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Luca Ratti examines how German reunification and the end of the Quadripartite Agreement in 1990 impacted the Anglo#65533;e""American special relationship. He considers Anglo#65533;e""American views of Germany as Soviet domination over Eastern Europe began to waver

Based on new and existing archival documentation, this book provides a detailed analysis of the British attitude to Bonn's Eastern and inner-German policies during the period of detente and the CSCE. Each chapter analyses the evolution of British policy on a particular issue area, making detailed comparisons of British and West German archival sources and outlining the main aspects of the British view of West Germany's relations with the Soviet bloc states and the German Democratic Republic. Drawing upon the archives of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and of the West German foreign ministr

AbstractA recent article by Herzog provides a much-needed integration of ethical and epistemological arguments in favor of explicable AI (XAI) in medicine. In this short piece, I suggest a way in which its epistemological intuition of XAI as "explanatory interface" can be further developed to delineate the relation between AI tools and scientific research.

This article examines the work of Indian-American poet Meena Alexander (1951-2018), one of postcolonial India's foremost poets, and argues that Alexander's combination of religion and secularism in her poetry gestures toward postsecular possibilities and conditions, especially as such postsecularism emerges from the worldly crises and violence of the twenty-first century. The secularisms that inform Alexander's work include state secularism in postcolonial India, and political and philosophical secularism in the west, especially in the US. In addition to these senses of secularism, I explore the secular as worldly, material, and historical, all three of which include the embodiments of gender, race, migration, and dislocation, especially as Alexander describes them in her collection of essays Poetics of Dislocation (2009). How can postcolonial poetry gesture toward, explore, and search for—in highly personal, experimental ways—some sense of affirmative values in the wake of the dissatisfactions and disenchantments of philosophical secularism, while retaining the inclusive, democratic aspirations of political secularism (as non-establishment of religion in the state)? What values and aesthetic forms—however precarious, fragile, and tentative—emerge for the postcolonial, transnational, dislocated poet, values that cannot return to the ideologies of religions that have so fueled violence?

The coronavirus crisis is exacerbating in-work poverty in the EU—and a powerful raft of labour-market and welfare measures is needed for an adequate response.