Category: VOLUME X, No. 4

A QUARTER CENTURY BEHIND: VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE PUBLISHING

The British Honours system is puzzling. A German might wonder why make Dahrendorf (a now forgotten Anglo-Hamburger left-liberal) a Baron, and Popper only a knight? But at least Karl Popper got something. And speaking of Dahrendorf, what of other distinguished Central European emigrants, like Sir Arthur Koestler, Sir Leszek Kołakowski,

A STORMY PETREL OF THE ACADEMIC WORLD – R.I.P. NORMAN STONE

“In private Norman was kind and generous and prepared to help students who showed promise. His asides entertained many of them: the man in the flesh was less of an activist throwing verbal bricks (many of them well deserved) through fashionable windows and more of an erudite overturner of applecarts.

GEOPOLITICS AND WORLD TRADE

Geopolitics and global commerce, otherwise referred to simply as “flag and trade” – these are what shape the world. The flag is in fact the sovereign state, the political power and military force that is mustered behind it, and which it embodies; this is why the term flag refers both

THE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD ROMANIAN NATIONSTATE

“However, only a few Romanian historians have sought answers to the questions of Romanian nation-building based on theories of nationalism, i.e. using comparative analyses within a broader context. (Sorin Mitu and Lucian Boia are two examples of Romanian historians reflecting on and applying theories of nationalism.)” On the centenary of