Japan is often surrounded by the myth of featuring a unique “love for nature”, and its traditional culture lifestyle as having been “in harmony with nature” before it was corrupted modernization Westernization. In this paper, I employ three examples to delineate images nature in different times Japanese history point out discrepancy between discourse on physical engagement nature. argue that en...

Abstract Challenging the initial expectation that all post-Soviet economies will evolve from collective toward fully individualized farming, I argue they separated into two different reform paths. In European successor countries and Kazakhstan, corporate family farms coexist, labor exited agriculture, capital inflow boosted productivity (a “Westernization”). Transcaucasian other Central Asian c...

2021 saw the thirtieth anniversary of collapse Soviet Union, and there is a growing interest in historicization past 30 years transformation. Taking this as point departure, we want to look into specific area that has markedly changed last three decades – scholarly community. The analysing academia period transformation not new, 1990s are amply covered by literature scrutinising changes forging...

The purpose of this paper is to characterize Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) in post-Cold War Poland. scope text limited FPA, understood as empirical research utilizing foreign policy theories by taking into account factors at the domestic level. “Polish FPA”is defined conducted scholars employed focuses on five aspects Polish FPA: (1) historical context, (2) teaching covering subject, (3) develo...

Southeast Asian elders evacuated during the fall of Saigon in 1975, or who waited years in refugee camps before being reunited with their families in America, experience aging in stark contrast to their lifelong anticipation and positive expectations for the ''Golden Years.'' These elderly Southeast Asians must cope with their rapidly accultur-ating younger family members, while taking on diffe...

Abstract This article examines the factors behind changing relationships between Chinese born in Singapore, i.e. so-called Babas, and China from late nineteenth century to early 1930s. It observes that while their interactions were congenial interdependent century, they became increasingly contentious antagonistic into twentieth century. Because Babas had settled outside created a creolized cul...

On 2 July 2021, President V. Putin has approved a new National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation. The article undertakes comparative analysis national security strategies Federation 2015 and provides content conceptual apparatus these strategic planning documents in terms ensuring information, socio-cultural value sovereignty. author concluded that there is strengthening trend towards...