A message sent to a specific market or an audience contains certain types of information that affect the audience. For this reason, brand identity, nowadays increasingly in a digital form, plays an important role. Each state wants to create a robust, attractive, and different brand identity that...

This article focuses on how Panamanian intellectuals and politicians searched into colonial and nineteenth century regional history for elements that could help them construct narratives, produce a new historiography, and create symbols that differentiated Panama from Colombia. This served to...

A message sent to a specific market or an audience contains certain types of information that affect the audience. For this reason, brand identity, nowadays increasingly in a digital form, plays an important role. Each state wants to create a robust, attractive, and different brand identity that...

This paper explores the dynamics of nation-building policies and the conditions under which a state can promote a shared national identity on its territory. A forward-looking central government that internalizes identity dynamics shapes them by choosing the level of state centralization....

Einleitung -- Die politische Dimension von Sezessionen -- Die völkerrechtliche Zulässigkeit von Sezessionen: Quadratur des juristischen Kreises? Sezessionen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Selbstbestimmungsrecht und Wahrung territorialer Integrität -- Die ökonomische Dimension von Sezessionen --...

Since the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, Russian-Western relations have experienced rapid deterioration, as exhibited by mounting ideological resentments, new Cold War-style rhetoric flowing from both sides, increasing geopolitical confrontation, and greater potential risks associated with...

"Recent changes in the global production and flow of energy have remade the world. In this book, the author reveals the forces shaping the future of energy, both renewable and fossil fuel. The New Map offers a new vision of the world's energy reserves and, therefore, the future of geopolitics."

In modern states, mobilization policy has been used to awaken people to new ideas such as national identity, industrial capitalism, and civic society. However, it has long been debated whether mobilization in new countries or in countries under reconstruction creates an integrated identity or...

The goal of this paper is to describe and analyze the theories of political organization of Central Europe during the interwar period, especially from the Czechoslovak perspectives. Some connections between the European integration process, and a national and a civil identity are outlined, in...

Wirtschaftliche und technologische Überlegenheit ermöglicht eine Vormachtstellung, doch welche Faktoren erklären ökonomische Prosperität, und was entscheidet über Armut und Reichtum von Nationen? Zu diesem Thema fand am 23. und 24. Mai 2014 eine wissenschaftliche Tagung unter der Leitung...

Industrial structures in the 'catching up' type of countries usually are not too competitive in nature, and mainly they differ in the low share of high-technology products in the international trade. The aim of the conducted studies was an attempt to search for directions, as well as the power...

Industrial structures in the "catching up" type of countries usually are not too competitive in nature, and mainly they differ in the low share of hightechnology products in the international trade. The aim of the conducted studies was an attempt to search for directions, as well as the power of...

The paper challenges the current common rankings of economies when measured over the GDP, and introduces a set of new Indices based on the factors GDP, Gini Coefficient and Inflation. This Social factors relativized GDP cuts out that part of the GDP, which is structurally long term frozen up by...

Regardless of any particular historical timeframe, the usage of legal arguments has represented an efficient means of shaping a national consciousness and of tuning to the European trends within the Transylvanian School. The representatives of this current have succeeded in imposing themselves...

There is perhaps only one broad certainty in the contemporary debate on climate change: not only does climate change affect different nations and communities differently, but the responses of individual stakeholders and institutions are also quite different, primarily because of their different...

Wirtschaftliche und technologische Überlegenheit ermöglicht eine Vormachtstellung, doch welche Faktoren erklären ökonomische Prosperität, und was entscheidet über Armut und Reichtum von Nationen? Zu diesem Thema fand am 23. und 24. Mai 2014 eine wissenschaftliche Tagung unter der Leitung...

In this millennium, managing turbulent economic environment has become an important task for the nation, whose essential and primary purpose is to obtain competitive advantage. The progress of developed countries contributed to the formation of the new economy, knowledge economy, innovation, new...

Over time there have been diverse and continuous evolution ways of financial and economic development at the nation level. Today, the world development level results from an ongoing investment, in various forms. The different ways to invest and measure the effectiveness of investments have been...

The birth of the First (Socialist) International in 1864 will provide the opportunity for three political thinkers of the Nineteenth Century, each with their own specific societal vision, to cohabit and work together in the same organization. The three historical figures were Karl Marx, Mikhail...

Industrial structures in the “catching up” type of countries usually are not too competitive in nature, and mainly they differ in the low share of high-technology products in the international trade. The aim of the conducted studies was an attempt to search for directions, as well as the...

Our hypothesis is proposed to introduce the idea of ​​Leviathan weak, the classical conception of the state is problematized; primarily in regions suffering public violence, lack of legitimacy and sovereignty. This paper is the first part of a project that distinguishes three components that...

The goal of this paper is to describe and analyze the theories of political organization of Central Europe during the interwar period, especially from the Czechoslovak perspectives. Some connections between the European integration process, and a national and a civil identity are outlined, in...

Der (olympische) Leistungssport gilt als ideale Form der Konkurrenz, in der gemäß den Prinzipien der Fairness, Chancengleichheit, Transparenz und gegenseitigen Achtung allein die Leistung entscheiden soll. Darauf gründet ein Großteil seiner Popularität, aber auch seine Vorbildfunktion für...