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1. Introduction -- Part One: Between Wars? 1945-1967 -- 2. Origins: The World In 1946 -- 3. The Struggle For Europe -- 4. Nuclear Perils -- 5. Asian Theaters -- 6. Decolonization and Third World Struggles -- 7. Khrushchev and Kennedy -- Part Two: Living in the Cold War -- 8. National Security and Repression -- 9. Spies, Saboteurs, and Defectors -- 10. Cold War Cultures -- Part Three: The Struggle Redefined: 1968-1991 -- 11. Crisis of Ideologies: The World in 1968 -- 12. A Cold Peace, or War by Other Means? -- 13. Four Minutes to Midnight: The World in 1980 -- 14. The New Struggle -- 15. Endgame -- 16. Conclusion: Winners, Losers, and Inheritors.

At the heart of modern Japan there remains an intractable and divisive social problem with its roots in pre-history, namely the ongoing social discrimination against the D?wa communities, otherwise known as Buraku. Their marginalization and isolation within society as a whole remains a veiled yet contested issue. Buraku studies, once largely ignored within Japan's academia and by scholarly publishers, have developed considerably in the first decades of the twenty-first century, as the extensive bibliographies of both Japanese and English sources provided here clearly demonstrates. The authors of the present study published in Japanese in 2016 and translated here by the Oxford scholar Ian Neary, have been able to incorporate this most recent data. Because of its importance as the first Buraku history based on this new research, a wider readership was always the authors' principal focus. Yet, it also provides a valuable source book for further study by those wishing to develop their knowledge about the subject from an informed base. This history of the Buraku communities and their antecedents is the first such study to be published in English

Research undertaken during the last few years illustrates a major mismatch between educational systems worldwide and occupations in the labour market. The literature focuses both on educational and job mismatches however the aim of this paper is to compare only the situation concerning educational mismatches. For the aim of this paper, two large sets of international data were chosen to show effects of educational mismatch. In the first part, selected results of PIAAC survey are presented. In the analytical part, data from European Social Survey ESS5 collected in the years 2010 and 2011 in selected EU countries were used. The first part of the paper provides a literature background presented so far (e.g. Dolton, Galasi, Hartog, Chevalier, Levels, and McGuinness etc.) as well as methods used to identify this mismatch both by employers and employees. The European Social Survey data were used for modified Mincer's earnings equation in the second part of the paper and regression estimates proved that overeducation is a very important issue in all developed countries. The results also introduce data on returns on investment in education based on the human capital theory which helps to explain overeducation and undereducation differences in earnings taking into account different circumstances as e.g. variation in informal human capital and skill of workers, their abilities acquired in on-the-job training and also other overeducation and undereducation considered as a temporary phenomenon. It is a great challenge to the relevance of more investment in education. Even though the current situation in educational policies supports an increasing number of university graduates, both the graduates and employers have to face a misbalance on the labour market and lower individual satisfaction. The results confirm the findings of some of previous studies and offer a platform for further discussion of educational mismatch across Europe.

JEL Classification: G01, G20, H81 ; We assemble a new data set on bank failures, bailout with public finances, in the European Union (E.U.), in the wake of the on-going financial crisis. Our model is estimated with data on 444 commercial banks from 19 countries in Europe over 2004-2010, which yields a sample of 1,504 unbalanced panel observations. Results show that bank failures were critically determined by financial accounting information and macroeconomic conditions, and that macroeconomic information improves the forecasting ability of our model over and above financial accounting information. The predictors from our model can be used by monetary authorities to predict bank failures, and the probabilities to assess pressure in the banking sector, the pricing of credit, and their derivatives. Our findings are consistent with recent regulatory impositions in the Basel setting that require banks to hold higher capital levels and lower risks. ; Reunimos um conjunto de dados recentes sobre bancos com eventos de incumprimento e de resgate financeiro estatal, na União Europeia (U.E.), no contexto da actual crise financeira. O modelo foi estimado com dados de 444 bancos comerciais de 19 países da U.E. para o período de 2005-2010, o que produziu uma amostra de 1.504 observações, em painel não balanceado. Os resultados mostram que os eventos de incumprimento e resgate nos bancos considerados foram significativamente influenciados pelos seus dados contabilísticos e pelas condições macroeconómicas do país de origem, sendo que os dados macroeconómicos aumentam a capacidade de previsão do modelo muito além dos dados contabilísticos. As variáveis explicativas do nosso modelo podem ser usadas pelas autoridades monetárias a nível mundial para prever eventos de incumprimento de bancos e avaliar eventuais pressões no sector financeiro resultantes das políticas de crédito. Os nossos resultados são consistentes com as recentes imposições regulamentares de Basileia, que exigem que os bancos mantenham níveis mais altos de capital e níveis de risco mais baixos.

In Europe and throughout the world, competence in English is spreading at a speed never achieved by any language in human history. This apparently irresistible growing dominance of English is frequently perceived and sometimes indignantly denounced as being grossly unjust. Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World starts off arguing that the dissemination of competence in a common lingua franca is a process to be welcomed and accelerated, most fundamentally because itprovides the struggle for greater justice in Europe and in the world with an essential weapon: a cheap medium of communica