Search Results - "Berlin Wall"
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'Gulag' mentality that is holding us back
Published 2009“…THE declaration of Sept 16 as a national holiday which happened quite close to the eve of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov 9, 1989 has special significance to Malaysians all over the country. …”
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Walls come tumbling down but not in Palestine
Published 2004“…Brought about by a tidal wave of democracy sweeping throughout Germany, the borders between West and East Germany were forced opened, literally through the cracks in the Berlin Wall. Erected on the night in August 1961, the barricade of barbed wires and cinder blocks was later replaced by a series of concrete walls of up to five metres high, guarded buy watchtowers, gun emplacements and mines. …”
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Temptations of Power: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East. By Shadi Hamid. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-19931405-8
Published 2017“…In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the “end of history.” The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won. But what of ‘illiberal’ democracy – the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedom, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? …”
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The monolingualism of identity or aporias from the end of the world: (indicial notes on Fogo cruzado)
Published 2002“…The prefatory text of Fogo cruzado is written in the long shadow of a Berlin Wall in imminent collapse, being the final spectacular effect of capitalism’s restructuring of its productive and reproductive spheres. …”
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The global public and its problems: a Deweyan examination of global democratic theory
Published 2013“…Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War there has been a new radicalism across the social sciences espousing the need for global democracy. …”
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Implication of Malaysia's Movement Control Order towards online news reading preference among public university students
Published 2022“…Online news publication had undergone revolutionary changes since the fall of Berlin Wall, 09 November 1989. When Malaysian Government regulated the Movement Control Order (MCO) beginning 18 March 2020 till 03 January 2022 to curb the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of online news reading became much more significant. …”
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Raymond Williams and the possibilities of ‘committed’ late Marxism
Published 2018“…A widely read collection of essays, quickly issued by Verso after the fall of the Berlin Wall, featured Jurgen Habermas. One of the European Left’s leading intellectuals, Habermas argued that socialists need to give up ideas of overthrowing the system and focus instead upon moral and cultural concerns. …”
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Laos in the Vietnam War: The politics of escalation, 1960-1973
Published 2008“…Compared to the contemporaneous Berlin Wall Crisis and Cuban Missile crisis, the events in Laos had been pushed back by scholars without it receiving much attention. …”
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Former German and future Korea: Unification
Published 2011“…At first, looked to history of divided of Germany and history of Berlin Wall. Second part, history of Korean peninsula, started with Korean War then divided of Korea. …”
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