The Lebanese connection: corruption, civil war, and the international drug traffic
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 606-608, September 2013.
Archiv für September 2013
Foreign policy and development in the post-Lisbon European Union
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 519-535, September 2013.
China, the European Union and global governance
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 608-609, September 2013.
Merkur | 9/2013
Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/merkur/issue/2013-09-27.html
Paradies der dekorierten Schuppen. Kaufstädte, Virtualität und Postmoderne
Similar to the warehouse in the 19th century the so called “consuming city” receives a building boom since the end of the 20th century. But its urban character is only virtual, because there are neither public or municipal buildings nor appartments. No one lives in this city, and every evening it is hermeticly closed until the morning. The design of every house is based on an expressive façade, influenced by historicism, and an indifferent building volume. This specific forming derives from Robert Venturi’s concept of a “decorated shed”, explained in his publication “Learning from Las Vegas” of 1972. The ability of postmodern architecture to communicate with the recipient was the reason to elect this architectural language. Finally the visitor of this city shall primary be encouraged to consume. Therefore the contemporary consuming city is an example of the continuity of postmodern architecture at the millennium, closely combined with the current idea of urban virtuality.
Seduced by the Field: Methodological Transgressions in Ethnography
Ethnographic fieldwork is commonly described as a way of gaining data whereby the researcher continually oscillates between being intensely engaged with the people in the „field“ and remaining cognitively distant. Within this context, authors of method…
An Introduction to Applied Data Analysis with Qualitative Comparative Analysis
The key to using an analytic method is to understand its underlying logic and figure out how to incorporate it into the research process. In the case of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), so far these issues have been addressed only partly. While …
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Putins Nahost-Offensive
Erst die Flucht von Edward Snowden, dann der Syrien-Konflikt: Seit einigen Wochen steht Russland, zur Freude Wladimir Putins, wieder im Mittelpunkt der globalen Politik – und speziell im N…