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The book by Nicholas Buckley, professor at the Universidad Metropolitana del Ecuador, is the result of an oral history study based on interviews with 7 former activists of ETA who have served prison sentences. The monograph has both practical and theoretical value: the author aims to create a holistic narrative of the Basque conflict, complementing the existing positions with the life stories of the activists themselves, debating with a number of well-established theses on the problem. The practical significance of the work lies in the possibility of integrating the results of the study into the mechanisms of transitional justice in order to overcome the legacy of the political conflict that resulted in human casualties and systematic violation of human rights. The book may be of interest not only for historians, political scientists and ethnologists who study the Basque Country, but also for researchers who use the oral history method, since the author of the monograph presents extensive material on the application of this method within a specific case.

The article focuses on the study of the current stage of the Basque and Northern Irish ethno-political conflicts. The research methods are comparative analysis and drama theory. Researchers from different fields have addressed the problem of comparing these conflicts, but a large proportion of these publications are related to the period of terrorist activity; this study complements the existing scientific base with studying the current stage that has come after the cessation of hostilities in both territories. Despite the fact that at the moment both regions are not "hot spots", and in Northern Ireland the issue has been formally settled, nationalist sentiments continue to be on top of the agenda, as evidenced by the steady support of nationalist parties and projects in both regions. In this regard, the author aims to formulate the essential characteristics and a number of trends of the current stage of conflicts that need to be taken into consideration both in the formation of regional policy and at the European level, which is especially significant for the European Union, where most of the participating states are somehow involved in such ethno-political conflicts.

The article addresses the issue of organizational culture of political actors within the principles of natural and self-learning organization. The relevance of the subject is determined by the formation of the system of public authority, as well as the need to create conceptual stability in relation to the organizational culture of the political actor. As a result, the orientations of actors (be it the state or actors inside/outside the state) on confirmantropic or negantropic biopolitics may be developed. Methodologically, the article is based on the theory of organizational metaphors by G.Morgan, the approaches of P.Senge, F.Selznick, and the concept of biopolitics by M.Foucault. Asserting the epistemological significance of the analytical separation of natural and self-learning organization in the analysis of actors, the authors assume that there is a duality and possible coexistence of these approaches in the study of the organizational culture of political actors. Such a phenomenon became possible due to the biopolitical revolution that leveled this gap. As a result, there is a paradoxical possibility of the formation of a negantropic biopolitics that denies the significant role of an autonomous individual and leadership, suggesting a rejection of the emergence of self-learning political actors.