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"From the end of the Mongol Empire to today, Russian history is a tale of cultural, political, economic and military interaction with Western powers. The depth of this relationship has created a geopolitical dilemma: Russia has persistently been both attracted to and at odds with Western ideas and technological development, which have tended to threaten Russia's sense of identity and create destabilizing divisions within society. Simultaneously, deepening involvement in Western international affairs brought meddling in Russian domestic politics and military invasion. This book examines how the centuries-old Western threat has shaped Russia's political and strategic structures, creating a culture of security rooted in vigilance against Western influence and interference"--

National security --- History. --- Russia --- Soviet Union --- Russia (Federation) --- Western countries --- Western countries --- Western countries --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations

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The civilizing mission associated with nineteenth-century colonialism became harder to justify after the First World War. In an increasingly anti-imperialist culture, elites reformulated schemes for the "improvement" of "inferior" societies. Nation building, social engineering, humanitarianism, modernization or the spread of democracy were used to justify outside interventions and the top-down transformation of non-western, international or even domestic societies. The contributions in Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century discuss how these justifications influenced Polish nation building, Scandinavian disarmament proposals and technocratic social policies in the interwar years. Treatment of the second half of the century covers the changing cultural context of European humanitarianism, as well as the influence of American social science on US foreign policy, more particularly democracy promotion. Contributors are: Boris Barth, Rolf Hobson, Jurgen Osterhammel, Frank Ninkovich, Bianka Pietrow-Ennker, Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Esther Moeller, and Jost Dulffer.

World politics --- 1900-1999 --- Western countries --- Foreign relations.

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Debts, Public --- Developing countries --- Western countries --- Economic conditions

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Architecture --- Architecture. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Buildings --- Design and construction

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Das Wissen über die unterschiedlichen Stadtbausteine gehört zum grundlegenden Handwerkszeug jeder städtebaulichen Planung. Aus diesen Bausteinen sind unsere Städte und Quartiere zusammengefügt. Für das städtebauliche Entwerfen ist es unerlässlich, ihre Form und Struktur, die funktionalen Bedingungen, ihre Differenzierung von privaten und öffentlichen Bereichen sowie die Vernetzung mit dem Umfeld zu verstehen. Die Beschäftigung mit den Stadtbausteinen stellt einen ersten Schritt dar, die gebaute Struktur der Stadt als physischen und sozialen Lebensraum zu begreifen und als solchen weiter zu entwickeln.Themen: die Reihe der Block der Hof (der umgekehrte Block) die Passage die Zeile der Solitär die Gruppe die "Kiste" (der Shed) Our cities and neighborhoods are composed of Urban Building Blocks and a knowledge of these elementary components is part of the basic equipment of city planning. It is absolutely essential for urban design that one understands their form and structure, their functional conditions, and the differentiation into private and public spheres, as well as the ways they are networked into their surroundings. Study of these city building blocks represents a first step toward understanding, and successfully developing the built structure of the city as a physical and social habitat.Themes are - the row, - the block, - the courtyard (the block in reverse), - the passageway, - the line, - the solitaire, - the group, - the "shed".

Architecture. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Architecture, Primitive