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Ukraine Between the Orange Revolution and the EU -- European Governance and Transformation in Ukraine / G.P.E. Walzenbach -- The Ukrainian Project : A Hard Road from National Independence to the "Orange Revolution" / Petro Kuzyk -- Aspects of Nationhood--or its Absence -- Nationalism and Mentality / Nenad Markovic' -- The Study of Religion in Bulgaria : A Challenged Legacy / Daniela Kalkandjieva -- The Absence of Transition in Belarus : "Neo-Soviet" Patriotism Instead of National Identity? / Josette Baer -- Economic Developments in Russia -- The Rationality of Paying for Healthcare / Maxim Ryabkov -- The Interaction of State and Business in Modern Russia / Marina Y. Malkina

This text should be understood as an interdisciplinary inquiry into one of the most successful US TV series:Breaking Bad(BB). I use political theory analysis, plot analysis that one could understand as textual analysis of the story, and my interpretations of the series' main characters.In the first chapter, I present a summary of the story of Walter White and how his decisions affect his family. In the second chapter, I analyse BB according to Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan. What Hobbes meant with his famous saying that man is man's wolf,thus a deadly reciprocal threat of all against all comes to life in Walter becoming a full-fledged criminal, murder and deception now the tools of his new chosen craft. Walter is breaking bad, ignoring societal norms and ethical values, pursuing relentlessly his plans of making money for his family, enjoying his new self as a powerful provider because that is what men do: they provide. The third chapter is dedicated to an analysis how Hannah Arendt's definitions of power, strength, authority, violence and judgement can explain Walter's change from Paulus to Saulus. In the conclusion, I shall present my thoughts about the series and answer the following research questions: first, why is the global public still so smitten with Walter White? Second, what can one learn from BB for our contemporaryconditio humanain the 21st century? Third, is Walter White the master of his life, thus self-determined (Selbstbestimmung), or is he dominated by forces outside of his own free will (Fremdbestimmung)?

In einer kultur- und sozialgeschichtlichen, mit zahlreichen Abbildungen illustrierten Studie werden die vielfältigen politischen Einflüsse auf die Mode, das Frauenbild und den life style in den Epochen des Stalinismus, der Entstalinisierung und der Zeit nach dem Prager Frühling untersucht. Mode war im Kalten Krieg stets auch ein identitätsstiftendes Moment des politisch-sozialen Systems. In der systemvergleichend angelegten Studie werden am Leitfaden der amerikanischen Modezeitschrift Vogue auf der einen Seite und tschechoslowakischen Frauenzeitschriften und Werbeplakaten auf der anderen Seite die Entwicklungen der Mode unter kapitalistisch-marktwirtschaftlichen und staatlich-planwirtschaftlichen Bedingun­gen dargestellt.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, when Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi were gaining international recognition for their seminal work in the new discipline of psychiatry in Austria-Hungary, progress in medicine and public healthcare were virtually non-existent in the Hungarian Highlands (Upper Hungary, Felvidék, Horná zem, the territory of today's Slovakia). Owing to political conditions, scientific development of Slovak medical research and psychiatry began only from 1918 on. My paper should be understood as an introduction to Slovak public healthcare with a focus on psychiatry in the Central European political context during the years following the First World War.