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Natural Gas at the Frontline Between the EU, Russia, and Turkey

A Conflict-Cooperation Perpetuum

By: Roxana Andrei

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Natural Gas at the Frontline Between the EU, Russia, and Turkey

A Conflict-Cooperation Perpetuum

By: Roxana Andrei

This book analyses the rapidly unfolding events that have impacted on the European energy dynamics, in the light of the way in Ukraine and the energy crisis that have reconfigured, since 2022, the European and the global geopolitical scene, dislocating not only crucial natural resources but also the pace of the energy transition and the continent’s existential security, its basic trust and sense of continuity. It introduces an innovative interpretation of the conflict and cooperation dynamics in Europe, by challenging the reader to look beyond the material aspects of energy security, related to supply and demand, consumption, production and prices dynamics, which I nonetheless explain in detail. Thus, it invites the audience to explore the deeper layer of motivations that underpin the actors’ decision to engage in conflict and cooperation, by exploring their cognitive and psychological considerations, in addition to the material ones. For this purpose, it presents a new conceptual tool, the conflict-cooperation perpetuum, in order to explain why the same players, in this case the EU, Russia and Turkey, may choose to simultaneously perceive each other as security threats and trade partners, engaging in both conflict and cooperation simultaneously with the same ‘Other’. In addition, it proposes to apply the framework of ontological security, in order to understand the responses of the EU, Russia and Turkey to the major existential crises that have affected them in past years, culminating with the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis of 2022.

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Springer Nature

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3031170571

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Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania

Studies in the Sociology of Film

By: Roxana Cuciumeanu

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Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania

Studies in the Sociology of Film

By: Roxana Cuciumeanu

Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania examines the cinematic architecture of work imaginary as developed through films produced between 1960 and 1989. This book provides rich insight into the intimate configuration of cinematic thinking of work and displays of this form of social life, with focus on the relationship between conceived and lived ideology of work during socialist modernization, on the relationship between individuals and political power in the (reflexive) experiences, and contexts of work.

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9004702253

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9789004702257

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Place of Intercultural Exchanges

A Translation Perspective

By: Roxana Ştefania Bîrsanu

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T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Place of Intercultural Exchanges

A Translation Perspective

By: Roxana Ştefania Bîrsanu

The focal point of this study is one of the masterpieces of Anglo-American poetry, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, tackled from the perspective of translation. In this particular case, translation is deemed to be not only an intra- and inter-linguistic transfer, but also a form of intercultural contact. The book centres on a comparative study of the poem with five of its Romanian translations within the framework of Romanian letters. Thus, it also presents a thorough analysis of the target literary and cultural context of the various moments of the translation production, with particular consideration being given to reception-related issues. Due to this complex approach, this study sketches the most comprehensive contextualisation of Eliot’s poem in Romanian culture. It analyses the source poem as the topos of intercultural exchanges which encourage cultural reconciliation and dialogue. The wide range of cultural references which are recontextualised and reinterpreted in Eliot’s poem suggest the opportunity of seeing The Waste Land as a master work of translation in itself, which accommodates various inter-systemic relations and transfers of meaning. Finally, this study reveals the poet’s activity as a translator guided by the main tenets of modernist production practice. Due to its inter-disciplinary approach and its focus on intercultural dialogue, this book will appeal to a wide range of researchers in the field of Humanities.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443861952

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The Traitor's Daughter

Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past

By: Roxana Spicer

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The Traitor's Daughter

Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past

By: Roxana Spicer

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER The masterful narration of a daughter's decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin's Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three years of Nazi captivity—but never revealed her darkest secrets. As a child, Roxana Spicer would sometimes wake to the sound of the Red Army choir. She would tip-toe downstairs to find her mother, cigarette in one hand and Black Russian in the other, singing along. Roxana would keep her company, and wonder.... Everyone in their village knew Agnes Spicer was Russian, that she had been a captive of the Nazis. And that was all they knew, because Agnes kept her secrets close: how she managed to escape Germany, what the tattoo on her arm meant, even her real name. Discovering the truth about her beloved, charismatic, volatile mother became Roxana's obsession. Throughout her career as a journalist and documentarian, between investigations across Canada and around the world, she always went home to ask her mother more questions, often while filming. Roxana also took every chance to visit the few places that she did know played a role in her mother's story: Bad Salzuflen, Germany, home to POW slave labourers during the war; notorious concentration camps; and Russia. Under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the early years of Putin, she was able to find people, places, and documents that are now—perhaps forever—lost again. The Traitor's Daughter is intimate and exhaustively researched, vividly conversational, and shot through with Agnes Spicer's irrepressible, fiery personality. It is a true labour of love as well as a triumph of blending personal biography with sweeping history.

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Penguin

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073524653X

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9780735246539

Corporate Diversity Communication Strategy

An Insight into American MNCs’ Online Communities and Social Media Engagement

By: Roxana D. Maiorescu-Murphy

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Corporate Diversity Communication Strategy

An Insight into American MNCs’ Online Communities and Social Media Engagement

By: Roxana D. Maiorescu-Murphy

This book analyzes the brand communities of major American multinationals across three industries: finance, tech, and consumer goods. It assesses how companies communicate their diversity approaches on social media (Twitter) and studies the ensuing perceptions of online users. By comparing more innovative sectors (tech and consumer goods) with a less innovative industry (finance), the author examines differences in the way brands approach and communicate about diversity in online settings. The results of the study lead to the development of a theoretical framework with practical applications for business communication academics and professionals alike.

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210

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Springer Nature

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3030299449

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9783030299446

Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Private International Law

By: Roxana Banu

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Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Private International Law

By: Roxana Banu

Private International Law is often criticized for failing to curb private power in the transnational realm. The field appears disinterested or powerless in addressing global economic and social inequality. Scholars have frequently blamed this failure on the separation between private and public international law at the end of the nineteenth century and on private international law's increasing alignment with private law. Through a contextual historical analysis, Roxana Banu questions these premises. By reviewing a broad range of scholarship from six jurisdictions (the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, and the Netherlands) she shows that far from injecting an impetus for social justice, the alignment between private and public international law introduced much of private international law's formalism and neutrality. She also uncovers various nineteenth century private law theories that portrayed a social, relationally constituted image of the transnational agent, thus contesting both individualistic and state-centric premises for regulating cross-border inter-personal relations. Overall, this study argues that the inherited shortcomings of contemporary private international law stem more from the incorporation of nineteenth century theories of sovereignty and state rights than from theoretical premises of private law. In turn, by reconsidering the relational premises of the nineteenth century private law perspectives discussed in this book, Banu contends that private international law could take centre stage in efforts to increase social and economic equality by fostering individual agency and social responsibility in the transnational realm.

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Oxford University Press

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0192551752

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9780192551757

Migrant Integration in a Changing Europe

Immigrants, European Citizens, and Co-ethnics in Italy and Spain

By: Roxana Barbulescu

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Migrant Integration in a Changing Europe

Immigrants, European Citizens, and Co-ethnics in Italy and Spain

By: Roxana Barbulescu

In this rich study, Roxana Barbulescu examines the transformation of state-led immigrant integration in two relatively new immigration countries in Western Europe: Italy and Spain. The book is comparative in approach and seeks to explain states' immigrant integration strategies across national, regional, and city-level decision and policy making. Barbulescu argues that states pursue no one-size-fits-all strategy for the integration of migrants, but rather simultaneously pursue multiple strategies that vary greatly for different groups. Two main integration strategies stand out. The first one targets non-European citizens and is assimilationist in character and based on interventionist principles according to which the government actively pursues the inclusion of migrants. The second strategy targets EU citizens and is a laissez-faire scenario where foreigners enjoy rights and live their entire lives in the host country without the state or the local authorities seeking their integration. The empirical material in the book, dating from 1985 to 2015, includes systematic analyses of immigration laws, integration policies and guidelines, historical documents, original interviews with policy makers, and statistical analysis based on data from the European Labor Force Survey. While the book draws on evidence from Italy and Spain in an effort to bring these case studies to the core of fundamental debates on immigration and citizenship studies, its broader aim is to contribute to a better understanding of state interventionism in immigrant integration in contemporary Europe. The book will be a useful text for students and scholars of global immigration, integration, citizenship, European integration, and European society and culture.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268104409

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9780268104405

Corruption, Informality and Entrepreneurship in Romania

By: Roxana Bratu

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Corruption, Informality and Entrepreneurship in Romania

By: Roxana Bratu

This book examines the meaning, structure, practices and symbolism of corruption in relationship to European Union structural funding in Romania. It offers a unique account of the complex transformations faced by post-communist societies. Despite the new legislation that effectively re-branded typical economic practices in Romanian society as ‘corruption’, entrepreneurs continue to use them in everyday interactions. The entrepreneurial culture described in the chapters is an ordinary trait of the local work routines. Rather than pursuing the singular logic of corruption, the author explores the concept of informality by focusing on the socio-historical context and the meanings embedded in the society that provides solutions to the problems. The book will appeal to students, scholars and practitioners in the areas of corruption, public policy and EU policy and politics.

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Springer

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3319666673

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Natural Gas at the Frontline Between the EU, Russia, and Turkey

A Conflict-Cooperation Perpetuum

By: Roxana Andrei

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Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania

Studies in the Sociology of Film

By: Roxana Cuciumeanu

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Natural Gas at the Frontline Between the EU, Russia, and Turkey

Natural Gas at the Frontline Between the EU, Russia, and Turkey

Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania

Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Place of Intercultural Exchanges

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Place of Intercultural Exchanges

The Traitor's Daughter

The Traitor's Daughter

Corporate Diversity Communication Strategy

Corporate Diversity Communication Strategy

Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Private International Law

Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Private International Law

Migrant Integration in a Changing Europe

Migrant Integration in a Changing Europe

Corruption, Informality and Entrepreneurship in Romania

Corruption, Informality and Entrepreneurship in Romania

Natural Gas at the Frontline Between the EU, Russia, and Turkey

Natural Gas at the Frontline Between the EU, Russia, and Turkey

Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania

Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania

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