Daedalus articles from June 1997

Daedalus archives from June 1997

A new Europe for the old?(Brief Article)
June 22, 1997... Finding a title for this issue of Daedalus has not been easy. An early possibility, which certainly had the advantage of novelty, was to call it, quite simply, "A Farewell to Europe?" There were many reasons for asking whether the principle of...

The Serbs: the sweet and rotten smell of history.
June 22, 1997... Every Thursday the monks of the monastery of Visoki Decani prepare for their evening service by opening the sarcophagus of their patron. Stefan Decanski, whose age-blackened shriveled hands peek out from under his embroidered shroud, was king...

Illyrianism and the Croation quest for statehood.(Illyrian is the classical name for the Balkan Peninsula)
June 22, 1997... The fulfillment of a thousand-year dream was how Franjo Tudjman, leader of Croatia's independence struggle, described his country's recognition by the international community in 1992. The phrase was scarcely off his lips that year. It strikes a...

To be or not to be Balkan: Romania's quest for self-definition.
June 22, 1997... Since 1996 Romanian Democratic Reformers have been engaged in frantic efforts to undo the legacy of fifty years of rule by communists and former communists. Attempts are being made to dismantle the economic and social structures inherited from...

Ukraine: from an imperial periphery to a sovereign state.
June 22, 1997... Ukraine's present condition and prospects are matters of concern to many who live outside that country's borders. It is, after all, one of the largest states of Europe, geographically comparable to France, with a population only slightly...

Ethnic nationalism in the Russian Federation.
June 22, 1997... When the communist regimes collapsed, nationalism immediately came to the fore as one of the most conspicuous ideological and political factors in the development of former Second World countries. Suppressed by communism and by the postwar...

'Im Osten viel Neues': plenty of news from the eastern lander.(play on words of the title of a book by Erich Maria Remarque)
June 22, 1997... By twisting the well-known title of Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 novel Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front), we dare to point at some refreshing and encouraging trends in the academic and social environment of higher education...

Addendum to "Im Osten viel Neues": plenty of news from the eastern lander.(interview with three Germans studying in schools located in the former East Germany)(Interview)
June 22, 1997... In April 1997, Jan Clauss interviewed two West German and one East German student on the situation "in the East" at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Thuringia). Those interviewed were: Daniel Herz, a twenty-three-year-old third-year...

Discourse and (dis)integration in Europe: the cases of France, Germany and Great Britain.
June 22, 1997... European integration is at a crossroads. As the race to European Monetary Union (EMU) accelerates, with politicians staking their political reputations and their country's economic prospects on making the first wave of membership, popular...

The European debate on citizenship.
June 22, 1997... Europe invented the idea of citizenship, and Europe is the birthplace of the nation-state. Yet today, for some reasons that are common to all Western democracies and others that are specific to Europe, national political citizenship or...

Has the nation died? The debate over Italy's identity (and future).
June 22, 1997... Il corriere della sera, one of Italy's most respected and widely circulated newspapers, recently reported that novelist and playwright Ignazio Silone, during the years when he was a leader of the Italian Communist Party and an exile in...

Postwar Europe: the capriciousness of universal values.
June 22, 1997... The Jew is unable (and unwilling) to shake off his uniqueness, but he can live only in a world based on universal values. In this he is unique, but at a deeper level his problem is really a parable on the human condition in general. - J....