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We live in a present of multiple and conflicting sacralities. How do we account for the persistence and remarkable adaptability of traditional forms of the Christian sacred? How do we explain the ongoing allure of instrumentalizing the sacred for political purposes? And what do we make of the spread of nature spiritualities that have been so pertinent over the last half century? This volume seeks to reflect upon how these multiple sacralizations can be studied and understood in historical and cross-disciplinary perspective

Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its emergence in Asia with the rapid development of the Chinese economy motivation to legitimate the current uniqueness of the history and economy of the nation. It contributes to the revitalization of the field of global history in Chinese historiography, which have been dominated by national narratives and promotes a debate to open new venues in which important features such as scholarly mobility, diversity and internationalization are firmly rooted, putting aside national specificities. Dealing with new approaches on the use of empirical data by framing the proper questions and hypotheses and connecting western and eastern sources, this text opens a new forum of discussion on how global history has penetrated in western and eastern historiographies, moving the pivotal axis of analysis from national perspectives to open new venues of global history.

The European Defence Agency and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence: A "Discursive Coalition" for EU Defence Research / Antonio Calcara -- Financing Rhetoric? The European Defence Fund and Dual-Use Technologies / Daniel Fiott -- The Security Politics of Innovation: Dual-use Technology in the EU's Security Research Programme / Bruno Oliveira Martins and Neven Ahmad -- Drone Surveillance, a Dual-Use Practice? / Samuel Longuet -- Normative Market Europe? The Contested Governance of Cyber-surveillance Technologies / Maximiliano Vila Seoane -- European Security in Cyberspace: A Critical Reading / André Barrinha -- EU Cyber Defence Governance: Facing the Fragmentation Challenge / Delphine Deschaux-Dutard -- Europe United: An Analysis of the EU's Public Diplomacy on Twitter / lan Manor -- Developing Future Borders: The Politics of Security Research and Emerging Technologies in Border Security / Clemens Binder -- The European Governance of Emerging Security Technologies: Security Meets Science Governance: the EU Politics of Dual-Use Research / Dagmar Rychnovská -- Governance of Dual Use Research in the EU: The Case of Neuroscience / Inga Ulnicane -- Managing Security Uncertainty with Emerging Technologies: The Example of the Governance of Neuroprosthetic Research / Benjamin Farrand -- Drones and Artificial Intelligence: The EU's Smart Governance in Emerging Technologies / Raluca Csernatoni and Chantal Lavallée -- Conclusion: The Governance of Emerging Security Technologies: Towards A Critical Assessment / Ciara Bracken-Roche.

Anchored in the Russian Empire, but not limited to it, the eight studies in this volume explore the nineteenth-century imperial responses to the challenge of modernity, the dramatic disruptions of World War I, the radical scenarios of the interwar period and post-communist endgames at the different edges of Eurasia. The book continues and amplifies the historiographic momentum created by Alfred J. Rieber's long and fruitful scholarly career. First, the volume addresses the attempts of Russian imperial rulers and elites to overcome the economic backwardness of the empire with respect to the West. The ensuing rivalry of several interest groups (entrepreneurs, engineers, economists) created new social forms in the subsequent rounds of modernization. The studies explore the dynamics of the metamorphoses of what Rieber famously conceptualized as a "sedimentary society" in the pre-revolutionary and early Soviet settings. Second, the volume also expands and dwells on the concept of frontier zones as dynamic, mutable, shifting areas, characterized by multi-ethnicity, religious diversity, unstable loyalties, overlapping and contradictory models of governance, and an uneasy balance between peaceful co-existence and bloody military clashes. In this connection, studies pay special attention to forced and spontaneous migrations, and population politics in modern Eurasia