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The article deals with preconditions and implications of a major event in the history of international relations of our country, namely – the restoration of diplomatic relations between the USSR and Israel. This development, which took place in 1989, on the eve of the demise of the Soviet Union, must be viewed as a result of the general review of the whole system of interstate relationships that had dominated Moscow's foreign policy for decades. It was part of a major change destined to restructure Russia's role in the world community.

In Post-History, Vilém Flusser asks the essential question: Is there any room left for freedom in a programmed world? Written as a series of lectures to be delivered at universities in Brazil, Israel, and France, this first English translation of Post-History brings to an anglophone readership Flusser's first critique of apparatus as the aesthetic, ethical, and epistemological model of present times.

(First published in French as "La Geopolitique dans l'histoire," in Espaces temps 68-69-70, pp 187-201.) Geopolitical representations are not only located but also dated. As a geohistoric rationale for a political plan, geopolitics is as old as the political "discourse" on territory & power. But while geopolitics has been discernible since ancient times, this mode of action only became incontestable with the Westphalian state that, on its creation, bore the mark of three principles: the primacy of politics, unity of identity, & territory. During the following centuries, three different stances can be noted: the imperial model, the state model, & the universal model. In each case a historical situation (imperial competition, war, redistribution) leads to the setting up of an explanatory model of itself, & this dynamic is the basis for a representation that becomes the starting point for assessments of competition that will themselves be translated in a new way. A fourth family of models, "neo-geopolitics" has recently emerged. Supplemented with ethnopolitics, neo-geopolitics is making way for dubious entrepreneurs who have reinvested anti-imperialist & anticapitalist phraseology in a process of justifying "rebirths" & other fundamentalisms. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Business History: Concepts and Measurement -- Production, Employment and Labour Productivity in the British Coalfields, 1830-1913: Some Reinterpretations -- 'Wealthy and Titled Persons' - The Accumulation of Riches in Victorian Britain: The Case of Peter Denny -- British Entrepreneurs in Distribution and the Steel Industry -- Interpreting the Record of Wage Negotiations under an Arbitral Regime: A Game Theoretic Approach to the Coal Industry Conciliation Boards, 1893-1914 -- Competition, Co-operation and Nationalisation in the Nineteenth Century Telegraph System -- The Birth and Death of Firms in England and Wales during the Inter-War Years -- Locational Choice, Performance and the Growth of British Multinational Firms -- Index

When I'm at a party and tell people that I teach American history, I often hear either, "You know, I'm fascinated by the Civil War" or a disquisition about a favorite president or something about a family's past. Sometimes this response sparks an interesting conversation; often I turn glassy-eyed. No matter what, though, I like the response, because it suggests that people outside of academe have a desire to understand their own past. You can see that desire all around you—in museums, best-selling books written by David McCullough, and Hollywood movies about everything from the American Revolution to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

If history is a sort of radar for the ship of state, then the machine has broken down, just at the point where Gordon Brown, trained as a historian, takes over control. Caught up in the best‐seller business, popularised on TV, it has come to reflect metropolitan commercial drives, the obsessions of The Hitler Channel or the 'publish or be damned' ethos of the Research Assessment Exercise. Fashionable discourses about identity and postmodern consumerism, and the palsied traditions of Fogeydomboth remote from the basic business of getting, spending and governing‐may offer a niche‐marketing future, but are more likely to speed the vessel towards the rocks.