Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the memory of World War II has been used in state-led nation-building processes of post-Soviet countries to foster a sense of national belonging. This paper provides an insight into the offi cial discourse of World War II in Russia and Ukraine by concentrating on a comparative analysis of World War II representations in Russian and Ukrainian school histor...

On December 7, 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy unleashed a surprise aerial attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The United States Navy immediately launched a program to teach aircraft recognition so that military personnel and civilian spotters could distinguish friend from foe in a split second [1]. Millions of model airplanes representing more than 220 types were ...

This study examined the association of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with the quality of intimate relationships among present-day male World War II ex-prisoners of war (POWs). Ex-POWs had considerable marital stability; those with PTSD were no less likely to be in an intimate relationship. Ex-POWs in an intimate relationship who had PTSD (N=125 ) were compared with ex-POWs in a relations...

War's influence on emotional health includes potential psychological gains as well as losses. In a sample of 149 veterans from longitudinal samples at the Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley, this study explores two questions on the legacy of combat in World War II and the Korean conflict. The first concerns the subjective experience or meanings of combat that vet...

I welcome the opportunity to express my views on Federal debt management. This subject was much discussed in the period immediately following World War II, but it has received only limited attention in recent years, even though important changes have occurred in the management of our Federal debt. It has b~:en subordinated in importance to other important official policy requirements. Many modi...

The project SPICE (Service Platform for Innovative Communication Environment) is addressing the still unsolved problem of designing, developing and putting into operation efficient and innovative mobile Service creation/execution platforms for networks beyond 3G. The IST project SPICE is part of the Wireless World Initiative (WWI). With the growing diversity of services, devices and connectivit...

By the turn of the twentieth century a distinct 'social domain'--along with its constituent parts, problems and internal dynamics-was turned into a political entity, and a concern for state bureaucracies existed across the industrializing world. Specific motivations for this trend may have varied from location to location, but included arguments for higher industrial productivity and less polit...

This article summarizes some of the results and findings emerging from an ongoing World Bank research and capacity-building project that focuses on the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiating agenda from a developing country perspective. Recent research suggests that the potential gains from further multilateral liberalization of trade remain very large. The payoffs associated with attempts ...

This article provides a comparative examination of academic business and management education in four European countries, namely, France, Italy, Spain, and Turkey, addressing in particular the issue of Americanization both as a historical event in the aftermath of World War II and an ongoing process since then. There is first a consideration of the institutional models that have emerged in thes...

At 3:15 AM on 27th April 1941, Pilot Officer Christopher Carmichael of 502 Squadron took Whitley aircraft Z6501 to roll out on Limavady’s partially completed airfield. A crew of 6, including Pilot Officer Christopher Carmichael, Flight Lieutenant John Dickson, Sergeant Desmond “Des” O’Connell, Sergeant Stanley William Dorney, Sergeant Fred Redhead, Sergeant John Wilson (Air Gunner) were schedul...