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Intensified European integration,enlargement of the EU,and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda.While many observers hesitate to embrace immigration emanating from outside Europe,sectoral skill shortages and social security systems under demographic pressure have fostered an almost unanimous call for larger mobility within Europe.Yet, neither does intra-European migration respond to this request,nor are the possible consequences of increased migration activity well understood.This paper embeds this discussion into a systematic classification of economic migration research according to its major conceptual and applied questions. The state of theoretical and empirical research in this literature is reviewed briefly,with a focus on intra-European migration.We conclude that the relatively positive assessment of this type of migration mainly derives from its high skill content.To prepare the prediction of future developments,we offer empirical evidence on the determinants of intra-EU-migration by an analysis of the Eurobarometer survey.Unless information deficits,traces of xenophobic tendencies,and the perception of prohibitively high levels of bureaucratic red tape are overcome,intra-European migration will not play the role it is hoped for.

1. The racial roots of property -- 2. Looting emancipation -- 3. All cops are bastards -- 4. White riot -- 5. Looted bread, stolen labor -- 6. No such thing as nonviolence -- 7. Using guns non-violently -- 8. Civil riots -- 9. The inhumanity of looters -- Conclusion: Out of the flames of Ferguson.

The article explores the hydropolitics of Lake Chad. Scientific and popular views on the fate of Lake Chad differ widely. The supposed 'disappearance' of the Lake through water abstraction and climate change is a popular myth that endures because it serves a large set of heterogeneous interests, including those supporting inter-basin water transfers. Meanwhile scientific investigations show substantial and continuing Lake level fluctuations over time, and do not support its projected disappearance. The task is to understand how the myth of the disappearing Lake has been engendered and used, by studying the discourses and the strategies of the main stakeholders involved. The Lake has been protected so far from massive water abstraction, and inter-basin transfer projects, due to the fragmentation of its political management, new security threats, and the piecemeal nature of the interests in play.Key words: Lake Chad; environmental myths; hydropolitics; political ecology; inter-basin transfers

A tale of two battles: narrating Verdun and the Somme, 1916 / John Horne -- The stories the First World War inherited: adaptations of Napoleonic veterans' memoirs, 1814-1914 / Matilda Greig -- The archive as narrator? narratives of German "enemy citizens" in the Netherlands after 1945 / Marieke Oprel -- Of triumph and defeat: World War II and its historians in post-war Germany / Christina Morina -- The imagery of war: screening the battlefield in the twentieth century / Frank van Vree -- The war books controversy revisited: First World War novels and veteran memory / Dunja Dusanic -- War and peace as a "paradoxical coherence": how the European Union uses the remembrance of the Great War to construct European identities / Peter Pichler -- History wars in school textbooks? the massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in Polish history textbooks since 1989 / Sylwia Bobryk -- "I was hurt and you were hurt too": the role of religion and competing narratives in the reconciliation process in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Marieke Zoodsma -- Hints of heroism, traces of trauma: trauma and narrative structure in interviews with Dutch and English international brigade volunteers of the Spanish Civil War / Tim Scheffe -- Digital survival? online interview portals and the re-contextualization of Holocaust testimonies / Susan Hogervorst -- Remembering the Sternlager of Bergen-Belsen: anecdotes, humour and poetry as survival strategies / Evelien Gans.

Leo Strauss (What Is Political Philosophy?, Glencoe, Ill: Free Press, 1959) proposes as a criterion for the adequacy of an interpretation of a philosophical text that it understand the "thought of a philosopher exactly as he understood himself." This claim is examined from the perspective of a newly formulated version of historicism. Knowledge cannot be regarded as a timeless entity, but rather as a continuing process within history. Thus, it is not possible either to isolate one moment in a thinker's life at which his thought formed a complete & unified system, or to isolate one's own reading from the accumulation of knowledge since the work read was first written. It is possible to recognize philosophical facts that represent the universal & permanent structure of human existence, but these facts are understood in a way subject to historical change & growth. In On Rules of Philosophic Interpretation: A Critique of Ryn's "Knowledge and History," Eugene F. Miller (U of Georgia, Athens) finds that Ryn does not develop Strauss's approach in a way consistent with what Strauss intended. This approach was intended to teach philosophic humility, & embodied a rejection of the historicist position that past thinkers can be understood better in the present than they understood themselves. Ryn's views do not appear to be historicist; further he does not refute Strauss's proposed rule, & disregards Strauss's own recognition that knowledge is not static or timeless. In Strauss and Knowledge: A Rejoinder, Claes G. Ryn finds that Miller's recommended intellectual humility is implicitly based on the idea that certain great thinkers are free of the tendencies to imprecision & incompleteness that are present in all other thinkers. Strauss's actual ideas contain a number of tensions & inconsistencies that Miller does not succeed in resolving; his repetition of Strauss's position does not establish any new basis from which that position might be defended. W. H. Stoddard.