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'Cooperating with the Colossus' reconstructs the history of US military bases in World War II Latin America, from the perspectives of Latin American leaders and diplomats and the local communities that experienced these installations, as well as of US leadership and military.

Owing to current events in Belarus (political and social, including the economic crisis and the ongoing activities that are having a negative impact on the functioning of opposition movements), the country is becoming an arena of competition for influence. In the context of the subject of this analysis, rivalry, especially in terms of the influence of other states on Belarusian society, is of key importance. Science diplomacy may be a tool of competition for influence. The fact that science diplomacy can be both a tool with which to cooperate with other countries in the region and a tool of competition for influence is of key importance in analysing this problem. The scientific potential of the Belarusian community is also of interest to other countries, including Ukraine, Lithuania, and Germany. The effective and efficient implementation of science diplomacy activities towards Belarus is undoubtedly in line with the well-understood Polish national interest. The aim of the article was to conduct a political and legal analysis of the process by which Poland is using science diplomacy as a tool for influencing the scientific community of Belarus. Another research goal was to analyse the activities undertaken by two other countries in the region – Ukraine and Lithuania – with respect to science diplomacy. The article also aimed to analyse the formal and legal conditions related to the normative solutions used in the countries under analysis, enabling the undertaking and implementation of education by Belarusian citizens. The educational and scientific programmes offered to students and scientists from Belarus in Poland were also subject to legal analyses. The whole analysis is supplemented and concluded by an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of the activities carried out so far.

The paper considers a political compromise and political consensus as interrelatedphenomena of political life. Courtesy regard to the proportion of politicalconsensus and political compromise at different levels of the politicalsystem. Defined examples of political consensus in modern Ukraine. ; Рассмотрены политический компромисс и политический консенсускак взаимосвязанные явления политической жизни. Уделено вниманиесоотношению политического консенсуса и политического компромиссана разных уровнях политической системы. Определены примеры полити-ческого консенсуса в современной Украине. ; Розглянуто політичний компроміс і політичний консенсус яквзаємопов'язані явища політичного життя. Приділено увагуспіввідношенню політичного консенсусу і політичного компромісу нарізних рівнях політичної системи. Визначено приклади політичногоконсенсусу в сучасній Україні.

Magris's text addresses the circuitous and lengthy creative process that led to the conceptualization and writing of his latest novel Alla cieca (2005; Blindly, 2010). It offers, at same time, a reflection on the core dialectical binary of the work: the relation between inventing History and creating History and thus on the relationship between History and the contemporary novel. Magris sheds light on his own formal and stylistic approach to his text and on his ethical quest among the ideological utopias and individual tragedies of pre- and post-WWII Europe.

There seems to be a mismatch between the societal demand for social-science knowledge and the supply of knowledge from the social sciences. The need for a reassessment of the way the social sciences operate and their role and status in society, is the main raison d'etre of the World Social Science Initiative (WSSI), promoted by the International Social Science Council. The WSSI, which emerged as a follow-up to an OECD International Conference Series on "Re-thinking the Social Sciences" supported by the European Commission's Research Directorate-General and UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme, offers a flexible framework for enhancing both the scientific quality and the social relevance of the social sciences. (Original abstract)