Surprisingly, sexuality has not been at the centre of scholarship on post-war Central and Eastern Europe. While neighbouring topics, such as gender or everyday life, have thoroughly wonderfully researched (the list here is too long, but let me mention least some shining examples), somehow escaped spotlight. Path-breaking research done by Dagmar Herzog East Germany Dan Healey Soviet Russia was f...

When confronted with starvation, the amoebae of Dictyostelium discoideum initiate a developmental process that begins with cell aggregation and ends with a ball of spores supported on a stalk. Spores live and stalk cells die. Because the multicellular organism is produced by cell aggregation and not by growth and division of a single cell, genetically diverse amoebae may enter an aggregate and,...

war and conflicts within and among third world countries and between them and western countries, despite the end of the cold war, continues to produce fear and threat, violence, insecurity and instability. they are some of the most important causes of pain and misery of peoples, together with immense human, social, economic and developmental costs, with vast and durable consequences, in deepest...

The historic Cold War, although formally concluded by 1991, continues to widely and deeply influence, even shape the contours of, way we think talk about geopolitics geoeconomics in present time. Foreign policy professionals, journalists, scholars, producers consumers of popular culture readily turn tropes, frames, mental models derived sometimes very literally from this grand-historic episode....