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It is the unalterable fate and the inevitable risk of any debt that its value is closely connected with the fate and actions of the debtor whose assets are subject to the liability. This applies especially to the public debts of a belligerent state whose wealth and resources, and sometimes its very existence, are at stake. The domestic laws of almost every civilized country protect the creditor against the effects of legal changes and of non-remunerative mutations affecting all or an important portion of the property subject to the liability. This liability remains with the transferred property. To a certain extent it is legally vested in the person who succeeds to the property rights.

Examines postconflict reconstruction of failed states; security, justice and reconciliation, socioeconomic well-being, governance and participation, and strategic democracy building and US states; 6 articles. Contents: Toward postconflict reconstruction, by John J. Hamre and Gordon R. Sullivan; Building better foundations: security in postconflict reconstruction, by Scott Feil; Dealing with demons: justice and reconciliation, by Michèle Flournoy and Michael Pan; Achieving socioeconomic well-being in postconflict settings, by Johanna Mendelson Forman; Governing when chaos rules: enhancing governance and participation, by Robert Orr; Strategic democracy building: how U.S. states can help, by Bill Owens and Troy A Eid.

Verglichen mit dem Marshallplan ist die westliche Hilfe für die Nachfolgestaaten der ehemaligen UdSSR eher bescheiden ausgefallen. Der Autor analysiert die Ursachen für diese Diskrepanz und stellt die kontrovers geführte Diskussion unter westlichen Politikern und Experten über Sinn, Umfang und Zielsetzung westlicher Finanzhilfe an die GUS-Staaten dar. Er plädiert insbesondere für erhöhte Finanzhilfen an Rußland, da die makroökonomische Stabilisierung dieses Staates positive Folgewirkungen in der gesamten Rubelzone haben wird. (BIOst-Srt)

Yugoslav scholarship about the Spanish Civil War, specifically the Yugoslav volunteers who fought in the International Brigades, was almost exclusively tied to the partisan struggle during the Second World War and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Many countries in the Soviet bloc published books about their heroes who fought fascism before Western Europe reacted and raised monuments to Spanish Civil War veterans. However, many lost their lives during Stalinist purges of the late 1940s and early 1950s since they were potentially compromised cadres who returned to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and other countries only after the Red Army's occupation. Yugoslav volunteers, however, generally had a more prominent status in the country (and historiography) since the Yugoslav resistance movement liberated the country with only minimal support from the Soviet Union.

Reading the psychological literature on memory, there is little doubt who plays the leading roles on this stage. The radiant hero in the limelight is Remembering, attracting all attention, support and sympathy. The shady villain is Forgetting, the trouble maker who is lurking behind the scenes, always ready to counteract Remembering and thwart its achievement. There are various scenarios in which this plot is acted out. Typically, Remembering is forced to use all kinds of tricks to resist the villain's assaults and to guard the treasure – the accumulated wealth of past experience and knowledge. While Remembering strives to defend this precious treasure, maintaining it as untouched as possible, Forgetting never tires of trying to steal and destroy it (or at least to damage or, insidiously, to distort and falsify it). In this way, the conflict about the treasure of the past takes on still another dramatic dimension: it becomes a struggle for truth. (Brockmeier 2002, 15)