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Category : Latvia
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Background Notes, Latvia, September 1997
Author: Background Notes, Latvia
Author: Background Notes, Estonia, September 1997
Author: Department of State Publication
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Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Each issue covers separate country.
Background Notes, Estonia
Author: From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism
Author: Iveta SilovaPublisher: IAP
ISBN: 1607527774
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Rarely do we find books in educational research that are both thick in context and rich in theory. Usually books emphasize one over the other. Authors that engage in thick descriptions tend to fall short of explaining what larger theoretical issue their case stands for. Vice versa, authors who make a case for a particular theory do not always describe their case in sufficient detail. From Sites to Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism is a remarkable exception. The book is a major break-through in case study methodology, multiculturalism and policy borrowing/lending research. The book investigates a puzzle: how is it that one and the same system, the system of separate schooling for Latvian and Russian speakers, is seen as a site of occupation during one period (1987-1990) and as a symbol of multiculturalism in the next (1991-1999)? The system has stayed in place, but the meaning attached to it has been completely inverted. Is cultural change without structural change possible? Does it mean that the dual school system has become anachronistic, and will eventually disappear in light of the cultural changes of the past decade? The book is the story of a great metamorphosis of one and the same system of separate schooling that, at first unbelievable, gradually makes sense.
Latvia
Author: Reports of Cases Before the Court
Author: Court of Justice of the European CommunitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Reports of Cases Before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
National Integration and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Societies
Author: Pål KolstøPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742518889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The theory presented in this work's predecessor, Nation-Building and Ethnic Integration in Post-Soviet Societies: An Investigation of Latvia and Kazakhstan (1999), fails to explain why the Dniester war of 1992 broke out in Moldova while Estonia remained free of large- scale violence. Kolsto (Russian and East European area studies, U. of Oslo, Norway) presents six contributions that revisit the question of when ethnic strife is likely to break out after the removal of authoritarian government. After reviewing candidates for explanatory theories, four country studies explore the evidence and one contribution discusses the international setting. The final chapter compares theory to evidence and concludes that theories of resources and opportunities available to various groups are better predictors of violence than theories of grievances and relative discriminations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR