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"This book develops a comparative analysis of the relationship between Western art music, nations and nationalism. It explores the influence of emergent nations and nationalism on the development of classical music in Europe and North America and examines the distinctive themes, sounds and resonances to be found in the repertory of each of the nations. Its scope is broad, extending well beyond the period 1848-1914 when national music flourished most conspicuously. The interplay of music and nation encompasses the oratorios of Handel, the open-air music of the French Revolution and the orchestral works of Beethoven and Mendelssohn and extends into the mid-twentieth century in the music of Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Copland. The book addresses the representation of the national community, the incorporation of ethnic vernacular idioms into art music, the national homeland in music, musical adaptations of national myths and legends, the music of national commemoration and the canonisation of national music

My dissertation on Chinese writers and artists that traveled abroad to Paris from the 1920s to 1940s discusses several intersections between modern Chinese literature and visual art and consists of five chapters. The first chapter, an introduction, provides historical background and contextualization of the study abroad movement in China and the significance of dreaming in literature, as well as a comparison of travel writing in the Western and Chinese traditions. The four subsequent chapters focus on the bilingual, experimental verse of modernist poet Li Jinfa; Chang Yu's nude and chrysanthemum oil paintings; Fu Lei's travel writing and art criticism; and humorous travel sketches by the fiction writer Xu Xu. Throughout my dissertation, I argue that these four young men were shaped by their travels to France in the first half of the 20th century. Faced with a French culture in decline, these travelers detached themselves in varying degrees from the mainstream ideology of political revolution and the discourse of national salvation during the Republican era. They chose instead to retreat to alternative spaces of the imagination, dreams, and classical aesthetics, and as a result were marginalized by the national canons of literature and art history. I read the motif of dream in their work, as a symbol of their political detachment, nostalgia for home, and disillusionment with Western modernity. My project is in dialogue with current scholarship in modern Chinese studies, comparative literature, world literature, and diaspora studies. Paris, long a site in the modern Chinese cultural imaginary, incited equal feelings of hope and disillusionment in Chinese youth. These diverse views of home, travel, and detachment can help us consider questions about the role of translation and the circulation of bodies and literature during this early moment of encountering modernity, when artists and writers were forced to negotiate their national identity in the increasingly divided political sphere from a place distinctly outside of China. This earlier period also informs the contemporary era of globalization and transnationalism, in which China plays a new role as a global economic power, and questions about translation continue to persist

The global war on terror has raised debates between liberals and realists on the position of ethics in intelligence operations. On the one hand, liberal ethicists insist that the conduct of intelligence gathering to counter terrorism must not violate the security rights of citizens. On the other hand, proponents of realism consider national security to be of greater importance than ethical principles governing individual freedom. This article tries to present an alternative point of view by examining the consequence of ethical criticisms of intelligence activities on the Indonesian government's counterterrorism measures. It proposes two approaches to understanding the connection between ethics and intelligence: examining the nature of the terror threat, and looking at the sociopolitical situations which affect the role of the state's security agencies. Arguably, securitizing intelligence by enforcing an ethical reconceptualization of intelligence roles increases the challenges facing Indonesia's intelligence operatives and damages the effectiveness of the government's counterterrorism policy.

Nachdem der Marxismus-Leninismus in seiner klassischen Form eine Niederlage erlitten hat, üben die russischen Kommunisten jetzt eine partielle Selbstkritik mit dem Ziel, der alten Ideologie eine neue Gestalt zu verleihen. Es gibt in der russischen KP verschiedene recht 'häretische' Auffassungen bis hin zu einer radikalen Kritik an Lenin. Allerdings macht diese Kritik immer noch vor Marx halt. Der militante Antisemitismus ist tot. Die Kommunisten sind zu einem Bündnis mit der Kirche im sozialen und ethischen Bereich bereit. Als Hauptfehler des Realsozialismus wird die unkritische Übernahme der produktionstechnologischen Basis und des Konsumideals des Kapitalismus gesehen. Die intensive Diskussion über den Stalinismus verläuft diffus. Sie reicht von der Glorifizierung Stalins bis zu seiner Verurteilung als Liquidator des Marxismus. Der Rückblick auf die Geschichte der KPdSU ist durch die These von den 'zwei Parteien' geprägt. Der Sozialismus bleibt das Ziel der russischen Kommunisten. Vorbild ist die gemischte Wirtschaft der Leninschen 'Neuen Ökonomischen Politik'. Im Kampf gegen westliche Ideologien greift die russische KP auch auf 'erzreaktionäre' Denker wie Leontjew und Danilewskij zurück. Hier nimmt der neue kommunistische Eklektizismus zum Teil groteske Züge an. (ICE2)

'Vertrauen hat in den Sozialwissenschaften in letzter Zeit erheblich an Beachtung gewonnen. Nicht selten erfolgt dabei eine wenig reflektierte Übertragung von Funktionen und Mechanismen des sozialen Kapitals auf die politische Sphäre. Politisches Vertrauen wird kurzerhand zum Schlüssel funktionsfähiger Demokratie stilisiert. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag werden einige ausgewählte Probleme dieser Übertragung theoretisch und empirisch analysiert. Dabei zeigt sich, daß zwischen sozialem und politischem Vertrauen und insbesondere zwischen Vertrauen/Mißtrauen als Kategorien politischer Unterstützung und Vertrauens- sowie Mißtrauensbereitschaft als Kategorien politischer Tugendnormen schärfer unterschieden werden sollte.' (Autorenreferat)

Books reviewed in this article:Shawn Johansen, Family Men: Middle–Class Fatherhood in Industrializing AmericaMartin A. Berger, Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age ManhoodMatthew Basso, Laura McCall and Dee Garceau (eds), Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West

Nell'area culturale italiana Malta, il suo centro piu' meridionale, presenta alcune caratteristiche singolari. La prima considerazione non puo' non riguardare lo stato politico che nel 1802 vede l'annessione dell'isola all'impero britannico. Il fatto piu' sorprendente pero' e' che il dominio inglese non interrompe (e non combatte prima del 1879) la tradizione plurisecolare di appartenenza culturale all'Italia che continuera' fino alla vigilia della seconda guerra mondiale. ; peer-reviewed

This review of Richard Whitman's Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France (Routledge, 2007) examines the relationship between architectural discourse and political power in Frame from 1671 until the end of the ancient regime. The volume successfully foregrounds the socio-political functions of architectural writing, though the use of Habermas' thesis proves to be less convincing. Some of his arguments also tend to be simplistic or schematics .Nonetheless, this volume is a valuable contribution to the study of French architecture during the eighteenth century.

Acknowledgments -- Catalan Identity: Preface -- Chapter 1. Catalan Identities: Literature, Social Commitment, and Political Engagement in the 20th century; Pompeu Casanovas, Montserrat Corretger, Vicent Salvador -- Part I. Identity: Law, Philosophy, Literature and Language -- Chapter 2. Catalan Identities: Language, Power and Political Pactism from a Historical Perspective; Pompeu Casanovas -- Chapter 3. Catalan Identity Projected Abroad: The Example of the Journal Cataluña (1907-1908); Emili Samper -- Chapter 4. Essay and Philosophy in Catalan Culture from 1940 to 1960; Joan Cuscó -- Chapter 5. Language Policies in Contemporary Catalonia: A History of Linguistic and Political Ideas; Narcís Iglesias -- Part II. Humanities in Exile -- Chapter 6. Carles Riba: An Intellectual Between Poetry and Politics; Jordi Malé -- Chapter 7. Identity and Memory in the 1939 Catalan Literature of Exile; Montserrat Corretger -- Chapter 8. Catalan Translation in Chile in the Exile of 1939; Montserrat Bacardí -- Part III. Writing under Francoism -- Chapter 9. Joan Oliver Under the Surveillance of Francoist Police (1948-1977); Francesc Foguet -- Chapter 10. Manuel de Pedrolo or The Political Dimension of Existentialism; Xavier Ferré Trill -- Chapter 11. Social Engagement and Urban Identity in the Catalan Novel of the 1970s; Adolf Piquer -- Chapter 12. Spatiality and Valencian/Catalan Identity in the Poetry of Vicent Andrés Estellés; Vicent Salvador -- Part IV. Literature as Social Commitment and Political Engagement -- Chapter 13. Individualism, Madness and Revolution in the Catalan Novel Under the 2nd Republic: Perot i l'Estel by Antoni Fuster Valldeperas; Magí Sunyer -- Chapter 14. Memory and Identity through some Valencian Writers' Autobiographical Texts; Anna Esteve -- Chapter 15. Fantasy, History, and Politics: Jaume Fuster's Trilogy, or the Undone Catalan Nation; Alfons Gregori -- Chapter 16. And the turbid azure of being three times a rebel: Commitment and Identity in the Literary Works of M. Aurèlia Capmany, Montserrat Roig and M. Mercè Marçal; M. Àngels Francés -- Part 5. Extending into the 21st century -- Chapter 17. Catalan's Presence on the Internet (1993-2018); Peter Gerrand -- Chapter 18. Under Construction: Literature and Identities in Contemporary Catalan Culture; Stewart King -- Index