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The growing interdependence of the local and the global demand innovative approaches to human development. Such approaches, the author argues, ought to be based on the emerging ethics of global intelligence, defined as the ability to understand, respond to, and work toward what will benefit all human beings and will support and enrich all life on this planet. As no national or supranational authority can predefine or predetermine it, global intelligence involves long-term, collective learning processes and can emerge only from continuing intercultural research, dialogue, and cooperation. In this book, the author elaborates the basic principles of a new field of intercultural studies, oriented toward global intelligence. He proposes concrete research and educational programs that would help create intercultural learning environments designed to stimulate sustainable human development throughout the world

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Acknowledgements -- Mihai I. Spariosu: Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part One. Intercultural Contact: Applied Theories -- Victor Neumann: Between Orthodox Byzantium and Catholic Europe: Banat and Its Multiple-Coded Cultural Legacies -- Bibliography -- Mihai I. Spariosu: Cultural or Intercultural Studies in East-Central Europe? Preliminary Observations -- Bibliography -- Vasile Boari: Identity Crisis and the Failure of Multiculturalist Policies in the New Europe -- Formulating the questions -- The Judaeo-Christian legacy -- The Main Elements of European Identity at Present -- The Challenges of European Identity -- The Crisis of the European Identity -- Multiculturalism: Definitions, Typologies, and Brief History -- Interculturalism versus Multiculturalism -- The Failure of Multiculturalism as Public Policy in Western Europe -- Does Multiculturalism Represent a Challenge to New Europe's identity? -- Multiculturalism and the European Identity -- Bibliography -- Daniela Cervinschi: Beyond Assimilation and Multiculturalism: Theories and Policies in Cultural Diversity Management -- 1. Theories of Assimilation -- 2. Acculturation Theory -- 3. Multiculturalism and Post-Multiculturalism -- Transnationalism and Post-Multiculturalism -- Transnationalism -- Post-Multiculturalism -- 4. Interculturalism versus Multiculturalism -- 5. Moldavian Multiculturalism - A Failed Experiment -- Gagauzian territorial autonomy - a form of multiculturalism -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- References -- Part Two. Intercultural Contact: Case Studies in Banat and Transylvania, 1849-1939 -- Lorand Madly: Neoabsolutism and Liberalism: Nation and Habsburg Politics after 1848 -- References.