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"Good questionnaire design and high quality questionnaire translations are vital for data comparability in cross-national survey research. With the aim to ensure comparability and prevent unintended deviations, major academically-driven studies such as the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) or the European Social Survey (ESS) annotate the source questionnaire specifically
for translation, thus providing guidance on what needs to be considered in translation. This paper studies these translation annotations, a topic having received scant attention in research so far. The goal of this paper is to raise awareness on this special support structure in comparative
research as well as on potential pitfalls in questionnaire translation. To this end, first,
translation annotations, mainly from the ESS and the ISSP, are analyzed with a view to setting up a classification of translation annotations. Second, examples of annotation types are presented together with what questhey meant for translation. Third, merits of annotations and potential criticism are discussed. Fourth, guidelines are ventured for writing translation annotations as well as for working with them. Fifth, research fields are listed in order to further explore
the issue of translation annotations and its impact on translation and comparability." (author's abstract)

Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations examines the social and cultural aspects of the political violence that underpinned the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the multi-layered postcolonial realities that ensued. This book explores the reality of the lives of North African migrants in postcolonial France, with a particular focus on their access to political entitlements such as citizenship and rights. This reality is complicated even further by complex practices of memory undertaken by Franco-Maghrebian intellectuals, who negotiate, in their writings, between the violent memory of the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the contemporary conundrums of postcolonial migration. The book pursues thus the politics of (post)colonial memory by tracing its representations in literary, political, and visual narratives belonging to various Franco-Maghrebian intellectuals, who see themselves as living and writing between France and the Maghreb. By adopting a postcolonial perspective, a perspective quite marginal in International Relations, the book investigates a different international relations, which emerges via narratives of migration. A postcolonial standpoint is instrumental in understanding the relations between class, gender, and race, which interrogate and reflect more generally on the shared (post)colonial violence between North Africa and France, and on the politics of mediating violence through complex practices of memory.

The article presents the results of a workshop on "Supply & Demand in Teaching IR at Universities." The workshop focused on the problem of how to teach IR in a way that takes into consideration the different demands of future school teachers, scientists or practitioners within the German university system, which sometimes requires them to take only one international relations course during the undergraduate curriculum. To assure a certain comparable standard of quality of their training on the one hand & to contribute to improving the quality of teaching on the other, participants regarded two topics as critically important: The question of establishing a core curriculum in IR at German universities, & of conveying IR theory in more stimulating ways. The report presents five approaches to teaching IR & describes several proposals for projects that are designed to enable university teachers to receive a more systematic & continuous didactic training. 8 References. Adapted from the source document.

Der Autor beschreibt die Entwicklung des realistischen Paradigmas in den internationalen Beziehungen. Er identifiziert die Herausforderungen, denen der Realismus mit dem Zusammenbruch der bipolaren Ordnung und dem Ende des Kalten Krieges gegenübersteht. Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über verschiedene realistische Antworten auf die aktuellen internationalen Beziehungen. Es zeigt eine Konkurrenz zwischen systemisch orientierten Theorien und Ansätzen auf, die eine Vielzahl von Variablen auf Einheitenebene akzeptieren. So steht der Realismus vor einem klaren Dilemma, wie tief er in die innenpolitischen Nuancen der Außenpolitik eindringen, bzw. wie weit er die bisherige strukturelle und systemische Perspektive bewahren kann. Die Antwort des Realismus auf diese Herausforderung ist weder einfach noch eindeutig und trägt zu weiteren Spannungen innerhalb des realistischen Lagers bei.Dr. Jacek Więcławski erforscht Theorien der internationalen Beziehungen. Er ist Assistant Professor am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Ermland und Masuren in Olsztyn, Polen.