Baltic Linguistics in Lithuania During a Century by Bonifacas Stundžia

“…It begins with relatively modest but ambitious pre-war research conducted by traditional philological and comparative historical methods. …”
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Trump and the Al Qaeda and ISIS Networks in Africa by Christopher Griffin

“…Trump’s rhetoric and stated policy about Africa contrasts with the reality on the ground, where the US considers the war on terrorism there to be strategically important. …”
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“Invading Your Hearts and Minds”: Call of Duty® and the (Re)Writing of Militarism in U.S. Digital Games and Popular Culture by Frédérick Gagnon

“…The goal of this article is to discuss how digital war games such as the Call of Duty series elicit consent for the U.S. military, militarism and the wars waged by the U.S. and its allies abroad. …”
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“Where Does My Hope Come From?”: P. D. James’s The Children of Men (1992) as a Christian Dystopia in the Context of the Late 20th Century Demographic Crisis by Suzanne Bray

“…While British dystopian works from the 1930s to the mid-1980s were primarily concerned with the fear of totalitarian regimes and/or nuclear war, by the last years of the twentieth century, the end of the Cold War meant that these worries were no longer so prevalent. …”
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Territorial control and the scope and resilience of cannabis and other illegal drug crop cultivation by Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy

“…The fact that total politico-territorial control by the state, no matter how powerful and resourceful, is deemed impossible, shows that the war on drugs is doomed to fail despite how many battles were won. …”
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Hiperrealitas dalam Permainan Video Daring: Simulasi, Simulakra, dan Hiperrealitas Garena Free Fire by Anak Agung Ngurah Agung Suryadipta Wardhana

“…Hyperreality can be seen from the war simulations contained in the course of the game, the weapons used, the selected characters that players can use, to the virtual world that becomes the battle arena. …”
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SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF FOREIGN POLICY OF NICHOLAS I (ACCORDING THE MEMORIES OF CONTEMPORARIES) by E. P. Kudryavtseva

“…They left valuable remembrance about all important foreign-policy cases the Russian Emperor was involved in: Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829), contacts with the Balkan states, Eastern Question within the framework of the Russian role in the course of events of the Egyptian–Ottoman War (1832–1833); hostility against French Revolutions and contacts with the allied Prussia and the Austrian Empire. …”
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(In)securitising post-Soviet Space through Security Policies: Russian and the Western Concerns on the Colour Revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia by Fatih YAŞAR, Muharrem DOĞAN

“…This article mainly elaborates the relations between Russia and the West during and after the Cold War. Both sides saw each other as a security threat during the Cold War. …”
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Henry Rider Haggard in Zululand: A Reluctant Imperialist? by Marie-Claude BARBIER

“…Those years were crucial in the history of the country because of the two deadly conflicts fought by the British: the Anglo-Zulu War and the first Boer war, both marked by the traumatic defeats at Isandhlwana and Majuba Hill. …”
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The Functional Role of Historical Analogies in Russian and Ukrainian Presidential Discourses on the Special Military Operation by Vladimir O. Bekliamishev

“…The dominant ontology, set by a parallel with the Great Patriotic War, assumed the collective West as an enemy, that uses Ukraine as a “foothold”. …”
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The 2nd Guards Tank Army in the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by V. O. Daynes

“…One of the greatest battles of the Great Patriotic and also the World War II took place on the outskirts of the capital of Nazi Germany on April 16, 1945. …”
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CIRCULATION OF MILITARY KNOWLEDGE: THE FRENCH AND DANISH MILITARY REFORMS OF COMTE DE SAINT-GERMAIN IN THE LATE 18TH CENTURY by Hanna Sonkajärvi

“…This paper contrasts the image of Saint-Germain and his politics in the eyes of his contemporaries and in the historiography with his own writings and ordinances, from the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) to his renouncement as French Secretary of War in 1777.…”
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Aryanization Bureaucrats in Post-Holocaust Romania by Stefan Cristian Ionescu

“… This article investigates the post-war life trajectories and careers of eight Aryanization (»Romanianization«) bureaucrats who were involved in the persecution and dispossession of Jews during the pro-Nazi Antonescu regime (September 1940–August 1944). …”
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Le Kivu dans la guerre : acteurs et enjeux by Roland Pourtier

“…Once again, it’s war time in Kivu. In spite of the United Nation’s mission (MONUC) that tries to put an end to the turmoil in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, an other conflict has popped up in the heart of the African continent. …”
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Social Mobility in the Balkans: Border Policing Practices Are Potentially Letting Through Mostly the Members of the “Elite Club” by Tibor Bardóczy

“…Although it has been almost eighty years since the end of the Second World War, certain regions are not peaceful even now. …”
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Lvov and Sandomir Offensive Operation: the Look 70 Years by V. B. Makovskiy

“…Successful advances of Soviet troops in Belarus created in the middle of July 1944 favorable conditions for large-scale operations on the southern flank of the Soviet-German front to complete the liberation of Ukraine and Moldova, driving Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria out of war, and driving the enemy from Czechoslovakia. …”
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Land Conflict, Territorial Reconfiguration and the Values Tied to Land in the Cahabón Mountains (Guatemala) by Agnès Bergeret

“…These accounts provide additional elements that help to understand the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996), often interpreted through the prism of the Cold War, i.e. counter-revolutionary strategies led by a military regime against communist guerrillas. …”
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“The Workshop for the Nation’s Soul” vs. “A Rabbi Factory”—Contrasting the Lithuanian Yeshiva with the Rabbinical Seminary by Asaf Yedidya

“…The Lithuanian rabbis held to the supremacy of the Lithuanian Yeshiva model. However, until World War II, they saw the Orthodox rabbinical seminary as an institute suitable to its time and place—Germany, most of whose Jews were liberal—and did not consider it able to produce a Torah scholar worthy of his name. …”
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CONCERNING THE USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES BY THE SECRETARIAT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF UKRAINE IN PERFORMING ITS FUNCTIONS by Darya Barvitska

“…The objective of the proposed action is to support to the Ukrainian authorities in the reform of the Court during the war and in the post-war context in line with the recommendations of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) and Council of Europe standards [4; P.10]. …”
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Soviet Russia/the USSR and transformation of the international relations system in the first half of the 1920s by E. V. Romanova

“…The paper examines the formation of the Soviet state and its place within the European international relations system in the first half of the 1920s both in the context of new principles of interstate interaction, the character of economic relations between countries, and geopolitical transformations triggered by the First World War. The first section covers the political and ideological aspects of relations between Soviet Russia/the USSR and Western countries. …”
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