an inpenetrable fortress, the Gibraltar of the East and one of the four Bastions of the British Empire, fell to the lightning Japanese advance that took a mere seventy days down the Malay Peninsula from the Thai border. On 15 August 1945, after the Americans had dropped the devastating nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese finally surrendered to the British. Between those two da...

Introduction While national character is a subject that has intrigued social scientists for many years, it is rarely considered in theories of international behavior. The major reasons seem to be that: (a) the study of national character is fraught with conceptual confusions and meth-odological difficulties; (b) many social scientists question whether modern, complex, culturally-mixed nations c...

The integration of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) within the cultural domain creates what is commonly known as e-culture. The need to create an e-culture environment arose from the undeniable fact that the cultural heritage of a nation defines a nation and therefore should be disseminated to all, regardless of their location and their disability. This article discusses...

Thinking about the ‘identity crisis’ of the modern institution of the university, I was wondering about the following most general questions: does the current passage to late modernity and to the information age, the decline of the role of the nation-state and the increasing power of processes of globalisation mean the inevitability of the radical reformulation of the social mission and tasks o...