for a successful transformation? In making moral compromises with an outgoing tyranny, can one avoid cynicism and disappointment with democracy? Zbigniew Brzezinski, professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University has calledPolish Transformation"a work that provides a comprehensive as well as incisive overview of the extraordinary difficult and historically unprecedented process of transforming an increasingly corrupt and decayed totalitarian system into a modern democracy." John Lenczowski, director of the Institute of World Politics, adds that "this extremely useful volume explains the essential elements of the post-communist political transition in Poland. Its authors convey...the cultural and ideological underpinnings that can be captured only by authorities who have developed over a lifetime that special sixth sense for detecting the elusive and unquantifiable soul of a country." Radek Sikorski, the executive director of the New Atlantic Initiative at the American Enterprise Institute, writes that "we should be grateful to the authors and editors of this thoughtful volume for asking questions which remain relevant for that uncomfortably large part of humanity that still lives under totalitarian or authoritarian regimes."