CIVILIZATION DIALOGUES: CONCORD DIALECTICS BETWEEN WEST AND EAST

Russia Between West and East

A Computational Dialectics Approach to Meeting Dialogues Tracking and Understanding

Interaction through meetings is among the richest human communication activities. Recording meetings implies the storage and the structuring of a large set of heterogeneous information scattered over time and media. The raw data format from the various recording devices is not directly usable for the creation of indexes, nor for the content-based access to the relevant parts of the meeting reco...

Contemporary Russian Identity between East and West

A B S T R ACT. This is a review of recent English-language scholarship on the development of Russian identity since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. The first part examines literature on the economic and political changes in the Russian Federation, revealing how scholars became more sceptical about the possibility of Russia building a Western-type liberal democracy. The second part investigate...

East is East and west is west.

This position paper addresses the long-standing criticism that the International Baccalaureate (IB) is too closely associated with Western values and, despite its title, does not enable students to see the world from a truly international perspective. Considering evidence from different authorities, it analyses the IB learner profile and asks how appropriate it is for the cultures of East Asia....

Aesthetic Medicine and Cosmetology between East and West

Aesthetic medicine, together with Cosmetic Dermatology, is today a new medicai disci pline which is widely represented and legally recognized within the Chinese territory. " lt is the new science which concems itself with the role played by beauty in nature far a better I ife'', as was stated by Professor Peng Qing Xing, in his role as Chairman, at the opening of the 2nd World Congress on Aesth...