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The Legal and Institutional Framework Analyses represent the collected knowledge of the ELDIA-project in the field of law, politics and policies and of their institutional representations with regard to the languages studied in this research project. Each report examines one or two languages in their wider national and international context. The core scientific questions in the present law and policy studies are: What role is played by law in the use or non-use of different languages in different domains? What role is played by law in promoting or inhibiting language diversity as such? Finally, which factors related to legal and institutional matters influence language use, language maintenance and language diversity? Each study consists of three main parts: a) The overall legislative and institutional framework; b) Languages and minority policies in practice (a section which covers the discussions and the implementation, or non-implementation, of constitutional provisions, language legislation, education and media legislation) and c) an identification and analysis of the legal actors, i.e. persons, organisations, and public authorities engaged in the development, interpretation and monitoring (judicial and other) of the relevant legal frameworks. The law researchers involved in this part of the research have benefited greatly from the input of and interactions with the broad network of researchers represented in the project, and thus we are now even more convinced that contacts across scientific disciplines is a precondition for a deeper understanding of complex societal processes. The Legal and Institutional Framework Analyses shall form part of the background for the development of the comparative and interdisciplinary work that is currently taking place within the ELDIA-project. As all Working Papers published on the project website and within ELDIA, also these studies have been submitted to extensive project internal as well as external review under the supervision of Associate Professor, Jur. Dr., Sia ...

Over the past decade, the social sciences have witnessed an upsurge of interest in explorations of memory as it relates to the consolidation of nations, formation of new states and post-conflict reconstruction. In this context, remembrance is a process based on asymmetric power relations: selected collective perceptions of the dominant community are usually promoted, whereas the memories of non-dominant (minority) communities remain marginalised or they are perceived as opposing, even hostile "others". This article seeks to broaden the prevailing focus in social sciences by employing an interdisciplinary approach to discuss the controversial Russian film Matilda (dir. Alexei Uchitel, 2017), a costume drama about the love affair between the future Tsar Nikolai II and prima ballerina Matilda Feliksovna Kschessinskaya, and its reception in the Russian Federation and elsewhere. The article focuses on the issue of conflict between artistic freedom and the process of remembrance in the formation and consolidation of the nation and, indirectly, the nation-state, whereby film is taken as a tool for (selective) remembrance of history.

American secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld's characterization in early 2003 of an 'Old Europe' & a 'New Europe', provides particular challenges when applied to the exploration of European security. The 'New Europe' is a very elusive concept. As far as the Iraq war is concerned, the 'New European' states have less in common than the US secretary of defense might have thought. This is indicated by an exploration of specific factors that have affected the attitudes of supposed 'New European' states towards the Iraq war in general, & towards their own security in particular. Slovenia is particularly interesting in this regard, as a country that found it especially hard to address the 'New-Old' Europe dilemma. A theoretical framework for the analysis of this aspect of contemporary European diplomacy can be constructed on the basis of the two main positivist (rational) theories of International Relations: realism & liberalism, although neither offers any conclusive explanation of the post-Cold War division in Europe as constructed by Rumsfeld. 9 Tables. Adapted from the source document.